Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 17, 2011

Former CIA analyst and Army veteran Ray McGovern has been a consistent critic of Washington?s foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. On February 16, McGovern was in the audience during a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at George Washington University. Mrs. Clinton?s address criticized dictatorships in the Middle East ? such as the one ruling Iran ? that arrest and brutalize peaceful protesters and other political dissidents.

As Secretary Clinton began her speech, McGovern ? wearing a t-shirt identifying him as a member of an organization called Veterans for Peace ? stood and turned his back on her. He didn?t obstruct anyone?s view of the speaker or otherwise disrupt the event. Yet as Clinton heaped scorn on governments that dispatch police and hired thugs to beat up dissidents, McGovern was brutally abducted and beaten by security officers ? that is, police and other hired thugs.

?So this is America?? exclaimed the battered man as his assailants dragged him from the auditorium. Well, it is now.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.