Liberty Minute September 30 2013

Princeton historian Gary J. Bass points out that the Supreme Court of Bangladesh recently sentenced a former politician named Abdul Quader Mollah to death for war crimes committed during that country?s 1971 war for independence.

The Bengalis ? who were secretly aided by India-- declared independence from Pakistan, triggering a bloody crackdown that was covertly supported by the Nixon administration. The bloodshed in Bangladesh ended only when India and Pakistan went to war.

Recently released White House audiotapes document that Kissinger and Nixon ? who had abetted the carnage ? expressed hateful contempt for the victims. At one point Nixon said that the solution would be for inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent to die in a mass famine.

Such bigoted and eugenicist sentiments came easily to Nixon and people of his ilk. While discussing abortion in 1972, Nixon repeatedly said that most people would support it as long as it destroyed children to whom he referred as ?the little black bastards.?  He also said that the ?People who don?t control their families are ? the people that shouldn?t have kids. ? It shouldn?t surprise us that in 1974, the year following Roe v. Wade, the Nixon administration made global population control an official tenet of Washington?s foreign policy, as it remains to this day.

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