Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 20, 2010

Roger Clemens was one of the most dominant pitchers in Major League Baseball. The last years of his otherwise luminous career were marred with allegations that he had used performance-enhancing drugs in an effort to retain his eroding physical skills.

In 2008, Clemens was questioned by Congress about those allegations. This was a matter dealing with Major League Baseball?s internal personnel policies, which are outside Congress?s constitutional authority. Clemens categorically denied the use of banned substances. His testimony was contradicted by a former trainer and a former teammate.

Absent physical evidence, it?s impossible to prosecute Clemens for violations of drug laws. So the Feds are trying to put him in prison for up to 30 years for the supposed crime of lying to Congress about a matter over which it has no authority.

Meanwhile, George W. Bush, who knowingly lied our country into an unnecessary war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, enjoys a tax-subsidized retirement cocooned within Secret Service protection.

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