Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 30, 2011

Five years ago, while he still afflicted this country as its Vice President, Dick Cheney visited Beaver Creek, Colorado. A local resident named Steven Howards noticed Cheney?s entourage. Howards wandered over and, from a distance of a few feet away, informed Cheney that he considered the administration?s war in Iraq to be ?reprehensible.? He then walked a short distance away, where he was joined by his family.

A few minutes later a Secret Service agent named Virgil Reichle tracked Howards down and asked if he had ?assaulted? Cheney ? who, of course, had neither been threatened nor physically harmed. Despite the fact that Howards had done nothing, he was handcuffed and arrested. After being informed that he would be charged with ?assault,? Howards was eventually charged with ?harassment? ? for politely expressing disapproval of Cheney?s public policies. That charge was dropped a month later.

Howards has filed a lawsuit against the Secret Service agent who abducted him at gunpoint. Reichle and others named in the suit have sought to have it dismissed by invoking a spurious doctrine of ?qualified immunity.?

Dick Cheney, meanwhile, is touring to promote his memoirs, which are replete with admissions of serious crimes ? including the promotion of aggressive war and torture.

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