Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 4, 2012

As an anti-war activist in the late 1960s, Michael Lerner had his wedding ring made out of steel taken from the fuselage of a U.S. fighter jet that had been shot down over Vietnam. Lerner, who became a Rabbi of sorts, founded a publication called Tikkun, which promotes a fusion of New Age mysticism and hard-left politics.

In a November 3^rd essay, Tikkun magazine called for Barack Obama to deploy the military nation-wide in order to prevent voter suppression. According to the publication, ?The presence of armed forces would underscore the serious nature of the threats to democracy posed by the tactics of disenfranchisement being deployed by those determined to wrest the presidency from Barack Obama by any means necessary. ?

If a conservative publication had urged a Republican incumbent to militarize the election, Lerner would rend the air with warnings of an incipient fascist putsch ? and he would be justified in doing so. Like collectivists of every variety, Lerner subscribes to Lenin?s axiom that the central question in politics is who does what to whom ? and the most important thing is to be the ?who? rather than the ?whom? in that equation.

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