Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 14, 2012

March 7, 2012 may someday be recognized as the day the United States of America formally repudiated the last embattled remnants of our heritage as a constitutional republic.

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta pointedly refused to recognize that Congress, not the president, has the constitutional authority to commit the United States military to war overseas. Panetta provoked outrage by claiming that the UN Security Council or NATO could authorize military intervention abroad. However, less attention was paid to the fact that Panetta?s formulation cut Congress out of this matter entirely.

On the same day, FBI Director Robert Mueller was asked about Attorney General Eric Holder?s claim that the president can order the execution of American citizens without trial or due process of any kind. Mueller was specifically asked if that applies to Americans living at home, as well as abroad. He artlessly ducked the question by claiming he would ?have to go back? and check if that was addressed in administration policy.

The president is not bound by the Constitution or the law; he is an elected dictator whose power is limited only by his imagination and ambition.

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