Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 4, 2011

We are told that Osama bin Laden was the head of a world-wide terrorist syndicate threatening our very existence. Yet instead of being captured and interrogated for priceless intelligence, he was gunned down.

Originally we were told that he had been armed and fought back ? using a woman as a ?human shield?. Now the administration admits that he wasn?t armed, but that he ?resisted? in a way that justified lethal force. In any case, according to CIA Director Leon Panetta, ?The authority here was to kill bin Laden.? That means that the operation was always intended to be an execution, not an arrest.

Most curious of all was the insistence that bin Laden?s body be buried at sea -- despite the fact that this meant transporting it more than five hundred miles when time was supposedly of the essence.

In a totalitarian system, what passes for the truth is almost infinitely mutable, and the population is expected to display limitless credulity in accepting every permutation of the party line. This applies to the Obama administration?s still-evolving account of the death of Osama bin Laden.

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