Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 12, 2008

In his book The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama asserted that the United States has a moral responsibility to submit to UN-issued international laws and regulations in order to demonstrate that ?these are rules worth following.?

One indication that this viewpoint will help define the Obama administration can be found in the fact that John Podesta, who heads the Obama transition team, recently served on a Brookings Institution task force called Managing Global Insecurity, or MGI. That panel also included the likes of former NATO chairman Javier Solana, and Strobe Talbott, who served as undersecretary of state for global affairs in the Clinton administration.

The MGI calls for binding, enforceable international agreements on global warming and other issues. They also want to create a 50,000-man standing UN army that would help enforce the world body?s will.

What is needed is restoration of constitutional restraints on our government, not the empowerment of the UN as a global lawgiver.

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