Of Pots and Kettles January 20, 2011

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 20, 2011

On January 19, President Barack Obama took a brief break from his administration?s assault on what remains of the Bill of Rights to contemplate the sins of the Chinese government. Obama met in the White House with three Chinese activists to discuss, as one administration official put it, how "the arbitrary exercise of power is felt in the everyday lives of the Chinese people."

"One thing he kept coming back to was, how does the omnipresence of the state, how does corruption, affect the lives of real people," related the anonymous official. "And he asked how we should use our leverage.?

That is an interesting question. Since Washington continues to borrow vast sums from Beijing, the administration doesn?t have any economic leverage. And since the government ruling us engages in arbitrary detention, summary executions via drone strikes, torture, all-pervasive surveillance, military aggression, and massively corrupt public subsidy of favored corporate interests, it can?t exercise the leverage offered by a compelling moral example.

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

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