Privatizing Preventive War? December 13, 2007

by Will

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 13, 2007

As the parent of a son who suffered the singular horror of sexual molestation, Ivan Oliver was understandably suspicious of strangers who moved into his neighborhood.

When he learned that his new neighbor, 67-year-old Michael Dodele was a registered sex offender, Oliver took what he considered to be logical defensive action: He allegedly killed Dodele before he became a threat to his son and other local children.

Yet Dodele, as it happens, had served a twenty-year prison term for rape, and wasn't a child sex offender. Oliver had misinterpreted the information on the public sex offender registry. Bad assumptions combined with unchecked rage resulted in a criminal act for which Oliver may face the death penalty.

Ironically, the logic behind Oliver's alleged crime is identical to that used to justify the war in Iraq and other proposed pre-emptive wars against countries such as Iran. If pre-emptive war is morally defensible, why is what Ivan Oliver allegedly did a crime?

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

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