Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 6, 2011

In 1997, Bert Sacks traveled to Baghdad carrying medicine for Iraqi hospitals. At the time, as then-Secretary of State Madeline Albright acknowledged, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children were dying from preventable diseases as a consequence of a U.S.-enforced embargo.

Sacks and his friends accepted no money from anyone in Iraq, and had no contact with officials of Saddam?s regime. Yet in 2002 the Regime in Washington ? which at the time was headed by George W. Bush ? fined Sacks $10,000 for supposedly trading with the enemy by paying his own travel and lodging expenses. Bear in mind that Congress has never declared war on Iraq.

Sacks filed a counter-suit in 2004 arguing that the blockade of Iraq violated numerous international treaties; a federal court dismissed the suit, claiming that those treaties weren?t binding. The Obama administration has renewed the lawsuit, seeking the original fine and late-payment penalties.

The supposed offense committed by Sacks was to refuse complicity in the crimes of the government ruling us.

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