Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 28, 2011

Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is an unabashed proponent of pre-emptive war with Iran. During a recent visit to New Hampshire, Santorum cited a supposed plot by Iranian agents to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador in Washington as justification for bellicosity toward Iran.

Even more recently, however, Santorum endorsed assassination as an instrument of policy when employed by the U.S. government.

?On occasion, scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead," he explained, broadly intimating that the U.S. government was responsible. "I think that's a wonderful thing, candidly?. I think we should send a very clear message that if you are scientist from Russia or North Korea or from Iran, and you are going to work on a nuclear program to develop a nuclear bomb for Iran, you are not safe."

According to Santorum, those who doubt that the U.S. government would assassinate civilian scientists should take heed to the way it treats American citizens designated enemies of the State:

"When people say, `You can't go out and assassinate people' -- well, tell that to al-Awlaki?. We've done it. We've done it to an American citizen."

What Santorum is describing ? and endorsing -- is undisguised state terrorism.

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