Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 3, 2011

An American citizen living abroad was kidnapped the secret police and beaten every day for several weeks in a row. He was told to confess that he was a terrorist. Despite the torture, the victim ? who by this time had little to lose ? resolutely protested his innocence.

Finally, the lead interrogator tried a different tactic: ?If you don?t confess, I swear to God I?m going to bring your wife to this room, and you?ll see what we do to her.? That threat broke Lebanese-born American businessman Naji Hamdan. He spent nearly a year in prison in the United Arab Emirates before he was deported to Lebanon.

This torture was carried out at the behest of the FBI, which had investigated Hamdan for years ? and which never produced evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on his part. According to Hamdan, who has never been accused by U.S. officials of a crime, there was an American official present when the threat was made to torture his wife. He is just one of many U.S. citizens who have been tortured by foreign intelligence services on behalf of the FBI through a process called ?proxy detention.?

The perverse inventiveness of our self-appointed rulers is as inexhaustible as it is indefensible.

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