Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 7, 2009

Many common criminals commit offenses against people and property yet are never punished. Does this mean that their unpunished criminal acts are to be considered legal?

Under the reasoning employed by Vice President Cheney to defend the Bush administration?s anti-constitutional crime spree, the answer would be ?yes.?

In a farewell interview on the CBS program Face the Nation, Cheney discussed the legality of warrantless wiretaps, torture, and other administration measures that violated criminal statutes and Constitutional protections.

Asked by host Bob Schieffer if anything done during wartime was legal, Cheney referred to Lincoln?s suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War. When Schieffer pointed out that ?nobody thinks that was legal,? Cheney responded: ?It certainly was in the sense that he wasn?t impeached.?

Apparently, as long as high crimes against the Constitution don?t result in criminal prosecution or impeachment, those acts are to be considered legal. Professional criminals in the private sector would eagerly concur with Cheney?s reasoning.

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