Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 29, 2010

Several years ago, publication of unflattering cartoons of Mohammed triggered riots among Muslims in Denmark. This development, and the Danish government?s reaction to it, had ?positive and negative? policy impacts, according to a classified U.S. State Department cable recently published by the WikiLeaks whistleblower organization.

On the positive side, observed the diplomatic communiqué, the Danish government ?extended troop mandates in Iraq and Afghanistan? in reaction to a perceived upswing in Islamic militancy. The dispatch continued: ?On the negative side, though, this popular center-right government has hardened its views on the absolute primacy of free speech.?

Once again: The ?good? news for Washington was that Denmark remained committed to open-ended war in the Middle East, and the ?bad? news was that its government was unwilling to practice political censorship.

Given that WikiLeaks has revealed multiple layers of murderous official corruption, this isolated instance of hypocrisy might seem trivial. But it is still a telling detail in the portrait of the incurably corrupt Regime that rules us.

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