Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

February 7, 2008

Speaking at the 1980 Republican Convention, Ronald Reagan condemned a common form of political idolatry he called ?`Trust Me' Government?:

?`Trust me' government is government that asks that we concentrate our hopes and dreams on one man; that we trust him to do what?s best for us.?

In his keynote address to the 2004 Republican Convention, former Georgia Governor Zell Miller, after describing his hopes for his great-grandchildren, declared: ?There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George W. Bush.?

This wasn't facile campaign rhetoric. The Bush administration and its congressional allies have fitted the presidency with numerous powers more suitable to a dictator ? such as the power to order warrantless wiretaps, to detain individuals indefinitely without trial, to order torture, and to nullify provisions of laws he finds inconvenient.

This is precisely the kind of ?`Trust Me' Government? Reagan condemned.

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