Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 27, 2009

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, who served as a Navy SEAL during the Vietnam War, underwent the process of controlled drowning commonly called ?waterboarding? as part of his training. He states unequivocally that the technique, which was used by the Bush administration against terrorist suspects, is a form of torture.

Ventura also asks a very pertinent question: If, as defenders of waterboarding insist, the procedure isn?t torture, why don?t police employ it against criminal suspects?

There was a time when waterboarding was commonly used as a ?third degree? interrogation tactic by American police, who learned it from soldiers returning from the Philippines in the early 1900s. Although it was considered a war crime to subject prisoners to water torture, nobody who did so was seriously punished. This encouraged police to emulate the practice until at least the early 1930s.

The torture techniques used against terrorist suspects today will be employed against Americans in the near future.

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