Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 15, 2010

In mid-February, international affairs commentator Steve Clemons disclosed that ?at the highest levels of the US military, a quiet discussion is going on about putting in place a legal framework that would permit the US government to strip American citizenship from terrorists.?

This would apply to anyone designated a terrorist by the President or someone acting on his behalf. There is already a list of U.S. citizens identified as terrorists who are subject to summary execution without trial. At least one individual on that list, New Mexico-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, was the target of attempted execution by way of a remotely piloted drone.

A bill co-sponsored by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman would create a new category called ?enemy belligerents? that could include U.S. citizens. Such people ? who could include Tea Party activists and others deemed anti-government in outlook ? could be subject to prolonged military confinement, interrogation, and indefinite detention without trial.

Brick by brick, our rulers are building a gulag state.

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