Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 5, 2011

Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee, co-founder of the Senate Tea Party Caucus, told reporters that the Obama administration was right to go into Pakistan without the country?s approval to find Osama bin Laden: ?I?m glad that it was unauthorized and unilateral because if we had gone through the step of trying to get permission [from Pakistan], I strongly suspect that we would have lost the opportunity to take him out.?

Lee has served as general counsel to former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. He has also been a clerk to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. His father was the U.S. Solicitor General under Reagan. Lee himself professes to venerate the Constitution. Yet he has no problem condoning an act of aggression against a nominally friendly country that ended with the premeditated murder an unarmed criminal suspect after he was in custody.

Such is the logic of Empire ? and Lee apparently considers it his role to tutor Tea Party activists in such matters, lest their growing discontent with the Obama administration mature into principled opposition to the Regime itself.

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