Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

February 8, 2008

FBI Special Agent Mark Lundgren explains that each of the Bureau's 102 Joint Terrorism Task Forces is governed by Dick Cheney's ?One Percent Doctrine? -- that is, if there is just a one percent chance that a terrorist attack might occur, ?then we have to treat our response as if there were a 100 percent chance.?

But the FBI manipulates the odds somewhat by keeping more than 4,000 paid informants on its payroll, many of whom act as provocateurs. One suitable example is William Chrisman, whose career as an FBI informant-provocateur is profiled in the current issue of Rolling Stone.

The same article describes the recent acquittal of the ?Liberty City Seven? on charges they plotted to bomb Sears Tower in Chicago. The jury agreed with the defense argument that the supposed terrorist conspiracy was ?written, produced, directed, choreographed and stage-designed by the United States government.?

To some extent, the Joint Terrorism Task Forces aren't fighting terrorism, so much as manufacturing it.

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