Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 21, 2011

"We are getting shot by American weapons fired by American-trained Bahraini soldiers with American-made tanks," a medical orderly in Bahrain told Robert Fisk of The Independent of London.

Bahrain, a tiny island nation governed by a Sunni Muslim dictator who rules over a Shi?ite Muslim population, has a small but formidable arsenal of tanks. They are useless for defense, but well-suited to the task of crushing a civilian uprising against the dictatorship.

Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation observes that the regime ruling Bahrain is ?cracking down on protestors with round-ups, jail, torture, and even extra-judicial execution.? As Hornberger points out, the dictatorship responsible for those atrocities has been supported by Washington because it ?has permitted the Empire to establish and maintain a base there for the Empire?s Fifth Fleet.?

Every empire is built on a foundation of bloodshed, terror, and repression. Washington?s empire ? created in defiance of the wisdom of our Founding Fathers ? is no exception. And it, like its predecessors, is coming to an ugly end.

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