Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 9 2012

Melvin and Pauline Morse of Georgetown, Delaware, have been charged with four felony counts of child abuse. Their 11-year-old daughter has accused her father of repeatedly waterboarding her as a form of punishment. The mother allegedly witnessed these incidents and did not intervene.

This is not the first time a parent has been accused of using that torture method as a form of punishment. In 2010, Joshua Tabor, a 27-year-old soldier stationed in Tacoma, Washington, was charged with child abuse after it was learned that he had waterboarded his four-year-old daughter as a punishment for failing to recite the alphabet.

Tabor allegedly held her face-up in a sink until the water covered her forehead and came up to her jawline. According to the police report, Tabor ?did not act as though he felt there was anything wrong with this form of punishment.?

One press account of the Delaware arrests notes that waterboarding is ?a form of torture banned in the United States.? This is true only as applied to private citizens. Dozens of admitted torturers walk among us; some of them are profiting from their officially sanctioned crimes.

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