Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 2, 2009

The Bush administration?s Justice Department recently indicted and convicted Charles Taylor, Jr., son of the former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, for violating a 1994 law against torture.

The American-born Taylor served as head of his father?s Antiterrorist Unit, which suppressed domestic dissent.

Some victims were imprisoned for weeks in small water-filled pits covered by bars and barbed wire. Others were electrocuted, burned, stabbed by bayonets, or bound hand and foot and covered with aggressive, biting ants. Taylor was also accused of murdering several helpless prisoners at a security checkpoint.

After securing a conviction, the Justice Department has asked the trial judge to impose a sentence of 147 years, in order to send a message that ?there cannot be impunity? in ordering and committing acts of torture. If they are serious about applying that principle, their next target should be Vice President Dick Cheney, who has publicly confessed to ordering acts of torture by U.S. interrogators overseas.

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