Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 21, 2009

In the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that black people were not ?persons? and thus not entitled to the protections of the Constitution.

That assumption has been embedded in official practice by totalitarian regimes such as National Socialist Germany, which declared that Jews and other non-Aryan people were untermenschen, or sub-humans.

The government ruling us has now officially embraced this evil doctrine in the name of fighting terrorism.

On December 14, the Supreme Court let stand a lower court?s ruling that suspected terrorists classified as ?unlawful enemy combatants? enjoy no legal protection against torture or other mistreatment because they are not considered ?persons? under the law.e

Attorneys representing terrorist suspects had invoked the protections of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (or RFRA), which explicitly applies to all ?persons.? A federal appeals court rejected that argument, thereby effectively categorizing such detainees as ?non-persons.?

A government claiming such power is deadlier than any foreign terrorist threat.

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