Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 22, 2010

No reasonably well-informed person should be surprised to learn that the doctrine of unaccountable presidential power set out during the Bush administration includes the supposed authority to engage in undisguised mass murder.

John C. Yoo, who crafted the Bush administration?s legal defense of those supposed powers, committed to writing the idea that a president and his agents could engage in torture, despite the fact that it is banned by both federal law and the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In a public debate Yoo endorsed the idea that a president could order the sexual torture of a suspected terrorist?s child in order to compel the parent to cooperate with interrogators.

The newly released report of the Justice Department?s Office of Professional Responsibility documents that Yoo, in a conversation with that office?s investigators, agreed that it was within ?the commander-in-chief?s power over tactical decisions? to order the massacre of an entire civilian village.

Does it make you feel safer to know that the president can slaughter innocent people on a whim?

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