Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 22, 2009

Author Chris Hedges could fairly be described as a leftist. He is a commentator of a rare and valuable kind, telling the truth as he sees it without regard to ideology or prejudice.

In a recent essay, Hedges observed: ?The right-wing accusations against Barack Obama are true. He is a socialist, although he practices socialism for corporations. He is squandering the country?s future with deficits that can never be repaid. He has retained and bolstered our surveillance state to spy on Americans. He is forcing us to buy into a health care system that will enrich corporations?. He will not stanch unemployment. He will not end our wars. He will not rebuild the nation. He is a tool of the corporate state.?

Hedges is concerned that the coming political backlash against Obama will result in the imposition of a right-wing militarist despotism in America. But the real problem is the centralization of power in Washington, whatever the ideological pretext.

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