Liberty Minute June 27 2014

As Iraq descends into sectarian civil war, familiar fright-peddlers from Dick Cheney to Lindsey Graham are depicting the Sunni insurgency, known as ISIS, as a potentially lethal threat to our sacred Homeland.

Not surprisingly, a similar view is being expressed by defenders of the militarized Homeland Security State, who pretend to believe that if ISIS can seize control of Mosul, it will soon threaten Manhattan.

In the Line of Duty, a company providing what it calls ?reality-based training for law enforcement,? eagerly anticipates a terrorist strike by ISIS as a way of changing the subject from the routine atrocities committed by militarized police ? such as the SWAT raid and flash-bang grenade attack that left 18-month-old Bou-Bou Phonesavankh fighting for his life in an intensive care unit.

?When this `militarization of [Law Enforcement Agencies] affects infants like Bou Bou, the public?s going to be righteously outraged. But, someday, when ISIS comes a calling, who will be complaining then?? sneered the company?s Facebook page, a statement growing out of the assumption that 3:00 a.m. Stormtrooper raids that leave infants with disfiguring injuries are simply the price we must pay to be protected from whatever ?threats? our rulers can conjure.

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