Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 6, 2011

Over the past five years, 35,000 people have been killed in the U.S.-funded war between the administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the country?s narcotics cartels. Several months ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry suggested that Washington should eliminate the middle-man by invading Mexico and battling the drug cartels directly.

A proposal by Texas Republican Congressman Michael McCaul would sharpen the prospect of direct U.S. military intervention in Mexico. McCaul insists that six Mexican narcotics syndicates should be designated as ?foreign terrorist organizations.?

According to McCaul, Mexican President Calderon has ?boldly declared war against the cartels? [but] the Mexicans are losing the war ? and so are we.? By designating the syndicates as terrorist organizations, Washington would ?show serious commitment to war in our backyard.?

McCaul, a former federal prosecutor, points out that this designation would permit the deportation or prosecution of anyone found to be offering material aid to the cartels ?anyone, that is, apart from federal officials whose ?war on drugs? acts as a huge narcotics price-support program.

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