Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 21, 2008

Venezuelan ruler Hugo Chavez is an unabashed proponent of Marxism. Like his mentor and role model, the aging Cuban despot Fidel Castro, Chavez has worked to centralize control over his oil-rich nation?s economy.

This despicable record gives Chavez a certain ironic credibility when he describes the Bush administration?s response to the banking crisis as socialist in nature.

The Bush administration?s reaction to the credit freeze was to confiscate hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth from the general public for redistribution to wealthy investment firms on Wall Street. Just last week, Henry Paulson, whose title is Secretary of the Treasury but whose powers are those of a dictator, effectively nationalized nine of the country?s largest banks.

Speaking shortly after these developments, Chavez gloatingly observed that ?Comrade Bush is to the left of me now.?
Whatever one thinks of the source, that assessment is tragically correct.

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