Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

November 13, 2007

From Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz comes a novel defense of the torture techniques used by the Bush administration in the so-called war on terror: We must abandon our practical objections to torture because it worked for Nazi interrogators in occupied France.

?There are some who claim that torture ... never works ? it only produces false information,? wrote Dershowitz in the November 7 Wall Street Journal. ?This is simply not true, as evidenced by the many decent members of the French Resistance who, under Nazi torture, disclosed the locations of their closest friends and relatives.?

Ironically, Dershowitz juxtaposed the successful use of torture by the Nazis with a more recent counter-terrorist success in Israel in which investigators foiled a Yom Kippur suicide bombing plot without resorting to torture.

The Nazis used torture to defend a murderous military occupation. Israeli courts, by way of contrast, have banned the use of torture in terrorist interrogations. Only Professor Dershowitz can explain why he prefers the Nazi approach.

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