Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 16, 2008

In what sense is this a republic when the people who write and enforce the law can modify it at whim to make their crimes legal?

For several years, the Bush administration conducted a program of warrantless surveillance of American telephone conversations. By a clear reading of the law, Bush committed a felony by authorizing the illegal wiretaps. Several large telecom companies, including Verizon and AT&T, cooperated in the scheme, and were hit with lawsuits as a result.

Last week, the Democrat-controlled Congress passed a measure legalizing the Bush administration?s actions and giving the president power to pardon himself for his crimes, and to extend the same clemency to the corporate officials who collaborated in the assault on the Fourth Amendment.

In fact, Congress effectively vitiated the Fourth Amendment in its eagerness to foreclose prosecution of Bush and his cronies for their crimes against the Constitution.

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