Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 14, 2011

The Arab League has passed a resolution calling for the UN Security Council to impose a ?no-fly zone? on Libya, which is in the throes of a civil war.

The Obama administration had insisted that an Arab League resolution would help persuade the Security Council to authorize military intervention through the NATO alliance, which is in everything but name the military arm of the United Nations.

Administration officials, including Defense Secretary Gates and Secretary of State Clinton, have also explicitly said that any U.S. military involvement must be ?authorized? by the UN.

Imposition of a no-fly zone in Libya would be an act of war. Nowhere in this discussion has there been mention of the fact that Congress alone has the constitutional authority to declare war on behalf of the United States. Our involvement in the UN is tantamount to a standing declaration of war that can be activated at the whim of foreign functionaries not accountable to us.

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