Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 23, 2010

Since December 2006, more than 5,000 people have been killed in a drug-related violence in Juarez, Mexico. The U.S.-dictated militarization of the Mexican government?s counter-narcotics efforts has led to conditions akin to martial law in that city of one million people that shares a border with the United States.

Today, March 23, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Mexico, and the issue of joint efforts to prosecute the so-called War on Drugs occupies a prominent place on the agenda. The Obama administration has displayed no interest in deviating from the course established under the Clinton and Bush administrations.

Mary O?Grady, Latin American affairs analyst for the Wall Street Journal, points out: ?The source of the problem is not Mexican supply. It is American demand coupled with prohibition.? Yet because of the influence of what O?Grady calls the ?drug-warrior industry,? Washington will continue the cynical, hypocritical exercise in murderous futility called the war on drugs.

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