Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 20, 2009

Former Vice President Dick Cheney insists that President Obama has repudiated the policies of the Bush administration and put U.S. national security at risk. Yet the changes imposed by Mr. Obama are stylistic, rather than substantive.

On March 13, the administration announced that it would no longer designate detainees as ?enemy combatants.? Regardless of the label applied to them, however, those detainees would still occupy a legal no-man?s land, without the protections of POW status or the due process rights of criminal defendants.

Like Bush, Obama has used presidential ?signing statements? to nullify provisions of bills he has signed into law. He has defended the use of warrantless wiretaps and electronic surveillance. His administration has even come to the legal aid of John Yoo, the legal architect of the Bush administration?s torture policies.

In this fashion Obama has embraced the worst abuses carried out under the reign of his predecessor.

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