LibertyMinute October 30, 2013

Zubair Rehman was walking home from school when he heard a loud buzzing noise followed by the percussive thunderclap of an explosion that left him stunned and momentarily sightless. When he recovered, the middle-school-aged boy came to the horrible realization that his grandmother, Bibi, had been blown to pieces by a drone-fired missile.

Bibi, who was preparing a family meal, was the only one killed in the attack. Nine others were wounded. None of them was a suspected terrorist. Her son Rafiq, Zubair?s father, was at a local market when the killing occurred. Village children ran to tell him that his mother had been killed. When he begged to see his mother?s face one last time, he was told that there was nothing left to see.

Rafiq and Zubair were brought from their home in North Waziristanon October 29 to testify in a congressional briefing sponsored by Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson. They have demanded to know why theUS government killed an innocent mother and grandmother, along with thousands of other Pakistanis, in an undeclared war on their country.

Since only five members of Congress bothered to attend the briefing, and the Obama administration refuses to discuss the drone-killing program in detail, that question remains unanswered.

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