Thursday, March 01, 2007

Let's Have Some Priorities, People

The vaunted human rights community surely has a large number of nations and groups that they could focus the awesome power of their righteous indignation on. Iran, Hamas, Burma, North Korea, Sudan, al Qaeda, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Syria, and China easily come to mind.

Yet who are they focused on today?

The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.

Louise Arbour referred to the Military Commissions Act approved by Congress last year and last month's federal appeals court ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees cannot use the U.S. court system to challenge their detention. The case is likely to go to the Supreme Court.


The UN is worried about the rights of terrorists in our custody.

The United Nations human rights body would have to improve considerably to rise to the level of "worthless."