It’s Just Like Their Other "Rights" Problems
Liberals always seem to have the same kind of problem. They want to protect the wrong people’s rights and ignore the rest.
This post from D.J. Drummond on Wizbang Blog focuses on that upside down logic with regard to enemy combatants and terrorists.
Separate Discriminations (Wizbang)
There is a hot debate going on, and it has been going strong for some years, about how we should treat detainees at places like Guantanamo and in the custody of allied nations. The odd thing to me, is that I see discrimination in the points of view of both Left and Right, but the preference shown is in opposite directions. The way I see it, the Left wants to protect perceived “rights” of persons apprehended by our troops, even if that protection endangers innocents, our troops, and the mission. (emphasis added)
They always want to give away other people’s things, like the rights of the victims in terrorism. They’ll also make unreasonable demands on our military (or police) when they are trying to defend our country or allies.
Those other “rights” issues I referred to: 1) abortion - the unborn don’t have a right to life, nor do the mothers have any obligation to protect them; and 2) convicted capital felons - their right to life, in spite of their behavior or past actions.
Seems they’ve almost always got that rights thing upside down.
