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Moonbats In My Backyard

There are Moonbats in my backyard, my backyard being the City of Northfield. I’ve known this since I moved here nearly eight years ago. That’s why they are in my backyard and not my front yard.

What is it that makes Northfield a City of Moonbats needs some explaining. And the Northfield News has provided a guest column that gives a great example of what I mean.

Apparently yesterday was International Day. some how I missed that. No biggie.

The piece opens innocently enough talking about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted, unanimously, by the United Nations, although I am unable to confirm if that is in fact correct or not. I suspect that there may have been a number of nations that chose to abstain rather than vote against it.

The focus of the piece is on Article 5 of the document, which states: “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.”

Clear and simple enough, although it does not define what kinds of actions would be in violation of this article. Much of it, like what is “cruel” or “inhuman” punishment is not defined.

The writer then goes on to reference some examples of violations of the UDHR. But does she reference the violations committed by Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Iran, China, Vietnam, and a host of other tyrannical regimes? Nope. She refers to Abu Ghraib.

From the Northfield News:

From the time news of the Abu Ghraib scandals, the situation at Guantanamo, and the treatment of persons imprisoned when denied entry into the United States has become known and verified beyond doubt, citizens have voiced their opposition to such actions.

Abu Ghraib, where the criminals involved have since been tried, convicted and sentenced for their crimes is the first example of violations of the UDHR she mentions. Next up is the treatment of terrorists imprisoned by the U.S. These are terrorists captured in the battlefield, not as recognized military combatants, but as murderers, thugs, and terrorists, wearing no uniform of any nation. These terrorists are lucky that they were not immediately shot as is allowed under the Geneva Convention. This is what sets the U.S. and our allies (Britain, Australia, and the Coalition of the Willing) apart from other nations, like China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam, with their gulags and “re-education camps.”

The goals of NRCAT include to “bring about changes in U.S. policy to prohibit-without exception-all US-sponsored torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees.” For more details see www.nrcta.org.

Here she must be referring to waterboarding, an activity that the U.S. ceased some years ago. As for inhuman treatment, good gravy, the terrorists imprisoned at Gitmo get three ethnically correct meals a day, a Koran, and much more.

Would a Christian be treated equally well in Iran? No. Just look at Iran’s track record concerning the treatment of gays and adulterers. “Off with their heads!” so to speak.

Apparently, though, in the eyes of the writer, we are beneath the tyrannical regimes of these other countries. Somehow, in her world view, it is the U.S. that is the consummate evil, and not totalitarian dictators who imprison (and execute) dissidents and treat their people like chattel.

But she is a Northfielder, so what can expect. And that is why there are Moonbats in my backyard.

Northfield can celebrate International Day and condemn the U.S. for no good reason. As for me, I’ll stick to celebrating Independence Day.

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