ACLU says 'Right to life . . . most fundamental of all rights'
- Robert Knight -- Washington Times
- Sep 15, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union has discovered the right to life. Seriously. The ardently pro-abortion organization declares in its Aug. 30 lawsuit against the Obama administration that the CIA's plan for targeted killings of terrorists violates the terrorists' rights. "The right to life is the most fundamental of all rights," says ACLU lawyer Arthur Spitzer in the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington.
While this tack might annoy the folks in the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, it's got to be music to the ears of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born, al Qaeda-linked Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen. Mr. al-Awlaki has been tied to at least two of the Sept. 11 hijackers and to the Fort Hood shooting suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, before Maj. Hasan slaughtered 13 of his fellow soldiers and an unborn baby on Nov. 5, 2009. After the incident, Mr. al-Awlaki pronounced Maj. Hasan a "hero."
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