ACLU encouraged by U.N.'s concern about U.S. Human Rights

The gall of the U.N. to question whether or not the U.S. is negligent in the area of human rights. Maybe they should take the giant sequoia tree out of their own eye before daring to accuse us.

Good timing. They are requesting a massive influx of money, of which the highest percentage will come from us. Would that we had the cahones to kick them the hell out of this country.

This is welcomed news to the American Criminal Liberties Union:

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND--A United Nations human rights body expressed grave concerns today about the record of human rights in the United States. The American Civil Liberties Union with a delegation of 10 and working with a broad coalition of other groups is in Geneva to monitor the examination of the United States the U.N. Human Rights Committee (HRC).

In a two-day session that concluded today, the committee members pressured the United States for answers on the following issues:

The sentencing of children to life without parole and the disproportionate incarceration of minorities;
The militarization of the border;
The failure to prevent human rights violations and respond in a non discriminatory manner to Hurricane Katrina;
The failure to end racial profiling practices, specifically the profiling of South Asian convenience store employees in Georgia;
Warrantless spying on ordinary Americans;
The abuse of women in prison; and
The indefinite detention, rendition and torture of non-citizens.

'The U.S. should be ashamed of itself,' said Ann Beeson, Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program. 'The review by the Human Rights Committee was a stark and all too accurate condemnation of the state of rights in America.'

See the rest of the maddening story over at the Stop The ACLU blog.