The ACLU, the IACHR, and You

The ACLU, the IACHR, and You

It may be difficult for them to admit, but sometimes people end up in the wrong job, the wrong place, and on the wrong side of issues.

“Wrong,” of course, is a subjective term but sometimes it’s so obvious that people are misplaced that it’s impossible not to say they should be engaged in a different profession, office, position, or even located in a different country.

The conglomeration of odd folks at the “American” Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, is a prime case in point.

Recently, once again true to form, the ACLU demonstrated that they are anything but Americans and, if they harbor even a smidgen of self-respect and sense of honor should re-locate or, at the minimum, re-title their organization. They have rarely acted on behalf of American rights unless, that is, we consider terrorists and other reprobates deserving of liberties or if we believe American institutions such as Christmas are un-American.

This time around in a long history of anti-American advocacies, the ACLU lauded its victory in a “landmark,” disturbing, decision by an international tribunal against the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court, and common sense in the case of Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United States.

Jessica Gonzalez, now Lenahan, doesn’t seem to be a typical ACLU reprobate, just a malcontent dissatisfied with American jurisprudence.

With the enthusiastic assistance of the ACLU, Lenahan petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the IACHR, over a horrendous matter involving the murder of her three young daughters by her estranged husband.

On its website, the ACLU gave its version of the outcome: ”The decision underscores that the U.S. is failing in its legal obligation to protect women and girls from domestic violence.” Actually, it is more a travesty and additional evidence that the ACLU has little if any regard for our law. Lenahan’s children were shamefully unprotected but no less so than the integrity of our Constitution.

Castle Rock, Colorado police were accused by Lenahan of ignoring her pleas for help twelve years ago when her husband defied a restraining order and took and shot to death their three girls. The import of that horror goes far beyond the act itself and SCOTUS’ 9-2 ruling in 2005 that she had no constitutional right to police protection.

Case closed? Not even close. Whatever one thinks of the Castle Rock police or the Supreme Court’s finding, what ensued was an ominous development for the United States.

Lenahan took her case to the ACLU which in turn sought intervention by the IACHR. That body, which “derives its authority from the Organization of American States Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights,” an organ of the Organization of American States, the OAS, separate and distinct from the United States, decided in her favor.

The IACHR deemed that Lenahan’s international human rights had been violated and had the further impertinence to also recommend that American law and American policies toward domestic violence should be changed. . .
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