"RIGHTS" WITHOUT OBLIGATIONS:

Misled civil rights fools fight for fiends (Piers Akerman, April 10, 2007, The Daily Telegraph)

IN another outstanding victory for the civil rights lobby, two HIV-positive men in Victoria and South Australia were permitted to run wild by health officials, passing on their infection to as many sexual partners as they could, because their right to privacy was deemed paramount.

What is apparent from the court appearances of both men is that senior health authorities in Victoria and SA made a value judgment between the lethal activities of their clients and the risk they posed to the community and appear to have preferred to protect the men's privacy even though their behaviour risked the health of their sexual conquests, possibly numbering more than 100.

It's hardly newsworthy that the highest value of the Left is the right to kill.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 10, 2007 5:40 PM