Mind you, she has a point:it is a mystery why the human rights pests are ignored by all but fellow members of the insane community.

That’s the thing, of course. Liberty’s definition of ‘human rights’ - just like ACLU’s - tends to be somewhat…. partial ? Slanted ? Completely howling-mad crazy ? Britain lacks anything as concise as the US Constitution, but let’s just take the First Amendment rights, and see how Liberty has defended them.  How about freedom of speech ? What did Liberty say when countryside activist Robin Page was arrested by the police on bogus ‘hate crimes’ charges ? …. Well, OK, how about freedom of religion ? What about when an elderly couple were interrogated by police after asking for their local council to give equal prominence to Christian and homosexualist literature ? …. Nope, must have been busy then too. Press freedom ? Hmmm…. no luck there either. Come to think of it, Liberty couldn’t even bestir themselves for the bestest bogus ‘hate crimes’ story ever.

No, the defining feature of Liberty is how little of their work concerns anything that could be described as actual liberty. What really motivates them is the Marxist obsession with group identity and power imbalances. Hence the love of class war:

Yet, predictably, it has been the poorest and most vulnerable who have suffered most from what Mr Blair described as his “battering” of the criminal justice system.

Really ? How does that work ? Do the police ask for bank statements before they investigate ? Or does it just mean that the poor don’t necessarily have the resources to resist malicious prosecutors ? Hardly a novel problem, nor one restricted to any particular set of laws.

Then’s there’s the race hustling:

Muslim terror suspects have been interned for years in Belmarsh prison while others have been subject to house arrest under control orders.

OK, Shami, name for me one law that only applies to Muslims. Hmmmmm…..

Come to think of it, in so far as Chakrabati seems to be suggesting that only Muslims could fall under the purview of anti-terrorist legislation, well, you know… Hey, she said it, not me!

But this also shows another aspect of the human rights hustlers: what lying scumbags they all are. No one is being interned in Belmarsh. What’s happened is that dangerous scumbags have tried to enter Britain and been promptly deported…. oops, no: thanks to the Left’s Magic Rights-Generating Machine we can’t deport these scumbags lest they be ‘persecuted’, so we have to let them stay in Britain. They’re free to leave anytime they want, to anywhere in the world - except the rest of Britain.

In other words, Liberty’s idea of a ‘fundamental right’ is the right of convicted terrorists to come to Britain and live freely, doubtless supported by the welfare state. Ditto, with a large chunk of supposedly oppressive legislation - it’s only needed in the first place because the courts have conjured up bogus rights and the government has to scramble to make the best of a bad job - and yes, granting an access-all-areas pass to an Egyptian bus bomber counts a bad job in my book.

Indeed, for a supposed ‘civil liberties’ organisation, Liberty doesn’t half seem anxious to pitch in with fascists. Not only do we have an onion being taken out for all those poor oppressed terrorists, but we even have this:

Yet hardest of all to believe has been the Government’s wise monkey approach to torture. It has refused to investigate reasonable suspicions that our airspace and airports have been part of the web of kidnap and torture called “extraordinary rendition”.

Well, it depends what you call reasonable, doesn’t it ? ‘Cause I’ve got to say, this ain’t cutting it. Still, you have to admire the double-dipping. Here’s a bunch of folks who think that Islamic terrorists should be free to go about their business until they’ve actually killed someone - well, best make it half a dozen, just to be sure - but will accept almost any charge of torture! as a proven fact, despite lacking any actual, y’know, evidence. 

Funnily enough, there really is evidence of torture out there, but these freaks seem not to worry about it - too busy writing 100 000 word screeds about Club Gitmo. Their positions aren’t based on the actual facts, they’re based on whether or not they push the Liberal agenda. Pretend torture by the US gets splash coverage. Actual torture by their allies ? Not so much.

Of course, none of this means there aren’t people in government who really do want to take away traditional British rights. But it does mean we shouldn’t look to the lunatic fringe like Liberty to make any useful contribution to defending them. They’re too busy helping Mr Bin Laden with his immigration tribunal.