Andy McCarthy Has Huge Fucking Balls

How else can you explain something as brazen as this?

Andy McCarthy, one of the loudest and most shameless torture apologist at National Review, is throwing a genuine civil libertarian hissy fit about Homeland Security's recent interest (perhaps undue) in right wing extremism.

Get this:

The DHS intelligence assessment is a betrayal of these values, and a frightening indication that those trusted to wield power in defense of our Constitution are unfamiliar with what the Constitution stands for.

And this:

We on the Right are deeply concerned — more concerned, historically, than our opposite numbers — about threats to civil society. Ordered liberty requires order.

Andy McCarthy accusing other people of not understanding the business of rights! Andy McCarthy questioning earnestly -- and with, apparently, zero irony -- the judgment and intentions of those in power! A-goddamn-mazing!

Now, I know, McCarthy's defense is predictable. I'll even make it for him: "We are citizens of the United States. The terrorists are not. (Though some of them are, but never mind that.) Thus we get rights, liberty, and little American flags, and they get simulated drownings."

To which I'll respond, as I always do, "It's called being a decent, civilized, liberal people who respect human dignity regardless of the words on a sheet of paper!" (Sorry if this isn't the most legalistically rigorous or rigorously legal argument, but I think the torture memos have shown the potential darkness of the lawyer's mind.)

I simply can't understand these bastards, bastards whose human goodness is defined and limited by longitude and latitude.

This takes serious guts. McCarthy can find no good reason why we shouldn't be throwing people against walls, painfully contorting their bodies, stuffing them into tiny insect-filled boxes, stripping them naked and forcing them to rub together, going at them with dogs, depriving them for many days of sleep, sticking them in freezers . . . But he simply WILL NOT ABIDE the government monitoring the activities of the political fringes, because liberty is sacred and rights inviolable!

Give me liberty or give me the imminent threat of death!

P.S. Excuse the profanity. As regular readers can attest, I typically avoid cursing. But this kind of hypocrisy sends me so far over the edge that, that . . . that I'm like Wile E. Coyote pumping his legs in thin air, the cliff ledge ten feet behind. Yeah, it's like that.