OUTRAGE – AT 10:46 A.M. ET:  There's another former president we have a right to be proud of, and he's being treated rather badly by the usual suspects.  From Fox News:

GENEVA — A visit former U.S. President George W. Bush planned to make to Switzerland next week has been canceled because of security concerns, after left-wing groups called for mass protests and rights activists proposed legal action against him for allegedly ordering the torture of terrorism suspects.

Bush's spokesman David Sherzer said the two-term president was informed Friday by the United Israel Appeal that his Feb. 12 dinner speech in Geneva had been called off.

"We regret that the speech has been canceled," Sherzer told The Associated Press in an e-mail Saturday. "President Bush was looking forward to speaking about freedom and offering reflections from his time in office."

Saturday's edition of Swiss daily Tribune de Geneve quoted the Jewish charity's lawyer, Robert Equey, as saying the visit was canceled because of the risk that protests by left-wing groups could result in violence.

"The calls to demonstrate were sliding into dangerous terrain," Equey told the newspaper. "The organizers claimed to be able to maintain order, but warned they could not be held responsible for any outbursts."

The creeps are out in force:

Several human rights groups, including Amnesty International and the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, had planned to ask Swiss prosecutors to open a criminal investigation against Bush over the admission that he personally authorized the waterboarding of terrorism suspects.

I object when news organizations, including Fox, refer to rackets like this as "human rights groups."  The Center for Constitutional Rights is a Marxist organization, and Amnesty International, while occasionally doing some good work, is essentially a leftist stalking horse.  The ACLU was, naturally, also involved in this.

I wonder how many of these "human rights" activists showed the slightest interest in the rights of the Egyptian people before, say, two weeks ago.  Hmm.

February 6, 2011