Most days I read the NY Times just to check up on the nutty competition – it can be fun. Other days I feel my blood pressure soar in concert with my hackles. One of today’s headlines really got to me. It reads: ‘Terrorist sues over treatment in U.S. prison’. . . Say what?

The story, written by Charlie Savage, deals with the African nitwit who, on Christmas day in 2009, tried to blow up an airliner bound for Detroit. This Nigerian unsuccessfully attempted to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear. Only his incompetence saved the lives of 289 other passengers. The article quotes his civil rights lawyer, Ms. Gail Johnson, as saying that the prison violated his rights as an observant Muslim to pray, eat halal foods, and contact his relatives back in Nigeria. Another charge claims that, when he went on a hunger strike, the guards fed him through feeding tubes.

That’s right, folks, the very same animal who is responsible for us having to take off our shoes and belts when passing through security at every airport in the world is now suing the U.S. government claiming his constitutional rights were violated while serving multiple life sentences in federal prison. Mr. Savage fails to mention that those same U.S. officials saved this Nigerian’s life by treating the burns to his groin area.

First of all, this scum couldn’t even spell ‘constitution’ much less understand what it means.

The Times refers to `his complaints’ as though they came from him personally. Actually, the words come from his lawyer, a bleeding heart liberal anxious to defend an attempted murderer by shifting blame on the prison system and getting paid by taxpayers while doing so.

With almost 1.3 million lawyers — more by far than any other country, and more as a percentage of the national population than almost all others — the United States is choking on litigation, regulation, and disputation. Everything and anything is grist for the lawyers’ mills. Anyone can be sued for anything, no matter how absurd or egregious. The rule of law is essential to a free and orderly society, but too much law and lawyering makes democratic self-rule impossible, and common sense legally precarious.

I hope Ms. Johnson’s parents, who likely paid for her education, are proud.

What a joke.

You are welcome.

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