This week, a French court gets to listen to Venezuelan “International Man of Mystery” Carlos The Jackal carp about not getting enough terrorist-issue Froot Loops inside his French jail cell. Apparently, pate and champagne aren’t happening for him these days in Paris. And for the Shagadelic Jackal, that’s no fair.
The Austin-Powers-era Marxist terrorist is actually suing in a French court over what he says is unequal treatment for international terrorists, not against ordinary criminals or compared to UN human rights standards – but against other, less-worthy, but more news-o-genic terrorists.
What The Jackal wants to know is why he gets a lousy jail cell in France while unshaven rag-bound Islamofascist terrorists get the luxury treatment over in U.S. terrorist detention centers in Guantanamo. For the Jackal, it’s not fair! After all, didn’t he once shoot up OPEC meetings and kidnap and kill as well as the newer whippersnappers? Why should he be jailed and forgotten like a criminal while newer terrorist whippersnappers get all the attention?
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But more to the point, the Jackal’s new lawsuit shows that most Islamofascist terrorists don’t suffer too badly in the much-reviled Gitmo installations, no matter how loudly the international left denounces them. The Jackal’s demands for Gitmo-style due process and Gitmo-style accomodation seem to say that the jailhouse perspective among international terrorists is a little different. The Jackal feels he’s entitled to Gitmo-style luxuries, too.
Kind of puts things in perspective, no?
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