Rightists defend North Korea's jailing of journalists (more Freeper Madness)

The Whine Time Players at Free Republic aren't even funny anymore. They're pitiful.

After 2 American journalists were sentenced by North Korea to 12 years of hard labor, I didn't seriously believe America's rightist brain trust would publicly defend the harsh sentence - though I did point out that it would have been par for the course for them.

I didn't think they'd defend the punishment, because North Korea isn't considered an American ally as other totalitarian dictatorships have been.

But I was wrong.

Regulars of right-wing hate site Free Republic are doing exactly what I didn't think they'd have the unmitigated audacity to do.

After they questioned Ashton Kutcher's observation that the sentence is a "national crisis", one Freeper said of the jailed reporters:

"From what I have read, they snuck into NK and thought they could mingle for a story and got caught. When I visit other countries, I am pretty sure that I am supposed to follow their rules."

If your literacy skills were up to par, Freeper person, you'd have known that the journalists probably never set foot in North Korea. It appears as if they were in China and were nabbed by zealous North Korean border guards.

Even if they were in North Korea, a regime doesn't get to violate fundamental human rights that people are endowed with regardless of country - let alone be shielded from criticism for violating their rights.

In conservaworld, there is one notable exception to each country being allowed to enforce its laws: the United States.

The rightists are big free trade advocates who have let foreign fisheries exceed fishing limits in American waters - which American fisheries aren't allowed to do.

These neorightists support a cult founder from Korea who immigrated to the United States and promptly violated American tax laws.

They backed Bush's "preemption" efforts to run roughshod over laws in most of the 50 states that regulated Big Business.

Free Republic's thought sentinels are defending Kim Jong-il while fighting Kelso of 'That '70s Show'! Now you know why I'm a nonfiction writer: You can't write fiction that's more bizarre than this true story.