More on human rights.

• Author: Kaplan, Alexander L.
• Position: Letters - Letter to the editor

I have just read two recent letters in the Bar Journal concerning human rights and criticizing President Angones' July/August column, "The Defense of Human Rights." I think the only people with a "Peter Pan" attitude are the letter writers and not our new Bar president.

You gentlemen seem to forget that this great nation is at war. You take the same attitude of so many of our citizens and think that because it is presently being fought on the other side of the world, it doesn't affect you. Well, I've got news for you ... the war is also being fought right here at home!

You complain about the methods our government is using to combat an enemy that knows no borders, has no regard for the human rights you espouse, and, if given the chance, would certainly behead you in a public forum for being a lawyer standing up for other's rights.

What about the rights of those who were in towers one and two of the World Trade Center? What about the rights of those on board an aircraft just before it hit a Pennsylvania farm field or the side of the Pentagon? What about the rights of my brothers in the FDNY and my friends in the NYPD and PAPD who gave their lives on 9/11?

First responders all over the country have been training for more terrorist activities here at home...