Some Irony for Justice Breyer

American Thinker has a great post on yesterday's 5-4 Supreme Court decision that essentially eliminated any notion of U.S. property rights. In a 1999 death penalty case, Justice Breyer looked towards Zimbabwean law (that role model of humanitarian rights) as part of an international review. Perhaps he also looked towards Zimbabwe when he thought about U.S. property rights yesterday. According to the AP:

Rights groups showed a smuggled video Thursday of hundreds of thousands of poor Zimbabweans living in the open in the winter cold after the government tore down their homes in what it describes as an urban renewal project.

At news conferences in Africa and at the United Nations, more than 200 international human rights and civic groups said the campaign, known as Operation Drive Out Trash, was "a grave violation of international human rights law and a disturbing affront to human dignity."

The irony is rich, isn't it?