Your Tax Dollars in Action--Funding a Lavish (and Potentially Deadly) "Human Rights" Mausoleum Soiree

"Human rights" types demand--and receive--extra-special rights unavailable to the rest of us:

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights isn't finished yet, but hosted its first big gala on the weekend - with a fire truck standing by because the building has no sprinkler system. 

The event, hosted by the Winnipeg Foundation with community leaders from around the country and the world, had been in the works for two years. 

Winnipeg Foundation CEO Rick Frost said as recently as two weeks ago there was still scaffolding in Buhler Hall, the museum's main hall. 

Frost credited the museum for getting the facility ready, but he admitted it was nerve-wracking. 

"I would never necessarily recommend to anyone to have a host event for a major, 600 person conference in a construction site, because there's so many challenges of doing that," he said. 

Museum spokesperson Angela Cassie said the museum spent $10,000 to get the main hall ready and hire extra security. 

"When you think of the cost of a national ad campaign or a PSA, I think that we felt that it was well worth the investment," she said...

Hey, that's our money you're throwing around there, sister. I think we should be the ones to decide if it's worth it or not (and I, for one, say it's not). And had a blaze broken out in the unsprinklered edifice during and because of the swanky, exclusive affair, those are our dollars that would have gone up in smoke.