AMNESTY OWES (US) AN APOLOGY

New York Post ^ | 11/02/02

[kattracks]

November 2, 2002 -- Remember those hysterical charges early this year claiming that America was "torturing" and otherwise violating the human rights of Taliban and al Qaeda detainees at Camp X-Ray?

Well, four of those prisoners have now been released, and you can hear the truth about America's "brutality" straight from the horse's mouth.

[ZULU]

I'm not sure that those "torture" charges were incorrect.

Preventing Muslim nuts from blowing up American citizens could be considered torture to the Islamic mind.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

No torture? Darn! I don't want the world to think the US is wimpy.

[aynrandfreak]

They mostly owe an apology to Daniel Pearl's family. Those terrorists said that the stories of mistreatment of prisoners at Gitmo sparked the kidnapping and eventual murder of Pearl.

[piasa]

Good point, and one too often forgotten by sensationalist reporters.

[SSN558]

Being released to Pakistan as a captured terrorist from Club Gitmo is the last thing these prisoners want. As long as they keep talking their status as pampered and spoiled POW's is secure.

[Mark17]

Do you suppose those people in Amnesty International know where the sun don't shine?

[Highest Authority]

It's been over a year since 9/11 and not ONE terrorist has been executed!!!!!!! WHY????? Has America completely turned into a bunch of pansies? WHAT war on terrorism? This is what happens when lawyers are allowed a say in running things! It reminds me of the Korean "war", when it took forever to decide the shape of the conference table to be used for "Peace" talks. You want to make these Gitmoistas talk? Just take them up 1000' in a chopper with the door open! If you don't like their answers to your questions, heave ho! Enough of this PC crap!!!!

[SkyPilot]

One of my wife's professors at a jesuit college in the US was a bigtime Amnesty supporter and advocate. He was always bashing the US and handing out Amnesty International literature on campus.

I heard he cut his ties with the organization when Amnesty International documented the rapes, torture, and mutilation committed by the Iraqis against Kuwait and people caught there during the invasion (Phillipinos, Thai, etc). Must have been too "pro-US" for him to take.

Recently, she heard her old professor got busted for solicitng a male prostitute. Par for the course.

[rmvh]

One of my wife's professors at a jesuit college in the US was a bigtime Amnesty supporter and advocate.

Not an unusual stance for for the Jesuits....or other orders.

Notre Dame, where I graduated from some years ago, has morphed from conservatism to liberalism with the traditional Catholic stance against such things as homesexuality etc fading into obscurity.

Sad.

[SkyPilot]

Notre Dame, Boston College, Villanova, Georgetown-----they used to be pillars of academia. Today, they have joined hands with political correctness and have cheapened themselves.

The hard sciences, medicine, and engineering still seem to thrive. We worked with a Notre Dame grad in physics who worked some avionics issues...brilliant guy. But I am sure they offer degrees in "Transgendered Theory" along with the rest these days.

[WOSG]

right ... the ones we want dead, we drop little hints about their 'helfpul cooperation' and let the al quaeda eat their own.

You cannot expect the US to do anything like torture prisoners.

We are not Egypt.