Posted on 09/22/2004 7:22:04 AM PDT by dead
A little about the doctor:
Dr. William F. Schulz was appointed Executive Director of Amnesty International (USA) in March 1994. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, he came to Amnesty after serving for fifteen years with the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA), the last eight (1985-93) as President of the Association.
Dr. Schulz has served on the boards of People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Communitarian Network and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, among others.
Throughout his career he has been outspoken in his opposition to the death penalty and his support for women's rights, gay and lesbian rights and racial justice, having organized, participated in demonstrations and written extensively on behalf of all four causes.
And this from Publisher’s Weekly about his latest book, Tainted Legacy:
Abusive interrogations, suspension of habeas corpus, secret tribunals: these are the kinds of human rights violations we associate with totalitarian governments abroad. But, according to Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, these violations have become common in the U.S. since it began its war on terror. Schulz is supremely well placed to argue for the importance of respecting human rights while we fight terror-indeed, he asserts, respecting human rights "both at home and abroad, actually makes terrorism less likely to succeed." European countries, for instance, have refused to extradite terror suspects to the U.S. because they might face the death penalty here.
liberation = genocide? What is this dink smoking?
In Sudan, they nail babies to trees while their mothers watch, they sell their people as slaves to rich arabs, they level villages to take oil fields and this is somehow the equivalent of Guantanamo? And Abu Gharib?
Of course it is, but we can send a few hundred million dollars to make it right.
A rhetorical question: Who in their right mind would give a flying fig what this nitwit thinks or says?
rddb
You have to be joking!!! Genocide absolutely in NO WAY compares to the detention of possible combatants or the stupid, immature pranks of a handful of soldiers.
The UN is failing on the Sudanese issue, just as they failed on the Iraq issue.
BTW, what has Kerry had to say about Sudan? Surely his African-American wife Teh-RAY-zuh must be concerned about what is going on there?
If IA is so up in arms about America's human rights record, why do IA or like-minded orgs demand the US intervene in bad places to support human rights?
IA=AI
Um, which = Amnesty Interntional.
So, lunch then?
That guy has all the leftie credentials you'd need to become head of an NGO, including leadership in the Church Of Nuclear Disarmament, otherwise known as the Unitarians.
Despots are always going to attack the records of those who call them to account.
It made more sense in Goering's case. To compare detention of combatants and thetreatment, albeit humiliating, of terrorists in Abu Gharib with what is ocurring daily in and around Darfur is the height of cultural and moral relativism.
At his defense goering could point to Hamburg and Dresden, and even the bombings of france prior to D Day which took some 100,000 French lives. Here the Amnesty people are equating dog collars wit hmurder on grand scales. Unfortunately there can be no arguing with these people since the average attention span of a western adult is not long enough to successfully explain the differences between Darfur and Gitmo.
Got as far as 'Abu-Ghraib' and hung up. Panties on the head=genocide. These people are idiots.
Amnesty International U.S can go staright to hell; they're nothing more than another PETA organization.
Hey, AI -- KMA!
Where and who does the money go too?
Amnesty International and the UN, naturally.
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