Posted on 05/30/2005 5:52:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Yes I just sent a very civilized email to AI this afternoon
For shame AI for shame.
You should fire the AI spokesperson who compares the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay to the [worst] gulag of our times.
Funny you seem to forget there are far more prisoners, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, and most of these are truly innocent prisoners, in China and North Korea to mention just two countries, who live in real gulags and who would find Gitmo to be a Caribbean resort in comparison. You insult their suffering.
Such fraudulent hyberbole merely undercuts the credibility of your organization to all persons who truly understand history and the current global political situation.
Of course I fully understand you are creating controversy and targetting the ignorant Anti American types who will donate money to your organization because they'll lap up your faulty characterization. I'm sure it's a tactic that works but so unbecoming for an organization that so many expect to provide the truth.
I have donated to AI in the past as I thought your work was worthy.
I will no longer and I will spread the word amongst my colleagues and friends until such time as I see either an apology or retraction for this fraudulent characterization, a firing of this spokesperson and/or I see some active effort on your part to help prisoners living in real "gulags". When you start haranging Kim Jong Il and the government of China day in and day out, you may start to regain your credibility.
In the meantime, I will only support organizations that are really interested in the truth, that don't use lies in order to raise money, that are interested in helping the greatest number of those that truly need help.
For shame, for shame.
OK so I only donated $10 ten years ago when I was naive but so what, they don't know that.......LOL
I have siad it many times over. It is so easy for these leftist groups just to roam around the US and make their idiotic human rights complaints about us. Let them try it in a country that really violates human rights and see if they make it out alive. They are pathetic.
CHENEY '08!
I've never thought this up until now, but really, is there anyone better?
"The report Amnesty International released last week said prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba had been mistreated and called for the prison to be shut down. Cheney derided the London-based group in an interview set to be broadcast Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."
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How DARE these leftist, marxist, relativist genocide deniers compare the USA to ANYONE we have done battle with.
This mindset covered up the Bolshevic Holocausts of 1921,1932, and 1947 as well as the genocide of another 70 million in the last century.
How DARE they equate our treatment of terrorists with the the real terror of our enemy that beheads innocent people.
Flush a Koran? What about the flushing of 100 million lives in the last century by the leaders of these Usefull Idiots.
Is it not true that according to the Geneva Convention and the rules of warfare Partisans can be shot? If so, these guys are being very well treated.
Dick's on CNN Larry King right now..
I wish him well in '08. :)
Are you suggesting that Amnesty International doesn't have anything to say about any other country? Rather than spouting the same old "liberal" line, read the report here:
http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/index-eng
It has a lot to say about 149 countries. The US is not the worst. That's not to say the US can't improve.
I don't give to Amnesty International. They obviously don't have any good use for our money.
I'm getting tired of the government trying to force this Islamofascist religious belief about the sacredness of the Koran on the rest of us. It's not the business of our government to promulgate religious doctrines, nor to act in accordance with them.
In this photograph provided by CNN, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne Cheney talk with Larry King during the taping of an interview 'Larry King Live' at the Naval Observatory in Washington Friday, May 27, 2005. during the taping. (AP Photo, CNN, David Borer, the White House)
oh exactly I was going to mention the Soviet Gulags but I decided to try and sound like an actual regular donor to AI so they could think they were being hit in the pocketbook and credibility department, I hope they receive millions of such emails......even if just from the US and Canada
"Of course I fully understand you are creating controversy and targetting the ignorant Anti American types who will donate money to your organization because they'll lap up your faulty characterization. I'm sure it's a tactic that works but so unbecoming for an organization that so many expect to provide the truth."
Lefties milking stepford lefties, LOL :)
too funny!
btw, you called it right.
I've never thought this up until now, but really, is there anyone better?
No, there IS no one better. Just saw him being interviewed by Larry King - Vice President Cheney is far and away, the most qualified person to be the next President of the United States.
Thank you, Vice President Cheney!
I don't have to read any farther than that. Left-wing turds. End of story.
You have to be a troll. There is no way an intelligent adult could spout the "my country right or wrong" crap with a straight face.
wait a minute Observer of Life did you not read the comment made by AI spokesperson, she called Gitmo "the gulag of our times"
which implies it is the worst gulag of our times
which it is a complete lie, did you not read my letter?
Gitmo, even if you believe every thing the released detainees are saying and please, just as many detainees are saying they were treated just fine, some of them were shocked at the level of medical treatment they received, I remember one fellow thought the Americans were going to kill him and he was shocked that they saved his life and made him good as new, because he knew if it were the other way around, you can be damn sure Al Queda or Mr. Zarqawi would not be providing any American hostages or POWS the finest in medical care, the finest in Islamist beheading techniques.......
there are gulags in China and North Korea that I will repeat make Gitmo look like a Caribbean resort and that is for starters, you can throw in Iran for another, and hey, I know someone who returned from jail in the Domincan Republic, hello, she wishes she was in Gitmo, the woman was a skeleton after 3 years, no three meals a day and snacks for her........
I went to the AI site, I didn't see China or North Korea front and centre, on the top of the list.......
the bottomline is AI is leftist leaning, they have turned a blind eye to leftist atrocities or it is easier to turn an constant eye on the US because they can garner more donations from all the anti American lefties out there...and get the press to cover it, the press doesn't seem to care about the starving prisoners in China and North Korea,
many instances where AI should be front and centre they are missing, much like the ACLU for that matter, for example has AI made any efforts in Pakistan where women are being raped as punishment for their brother's alleged infidelities, we won't hold our breaths, I believe there are other groups stepping up to the plate there......and those are the kind of groups that would get my donations....
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