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
"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.
"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 read on one thread here that the guards at Gitmo also have to be on watch for Cubans trying to break in!