Posted on 05/30/2005 4:15:14 PM PDT by CHARLITE
On a weekend when we praise those who serve in our military, you might want to know how that military is being criticized.
Last week, Amnesty International issued its annual report. In it, the United States was criticized for:
Thumbing "its nose at the rule of law and human rights."
Abuse and mistreatment of prisoners.
Not acting quickly enough on legal challenges from detainees.
Attempting to "redefine" torture.
Making a "mockery of justice."
And, in the wallop sentence that Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan knew would make headlines, Guantanamo Bay was called "the gulag of our times."
We don't see pages devoted to Osama bin Laden, or a call for him to be "fair" to prisoners.
We don't see criticism of Iraqi insurgents' "policies," or a call for them to cease their beheadings because they violate the Geneva Convention.
We don't see the condemning of terror groups for trying to "redefine" torture (and after all, sending jets into buildings certainly redefined things.
let me get this straight about foreign strongmen. When they attack us, they blame us, and when they attack their own, they blame us, too? Who's making the rules here?
Look. There have certainly been abuses, both military and political, in the "war on terror." But we must remember, on Memorial Day weekend, that this is a different kind of war, that one person can wreak havoc on thousands, that information and communication are now lethal weapons.
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I don't know why we work with any of these NGO's. They have all been "lock, stock and barrel" been compromised by the commies, including the American and International Red Cross.
There is no other country on earth that EVERY man and woman on the planet wished they lived in..
We have the highest standards of conduct, humanity, tolerance, of any nation on earth..
To put it quite plainly, ( NO Brag, just FACT ) America is the best and greatest nation on earth..
Yet, we are criticized for not being perfect.. for not being "better"..
It is increasingly difficult in these times to remember that we are commanded to "Love one another"..
While I was in college, I went to see Paul Simon's Graceland tour, with Ladysmith Black Mombasso, Hugh Masakeela, and Miryam Mkeeba at Radio City Music Hall (one of the most amazing concerts I've ever been to) and it inspired me (along with talking to Donald Wood, friend to murdered activist Stephen Biko) to join Amnesty International.
Once I joined, I waited to get a list of "prisoners of concience" that I could start writing letters on behalf of. The only things I ever got in the mail were some newsletters, chocked full of pleas for more money, or fund raising letters. When I wrote in to AI, I didn't hear anything back. I wrote again, but nothing happened. Finally, I let my membership expire, and I did get a letter asking why I had "dropped out of AI." When I responsed, I finally got a letter back saying that with my money, they could do more important and effective lobbying on behalf of those prisoners.
Mark
For the most part, the folks at Amnesty International have a political agenda against the US...which used to be tolerable. But, the power of their words nowadays really stokes the flames of the Islamic Radicals. Worse then being just plain-old jack asses, they are now really increasing the tension in the war on terror. The irony of course is that, like most liberal groups, they'll be the first ones to pay the price if Democracy and freedom lose out to Islamo Fascism.
We need to invite Amnesty Int'ntl to wittness proper treatment of these guys as we line them up in front of a firing squad as per Geneva conventions.
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