[BCrago66]

I don't know about the history of Amnesty International, but I do know that in the last couple years they have been a vulgar lefty joke; they are more willing to denounce alleged human rights abuses in the USA than to denounce bloody dictators.

They were positively resentful that America liberated Iraq: they ignored Saddam's mass graves, questioned our motives, and refused to support the liberation as that would be too "political." I'm glad I never gave these disgusting people a penny.

[alloysteel]

In the eyes of Amnesty International, heavy-handed regulation of the citizens by a regime that styles itself as 'socialist' and gives Judeo-Christian religions principles short shrift is not oppression, it is merely re-educating its population in the new realities. By that standard, the US is guilty of high crime in its treatment of foreign and domestic prisoners, and its regulation of various ethnic groups. But if this nation were to systematically root out all traces of religious influence, and embark on a program of fully nationalizating various industries, beginning with medicine and extending to most industrial enterprises, most of their objections to "injustices" in this country would disappear. Their agenda is similar to that of ACLU in many ways.

Their objective has little to do with the physical well-being of people in prison. It has everything to do with political correctness taken to an international level.