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Amnesia International Wants Bush Arrested
EFL, more pious posturing at link.Bush, Other Top Officials Should Face Torture Probes, Says Amnesty; Urges Arrests if Warranted Abid Aslam OneWorld US Thu., May. 26, 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26 (OneWorld) - Rights watchdog Amnesty International urged foreign governments Wednesday to investigate and prosecute President George W. Bush much as they once did former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. ''If the United States permits the architects of torture policy to get off scot-free, then other nations should step into the breach,'' William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said in a statement launching Amnesty's annual report. How odd that Schulz is so convinced of their guilt in one sentence while asserting the lack of a competent investigation in the next. I thought these people were great intellectuals. Bush is among a dozen former or current U.S. officials who should be probed by foreign governments because Washington has failed to conduct ''a genuinely independent and comprehensive investigation'' of torture allegations against U.S. troops, commanders, and their civilian overseers, Schulz said. The implicit assumption here is that no US body, including many dominated by members of the opposition Democratic Party, is competent to investigate these charges. It is also plain that Schulz, good fascist that he is, will reject any investigation that does not support his agenda. Why do Schulz and AI assume that foreign governments, meaning Eurocrats and their courts in this case, are competent to conduct this investigation while exactly analogous American bodies are not? Others on the Amnesty list of potential targets for investigation and prosecution include Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief George Tenet. ''If the U.S. government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior U.S. officials involved in the torture scandal,'' Schulz said. Again, Schulz and AI implicitly reject the independence of the US Congress and judiciary. With the exception of a couple of lowest-common-denominator Congress shills, neither of these entitites has made any move to impeach President Bush or even to seriously suggest that such a proceeding would be justified. According to AI, therefore, mainstream Democrats are either completely impotent or actively complicit in Bush's alleged crimes. This may not sit well with the core of their American constituency, the liberal upper-middle class. As for actually arresting Bush, the combined armies and police forces of Eurabia could not fight their way from Galveston to Crawford in a hundred years even if civilians were the only opposition. You want our leaders, Moonbats? As Leonidas of Sparta said to the Persians who demanded that his men surrender their arms, MOLON LABE! ("come and take them)" Of course, this time the power balance is reversed, and then some. I doubt that outclassed moonbats will hold out anything like as long as Leonidas and his men did. They can't run fast enough to avoid the same result though. Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-05-27 |
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