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| 2005-06-05 |
| This settles the bullshit about riots over Karen ...For instance, a May 18 report in the Afghan newspaper Kabul Weekly said the riots that killed 17 people were not about disrespect for the Koran in American detainment camps--they were a show of force by the Taliban and another fundamentalist group, Hezb-e Islami. "These demonstrations were organized by the Taliban and their supporters, and only some naive people joined the protesters," the newspaper said. The BBC picked up the story on May 22, but so far as I can see, it was completely ignored in American news media. If you edited, let us say, a large newspaper in Washington or New York, or a prominent newsmagazine accused of causing these famous riots, wouldn't you want to check this one out? |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #6 ...the group also invited foreign governments to snatch certain visiting American officials off the streets and bring them to trial for crimes against humanity. Doesn't this fall under advocated terrorist acts? Can we get AI banned as a terrorist-supporting organization? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-06-05 21:09 |
| #5 Mr Carter is in a nose to nose race with James Buchanan as the worst president in American History. Posturing about how the current resident is doing in cleaning up the mess that Mr. Carter himself started really helps in balloting. |
| Posted by: Pheregum Spairong2458 2005-06-05 16:19 |
| #4 What country in their right mind would snatch certain visiting American officials? ya mean like, students capturing diplomats, marines, and office workers in an embassy takeover? Jeez...a president would have to be a pretty weak piece of shit to not respond, right, Jimmy? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-05 11:58 |
| #3 Damnesty Internationale has definitely crossed a line here. Time for some back channel communications to get the point across nice and clear - like. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2005-06-05 09:43 |
| #2 What country in their right mind would snatch certain visiting American officials? They've seen amble demonstation of how the US can lay waste to anyone stupid enough to do something which historically constitutes an Act of War. If they think that the American Jacksonians would just stop with the offending government and not track AI down like the Taliban, then these people are truely wacked. |
| Posted by: Pheregum Spairong2458 2005-06-05 08:50 |
| #1 From the article: A different omission marred the reporting of Amnesty International's report charging torture in U.S. detainment camps. The group didn't just call Guantanamo a "gulag," an over-the-top remark that was universally reported. In a press release that most reporters ignored, the group also invited foreign governments to snatch certain visiting American officials off the streets and bring them to trial for crimes against humanity. The suggested snatchees, should they travel abroad, were President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA Director George Tenet, and other unnamed civilian and military officials. Amnesty International said that "all states have a responsibility to investigate and prosecute people responsible for these crimes," just as the British pounced on Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998. The snatching recommendation wasn't new, but the Amnesty press release is a useful reminder of the dangers of signing on to the International Criminal Court. Fucking incredible. Here is the USA fighting the nicest and most sensitive war ever fought, against the most vile of religous supremists who have wiped out, in previous conquests, more than 25% of the world's population and who, if given the chance today, wouldn't hesitate to wipe out the 80% who are not muslim. Yet AI wants to lock up Bush, Rumsfeld, et al. In other words, AI wants to decapitate the freely elected American government. There comes a point where they have crossed the line from a human rights org to advocating sedition in time of war. AI's US leadership have crossed the line to treason. As for AI's general secretary, the Bangladeshi Ms. Khan, at least she knows which side she is fighting for, and should be considered a combatant. Alas, even the advocates of western suicide at AI aren't stupid enough to call for the incarceration of the real puppetmaster, Darth Cheney. Amnesty International can now officially FOAD. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-06-05 07:50 |