A new low for the media - Amnesty Int'l Activists under scruitiny

[Kevin Spidel]

Rather then staying focused on the facts around the issues raised on the latest Amnesty International report. Reports of the Washington Times have decided to run a story on what they found digging up the FEC records of folks who are high-up volunteers in the organizations (the Board Chair) and expose their donations to Democratic candidates!

It cut deep and personal becasue I use to work as an AI employee and am a dedicated volutneer in this organization for over 11 years! I know these people well, and we try HARD not to bring politics into our work within AI. Becasue of the c3 status.

So they bring this up.... but they don't bring up the fact they use Amnesty's human rights reports to justify their war on Iraq or Afgan. That they allow c3 groups (churches) to do blaintent political partisan propoganda spewing! But no no... lets avoid the facts of this report, and lets let the bikering and pettyness begin!!!!

God this made me so livid!

I posted the details of articles on my blog at: http://spidel.net/PHP-Nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=30&mode=&order=0&thold=0

[WilliamPitt]

1. What do you expect from assholes

besides shit and hot air?

:toast:

[Kevin Spidel]

2. I know...

but still hurts when they have their crosshairs on good people doing good work who are your friends.

[gratuitous]

3. Eessh! Don't say "a new low"

The Fucktard Fristians take that as a challenge.

[The Magistrate]

4. It Is Interesting, Sir

The reactions of the current regime here, and the rightist mouthpieces who shill for it, to the recent Amnesty International report are tantamount to a confession of guilt. They sound precisely like the statements of recent malefactors such the governments of Uzbekistan and Sudan, and former ones like Milosevic's Serbia, the Nationalists of South Africa and Pinochet's Chile. The pug-marks of the thing are unmistakeable.

[Career Prole]

5. The right-wing was lovin' on Amnesty International

during the run-up to the war...used A.I. reports as proof of Saddam's human rights violations, in fact.

Funny that when it's their own human rights violations reported A.I. becomes suddenly "absurd".

[Kevin Spidel]

8. thx for this link n/t

[Green Mountain Dem]

6. Of course they're not......

the least bit interested in the Repub contribs from Diebold and other corporate execs. After all, we just vote...THEY COUNT EM!!!

[Just Me]

7. The right-wing has no defense. Hence, they INVENT an attack,...

,...which always orients around character assassination.

This is their SOP. They make shit up in order to destroy those who hold evidence that members of the right-wing are criminal.

It's sick. It's evil. It's wrong. It's merely a more sophisticated means of covering up their own criminal behavior.

[applegrove]

9. The neocon war is certainly against all and any NGOs. Once again

they hate daylight. Amnesty goes to extreme measures to try and keep out of politics. Why local people are not allowed to be involved in the investigations at home. So all those local American AI board members are not the ones who are doing any investigating or reporting of American abuses. They educate in America on events in places like Myanmar, Korea, China, etc. etc. and they raise money and they get Americans involved in actions outside the USA. The American AI office may interview people arriving on American shores from places where thre are abuses. But local AI board members and employees are not involved in any way in the reporting of America abuses. That is how AI is structured.

IMHO


That is how seriously they take their impartiality.

[Kevin Spidel]

10. a good quote about this from Bill Schulz

"It doesn't matter whether he takes Amnesty International seriously. He doesn't take torture seriously; he doesn't take the Geneva Convention seriously; he doesn't take due process rights seriously; and he doesn't take international law seriously."

—William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, in response to Vice President Dick Cheney's comment that he wasn't putting much weight on Amnesty's criticism of U.S. treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.