Have you donated to Amnesty International since they became "ridiculous"?

[Ian David]

Let's show this administration that it is THEM and not Amnesty International that is being discredited!

Let's all donate to Amnesty International NOW!
(I just gave them $25, and my wife will detain and torture me for it).

https://secure3.ctsg.com/amnestyusa/donation/index.asp?item=1&ms=47




Friday, June 03, 2005
Amnesty International throws down the guantlet: Let the world see American ‘gulag’

TOKYO: The head of Amnesty International on Thursday hit back at US outrage over the group labelling Guantanamo Bay a “gulag” and challenged Washington to open the military detention centre to outside inspections.

US President George W Bush and other government figures have said they were shocked when the human rights group accused the United States of running “a new gulag of prisons around the world beyond the reach of the law and decency”.

The secretary general of London-based Amnesty International, Irene Khan, on Thursday defended the comment and said the US response lacked substance and was “defensive and dismissive”. “We have not seen from them a more detailed response to the concerns we have expressed in our report,” she told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo.

“Our answer is simple: if that is so (that the allegations are unfounded), open up these detention centres. Allow us and others to visit them.

More:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_3-6-2005_pg4_1





Also, did you notice they're still trying to get away with saying stories of Koran abuse are lies??


FBI reports corroborate Koran abuse
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Updated at 7:15 PM EDT
Associated Press

Washington — Terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison told U.S. interrogators as early as April 2002, just three months after the first detainees arrived, that military guards abused them and desecrated the Koran, declassified FBI records say.

“Their behaviour is bad,” one detainee is quoted as saying of his guards during an interrogation by an FBI special agent in July 2002. “About five months ago the guards beat the detainees. They flushed a Koran in the toilet.”

The statements about guards disrespecting the Koran echo public allegations made many months later by some detainees and their lawyers after prisoners' release from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The once-secret FBI documents show a consistency to the allegations and are the first indication that Justice and Defence department officials were aware in early 2002 that detainees were accusing their guards of mistreating the holy book.

One told an interrogator in March 2003 that guards had repeatedly mishandled the Koran. This detainee asked why the United States, as a supporter of freedom of religion, was using the Muslim holy book as a weapon.

More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050525.wkoran0525/BNStory/Front

[Big Kahuna]

1. Sorry, just kidding.

I just like to skew polls. :p

"I won't donate. I like the idea of torturing Iraqi men, women and children."

[Ian David]

7. Hey, you're either with Amnesty or you're with the torturers

[Chicago Democrat]

2. Ok I will give $10 If someone gives $10 to my House candidate...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1826949&mesg_id=1826949

Amnesty Intl is awesome and would be happy to give. So lets play this game. Someone give 10 to Christine and I will give 10. I'll go up to 25. OK?

[leveymg]

3. Thanks for reminding me. I just re-upped.

I need a new AI bumpersticker - now it has even more meaning!:hi:

[Last Lemming]

4. I have to say

I've donated every month for the last--oh, my God--15 years.
They are a little weak in the field but they were spot on this week.

[nytemare]

5. I saw an argument on this on Tweety a couple of days ago

The fellow speaking on behalf of Amnesty Intl was saying that we didn't hear any argument from the administration when they spoke out against Saddam, North Korea, Syria, Afhanistan and Iran.

He needs to take that a bit further and bring up what has been said about US presidents since the existenence of A.I., including the first President Bush. I don't believe they have come out like this against any US president, repub or dem.

[Supersedeas]

6. Great idea...i made my first contribution today =)

[Ian David]

8. See related thread: Amnesty: donations quintupled , memberships doubled

Amnesty: donations quintupled , memberships doubled, web site traffic up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3788663#3788759

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[Ian David]

10. Thanks for the feedback. Enjoy your stay on DU.

[newyawker99]

13. Hi Baker!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[G_j]

11. kick!

:bounce:

[vademocrat]

12. I joined after seeing your thread -

decided now was the perfect time to join

Thanks for putting the idea out there!