Justice brings peace, freedom brings democracy

[dipsydoodle]

I've copied the subject name from the header of what follows. It was sent to me in the digest of one of the banjo groups to which I belong - Fretless Banjo. The entire email is published intact and I believe it may merit some discussion.

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Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:00 pm (PST)
This campaign is about Human beings, Democracy, UNHCR, Refugees, The Iraqis, Islam, Kurds, Human rights, Respect, Money, Donations, Angelina Jolie, Pavarotti, Giorgio Armani, Donors, Peace, History, Campaigns and about you if you care about these words.

Hi there,

I am SAM, an Iraqi refugee living in Lebanon at the moment; I have spent the last 10 years of my life as a refugee registered with the UNHCR in Beirut. The last 4 years, I have spent as an activist for peace and human rights (especially refugees and asylum seekers) on the Internet; I'm also books author and ebooks publisher. I have launched many campaigns to improve our situation as refugees in Lebanon and hopefully bring more understanding to our problems worldwide. I helped make many changes and improvements at the UNHCR office in Beirut; I used the Internet as the field for my activities (you can read more about that in my free ebook 'MY CAMPAIGNS'). All my ebooks are free and could be download from my sites.

This is my newest campaign, it's about the illegal and humiliating actions of the UNHCR, who using photos of refugees as banners and human-buttons to collect money. This is an abuse of the dignity and humanity of the refugees and must stop immediately and a clear public apology present by The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. My friends, I am talking about the pictures you can see here: http://sitepalace.com/unews/human-buttons.htm

Also you can read my new campaign 'Urgent, we need smile' here: http://www.angelfire.com/yt3/un4/smile.html

For more info about UNHCR and life of refugees you can read my free ebooks. I invite you as fellow humans and members of the world community to support my campaign by reading my article on my site and see the human-buttons. The campaign is to support and improve the UNHCR http://www.unhcr.org especially after the last scandals in the UN and UNHCR, just for example: http://www.mizzima.com/archives/news-in-2005/news-in-april/12-April05-22.htm

"We make demonstration and fast because the UNHCR office in Cairo did nothing for our problem..." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4440730.stm

Together we will build better world.

You could reach me fast via this form: http://unwes.cafe150.com/email_me.htm
and if you like to know more about me, you can google for my name 'osam altaee'.

Thanks
THE TRUTH WARRIOR
http://sitepalace.com/lebanon/
http://www.unhcr.us


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[uppityperson]

1. I see it as humanizing problems, triggering emotional buttons

Using pictures to get people to understand these are people in bad situations seems ok to me. I don't know much about the UNHCR otherwise, but using pictures on buttons or posters seems legal and does not seem humiliating to me. What is humiliating is being in the situation of being a refugee, not having your picture put out to get help to not be a refugee. Or am I missing something about this?