June 09, 2005

Amnesty International Calls for Arrest of Bush, Bono to be named Czar of World

I used to belong to Amnesty International. No joke. During my lunch break in high school I would sit under a big U2 poster writing letters to South Africa begging the release of this or that jailed activist. But not now, oh no, not now.

First the leader of Amnesty makes the disgusting and immoral comparison of Camp X-Ray to Soviet gulags (which I debunked here), next they decide to call on Noam Chomsky of all people to defend their position (check out the video link on the right of the page), and now John Leo (Via Mighty Righty who got it from Captain Ed with a big hat tip to Filthy Allah) notices something I had forgot: this is the same group that wishes the Zeropeans to nab top officials and try them for crimes against humanity.

Man, am I glad I let my membership dues go unpaid for so long.........I'm totally on for the The Bipartisan Anti-Inflammation Pledge of 2005, but I reserve the right to call people I disagree with 'ca-ca heads' at will!! Seriously, some words are bad, but others are fighting words.

Anyway, here is what AI says (via Captain Ed again). It's not exactly a call for kidnapping, as Ed kinda makes it out to be, but it is the type of hyperbole that makes these guys look like the fools they are:

If the US government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior US officials involved in the torture scandal. And if those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them. The apparent high-level architects of torture should think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera because they may find themselves under arrest as Augusto Pinochet famously did in London in 1998. ...
By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 03:25 PM | |