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Walter Duranty, of New York Times, won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for his series of dispatches on Russia especially the working out of the Five Year Plan of Joseph Stalin, while all the time covering up the millions that were starved to death in the Ukraine.

The spirit of the "Evil Left" still lives on in Amnesty International.

The AG should put AI on the list of Terrorist Organizations.

Unfortunately, their work appears to have been tainted by an agenda that magnifies and in some cases manufactures the abuses of freedom-oriented regimes while minimizing and ignoring the abuses of the regimes of the totalitarian left.

maybe its because no-one needs to point out that totalitarian regimes do bad things but someone needs to point out the wrongdoings of supposedly freedom-oriented regimes?

The Communists, along with sympathetic socialists and various nihilist-derivatives, have manufactured a whole set of organizations to wage cultural war against capitalism and freedom. AI is one of their more successful efforts. The expose of these subversives is most important. Cutting off the funding of this organization by idiot-liberal one-world nuts is crucial to defeating them.

Many groups such as Amnesty International, Greenpeace, PETA, the NEA and NOW have fallen under the control of their "lunatic fringe" factions. Usually these factions are left leaning.

While most of the groups have a basic cause that is palatable to the majority of the populance, i.e. be nice to animals, freedom and justice for all, the fringe groups within them overwhelm the rank-and-file because of the energy and resources they expend to further their specific agenda. The moderate rank-and -file members then leave or become mute due to their perceived disenfrancaisment and allow the takeover to happen.

The best way to oppose this, is to use the tactics of the left. Join the groups then dissent at every opportunity. Hold these groups accountable in public forums such as newspapers, TV "comsumer activist" programs wherever. It worked for them why can't is work for conservatives?

If you say it can't be done, look at what happened to the Red Cross. They were untouchable until the truth came out.

This article is slightly misleading. We’ll call it carelessness rather than accuse the author of disingenuousness. Derek Roebuck was never director of Amnesty. He was head of research for a bit, but never director. He was a communist though, and he had major rows with other Amnesty employees because of it. It was, in fact, the reason he left Amnesty. The UN Declaration of Human Rights was drafted mainly by Brits and Yanks, and it very much reflects Western values. It has next to nothing to do with “Stalinist” ideals. Only a numpty could suggest otherwise. I have this argument a lot with people who like to run down the European Convention on Human Rights (via the English Human Rights Act 1998). When it comes down to it they can never, and I mean NEVER, cite a right in the Convention they disagree with. Ah, what’s the point....