Posted on 02/13/2016 1:44:45 PM PST by HarborSentry
The ACLU and its friends are close to admitting that there weren't enough examples of real "torture" for them to complain about.
Having sued to get images from evidence files of military legal cases, the ACLU finally got 198 images involving soldiers accused of mistreating prisoners. There were about 2,000 photos, but most are withheld because, quite understandably, the military doesn't want to provoke the the jihadists. The ACLU doesn't care if it provokes more violence. They want to see all the photos no matter who gets hurt.
But this wasn't interrogation, either by the military or the CIA. It was soldiers who allegedly committed crimes during the war. The trouble is, if our moral betters don't have interrogation pictures, they need to dress up whatever they do have, and then act like it was all part of the same plan.
Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International U.K., had the nerve to chime in here. To be more surreal, her piece is called, "Picture This: The Full Truth and Nothing But the Truth Over Torture During the War on Terror."
Do any of these people care about the truth? I don't think so.
No, I'm not kidding about that. I truly don't believe they care about the truth. I don't believe they oppose torture. I don't even believe they oppose slavery. (No, I'm not kidding about that either.)
She is commenting almost six years to the day that, in 2010, the sky fell in for Amnesty as they abandoned their gender-rights chief in favor of Islamic radical (and former Gitmo-detainee) Moazzam Begg.
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Has anyone else noticed that there has never been a terrorist attack against the ACLU or UN?
The general in charge of the military prison system in Iraq during Abu grab was removed from her command, found guilt of negligence for never visiting and ignoring issues the prision, demoted to COL, and retired. It was not that she got 10 years in prision as the perps, but she her actions did reflect badly on the military just the same and got canned for it.
The UN leadership will be safe but the troops and aid workers especially in Africa are attacked on a regular basis. However there have been a cases of local population abuse and rape by the troops that does not get press here in the states by our press corps. 3 minutes of air time and never hear it again.
in 2010, the sky fell in for Amnesty as they abandoned their gender-rights chief in favor of Islamic radical (and former Gitmo-detainee) Moazzam Begg.How delightfully inclusive! Diversity roooools!
Yeah, it’s funny how quickly the left will abandon their own.
Their “gender-unit” leader (no kidding, that’s really what they call it) is just as much a critic of Guantanamo as everyone else at Amnesty. But she brought embarrassment to them, and so she had to go.
That was ironic in that she was trying to save them from embarrassment.
Before that happened, you could say that Amnesty International’s members were simply naive. You couldn’t blame them all for what may be, to some, a lesser-known policy of the main organization. But after that, when it made the papers, it became much harder for its members to claim ignorance. Those members of Amnesty who really did oppose torture had left.
After 2010, whenever an Amnesty International supporter claims to oppose torture, I always assume they’re lying.
Yup.
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