Posted on 05/27/2005 6:06:22 AM PDT by OESY
...The problem with the Gulag wasn't that the letter of the law wasn't followed — that the prisoners were given "arbitrary and indefinite" sentences. It's that the charges were trumped up and confessions were coerced.
The situation at Gitmo is entirely different. No one argues that, at the very least, the vast majority of those imprisoned there were, in fact, al Qaeda personnel. The problem, according to those who scream about the unfairness at Gitmo, is that the prisoners aren't being treated as lawful combatants under the terms of the Geneva Convention or as prisoners of war.
They have been handled under special terms because they are stateless — because they granted their allegiance not to a country but to a terrorist group and because their nations of origin wouldn't have wanted them back, would have killed them if they had been returned there or would have foolishly released them to foment further terrorist activity.
The people who work at Amnesty International surely know something of the history of the Gulag. After all, the group was founded in part to serve as a watchdog of Communist human-rights abuse. They surely know that even though they might consider the American camp at Guantanamo Bay a terrible violation of human rights, it is a speck on a speck of a mote of dust compared to the Everest of horror that was the Soviet Gulag.
On the other hand, maybe not. Maybe the people who work at Amnesty International really do think that the imprisonment of 600 certain or suspected terrorists is tantamount to the imprisonment of 25 million slaves.
The case of Amnesty International proves that well-meaning people can make morality their life's work and still be little more than moral idiots.
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BING-FRIGGIN-O!
The case of Amnesty International proves that well-meaning people can make morality their life's work and still be little more than moral idiots.
Dear Lord, please save us from those who live to save us, amen.
These people are just being publicity hogs. What did they accomplish by years of letter writing? Did they ever liberate 25 million people?
Bears repeating:
Dear Lord, please save us from those who live to save us, amen.
[[The people who work at Amnesty International surely know something of the history of the Gulag. After all, the group was founded in part to serve as a watchdog of Communist human-rights abuse.]]
Like Dan Rather, Amnesty International has become what they hated most!
Compare twenty five million innocent people to six hundred terrorists. Just doesn't work.
When I get mail from Amnesty, I tear up their letters into teeny little pieces and mail it back in their biz-reply envelope. Makes me feel good in so many ways!
And what was Amnesty's opinion of the real Gulags on Cuber?
This may seem crass, but, is it fundraising time for Amnesty International and the ACLU?
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