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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I disagree that Amnesty has lost touch. I think they are willing to take an enormous bull by the horns and hold EVERYONE accountable, not just the easy targets.
As a long time Amnesty member, they certainly are NOT quiet on North Korea or Cuba. *AND* I agree with them on not deporting war criminals... we should be convicting them and giving them the justice they deserve, not freeing them.
Well the Sahgal/Begg issue showed poor judgement, I'm not willing to let the incident override the overwhelming amount of good the organization has done over the years.
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I think that the number of cases that Amnesty were complaining about in the last year or two were like
151 against the American's
141 against Iran
6 against North Korea
4 against Cuba.
Let me ask why they didn't call for Ajermapyscho's arrest when he's come over to visit the UN? When he ruthlessly put down the Arab Spring Iran, they killed seveal thousand people? Where were the Arrest calls for Fidel Castro when he left Cuba to visit Venezuala?
Why the hell is Amnesty parading Moazzam Begg around as a poster boy? To the point where thier head on Gender and woman issues flips her middle finger at AI and walks away from it.
And most of the war criminals that we deported had lied on their applications to get in or were just plain here illegally, so frankly I don't see where its our job to try them, these are thugs and murderers in their own countries so let their own countries deal with them.
When Salman Rushdie and Christopher Hitchen's are accusing Amnesty of being morally bankrupt and politicized you have a problem