Thursday, June 09, 2005

Amnesty has really lost the plot. Not only did they compare the US imprisonment of 540 jihadi fighters to the Gulag (parodied by Scrappleface here) but as Captain's Quarters points out, they have also called for foreign nations to arrest and prosecute US officials. I guess I won't be renewing my Amnesty membership this year. They apparently suffer from a drastic deficit in perspective and moral clarity.
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.
Amnesty International USA

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