Amnesty Confrontational

One-time human rights organization Amnesty International is having a tough week.

A scathing attack on the U.S. administration's handling of enemy detainees in the War on Terror compared the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Stalin's “gulag” system of prison work camps. Amnesty International further strained their credibility by calling Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld and other top administration officials "architects of torture," and suggested that other countries could file war-crime charges against the top officials and arrest them.

This kind of political grandstanding is expected from rouge regimes like North Korea or even the worst kind of partisan domestic politics, but it hardly befits an international human rights organization.

At the time these stories broke, I said that it was sad to see an organization such as AI lose so much of their credibility virtually overnight. I truly believe that. Generations of people have worked very hard for Amnesty International, trying with true sincerity to help the oppressed people of the world by placing a blinding public spotlight on the tyrannical regimes of the world.

Instead, because of what were quite frankly stupid comments by AI officers, the spotlight is now on Amnesty International, and the jagged cracks in its claimed impartiality have been exposed.

Publius Pundit has done a quantitative analysis showing that Amnesty specifically targets the United States for ridicule, releasing almost as much copy claiming U.S. human rights abuses as for all other nations combined.

Saudi Arabia, whose religious police forced girls to burn to death because of a sadistic adherence to radical Islam, deserves less scrutiny from AI than the United States?

Extending unwarranted rights is more deserving of Amnesty's limited resources than the ongoing genocide of tens of thousands of African Christians and Muslims by racist Arab militias in Darfur?

Unsubstantiated, often contradictory reports from imprisoned terrorists carry more weight with Amnesty than the anguished wails of those women and children, sons and daughters killed by al Qaeda bombs and bullets?

Amnesty International has no shame.... and it gets worse.

Amnesty claims:

AI is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. It does not support or oppose any government or political system, nor does it support or oppose the views of the victims whose rights it seeks to protect.

If Amnesty truly "does not support or oppose any government or political system" as they claim, then its leader would not have contributed the maximum amount possible to John Kerry's presidential campaign.

Amnesty International seems to have decided to forego being a human rights organization and instead seems focused upon becoming another empty vessel for leftist propaganda.

The world is a sorrier place for the ideological betrayal of their leaders.

Note: Rusty shows the dunces at AI what a real gulag looks like.