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| Amnesia International Wants Bush Arrested |
| 2005-05-27 |
| EFL, more pious posturing at link. Bush, Other Top Officials Should Face Torture Probes, Says Amnesty; Urges Arrests if Warranted Abid Aslam OneWorld US Thu., May. 26, 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26 (OneWorld) - Rights watchdog Amnesty International urged foreign governments Wednesday to investigate and prosecute President George W. Bush much as they once did former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. ''If the United States permits the architects of torture policy to get off scot-free, then other nations should step into the breach,'' William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said in a statement launching Amnesty's annual report. How odd that Schulz is so convinced of their guilt in one sentence while asserting the lack of a competent investigation in the next. I thought these people were great intellectuals. Bush is among a dozen former or current U.S. officials who should be probed by foreign governments because Washington has failed to conduct ''a genuinely independent and comprehensive investigation'' of torture allegations against U.S. troops, commanders, and their civilian overseers, Schulz said. The implicit assumption here is that no US body, including many dominated by members of the opposition Democratic Party, is competent to investigate these charges. It is also plain that Schulz, good fascist that he is, will reject any investigation that does not support his agenda. Why do Schulz and AI assume that foreign governments, meaning Eurocrats and their courts in this case, are competent to conduct this investigation while exactly analogous American bodies are not? Others on the Amnesty list of potential targets for investigation and prosecution include Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief George Tenet. ''If the U.S. government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior U.S. officials involved in the torture scandal,'' Schulz said. Again, Schulz and AI implicitly reject the independence of the US Congress and judiciary. With the exception of a couple of lowest-common-denominator Congress shills, neither of these entitites has made any move to impeach President Bush or even to seriously suggest that such a proceeding would be justified. According to AI, therefore, mainstream Democrats are either completely impotent or actively complicit in Bush's alleged crimes. This may not sit well with the core of their American constituency, the liberal upper-middle class. As for actually arresting Bush, the combined armies and police forces of Eurabia could not fight their way from Galveston to Crawford in a hundred years even if civilians were the only opposition. You want our leaders, Moonbats? As Leonidas of Sparta said to the Persians who demanded that his men surrender their arms, MOLON LABE! ("come and take them)" Of course, this time the power balance is reversed, and then some. I doubt that outclassed moonbats will hold out anything like as long as Leonidas and his men did. They can't run fast enough to avoid the same result though. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #6 [pronounced "Tur-key"] |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-05-27 21:03 |
| #5 excellent point, Justrand, thx |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-27 18:36 |
| #4 sorry...I meant LINCOLN's comment |
| Posted by: Justrand 2005-05-27 18:33 |
| #3 I'd ask you remind me why I should give one tenth of a damn what these morons think...but I'd rather save my energy for the toast to the Veterans, per badanov's suggestion!! Semper Fi p.s. Atomic Conspiracy, your comments reminded me of Jefferson's comments on the enemy within: At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some trans-Atlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us with a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined with a Bonaparte at their head and disposing of all the treasure of the earth, our own excepted, could not by force make a track on the Blue Ridge or take a drink from the Ohio in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up from amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times, or die by suicide. |
| Posted by: Justrand 2005-05-27 18:30 |
| #2 Ya know, these leftists, Amnesty, MoveOn, eetc remind me of a cornered mammal. It's been hunted and hunted and foiled at every turn and now its back is against the wall. These folks are spewing their bile at any and everything hoping something will stick and they can continue their advance. It's sad really. Reminds me of interviews with those folks on the film "Reds:" folks whose lives were shaped by an idea and an ideal which ultimately turned out to be a huge and brutal lie. Pretty pathetic, but in the meantime our current lefties will attempt to do all the damage they can before their media masters can no longer hide their own complicity in this madness. So, in closing, let us pour a drink tonight and raise it in a solemn salute to all our veterans, especially the ones who dodged bullets/bombs, for their service in bringing us all to the verge of fully and finally eliminating this sickening ideology from any legitimacy it ever tried to claim it had. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-05-27 16:44 |
| #1 Interesting bio on Mr. Schultz http://www.amnestyusa.org/about/williamschulz.html He's got the credentials. In spades... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-05-27 16:41 |