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| 2005-06-18 |
| (Hat tip: LGF). EFL No American 'Gulag' By Pavel Litvinov Several days ago I received a telephone call from an old friend who is a longtime Amnesty International staffer. He asked me whether I, as a former Soviet "prisoner of conscience" adopted by Amnesty, would support the statement by Amnesty's executive director, Irene Khan, that the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba is the "gulag of our time." "Don't you think that there's an enormous difference?" I asked him. "Sure," he said, "but after all, it attracts attention to the problem of Guantanamo detainees." Not even "fake but accurate," just "fake but useful. It is also called "hyperbole" "propaganda" and "bullshit." In short, it is a classic Big Lie, a technique made famous by a chap whose bosses ran some serious concentration camps. The word "gulag" was a bureaucratic acronym for the main prison administration in Stalin's Soviet Union. After publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago," it became a symbol for the system of forced-labor camps that have been an integral feature of communist countries. Millions of prisoners confined in the gulag had not been involved in violence or committed any crime -- they were there because they belonged to a "wrong" social, national or political group or expressed a "wrong" opinion. The cruelty and scale of the gulag system are described in numerous books, so there is no need to recount them here. By any standard, Guantanamo and similar American-run prisons elsewhere do not resemble, in their conditions of detention or their scale, the concentration camp system that was at the core of a totalitarian communist system. In a notable flying pig moment, even Al Guardian has run a piece denouncing Amnesty's loathesome analogy. AI remains oblivious to this, proving once again that it is simply a media-cult corporate fund raising operation with no real concern at all for human rights. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #5 Cuz the still mostly LeftMedia is, for the time being, the "Democratic Party", while the Dems themselves, i.e. Clintonian Dems-for-Repubs/Rightists-for Dems, aka Repubs-for-Socialism, etal. are trying to focii on destroying, disrupting and subverting the GOP-Right from within. The Failed Left wants War, it wants America to be attacked, cuz it believes that America's Federalist, Three-Branches, Constitutional Repub form/system of Govt. and DemoCapitalist economy and society will NOT survive the rigors of expansion unto new Global Empire. Contemporay Leftism is about POLITICS, etc. i..e getting someone to do or submit to your will or desires [ Islam???]. WHEN AMERICA IS DONE MAKING EMPIRE INDIRECTLY FOR THE REDS, eg RUS [Russia] = USR [United States Socialist Republic], OUR HEAD WILL BE CUT OFF LIKE NICK BERG! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-06-18 22:36 |
| #4 BTW, to my surprise, AI-USA was also "reviewed" by Charity Navigator and given 2 "stars" of 4. The International org isn't rated - prolly cuz they aren't forced to open their books - they're UK-based, as charities based in the US are. Note that Charity Navigator ratings must be taken with a cowlick (that's a big-assed block of salt for you city folk) - they rated the Carter Center 4 of 4 "stars", lol. The rating is for how much money actually makes it to fund the stated purpose -- it doesn't address the question of if they're crazy or socialist tools, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-18 15:31 |
| #3 "it is simply a media-cult corporate fund raising operation with no real concern at all for human rights" That's the most concise description of AI I've ever read. Applies to almost all of the so-called "human rights" orgs and NGO's, as well. My first realization, the death of my naivete, was when I found out that The March of Dimes (founded by FDR) went looking for another cause to "champion" when the Salk vaccine proved successful and was massively distributed in 1954-55. Now, allied with the Easter Seals folks, they've gone for the blanket category of "birth defects". Charity Navigator gives them only 1 "star" - out of 4 - which means they suck, in terms of efficiently serving the cause they pretend to espouse. Park Paradise for the management. Dead solid perfect, AC. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-18 15:21 |
| #2 An experiment in re-education: We round up the paid AI staffers, put half of them in a camp simulating conditions at Gitmo, the other half go in a re-created Gulag camp. After a month they switch places. After another month, the survivors can vote on which they think was worse and select the camp in which they would prefer to spend another year of incarceration. They can also select from a 1-10 scale what they believe to be the most accurate degree of difference; with 1 being "identical in every respect" and 10, "Are you fucking crazy? I'm lucky to be alive." |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-18 15:04 |
| #1 That's "GULAG" (as I hope everyone here knows) |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-18 14:54 |