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2003-05-03 Fifth Column
Greenpeace Issues Deck Of “Most Wanted” World Leaders
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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-05-03 07:43 am|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Russia 18,000 nukes, US 10,600. Somebody want to 'splain to me why GWB gets to be the "Ace of spades" and all of the headlines as the worst violator? Are Russian nukes somehow more peaceful? Would we be the "Ace of Hearts" if it was Boffo Bill or Alegory had their fingers on the button? I wish someone would give me the inside track on the logic here.
Posted by wayne  2003-05-03 07:59:27||   2003-05-03 07:59:27|| Front Page Top

#2 "Logic? We don' need no steenkin' logic!"
Posted by Fred  2003-05-03 08:04:19||   2003-05-03 08:04:19|| Front Page Top

#3 wayne,
Don't hold your breath.
Posted by marek 2003-05-03 08:05:59||   2003-05-03 08:05:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll 'splain it to you Wayne: Greenpeace knows that there's not a single politician or bureaucrat anywhere near the top in the Russian government who would even bother to read their press release, so why bother. GWB as "Ace of Spades" gets a little press; Putin as "Ace of Spades" is a total snoozer. It's all about marketing and keeping those dues and contributions flowing in.
Posted by Tom 2003-05-03 08:43:36||   2003-05-03 08:43:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Just when I think Greenpreach can't get any more pathetic and useless, they come up with something like this. Geez, I had more imagination (and more relevance) when I was 2!

To quote that great philosopher, Bugs Bunny, "Wotta a buncha maroons!"
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2003-05-03 09:17:21||   2003-05-03 09:17:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Homer Simpson's rejoinder to GP: Booooooring!!
Posted by Raj 2003-05-03 09:40:54|| [angrycyclist.blogspot.com]  2003-05-03 09:40:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds like a copywright violation to me.
Posted by raptor  2003-05-03 09:42:40||   2003-05-03 09:42:40|| Front Page Top

#8 "Short snappy facts" for short snippy minds

raptor - good idea. Let's see the manufacturer, who IIRC was a company in Ohio (?) file the suit here & Belgium (seat of all universal power) and put some of those donations to Greenpeace to good use.
Posted by Frank G  2003-05-03 10:05:31||   2003-05-03 10:05:31|| Front Page Top

#9 F*ck Greenpeace.

Let's issue our own cards.

Ace of Spades: The United Nations
King of Spades: Greenpeace
Queen of Spades: Amnesty International

... and so on. But let's call them the 55 least wanted.

F*ck Greenpeace.
Posted by badanov  2003-05-03 11:26:44|| [www.rkka.org]  2003-05-03 11:26:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Greenpeace has had such a string of bad "luck" lately, they needed something to regain the attention they'd lost. It must really hurt to belong to such a looser organization.
Posted by Old Patriot  2003-05-03 11:59:31||   2003-05-03 11:59:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Is Chiraq at least a face card? Surely the Rainbow Warrior affair should count for something?
Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-05-03 12:34:35||   2003-05-03 12:34:35|| Front Page Top

#12 No badanov, I wouldn't include Amnesty International. I know they have been a pain in the ass for the U.S. but they do a lot of good work to help political prisoners in totalitarian states. And I have been one so I know what that means.
Posted by True German Ally 2003-05-03 12:49:41||   2003-05-03 12:49:41|| Front Page Top

#13 As a former Amnesty International member, I almost have to agree with badanov now. They USED to be impartial witnesses to human rights violations. They have been strangely silent on violations under Saddam, in the Palestinian Authority areas, and I don't recall them saying one damn thing about the prisoners that Fidel rounded up last month. I do give them credit for speaking up about Amina Lawal in Nigeria, but they have lost a major amount of their once formidable credibility.
Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-05-03 13:29:52||   2003-05-03 13:29:52|| Front Page Top

#14 Strangely silent?

Cuba: Executions mark an unjustifiable erosion in human rights

In yet another blow to respect for human rights, Cuban authorities have ended a three-year de facto moratorium on executions by sending three men to their deaths before an official firing squad, said Amnesty International today.

"Coming on the heels of the mass arrest and summary trials of at least 75 Cuban dissidents -- most of whom received shockingly lengthy prison terms ranging up to 28 years -- these executions mark a serious erosion in Cuba's human rights record."

Systematic torture of political prisoners in Iraq

Many, like Al-Shaikh Yahya, were the victims of torture. Methods of torture used included suspension followed by repeated beatings on various parts of the body, the use of electric shocks on the genitals as well as psychological torture such as torturing detainees in front of relatives or friends, and solitary confinement.

Despite national laws prohibiting it, torture has been used systematically in Iraqi prisons and detention centres for at least the last two decades. Over the years AI has interviewed hundreds of torture victims, or their relatives, many of whom now live with permanent physical or psychological damage. Some of their stories are told in a new report, Iraq: Systematic torture of political prisoners (AI Index: MDE 14/008/2001) published in August. Victims include people detained on suspicion of political activities against the government, such as being accused of having links with the Iraqi opposition outside the country or plotting to overthrow the government. Some died under torture. When their bodies were returned to their families they bore evident signs of torture, including the gouging out of the eyes, marks of severe beatings and electric shocks and finger- and toe-nails being removed.

Women have been the victims of torture such as rape and beatings on the soles of the feet, on suspicion of contacts with opposition groups or in some cases to put pressure on relatives abroad to cease their anti-government activities.

In 1994 the Revolutionary Command Council, Iraq's highest executive body, headed by President Saddam Hussain, introduced decrees prescribing judicial punishments such as amputation of hand and foot, branding of the forehead and cutting off of the ears for various criminal offences. The authorities justified the punishments as a measure to combat rising crime. Army deserters and evaders were particularly targeted and many suffered ear amputation. While the practice of amputating the ears of army deserters was officially stopped in 1996, the other judicial punishments remain in force. More worryingly, in mid-2000 amputation of the tongue was reportedly approved by the authorities as a new penalty for slander or abusive remarks about the President or his family.
Posted by True German Ally 2003-05-03 14:24:54||   2003-05-03 14:24:54|| Front Page Top

#15 What's that whooshing sound I hear? Could it be the sound of Greenpeace flushing the any remaining shreds of their respectability down the toilet? To think I once gave money to these quacks believing that they actually cared about the whales and the environment.

How silly.
Posted by Becky 2003-05-03 18:11:24||   2003-05-03 18:11:24|| Front Page Top

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