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2004-03-06 Home Front: WoT
Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp
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Posted by Steve White 2004-03-06 02:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 bet Al Gaurian and the BBC won't report this
Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-6 4:04:17 AM||   2004-3-6 4:04:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 To cool for words, LOL.
Posted by Evert Visser  2004-3-6 4:49:28 AM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/]  2004-3-6 4:49:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ...We just recently picked up some new South Carolinians - about fifty Bantu tribesmen who have been run out of their homes due to the unending wars there. Literally no one else would take them, although lots of the Usual Suspects mouthed the Usual Platitudes. A group of folks in Columbia decided that enough was enough - bring 'em here. The community has supported this to the point where the daily paper here has been printing helpful Bantu words and phrases so people can help them out.
If this lad is what he claims to be, bring him AND his father here, and we'll treat him just as well. After six months here, he'll be as much an American as if he'd been born here.

Mike

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-3-6 6:09:47 AM||   2004-3-6 6:09:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Snorkling? SNORKLING?! I'v never been snorkling and these kids get a free lesson?! If feel so depressed...
Posted by Charles  2004-3-6 8:21:47 AM||   2004-3-6 8:21:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Mike K you are of course a typical representative of the racist blah! blah! very right wing conspiracy, and these bantu are in fact jooos in disguise.

BTW bantu is a generic term for a black resident of central and southern Africa. Its equivalent is calling a european a caucasian.
Posted by phil_b 2004-3-6 9:21:13 AM||   2004-3-6 9:21:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Charles--Remember the time we met Osama at that barbecue in 2000? HINT: Work with me here, and soon we'll both be snorkelling in warm, Cuban waters!
Posted by Dar  2004-3-6 9:29:45 AM||   2004-3-6 9:29:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Dar: LOL!
Posted by Evert Visser  2004-3-6 9:56:26 AM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/]  2004-3-6 9:56:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Dar: LOL!
Posted by Evert Visser  2004-3-6 9:56:38 AM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/]  2004-3-6 9:56:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Dar, remember that I was the one that told Osama that he should build a mountain hideout. Caribbean Vacation HERE I COME!
Posted by Cyber Sarge  2004-3-6 10:28:23 AM||   2004-3-6 10:28:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 phil_b

Bantus is a linguistic and ethnic group not a generic term. As an example Tutsis are of the Nilotic group and have thin lips and noses, very different from the Bantus who have thick lips and noses. Rwandese Tutsis (And Hutus who are Bantu) speak KynyaRwanda who is of the Bantu group. Zulu language is from the Bantu group despite being spoken in South Africa.
Posted by JFM  2004-3-6 11:16:44 AM||   2004-3-6 11:16:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 USMC have always been nice to kids, it's hardwired.
Posted by Shipman 2004-3-6 11:31:51 AM||   2004-3-6 11:31:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 So.. let me get this stright. AI is bitching because prisioners in Guamto get free snokeling lessons, very good food, education, exercise, etc....

but is mum about the forced abortions, torture, starvation, and beatings in North Korea....

Does anyone else see a problem here? Helllooo?

BTW: This is how we will win the war on terror - by being plain good decent people - even to our enemies (and carrying a lot of very powerful weapondry...).
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-3-6 11:45:09 AM||   2004-3-6 11:45:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 What in the world makes you think that AI is "mum about the forced abortions, torture, starvation, and beatings in North Korea"?

Why don't you just search for "North Korea" in AI's site?

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA240022003

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Amnesty International's long-standing concerns about human rights violations in North Korea include the use of torture and the death penalty, arbitrary detention and imprisonment, inhumane prison conditions and the near-total suppression of fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression and movement.

While these concerns are long-standing, in recent years many human rights abuses in North Korea have been linked directly or indirectly to the famine and acute food shortages which have affected the country since the mid-1990s. These have led to widespread malnutrition among the population and to the movement of hundreds of thousands of people in search of food - some across the border with China - many of whom have become the victims of human rights violations as a result of their search for food and survival.
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Posted by Anonymous 2004-3-6 2:26:50 PM||   2004-3-6 2:26:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 That was me in the post above.
Posted by Aris Katsaris  2004-3-6 2:27:40 PM||   2004-3-6 2:27:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Aris, AI's a whore. The little attention they pay to real problems -- like North Korea -- is to provide themselves a figleaf for when they rake in their big dough by slamming the US. I'm a little surprised you fell for their BS.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2004-3-6 5:27:46 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-3-6 5:27:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Aris

One thing is putting it on the website hiddeen under 20 layers of links and another one is amking fuss on it, campaigning, airing it on radio and the press.

AI is no longer AI.
Posted by JFM  2004-3-6 5:34:07 PM||   2004-3-6 5:34:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Is that all you got,Aris?

If AI really gave a damn the would be screaming from the roof tops,instead what do we hear whinning about Gitmo.
Posted by Raptor  2004-3-6 5:35:35 PM||   2004-3-6 5:35:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 The problem is far from AI. All this information is out in the open now. So, when was the last time you saw Walter Duranty Dan Rather talk about this for more than 30 seconds? Or that White House mouthpiece, the New York Times for more than one day? That woman who wanted to play in the U. S. Open got more page 1 column inches than Kimmy's Kindergartens.
Posted by Mr. Davis  2004-3-6 8:00:16 PM||   2004-3-6 8:00:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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