Tuesday, August 09, 2011

One More Reason...

...Jason Kenney should be our next PM:

Kenney in mudslinging match with Amnesty International

There was a time when that organization did admirable work. Not any more.

...or John Baird.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

Amnesty International has degenerated into a leftard-bash-Western-nations-especially-US-Israel. They ignore the mountains of Islamic nations fascism and oppression while they grossly magnify or distort the peccadilloes of the West, especially the Great Satan and the Little Satan. Hard left's moral myopia.

August 10, 2011 7:45 am  
Anonymous MaxEd said...

It used to be AI policy that mandate cases within one's own borders were dealt with by AI groups from other countries; this was to emphasise the international nature of the organisation, as well as to protect AI members from their own government's reprisals. The policy changed, as did a lot of others, which is why I left the organisation a number of years ago. To the degree that AI has departed from its original mandates and policies, the organisation has, for me, lost much of its credibility.

August 10, 2011 8:24 am  
Blogger Louise said...

Yup. I used to extol its virtues way back when and use it's reports to argue for the forced removal of brutal dictators, such as Saddam Hussein.

Much to my horror, when Iraq was invaded in 2003 by the coalition led by the US, they were against that, too.

It seems they had some sort of sick need to feel good about themselves by pointing out the bad actors in the world and needed the bad actors so their own egos could continue to be stroked.

This has let to the absurd notion that liberation forces are equivalent to the forces of brutal suppression. And that's why they are no longer part of the solution, but are, rather, part of the problem.

August 10, 2011 8:44 am  
Blogger Louise said...

Oh, and another thing, way, way back in the late 1970s or early 1980s my then husband (an Iraqi expat) got a phone call one day from the local (Saskatoon) chapter of AI asking him if he'd be a willing informant for them on the status of oppression in Iraq. He declined. I'm not sure why, because we were certainly hearing lots of hair-raising stories from his relatives back in Iraq.

His own sister had been deported from Iraq because she had married a man whose ancestors several generations previously were Persian (this was during the Iran-Iraq war) and two of his cousins were "disappeared". I don't know if their bodies have been found in any of the mass graves discovered since the more recent war. Many of the disappeared, of course, were buried in ordinary cemeteries.

His brother had fled to the Soviet Union during the era when Iraq was aligned with the Soviet bloc, but he couldn't return home when Iraq's dictator changed the country's orientation and sought a good relationship with the West.

The left likes to cry big crocodile tears about how the so called Third World was manipulated by the West, but frankly, I think Third World dictators we quite handy at playing the Cold War's two big adversaries off against one another.

Certainly, the Soviets didn't give a shit about human rights abuses, but all we ever heard was the West, the Great Satan, especially, was taking sides with brutal dictators.

We went on a trip to the Middle East in the fall of 1973, with the intention of visiting Iraq, and my ex's father met us in Lebanon and begged us not to enter Iraq. My ex had been in the Iraqi army when he left on a holiday to Germany and from there arranged to emigrate to Canada. In Iraq he was considered a deserter and likely (or at least his father thought so) would have been arrested or killed had he set foot in Iraq, so we went to Cyprus instead.

On the same trip, we went to Egypt and met a Russian couple there who were on some sort of scientific or student exchange. That was one of the times when Egypt was snuggling up to the Soviets, rather than the West. Third World dictators certainly knew how to get what they wanted from either of the two super-powers.

August 10, 2011 9:09 am  

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