Casting his eyes internationally, Angry notes that American bloggers are doing bang up job of tearing Amnesty International apart for calling on nations to start detaining American officials, from the president on down, for the “gulag” that is Guantanamo Bay.
But he wonders that with Irwin Cotler’s oh-so-uncomfortably close ties with Amnesty International’s sister organization, the Parliamentarians for Global Action, and the PGA’s active support for the International Criminal Court, in front of which Amnesty International would like to George W. Bush in shackles, should Canada warn the Americans of our intentions to start arresting their officials if they cross the border?
Or will Cotler go on record as saying his support of the PGA and the ICC is qualified, and that he has no intention of following up on accusations of crimes against humanity leveled by Amnesty International or anyone else against the Bush administration?
Note that arresting a representative of the United States government without officially giving prior warning to such action (what the AI says does not constitute this) is considered an act of war.
Oh please, oh please, oh please Canuckistan–DO IT!
It is pronounced SHAMnesty International. I have to truly say, I used to strongly support the principals the organization stood for. Funny how one stupid comment(and being a part of the u.n) can change all of that…
Cotler is a sick excuse for a human being in my eyes.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this story is that the left and right would like to see a country arrest G. Bush, et al. But for entirely different reasons!
A tiny bit of common sense is enough to tell one the results of any such arrest would be predictable. Interesting, yes – it’d make the news and all but there’d be no surprises at the results.
Yea, the nerve of those do-gooder bastards at Amenstry International.
Imagine having the temerity to point out that the USA has decided that they have the right to dissapear people who are not US citizens from wherever they want whenever they want, hold them without trial or charges, and torture people and/or ship them out to other regimes for further torture.
That is clearly not a gulag, it’s just not a gulag without the forced labor. Why make a fuss over a little thing like abandoning both international and american law? Habeas corpus is just so Magna Carta, who needs that stuff, it just interferes with getting the job done.
The American’s can’t do anything wrong, can they? If they do this stuff, it’s just not wrong anymore. It was bad when Pinochet dissappeared people, but he was clearly not the President of the United States at the time. Those sorts of details matter!
Cheers,
Naked Ape
If Amnesty International is so eager to arrest someone, Let’s suggest they start with Castro. Man! I saw some pictures of some disgusting sh*t that going on in Cuba. Hundreds of pictures of misery and dispair. Pictures of their health services, Havana Hospital, firing squads, gulags and the living condition that Cubans are cursed to live in.
check it out http://www.therealcuba.com