“It doesn’t matter whether he takes Amnesty International seriously. He doesn’t take torture seriously; he doesn’t take the Geneva Convention seriously; he doesn’t take due process rights seriously; and he doesn’t take international law seriously.”
— William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, in response to Vice President Dick Cheney’s comment that he wasn’t putting much weight on Amnesty’s criticism of U.S. treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Finally someone with media creds tells it exactly like it is. Long time coming. May it continue until these asses of evil are impeached and jailed.
If you can, try to catch the rerun of Hardball with Chris Matthews … an AI guy debates with a ‘winger. Good.
should Karimov put the kettle on?
Just until they need Amnesty’s documentation of human rights violations to justify their overthrow of the next despot.