Watch for it
I am pissed. I am enraged. I am disgusted.
I wonder if the same 'human rights' groups that have decried/decry the treatment of the prisoners at Gitmo will have the same reaction to the grissly, brutal, inhuman, downright demonic treatment suffered by American soldiers this week. Personally, I strongly doubt it. Said 'human rights' groups were utterly silent about the abuses perpetrated by the Baathists. They were silent about the Taliban. They continue to be louder about Guantanamo Bay than about any of the hot spots in Africa. They are silent about the prison camps of North Korea. They do not stand up for the Falun Gong, at least not like they stand up for the rat vermin that are incarcerated at Gitmo. They say nothing about the Christians that are subject to systematic kidnapping and murder in southeast Asia. They say nothing of the PLO/Hamas bombing of civilians... women... children. No, I do not think that it is reasonable to expect them to do anything about a group of people that think it's okay to chop off the body parts of other humans, to cut those humans, to maim them, to remove their organs, and finally to behead them. They are too busy trying to 'spotlight' the 'abuse' that the Americans heap on some lower than life pond scum that for some reason are getting better fed than their guards and enjoying a greater budget for care than the men who leave their families and the comfort of their homes to sit around in a tiny section of a hostile island.. men who have done nothing wrong.
I rambled there... that happens when I'm pissed. But for crying out loud, just who's side are these 'human rights' watchdogs on, anyway? It's a world upside down, I'll tell you what. Maybe, as I pointed out about those fruits and nuts that were going to storm the White House back in March, they are chicken. They want to fight for human rights, they really do, but they are too cowardly to take on the real abusers because those abusers tend to kill people who disaggree with them. China and North Korea have entire camps full of people who's only 'crime' is disaggreement. The U.S., on the other hand, is an easy target. We are fasionable to hate, we don't shoot dissidents, we have no prisons for people who like yoga and yin-yangs, and most of all, we are fighting against an army that has no country and that likes to exploit our good nature for their own ends. Because this army has no country, it's easy to portray our fight with them as tyranny and cruelty. Because this army takes advantage of our good nature, it's easy to portray us as the baby killers... even when it's our enemy that kills the children and even uses children in places that they know they will die... just so they can blame us for a crime that they have no compunctions whatsoever about committing.
I hope I'm wrong, but I say there is a 99% chance that Amnesty International and their ilk will say nothing to condemn the tactics, the cruelty, the ghoulishness of this nationless army. I can guarantee with near certainty that they will not act. They don't have the guts. That's why they condemn a place where prisoners get three squares a day while ignoring a place that sometimes feeds out cabbage laced with chemical warfare agents... when they are not starving people to death (Mr. Kim Jong Il's worker's paradise, if you didn't know).
I wonder if the same 'human rights' groups that have decried/decry the treatment of the prisoners at Gitmo will have the same reaction to the grissly, brutal, inhuman, downright demonic treatment suffered by American soldiers this week. Personally, I strongly doubt it. Said 'human rights' groups were utterly silent about the abuses perpetrated by the Baathists. They were silent about the Taliban. They continue to be louder about Guantanamo Bay than about any of the hot spots in Africa. They are silent about the prison camps of North Korea. They do not stand up for the Falun Gong, at least not like they stand up for the rat vermin that are incarcerated at Gitmo. They say nothing about the Christians that are subject to systematic kidnapping and murder in southeast Asia. They say nothing of the PLO/Hamas bombing of civilians... women... children. No, I do not think that it is reasonable to expect them to do anything about a group of people that think it's okay to chop off the body parts of other humans, to cut those humans, to maim them, to remove their organs, and finally to behead them. They are too busy trying to 'spotlight' the 'abuse' that the Americans heap on some lower than life pond scum that for some reason are getting better fed than their guards and enjoying a greater budget for care than the men who leave their families and the comfort of their homes to sit around in a tiny section of a hostile island.. men who have done nothing wrong.
I rambled there... that happens when I'm pissed. But for crying out loud, just who's side are these 'human rights' watchdogs on, anyway? It's a world upside down, I'll tell you what. Maybe, as I pointed out about those fruits and nuts that were going to storm the White House back in March, they are chicken. They want to fight for human rights, they really do, but they are too cowardly to take on the real abusers because those abusers tend to kill people who disaggree with them. China and North Korea have entire camps full of people who's only 'crime' is disaggreement. The U.S., on the other hand, is an easy target. We are fasionable to hate, we don't shoot dissidents, we have no prisons for people who like yoga and yin-yangs, and most of all, we are fighting against an army that has no country and that likes to exploit our good nature for their own ends. Because this army has no country, it's easy to portray our fight with them as tyranny and cruelty. Because this army takes advantage of our good nature, it's easy to portray us as the baby killers... even when it's our enemy that kills the children and even uses children in places that they know they will die... just so they can blame us for a crime that they have no compunctions whatsoever about committing.
I hope I'm wrong, but I say there is a 99% chance that Amnesty International and their ilk will say nothing to condemn the tactics, the cruelty, the ghoulishness of this nationless army. I can guarantee with near certainty that they will not act. They don't have the guts. That's why they condemn a place where prisoners get three squares a day while ignoring a place that sometimes feeds out cabbage laced with chemical warfare agents... when they are not starving people to death (Mr. Kim Jong Il's worker's paradise, if you didn't know).
posted by Charlie Foxtrot at 23:12
Noone and Nothing Forgotten...
2 Comments:
I just did a search on the Amnesty web site for the terms 'Afghanistan', 'North Korea' and 'China' and there are plenty of statements condemning the situations there - and not just ones that have appeared after September 2001.
I think your anger should be directed against the major media outlets, rather than the human rights groups: It's the TV and newspaper editors who decide that Gitmo deserves headlines and pages of coverage but detention without trial in China doesn't.
But then again, maybe they are right; Detention without trial under American jurisdiction should be anathema so it deserves attention being drawn. As soon as you start bending the rules on Human Rights you lose all moral authority.
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