It's Opposite Day at Amnesty International USA

Every once in a while you encounter an idea so counter-intuitive, so patently execrable, that you feel like it belongs in some children's' Opposite Day game. Amnesty International USA, that slavering, blinded watchdog of "Human Rights" has labeled the United States as "a leading purveyor and practitioner'' of torture. This finding was released at the same time the ACLU (The L supposedly stands for liberty, but really it stands for something else) repeated an allegation by an unidentified detainee at Guantanamo Bay that Korans were mishandled and in one case flushed down a toilet. The term "mishandled" includes a case where an interrogator stood over a copy at one point during an interrogation. Holy crap! Let's riot!

Firstly, anyone who believes you can flush a 950-page book down a toilet is a perfect audience for the MSM (mainstream media). Secondly, if you think this constitutes an element of torture, I suggest a trip to North Africa where you can learn what torture really is. Thirdly, anyone who has been coached to lie about conditions of imprisonment (Al-Qaeda adherents are told to do this in one of their "manuals") should not be trusted, and should certainly not be quoted or used as a source without double and triple verification.

The entire world is going nuts. The UN's chair of its "Human Rights Commission" is a rotating seat, and all member nations head it on a monthly basis, as it rotates alphabetically through a Who's Who list of the worst human rights offenders in the history of the planet. Last year the Sudan chaired this Commission for a month. Yes, the UN does convene a human rights commission, during the times when the child sex trade business is in a lull. The UN, as Ayn Rand once famously noted, is a "neighborhood watch committee whose board of directors include[s] the leading gangsters of the community".

Back to the article. It's so evidently self-righteous and redolent with self conceit that it saves me the trouble to disassemble it, but the suggested actions against the President and other cabinet members is outrageous and should be noted. Essentially AI is asking that foreign countries step in and arrest top US officials:

If the U.S. government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior U.S. officials involved in the torture scandal...

If those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them.

Notice that the author William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, doesn't quite have the plums to call for this action now - only if we continue to "shirk our responsibility". I am hoping beyond hope that this fatuous agency is not being subsidized by my confiscated tax money. You want to arrest the President of the United States? Go for it, we'd love for you to try.

And, oh, as a footnote or P.S. to this statement condemning the terrible, terrible torture of the 450 detainees at Gitmo (some may have been sleep deprived!) Amnesty International briefly mentions the human rights catastrophe in the Sudan, where "hundreds of thousands of people" were betrayed by the international community. Sometimes you really have to strain to read the fine print.