Big Orgs & Governments

I cringe, flinch, and feel irritated every time I see AI (Amnesty International) used as some sort of valid provider of information on world atrocities. AI points its finger where its told. Founded in 1961 by a Brit lawyer who was petitioning for the release of 6 "prisoners of conscious" the group snowballed. Yessiree. What began on a lawyer's yellow pad of trial strategy became a worldwide warm fuzzy. Light a candle little one, you can end world horror. AI can't possibly be co-opted by BIG government, can it?

AI during the '80s failed to find human rights abuses under the Sandinista regime but did invent and stretch what they could to appease Reagan. The most they could come up with was Las Tejas prison in Matagalpa, the city where I spent part of the '80s. Fact is there were few to no Contra supporters in Nicaragua. Some contras lived in condos in Miami; some in Tegucigalpa or El Paraiso, some camped at Rio Coco waiting for the next meal and Coke Cola. Contra leader Enrique Bermudez said after the war he couldn't get his Miamista wife and kids to move back to Managua because they liked Big Macs and Nintendo. Probably a good thing though as someone put 2 slugs in his head in a parking lot one night. FSLN or CIA, angry cuckolded husband, who knows.

There were few contras ever captured in Nicaragua and having witnessed some Contra handiwork a small cell and little food would not have been punishment enough, or electric shocks. Not to mention most Nicaraguans had little food during the '80s (unless you consider rice and beans 3x a day as plenty). The Atlantic coast had the indigenous indians displaced from the Honduran border (more for safety and troops on the border) which was culled by AI for whatever violation government forced displacement engenders in the media. Not as if they were interred as common Japenese right? The Moskitos didn't like it but they didn't lose everything they owned and weren't labeled a threat by their government. But AI had Reagan gippering at them for Sandinista atrocities and had to say something.

I saw and heard a lot of things back then but nothing about torture with electricity. However, if you're not careful you'll get a real sample of how touching a live wire and water feels simply by taking a shower in Latin America.

AI has been listing bad deeds and issuing recommendations on protecting human rights for over 40 years. Almost all the bad deeds are done by nations of nonwhite folks, although occasionally, for appearance, they take a smack at the US, usually complaining about the death penalty, but since it's mostly Black and brown Americans it's not an issue the "left" gets political milage (or dollars) out of and waste little of their political time on it. However, Gitmo prison has become a political cornucopia for AI and the "left." I know for a fact, however, that millions of Americans wouldn't know what a "gitmo" is or find it on a map.

AI aided and abetted the spread of the Kuwait "incubator babies." The New York Times published in December 1992 that Amnesty International issued a report claiming Iraqi occupation forces in Kuwait had tortured and killed hundreds of people, including 300 premature babies who died because incubators were stolen. Huh? Backing up Daddy Bush's war? The pillaging plundering Saddam Army swiped incubators and left the royal family jewels alone. (AI retracted the incubator story 2 years after the Gulf War ended.)

Amnesty usually fails to mention that previous leaders and participants in atrocities, paid for by the US, are languishing in California and Florida, and other less climate friendly states. We could have a small metropolis inhabited with the former bloody hands from Latin America; Useful Assests, USA. More than one US senator or pol is married to the relatives of some US dictators, for example Gerald "Jerry" Weller (R-IL) who married wife Zury Ríos Montt at the estate of former Guatemala dictator daddy Efrain Ríos Montt. Jerry, who sits on a subcommittee in DC for international terrorism is now porking and dining with terrorists. Zury, a member of the Guatemalan congress, is adamant that daddy was not a dictator and never hurt anyone. Watch out little Guates if this lady comes to power.

You see folks, AI gets most of their propaganda from the same places you and I do – government sponsored/controlled media and other "NGOs" paid for by big monied people or foundations who also have an agenda which coincides with the current political bosses, party affiliation has no role. AI, UN, etc. are all just big warm fuzzies so little folks think they're doing something by supporting them. No cape or white horse but you too can be a gung-ho peace warrior and atrocity fighter. (Ho may be the operative word here.)

Become a member and feel like you're doing something for the world. AI is a biggie in the myriad of global "orgs" who convince Joe Blow that AI is on the job, just send a donation, write a protest letter, and go back to sleep. This is their online manual to their favorite activities, with such chapters as :
CAMPAIGNING IN THE MODERN WORLD
FUNDRAISING AND CAMPAIGNING
CAMPAIGNING TECHNIQUES
PREPARING CAMPAIGN MATERIALS
MEDIA AND PUBLICITY
HOME GOVERNMENT LOBBYING.
Campaigning and lobbying and fundraising - just like a little bitty mini nongovernment government.

One current campaign is to shut down Gitmo prison camp. Take action! AI website has a letter you can copy/paste/sign and send to Boy George demanding he close down the place. And when and if Gitmo is closed – you can feel your action helped (although few pols if any in D.C. ever see those form letters; maybe the guy who ties up the garbage reads a few.)

In the AI 2006 Report : "Revelation after revelation exposed the extent to which European governments have been partners in crime with the United States, defying the absolute ban on torture and ill-treatment and by outsourcing torture though the transfer of prisoners to states such as Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Syria, which are known to practise torture"

Note, this AI "revelation after revelation" is from Dana of WaPo who "broke" the story of "secret torture camps" although no proof has surfaced. Note also it's code for : Anglo countries are "partners" in crime, whereas nonwhites are the paid darkie foreigners who are actually inhuman enough to flay, burn, beat, murder and torture for dollars, and enjoy it because, in the words of Billy Tray Redneck, "they come from that part of the world" and in redneck that means : more pigment equals less human so they like it (torture).

I suspect Dana (and Judy Miller) use journalism as a cover. Neither have writing skill and both are superb liars – an intel trait for sure.

AI 2006 Report : "Double speak and double standards by powerful governments are dangerous because they weaken the ability of the international community to address human rights problems such as those in Darfur, Chechnya, Colombia, Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and North Korea. They allow perpetrators in these and other countries to operate with impunity." – "Allow" them to operate? Hell, Anglo elites manufacture and arm groups to kill one another on the darker continents. Europe and America has pulled this perpetual war ruse for at least the last 250 years, and it usually worked well for ruling elite.

Alas, all those "human rights" groups who have global top honchos in bed with global governments, having so little success globally. So many saviors, so many decades, keep them outrages coming. Not that the ruling class will stop their atrocities until they're damn ready to, but folks feel "activist" with a sticker and candle and letter campaign; I doubt the ruling class is even breaking a sweat at this time. Parade, turn your back on their speakers, and send all the letter campaigns you want - just leave their wallets alone and they can't even hear ya.

Europeans and Americans don't seem to understand that if they would but clean their own government's house, most of the urgent problems in the world would peter out from lack of US funding. But on the other hand, if all the battering that daddy government does wasn't unleashed on the world – it might be done right here at home. Maybe that's what subconsciously really scares folks. Well, white folks anyways.