A Call To Arms From Amnesty International On The Detainee Deal

Posted on September 22, 2006

Warning: Heavy sarcasm ahead.

Amnesty International has issued the alarm and it is now up to all progressives to unite. The devil is in the details and here are the details as they see them:

“Amnesty International is deeply disturbed by the proposed compromise between Senate leaders and the White House on detainee legislation. Without further clarification the legislation leaves loopholes big enough to drive a Humvee through. The parties appear to have negotiated themselves right back to the starting line. The core of the public debate between senior Republican leaders and the administration largely hinged on the president’s ability to interpret the Geneva Conventions as he saw fit and as he basically granted himself authority to do in the war on terror. Key Senators argued, rightly, that the Conventions must stay intact. Yet, in the alleged ‘win-win’ compromise, it appears that the president can reinterpret the Conventions, amend the War Crimes Act and even give a greenlight to treatment long- considered torture. Without additional clarity, the proposed agreement betrays American values of justice and long-held agreements and obligations on basic humane treatment. There can be no compromise for torture.

This is not a time for electoral calculations on either side of the aisle. Winning or losing elections doesn’t matter if the price of victory is a profound betrayal of principle – and, make no mistake about it, the proposed legislation has that potential.”

I urge all my Democrat friends to heed the advice of Amnesty International.

Remember as Amnesty International said, “Winning or losing elections doesn’t matter if the price of victory is a profound betrayal of principle.” Stand firm my friends and do not concern yourself with winning or loosing elections.
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Do you know who is driving that gas guzzling global warming “Humvee” through those Detainee Deal “loopholes?” It is George W. Bush!!!!

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3 Responses to “A Call To Arms From Amnesty International On The Detainee Deal”

Skerdog on September 23rd, 2006 5:24 am

Since when did this blog get turned over to the surrender monkeys on the Left? *boggle*
Jay on September 23rd, 2006 7:18 am

I believe this is all strong sarcasm bro.
Skerdog on September 24th, 2006 1:03 am

God I hope so. I almost had blood shooting out my eyes there for a minute.