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Amnesty International Points to 60 Years of Failure

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Posted on May 28, 2008
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World leaders are about to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, but leading human rights organization Amnesty International says they should first apologize for failing to tackle widespread abuses around the world. The group’s annual report cites 81 countries for torture or maltreatment and chastises the United States for setting such a poor example.


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World leaders are failing to tackle human rights abuses around the globe, Amnesty International says.

In an annual report, the group says people are still being tortured or ill-treated in at least 81 countries.

In at least 54 states they face unfair trial and cannot speak freely in at least 77 nations, the group adds.

It says world leaders should apologise for 60 years of human rights failures since the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

The group also challenges them “to re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements”.

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By neonleon, May 29, 2008 at 7:28 am Link to this comment
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Purplewolf and Yell, please put down the bong and analyze the issue at hand: the U.N. is a fraud and a gang of thieves for the most part, and inherently unable to accomplish any real objectives due to the plethora of private interests within the group.
If you must vent your spleen about the loss of your constitutional rights, look no further than the Courts as appointed by your Saint William of Arkansas, you know, that disbarred former President who loaded Federal courts with leftist judges bent on socializing America.  Justice Souter’s land-grab, California’s judicial negation of the revealed will of the citizens, you know, the little things of the Law.
Or perhaps you could ask Speaker Pelosi about her “most ethical Congress” or her “plan for lowering gasoline prices.”  The House has recognized National Watermelon Day, but failed to pass a sensible funding bill nor a sensible means of border enforcement.

Best not refer to anyone else as a buffoon nor as a fraud, gentlemen:  that shoe fits you all too well.

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By purplewolf, May 28, 2008 at 12:03 pm Link to this comment

Jim, thanks to Bushco, there is no Bill of Rights anymore, the only thing left on it that pertains to us little people is that we don’t have to quarter (house)soldiers. The rest, as they say, is history since G.W. has eliminated over 90% of it. Plus all the other misdeeds we will never know about.

And Bush does have a use for all his paid mercenaries, like Blackwater, when he declares Martial Law and becomes Dictator of America, as he had been yelling he has wanted since before 1996 as a governor on Texas.

Some of the people in this country still remember the rules of law, however the whole Bush administration was absent from school on the days they were to be taught about this.

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By Fadel Abdallah, May 28, 2008 at 6:49 am Link to this comment

No surprises here!
Like daughter like mother!
Isn’t Amnesty International the daughter of its mother the so-called United Nations? How many resolutions, for example, has the United Nations has passed against Israel? I can hardly count them. Yet, both Israel and the U.S. showed so much contempt for this organization the U.S. was so instrumental in finding, to show contempt for it when it wanted to prove it was a real United Nations, and not a forum for the U.S. and its unholy allies!

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By hippy pam, May 28, 2008 at 6:48 am Link to this comment

It ain’t no different than all those groups that are set up to INVESTIGATE THIS AND THAT….People in power give the people whom they owe favors to a nice cushy position….No one REALLY DOES ANYTHING…Cuz that would interrupt the STATUS QUO…...

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By Jim Yell, May 28, 2008 at 4:49 am Link to this comment
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After George/Cheney there isn’t even the pretense of legal government. They have built a structure that would do a Mafia Don proud. The treason in this country is not from the ones who question the war, but from the ones who promote it for personal gain and power. Has everyone forgot this is supposed to be a Democracy moderated by a Bill of Rights? Just wait until the private armies return home. If we think it is bad now, it can only get worse thanks to the Republicans, Democratic Leadership failure and the personal crimes of Bush/Cheney.

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