Our own private Gulag
Denny at
Grouchy Old Cripple posts a wonderful list of items that should shut up the most strident Amnesty International activist (although they have been doing a wonderful job of back-pedaling recently)
Last first -- sometimes news items go away from the linked websites.
Here is what I was talking about when I said that Amnesty International was back-pedaling:
'Don't know for sure' about Guantanamo: Amnesty USA
Despite highly publicized charges of U.S. mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo, the head of the Amnesty International USA said on Sunday the group doesn't "know for sure" that the military is running a "gulag."
Executive Director William Schulz said Amnesty, often cited worldwide for documenting human rights abuses, also did not know whether Secretary Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved severe torture methods such as beatings and starvation.
Here is a part of Denny's list swiped from
Northeast Intelligence Network:
- Not one of the illegal enemy combatant detainees who came from Afghanistan had a Qur'an in his possession when captured.
- A brand new Qur'an in the specific, native language of each individual was provided to each "enemy combatant".
- Each illegal enemy combatant detained at Guantanamo is given three nutritious halal meals (culturally-appropriate and in accordance with Islamic dietary law) per day. The meals include all optional condiments.
- Each illegal enemy combatant detainee receives Muslim feast meals at special times in accordance with Muslim feasts and holy periods during the year.
- Each illegal enemy combatant detainee has unrestricted access to Muslim Imams and religious instruction.
- Each illegal enemy combatant detainee has a Quibla, a large green and white sign in his cell which points toward Mecca.
- Each illegal enemy combatant detainee hears Islamic loudspeaker calls to prayer five times daily.
- Each illegal enemy combatant detainee received a brand new Muslim prayer cap.
- Each illegal enemy combatant detainee received a brand new prayer rug.
- Each illegal enemy combatant detainee received brand new Islamic prayer beads. Each illegal enemy combatant detainee received Islamic holy oil.
- Each illegal enemy combatant had ALL of this done and paid for him at US taxpayer expense and this is far, far in excess of requirements delineated by Geneva Convention Cat. III protocols on the treatment of Prisoners of War.
And the MSM on this?
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Crickets...
Posted by DaveH at June 6, 2005 11:05 PM