Posted by
Rev on Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:36:14 PM
I was privileged to an email sent out to numerous organizations by Jill Savitt, Director of Campaigns for Human Rights First, an organization that spews illogical solutions to real problems and hides behind a façade of compassion and decorum. The email is intended to spark a resistance to the President’s detainee bill initiative by urging citizens to contact their elected representatives in Congress. The letter states:
Dear Friend,
It's not as visually shocking as the Abu Ghraib photos,
but President Bush's speech last Wednesday tells the
same horrifying story: The Bush administration is again
fighting for the right to abuse detainees in U.S. custody.
This week, the White House is calling on Congress to pass
military commission legislation that undermines the
baseline protections for prisoners guaranteed by the
Geneva Conventions - and undermines our nation's values.
It continues:
If the White House succeeds, we will be inviting other
nations to abuse our own troops, now and in future wars.
The administration is willing to risk the lives of our
soldiers - and further tarnish our reputation - so that
it can engage in cruel and inhuman treatment.
Perhaps this nation needs to show reruns of the atrocious beheading of Nick Berg and other Americans before we place these terrorist under the protection of impotent Geneva Conventions. This organization, as well as the Democratic leadership that denounces the President’s bill, are no more able to make security decisions than that of the adolescent cast of Mean Girls or Clueless. How does one make this more evident? We are not facing “other nations” that will be invited to “abuse our own troops, now and in future wars.” We are facing heartless murders and ruthless executioners. Their conduct is by no way directed by the Geneva Conventions or any other such document that attempts to bring reason to an irrational world. Their conduct is only directed by a misinterpretation of the Quran which calls for the slow and tortuous killings of all infidels. It is the terrorist action of torture that truly constitutes the intervention of groups such as Human Rights First, and we should in no way forget that.