would you : ethics : IS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UNAMERICAN? [+] ballot by mojo created Tue May 31, 05 On the network news the other night, I learned that Amnesty International is the latest group to be branded 'Unamerican' by the Bush Administration for its criticism of the Americans' treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Speaking at the release of Amnesty's annual report, William Schulz, head of the U.S. chapter of Amnesty International said Wednesday, charged that Washington has become ''a leading purveyor and practitioner'' of torture and ill-treatment and that senior officials should face prosecution by other governments for violations of the Geneva Conventions and the U.N. Convention Against Torture. "If the administration of President George W. Bush fails to conduct a truly independent investigation of U.S. abuses against detainees in Iraq and elsewhere, foreign governments should investigate and prosecute those senior officials who bear responsibility for them," said Schulz. Among those officials, Schulz named Bush, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director George Tenet, and senior officers at U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. ''It is the height of hypocrisy for the U.S. government itself to use the very torture techniques that it routinely condemns in other countries,'' he said. ''When the U.S. government then calls upon foreign leaders to bring to justice those who commit or authorise human rights violations in their own countries, why should those foreign leaders listen?'' The government of the U.S. has relied on reports from Amnesty International to determine injustice and torture taking place in foreign countries - including Iraq, under Saddam Hussein. Now that the spotlight is on us, however, the Republicans accuse Amnesty International of being Unamerican. Does that make sense? Yes, makes perfect sense. Do as we say, not as we do. No, it's the height of hypocracy - and yet another example of 'shooting the messenger'. Ballot #74389 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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