Jacqui Smith: she’s WHAT now?
I think we have to file this under YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME!!!
JACQUI Smith, the Home Secretary who has championed moves to imprison terrorist suspects for 42 days without charge, is a member of the human rights charity Amnesty International.
But… but… She’s what?
Being indoctrinated into the cognitive bifurcation techniques that all New Labour ministers must master if they are to be truly successful, Ms Smith no doubt considers her membership of Amnesty as compatible with her series of attempts to have people disappeared.
Me, I need a lie down. This simply can’t be true, can it? Is it actually some kind of government psychological warfare operation to mess with liberals’ heads? It’s worked.
MINDFUCK UPDATE: David Blunkett is a member as well! Waaaaaaah! I want my mum…
MINDFUCK UPDATE UPDATED: It’s exactly a year to the day since I wrote this.#
MINDFUCK UPDATE UPDATED: There are two Amnesty members in the cabinet. Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander is also member. I strongly urge you to examine his parliamentary voting record to attempt to identify the compatibility.
Posted on March 13th, 2009 at 11:06am under Human rights, Liberal Democrats, T.W.A.T.
Justin – what if she’s a member of Liberty as well…?
Has any torture anywhere ever stopped because of anything AMNESTY has done?
Even with their own members inside the cabinet of a torturing government they can’t fucking stop it.
Has any torture anywhere ever stopped because of anything AMNESTY has done?
I’m fairly sure that the answer to this is “yes” and that there are numbers of ex-political prisoners who will estify to that fact that it stopped happening to them after the Amnesty letters started arriving in numbers.
In relation to the OP, there used to be (and quite possibly still are) any number of Lanour MPs who were members of CND and yet voted to retain and “update” Britain’s nuclear weapons.
Has any torture anywhere ever stopped because of anything AMNESTY has done?
Yes.
I see. Well, they should get their cabinet rank members to write a few letters to themselves.
You don’t serriously expect government to act responsilby in accordance with the various societies they are a part of do you?
HA!
Try this,
It’s a mind set. How can we be a bunch of authoritarians passing illiberal legislation? We’re LABOUR, and LABOUR doesn’t do that kind of thing. How can we be conniving at torture? We’re LABOUR, and LABOUR doesn’t do that kind of thing. How can we be fiddling expenses? We’re LABOUR, and LABOUR doesn’t do that kind of thing. Only TORIES do that kind of thing. It’s self-denial, like the man who tells you he’s not an alcoholic and only starts drinking in the morning and continues all day every day because that’s what he does. It’s other people who are alcoholics.
Great comment, KB.
Now it’s only Phil Woolas that will need to be revealed as a member of No Borders…
I wonder whether Amnesty can be persuaded to rescind a membership? Now that would be fun to read about.
Do you know if Amnesty receives ‘donations’ from the government? I guess they would have kicked her out if they didn’t. Still it’s good to know what kind of organisation Amnesty really is.
5. How is Amnesty funded?
Amnesty is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion.
To ensure our independence, we do not seek or accept money from governments or political parties for our work in documenting and campaigning against human rights abuses.
Our funding depends on the contributions of our worldwide membership and fundraising activities.
To safeguard the independence of the organisation, all contributors are strictly controlled by guidelines laid down by the International Council.
[...] pretensions towards an international morality. There are politically convenient denunciations; memberships of Amnesty International; glib references towards the “equal worth of human beings” and their “equal right [...]
There’s a lot of blood on the walls right now…