Amnesty International, Full of Shit

Amnesty International is supposed to be about championing the cause of "prisoners of conscience." But, the organization appears to have no conscience when it comes to criticizing the United States.

The head of Amnesty International's American branch yesterday acknowledged that he "doesn't know for sure" what is going on at Guantanamo Bay prison, although Amnesty International's secretary-general has called the terrorist prison run at a U.S. military base in Cuba a "gulag."

Not one to let ignorance stay his mouth, he defends Amnesty's characterization of POW camps as "gulags."

"I don't believe [the charges] are irresponsible," said Mr. Schulz, the executive director of Amnesty International U.S.A. "I've told you the ways in which I think that [there are] analogies between the Soviet prison system and the United States."