Great Minds Think Alike

Here’s NRO on Amnesty International’s moral abdication of its responsibility to talk about the real gulags. What’s sad is that Amnesty had such credibility on human rights–credibility that this world needed–and threw it away. Not only have they lost their ability to be a conscience for the United States when it needs one, it’s also been derelict in being a conscience for the greater world at large.

Having backed off on “gulag,” Amnesty’s mouthpiece went on to tell what a lovely publicity stunt it’s all been–

WALLACE: Is it possible, sir, that by excessive rhetoric or by your political links, that you have hurt, not helped, your cause?

SCHULZ: Chris, I don’t think I’d be on this station, on this program today with you if Amnesty hadn’t said what it said and President Bush and his colleagues haven’t responded as they did. If I had come to you two weeks ago and said, “Chris, I’d like to go on Fox with you just to talk about U.S. detention policies at Guantanamo and elsewhere,” I suspect you wouldn’t have given me an invitation.

WALLACE: So you’re saying if you make irresponsible charges, that’s good for the cause?

SCHULZ: I don’t believe that they’re irresponsible. I’ve told you the ways in which I think that there are analogies between the Soviet prison system and the United States.

Meanwhile, it seems they’re calling for the arrest of the Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, and the President of the United States . . . but not Kim Jong Il, Li Peng, Hu Jintao, or Fidel Castro.

So who is going to do what Amnesty spent the last decade not doing?

Meanwhile, DailyNK has now started publishing my pieces, including this one on The Other Gulag for Our Time and my recent post on Norbert Vollertsen. Sure, I admit that I was disappointed at not being banned in South Korea, but hey, this couldn’t possibly hurt my chances, could it?

Graphic horked from NRO.