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Human rights abuses my patoot!
Trevor Bothwell
6/1/05
The latest hysteria alleging American human rights abuses of suspected
terrorists comes from Amnesty International, which apparently hopes to
turn
even the slightest supposed mistreatment of prisoners into a full-scale
Abu
Ghraib-type scandal.
According to the Washington Times, Amnesty International "last week
called
on foreign governments 'to uphold their obligations under international
law
by investigating U.S. officials implicated in the development or
implementation of interrogation techniques that constitute torture or
cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment' at the U.S. military base known as
Gitmo."
Furthermore, in a report titled "The State of the World's Human
Rights," the
organization charged that "the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
'has
become the gulag of our times' and accused high-level U.S. officials --
including the president, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld,
Attorney
General Alberto R. Gonzales and former CIA Director George J. Tenet --
of
flouting international law in their treatment of detainees."
"The gulag of our times," eh? Perhaps Amnesty International is
conveniently
unaware of Kim Jong Il's prison camps in North Korea. But this would be
surprising considering its own website describes North Korea thusly:
Access by independent monitors continued to be severely restricted.
There
were reports of widespread political imprisonment, torture and
ill-treatment, and of executions.
Until American GIs start sawing off the heads of terror suspects with
steak
knives, it's laughably ridiculous and insulting to even attempt to
equate
our treatment of prisoners with that which military and civilian
personnel
have endured at the hands of murderous Islamist barbarians. That
Amnesty
International has the audacity to insinuate that American treatment of
enemy
combatants is actually worse than what men, women, and children endure
daily
at the hands of al Qaeda and Kim's North Korean henchmen clearly
indicates
its anti-American agenda and should be enough for anyone to realize the
U.S.
will never get a fair shake from international critics during this war.
Those who do care to consider the facts surrounding American treatment
of
prisoners at Guantanamo Bay can read Michelle Malkin's article today,
in
which she cites the numerous accommodations that are made for our dear
Muslim captives.
Erik Saar, who served as an army sergeant at Gitmo for six months and
co-authored a negative, tell-all book about his experience titled
"Inside
the Wire," inadvertently provides us more firsthand details showing
just how
restrained, and sensitive to Islam -- to a fault, I believe -- the
officials
at the detention facility have been.
Each detainee's cell has a sink installed low to the ground, "to make
it
easier for the detainees to wash their feet" before Muslim prayer, Saar
reports. Detainees get "two hot halal, or religiously correct, meals" a
day
in addition to an MRE (meal ready to eat). Loudspeakers broadcast the
Muslims' call to prayer five times a day.
Every detainee gets a prayer mat, cap and Koran. Every cell has a
stenciled arrow pointing toward Mecca. Moreover, Gitmo's library --
yes,
library -- is stocked with Jihadi books. "I was surprised that we'd be
making that concession to the religious zealotry of the terrorists,"
Saar
admits. "[I]t seemed to me that the camp command was helping to
facilitate
the terrorists' religious devotion." Saar notes that one FBI special
agent
involved in interrogations even grew a beard like the detainees "as a
sort
of show of respect for their faith."
In order to endure "human rights" abuses, one must first be human, a
designation many if not most of the detainees at Gitmo are fortunate to
receive. If it were up to me, most of these bastards would be sleeping
on
barbed wire. But until Amnesty International can uncover living
conditions
that are inferior to what our troops have to put up with in the field
as
they hunt these vermin, its allegations are as worthless as those who
believe them
http://www.townhall.com/clog/archive/050529.html
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unaware of Kim Jong Il's prison camps in North Korea.
kim jong il. all things considered, i'd rather not delve into his
head. i've been avoiding the subject, much like i've been avoiding
getting into michael jackson's trial. i just don't want to.
but the fucking guy came up on charlie rose, and news interest seems to
be growing, so i'll post a few things on the matter.
i found this piece interesting:
Kim Jong Il's ex-chef lifts lid on ruler's fancy tastes
By James Brooke
The New York Times
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
SEOUL In sleepy North Korea, where ox carts outnumber cars, the ruling
Kim family dashes from villa to villa in high speed convoys of black
Mercedes-Benzes. In a poor country where a prized possession is a used
Japanese bicycle, the Kim clan enjoy the most expensive imported toys -
Jet Skis, motorcycles, karaoke machines, NBA-regulation basketball
courts.
..
And in the late 1990s, when about two million North Koreans starved to
death, their Dear Leader - as Kim Jong Il is known - sent his personal
chef to Tokyo to buy fresh sushi, to Tehran to buy caviar, to
Copenhagen for gourmet bacon and to Paris for the finest wines and
cognacs.
..
This portrait of Kim and his family living a sheltered, pampered
existence, a modern echo of ancient Korean royal dynasties, comes from
a burly, chain-smoking Japanese sushi chef who until 2001 served as
personal chef for the family. Writing under the name of Kenji Fujimoto,
a pseudonym adopted for his safety, the chef, who is 56, came out last
year with a memoir, "I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook." Published in Japanese
and Korean, the book contained 70 photographs, including several of the
author with Kim. Last summer, in a new book, "The Private Life of Kim
Jong Il," he focused on the dozen villas he had visited, including
diagrams and photographs.
..
"I am the only foreign person to spend time with Kim Jong Il, so close
as to feel his breath," he said in a recent interview at his Tokyo
publishing house. To disguise his appearance from North Korea agents he
believes want to kill him, he had grown a goatee, covered his hair with
a bandanna, and carried sunglasses for public forays.
..
With the death in August of Kim Jong Il's favorite mistress, Koh Young
Hee, attention has turned on the secretive, luxurious lifestyle of a
family that, according to this former palace insider, treats the nation
as its plantation. This fall, three sons are in the running to be
groomed as heir to their father.
..
Now 62 years old, Kim started running North Korea at least a decade
before his own father died in 1994.
..
If the North had competitive elections, Kim would have a tough record
to campaign on. During his decade in power, fuel consumption has
dropped by one-third, per capita income has dwindled to 8 percent of
South Korea's, and during the famine years almost 10 percent of the
population is believed to have starved to death.
[alright. let's get one thing clear: he's incompetent. i don't want
to hear how smart or cunning kim is, the impression i get -- especially
after screwing up on the agreed framework deal, mass starvation, etc.
-- is that he's not a genius. crazy/stupid is more accurate.]
..
"I think he sensed the reality," the Japanese author said, recalling
seeing gaunt and starving peasants as the official motorcade raced
along one of the nation's three highways. "You could see the
malnourished children standing on the land. Naturally he saw these
people through the car windows."
..
While Kim was slow to admit foreign food donations to ease the famine,
he was quick to send underlings on international missions to satisfy
his gourmet whims. Grapes came from China, mangoes from Thailand,
papayas from Singapore, and, from the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo,
fatty tuna, sea urchins, eels and squid. From France, came boxes of
cheeses and enough wine, brandy and cognac to replenish what the author
called "the royal wine cellar," a collection of 10,000 imported
bottles.
..
..
One day, he recalled, the leader's sons came home from boarding school
in Switzerland and "reported to Kim Jong Il, 'we ate hamburgers and it
was so delicious."'
..
"So I flew to Beijing, and went to McDonald's and bought a bag of
hamburgers," the chef recounted. "Of course by the time I got back to
Pyongyang, they were cold. So Kim Jong Il ate cold hamburgers." The
experience may have prodded Kim to introduce hamburgers to the masses.
..
In 2000, he began a campaign to feed university students
"gogigyeopbbang," which is Korean for "double bread with meat," also
known as a hamburger.
..
"I've made up my mind to feed quality bread and French fries to
university students, professors and researchers even if we are in
hardship," Kim said at the time.
..
For public consumption, North Korean propaganda often refers to Kim
enjoying a hearty meal of potatoes at an army canteen. On visiting army
garrisons, Kim also often distributes imported packets of Japanese
ramen noodles to awestruck soldiers. But in the late 1990s, when the
state propaganda machinery was advising famine stricken North Koreans
to forage for grass, roots, and edible bark, Kim's conversations with
his foreign chef were of exotic ingredients, of new recipes and new
cookbooks.
..
"Before I cooked rice for him, a waiter and kitchen staff had to
inspect it grain by grain," the chef wrote. "Chipped and defective
grains were extracted; only those what were perfect were served."
..
By 2000, foreign charities, led by the World Food Program, were feeding
about one quarter of North Korea's population of 20 million. But inside
the sealed world of Kim Jong Il, the Japanese chef recalled, the only
time food shortages came up was when employees at a villa kennel were
caught eating beef intended for Kim's pet dogs.
..
"Kim Jong Il ordered the kennel director to go to a labor camp for two
years and the others for one year," he wrote in the new book. "Twenty
kilograms of beef in the refrigerator every day must have been a great
temptation to the workers who were never given beef."
..
The favored foreign chef freely admits to enjoying the high life - the
gambling parties with bricks of $100 bills, the gourmet meals, the
private screenings of the latest Hollywood movies
[ so, kim likes hollywood movies. saddam likes hollywood movies. i
imagine, bin laden does NOT like hollywood movies. see the patterns?
of the three, i'd say only bin laden truly hates america down to his
core. all are homicidal, but only bin laden may be suicidal. i.e.
both kim and saddam are not suicidal bombers. they're both paranoid
sociopaths.
so, what does this imply? kim craves security, the kind of security
that nukes provide, especially after what the bush admin did to saddam.
abc's woodruff made that point, re: the rumsfeld reference in
woodward's book. i don't think kim will ever give up his nukes,
because he thinks he'll get killed if he did.
if this is true: "Now 62 years old, Kim started running North Korea at
least a decade before his own father died in 1994." he's been running
the country since 1984 and hasn't yet launched a war against either
south korea or japan in that time. that's encouraging, but
nevertheless, he remains paranoid of his neighbors, including the US.
i don't believe it's likely kim will pass off or sell nukes -- his most
prized possessions -- off to religious fanatics who hate godless
communist governments. i think both groups are too distrustful of each
other for that to happen.
letting the abc crew in and saying they have nukes is interesting.
it's a contradiction from what the chinese are saying, no? that
implies kim and hu have their disagreements, which is a good sign. but
it also implies kim is genuinely afraid of an american invasion and
wants to make it clear there would be a nuclear retailiation.
this shows up two different views of america among the communist duo,
and consequently, two schools of thought. china doesn't believe
america is hell-bent for war on the penninsula and wants to diffuse
tensions by undermining arguments for a US attack. kim believes
america is determined to wage war and wants to prevent an attack by
saying clearly that he does indeed have nukes.
....that could be an opening. somehow convince kim (if it hasn't
already) that china is conspiring with the US behind the scenes, or
intentionally encouraging the US to invade n. korea by saying to the
world that kim is nuke-free. by making kim more paranoid of chinese
intentions, it may make him more willing to deal with s. korea and
japan. ...but i doubt kim will ever willingly give up his nukes
because of the paranoia. however, that same paranoia makes it unlikely
he'll sell off his prized nukes to jihadists.
sigh. can't someone just go up there and kill the little monster? can
it be that difficult?
and the company of Kim's charming team of young "pleasure girls."
..
Through marriage to one of them, Om Jong Nyo, the author said he got a
look at the other side of the high walls separating governors and
governed in the Stalinist nation.
..
"We secretly went to see her family one month after our marriage," he
said. "I was amazed that six people were living in one room."
..
At the time, he said, the family was trying to survive on food rations
of 85 grams, or three ounces, of food per person per day. Later, he
learned that four members died of smoke poisoning from burning coal
briquettes in the unheated, poorly ventilated room.
..
"I don't know any other country in the world like North Korea that has
such a huge gap between rich and poor," the Japanese chef wrote of a
country that claims to follow the world's purest brand of communism.
..
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