Amnesty International staffer asked ex Gulag prisoner to act as Gitmo-Gulag marketing gimmick

Several days ago I received a telephone call from an old friend who is a longtime Amnesty International staffer. He asked me whether I, as a former Soviet "prisoner of conscience" adopted by Amnesty, would support the statement by Amnesty's executive director, Irene Khan, that the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba is the "gulag of our time."

"Don't you think that there's an enormous difference?" I asked him.

"Sure," he said, "but after all, it attracts attention to the problem of Guantanamo detainees."

We'd already guessed Amnesty International's leadership has become a den of politically-driven leftists. Ironically (or predictably?) an ex Gulag prisoner has revealed they are even worse: leftist propagandists, venally asking someone they once helped to effectively lie about the Gulag system for Amnesty's anti-Gitmo marketing campaign.

If they keep this up, Amnesty will be considered by many a traitor to the US war effort and risking American lives with their inflammatory propaganda. So much for an organisation which once attracted supporters from both sides of the aisle for its letter writing campaigns to save 'prisoners of conscience'.

How long before Human Rights Watch falls?

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