The Amnesty International Report

The CBC nightly news led off with this: "While the report mentioned such human rights abuses as the genocide in Darfur, it saved its greatest criticism for America." Later, Mansbridge mentioned Canada's guilt. It seems that we are not allowing bogus (sorry, my slip) refugees to enter Canada from the United Stakes. Then we have also allowed violence against native women. The Amnesty International crowd are far too politically correct to spell this last charge out. It is left to your imagination about who are the main abusers. If you fill in "Whitey" you get a gold star, though.

Total loonie-left misdirection of blame, of course. That is too bad, as the aims of the organization are fundamentally solid. However, we can see the dreary hand of the radical fringe writing this report.

I can almost reconstruct the discussion that went into it. "Let's see," Ms Khan, the spokeswoman, would state, "If we start with the monster abusers alphabetically we get America. What? You say Algeria. So the different sides have murdered at least 160,000 people and tortured thousands more; that doesn't count as they were all Muslim Algerians. My name is Khan and I'm presenting this report, so butt out."

Well, before you get to that other heinous abuser Canada, we should try to fill in some "B's". Burundi comes to mind. Besides their massive slaughters of Hutus in the 1980's, there are reports that they are still at it. However, didn't we mention them a decade ago? Scratch Burundi--90% of the world doesn't even know it exists. We want headlines here. On to the "C's". I know that Cambodia and the Cameroons come before Canada, but old abuses are a ratings killer. Yes, adding Canada to the list is an attention getter. Now, about those poor refugees stranded in the heartland of bigotry, i.e. America, This injustice has to stop. What, you say that according to the UN protocol on refugees, they are already in a sanctuary country, hence are not legible to asylum shop? Well, that is not the UN I have come to love. Enough quibbling;. on to the "D's". Denmark just jumps right out at you, doesn't it. They are actually thinking of throwing out people they refer to as "illegal immigrants and refugees". They have become so racist that some have taken to putting up posters of a blue-eyed, blond girl and claiming that she will become an minority in fifty years. My response: Put on your white sheets and show your true colours. I bet crosses are burning on Copahagen lawns as we speak. On to the "E's". Equatorial Guinea might fit in, if it wasn't a traumatized former colony. The list of the real abusers is endless, so why throw in red herrings? "F"? France of course. Moving along swiftly now we come to "Z". Which could only stand for Zealand. "Zimbabwe", you say? Another neo-colonial victim. What? You say the country is called New Zealand? But it must have been plain Zealand before they tried to hide their shame over their mistreatment of the Maori. They now think they can hide behind the "new" appelation. We here at Amnesty International are hip to these ploys. We know the baddies when we see them."

© Bud Talkinghorn

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