I have nothing to prove. Actions speak louder than words. If someone who sells fire insurance yells fire in an apartment complex, one knows why. If Qwest says MCI is spying on you - one knows why. If French Telecom has a major international sales operative working at the top tier of Amnesty International - one knows why.
As for the 21 year old - she's the distraction. The poor girl whose relative was killed and joined Amnesty when she was 12. The one who gets interviewed. She's used much as a prostitute would be used - to distract the media from the real story.
That's her job - pose for the camera.
When I scoured the net for images I came across only one where she was being interviewed by 5 male Norwegian reporters in a darkened room. The whole thing was laughably manipulative.
The art of victimhood and use of the media to manipulate folks is on parade. Amnesty International and its corrupt activities needs some "street cred" that a 21 year old with a sob story can provide.
;-)
C'mon now...
The whole thread (78 posts)
- Reactions
- Moral equivalency
- "Civilization won't stand long when when the self-proclaimed good guys use war as an excuse to take a holiday from civilization"
- And our side won't last long when we're the only ones using a rule book.
- "The soft nihilism of low expectations"
- Smoothly done, Robert...
- One for the road...
- We *should* know better.
- "the people in the marches have a deep and abiding hostility to the West and its values."
- The right-wing reaction to the story was faster.
- re: Nations
- Revisionist history of the highest order.
- Heh, heh. Phony point.
- Moral equivalency