Amnesty International Receives the first ever headline poacher award!

“Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.” Eight words; that’s all it takes to see right through Amnesty International’s report.

Putting things into perspective, Gulag was a series of Russian concentration camps. An estimated 1.4 to 2.8 million people died there. 800,000 were executed there. More people died at Gulag than at Auschwitz.

In contrast, Guantanamo is only holding 540.

Enter Camp 22, North Korea. According to The Guardian: Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of babies born to prisoners to kill them… [C]hilling evidence has emerged that the walls of Camp 22 hide an even more evil secret: gas chambers where horrific chemical experiments are conducted on human beings. Witnesses have described watching entire families being put in glass chambers and gassed. They are left to an agonising death while scientists take notes.

Now, the obvious angle to take is to ask Amnesty International why they seem bent on blaming the United States when there’s worse stuff going on over in North Korea.

But I won’t go there. Connect the dots; Amnesty International just called Guamtanamo the worst violation of human rights today, and equated it with one of the biggest violations of human rights ever. Meanwhile over in North Korea’s Camp 22, stomping on a babies neck is merely a political dispute.

Amnesty International, feel free to excuse yourself from the table of rational dialogue.

Dean Meets the Press Tomorrow

In an email, I asked Tim Russert to ask Howard Dean why the country should trust the Democratic party whenever they tout fiscal responsibility.