Amnesty International - how far they have sunk

I used to have a lot of respect for this organzation. Not any more. They have totally lost the plot. I had always assumed that they spoke for prisoners of conscious, such as Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar. That is people like her who are imprisoned for their thoughts of freedom. Freedom to speak, worship, gather, travel, learn, and other freedoms we take for granted in the west.

But nooooo... They have decided to elevate David Hicks to sainthood status. They have a "Bring David Home" campaign. I see them on the corner with nice childhood pictures of David looking harmless wearing a sweater screaming that Australia owes it to him as an Aussie to come home. Why don't they use this photo of him with an RPG launcher and his fellow terrorist?

David Hicks is in a mess of his own making. For those who don't know, Hicks is a white kid who was caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11. He has been held in Gitmo Cuba along for 5 years now.

Now Hicks is just a looser with a gun fetish who converted to radical Islam and then left Australia to join Islamic militants in battles through out Asia. He is reported to have fought for Islamic militants in Kashmir and Afghanistan. He is no saint. He is a violet thug who wanted a license to kill and found one in violet jihad. God knows how many people he as killed.

He did not commit these crimes in Australia. So why do so many people think that he deserves Australian justice? He Australian passport does not guarantee that. If you don't want to risk getting caught up in some seriously bad shit, then don't go around shooting people in other countries.

And now he is sitting in a jail cell getting feed 3 square meals a day thanks to the US tax payers. The bottom line is that he was a combatant in a war who has been caught. The war is still going on. He deserves nothing. He is getting far more now from the US that any other government would give him in the places where he ran around killing people.

Yet Amnesty International makes him their poster child. Aren't there people out there being persecuted that are far more deserving of our attention?