Congressman Steve Rothman's office has informed me that he has agreed to support HR 1215, the Immigration Oversight and Fairness Act!
As you may know, Amensty activists around the country are currently organizing a lobby week in support of this legislation, which address the three main problems identified in Amnesty's Jailed Without Justice report.
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In the first place, the U.S. has lost any credibility it may have had regarding Human Rights, after Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the repeal of Habeous Corpus.
Then, why do you have to travel to other countries when you have abject poverty and human rights violations in your own backyard. Take a ride down the Mississippi River Delta, or visit the shrinking Native American minority. What you are basically are "Holier than Thou Feel Good Hypocrites." And you know it better than most people because you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can never fool yourselves.
If Amnesty International were on the up and up, and working toward the unbiased and fair treatment of all human beings, I'd be the first who would want to join that effort.
What is needed is a credible and apolitical organization that is working toward a Human Rights for all goal, and exposing the negative in the world, while making emphasis on the positive.
It's strange that Anonymous is criticizing AI for not working on human rights in the U.S., given that this very post is focused on the United States! Furthermore, immigrant detention is an issue that is especially relevant for NJ!
How interesting that Lawrence M. Ladutke finds it strange that someone would criticize human rights abuses right here in the U.S.A., and states that AI is currently focusing on abuses right here in this country.
To this, I can only say to Mr. Ladutke, good! It's great that at long last AI looking at the splinter in our own eye before pointing fingers at the spot in someone Else's eye.
We need to understand that the U.S.A. is the richest, most powerful nation in the world and as such, we should be a beacon of hope for our less furtunate companions in this life.
The tragedy of our minority groups in this country has always been the institutionalized neglect, and a legal system that excels in selective justice. Perhaps and hopefully, we've surpassed the days of cross burnings, but exclusionary and subtle racism is alive and well, and perhaps that's even worse.
Hopefully Lawrence M. Ladutke is correct in stating that there is a change of course, and that AI is now focusing on the flagrant miscarriage of justice and divisiveness that has been endured by minority groups right here in the U.S.A. This is very good news!
But really, Mr. Laduktke shouldn't find criticism of AI as somethning strange or fortituous, the built-up resentment is there and has been nourished for a multitude of decades. Besides Mr. Laduktke, one day of sunshine doesn't make a Summer. Keep up the good fight.
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