I see nothing's changed in good old North Korea. Gassing an entire family, they were probably up there watching, eating a sandwich.

To have sympathy for human beings implies you know what it's like to be one. It doesn't appear that anyone in the NK hierarchy qualifies.

As a Jew, I am even more outraged. We were taught the phrase Never Again. This must mean something. Even when the victims are not Jews. Personally, I think the Jewish community ought to raise hell to get NK to be dealt with.

"The human rights group Amnesty International said it had been unable to confirm previous reports of such testing.

We have heard of these allegations but we cannot confirm them,” a spokeswoman said."

That's all they can get out of AI? They'll run off at the mouth over any suspected mistreatment of nonuniformed combatents at Gitmo, but that's all they'll say to a NK allegation about GASSING people Nazi style from a former NK officer?

I dislike Amnesty only a little less than I dislike North Korea. And considering NK tried to indirectly kill me, I dislike them a lot.

Spade - AI can only work in areas in which governments cooperate with them, therefore all the truly awful horrible places are completely off-limits, which pretty much leaves them to report on governments, victims and former guards to which they have access.

You can understand that few victims or former guards are generated by the regime of KJI. In that sense, AI is a lot like modern psychiatry, which spends most of its time treating the ennui of the idle rich while ignoring the vast sea of mentally ill who cannot pay.

I would say both groups are equally ineffective.

Torp,

Thanks for the info. It would seem that AI is like the drunk looking for lost keys under the streetlight. The keys are elsewhere, of course, but the light is good there.

Lovely. Just freakin' lovely.

MG

Alan,
Thanks for the heads up about this programme.Abandoning the family I locked myself into the study, and was appalled. I had often thought that the term "Axis of evil" was a tad melodramatic. I was wrong wrong.

Jimmy Carter received a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating with these guys.

...and Jimmy Carter claimed to be a 'nuclear physicist'.

Jimmy Carter is a Totally incompetent
idiot and the worst President in my
lifetime.

He has tried to help people since he
left office, but mostly Castro, the
Venzuela and North Korean dictators,
Yasser Arafat and the PLO, etc.

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