Amnesty International is scum.

Once upon a time, when I was wearing my reporter hat, I covered the death penalty. As one of those great perks that came with the job, I was bombarded with crap from Amnesty International.

When I came into the job, I thought Amnesty was a good, well-intentioned group that helped those less fortunate and, on occasion, took stances I did not like. By the time I left Primary Death Penalty Job, I had concluded that Amnesty International is a bunch of brain-dead, arrogant, self-absorbed morons who hate anything the United States says or does, regardless of leadership.

Their stance on the death penalty was particularly appalling. There were other groups whose stance was, essentially, "The death penalty is bad. Please reconsider." Ok, I can deal with that. Not Amnesty. They were so overboard that their stuff went something like this:

"Dear writer who should do more to stop this genocide:
The death penalty is vile and Texas, along with its Nazi former governor (now the American president) should be considered as evil as China and Iran for its use. So-and-so will be executed Tuesday night. With all due respect to the victim, So-and-so didn't get enough milk as a child, his momma spanked him to much...blahblahblah THE VICTIM DESERVED IT, YOU ALL SUCK, AMERICA SHOULD DIE!"

The last two comments are a little over the top, but it got that close. And, in several cases, they did get so far as to pretty much say, "who cares about the victim?"

I found it vile and contemptible. But, just when I thought I may reconsider my stance on Amnesty International, they sealed the deal for my eternal hatred. They want people to send cards, letters and poems to the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, showing how they "support the detainees".

"Please write to any or all of the following Guantánamo detainees, expressing in your own words your solidarity with them," Amnesty asks.

Now, they did the same crap with people on death row and the Eurotrash wrote in droves expressing their undying love and admiration for these guys who had killed family members, people they hadn't met and cops. It was disgusting, especially when you consider Amnesty would intentionally omit any mention of what the condemned were on death row for anyway! Just the "He didn't get cuddled enough in daycare" crap.

Ok, the guys out at Livingston on death row killed one or two people, in most cases. The jackasses at Gimto wanted to kill hundreds, or thousands, of innocent Americans and took up arms against our troops. They are even greater scum than the people who will go to Huntsville eventually. But still, Amnesty has picked out nine guys who are just so poorly treated by the Imperalist Americans and Bushitler who just need that little friendly pick-me-up from some brain-dead pigdog infidel.

And, again, they make no mention of what they are at Gitmo for. So, courtesy of the fine work of the Weekly Standard, I'll tell you about some of these lovelies.

• Omar Khadr was captured in 2002 after a gunfight with U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Lovely little Omar, 15 at the time, was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed murderer. He threw the grenade that killed Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, a medic who was saving the lives of Afghan civilians when Omar chucked his grenade
• Jumah al-Dossari has had an impressive terrorist career. He was arrested after the Khobar Towers bombing, but the Saudis later released him (nice). He then, somehow, made it to upstate New York, where he served as an al-Qaida recruiter.
  
• Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian who had lived in the U.S., did 40 days in al-Qaida's Farouq training camp in June 2001 and was coming back to the States to do some nasty stuff when he was captured. Mohamed's defense team claims he had no intention of coming back to the U.S. to kill civilians; instead, he wanted to go to Chechnya and kill Russian civilians. Ah, that makes it all better.
• Abdel Malik Abdel Wahab wasn't just a long-time AQ devotee; he was bin Laden's bodyguard. U.S. forces found a "martyrdom letter" he wrote on the corpse of another bodyguard, indicating he was ready to fight and die for the cause, either against American forces or in a terrorist attack. He claims he was just in Afghanistan to preach the Koran. Sure.

The other guys were caught fighting at places like Tora Bora or were known to have been in AQ training camps. These guys are hardly good people--they're criminals. And Amnesty wants people to think they're poor martyrs.

When Stalin talked about "Useful Idiots", they had these guys in mind.