Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:03:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Chegitz Guevara <mluziett-AT-shrike.depaul.edu>
Subject: Re: re-peru / human rights


On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Brian Carnell wrote:

> At 03:33 PM 2/14/96 GMT, Michael Luftmensch wrote:
> 
> >AI clearly has biases in
> >regard to conscience and violence, and an undue regard for due process.
> 
> It's stuff like this that keeps me subscribed to this list.  Can you explain
> what you mean by "an undue regard for due process"??
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Brian Carnell

An "undue regard for due process" would be to make a fetish out of the
justice system. For example, the United States is consistantly upheld as a
model system by A.I. (the death penalty, and proof of wide spread torture
by police in Chicago not with standing). It gets a rating of 1 on a scale
of 1 to 7, 1 being the best. We who live here, know well its problems: 
its weighted towards wealth and whiteness, and against the poor, women,
and people of color. If you can't afford a lawyer, you are most likley
going to jail. If you are white, you most likely won't be arrested for
minor offenses or recieve light sentences, etc. Amnesty has little to say
about that, because it follows "due process." 

AI's main sin is not that it fabricates evidence against those it
dislikes, but rather, that it ignores evidence of those it favors. AI
considers bruises and broken bones to evidence of torture and beatings in
every country in the world but one. According to AI, Isreal is not
violating Palestinian human rights, nor are the torturing them, when this
treatment is applied to Palestinians. In part, this is because just about
every Palestinan that gets detained by Isreali security forces goes
through this, and thus it is an incredible work load, but mostly it is
because Israel is seen as a model nation.

Marc, "the Chegitz," Luzietti
personal homepage: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mluziett
political homepage: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~mluziett/chegitz.html

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