Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:17:13 -0500
To: Marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: godenas-AT-edgenet.net (Louis R. Godena)
Subject: Pierre Sane, AI's House Negro Kneels before Imperialism


Pierre Sane, Amnesty International secretary-general, was in Hong Kong 
yesterday peddling copies of AI's new "human rights" report on China, 
medodramatically entitled "No One is Safe."  


Sane, the former intelligence officer and oil company lobbyist, grovelled 
magnificently before a small gaggle of (mostly western) newsmen and low 
level politicians (since the "collapse" of "communism", "human rights" 
traffickers come at quite a discount for their erstwhile sponsors; the 
former can no longer count on the carefully managed fanfare of past days, 
now it is stale coffee and near deserted second-rate hotel lobbies).


His bifurcated tongue firmly ensconsed in the fetid anus of rotting world 
imperialism, this broom-closet gadfly and "human rights" pimp refused all 
questions concerning Yasar Kemal, the Kurdish rights activist and Turkey's 
most prominent author, who was sentenced last week to nearly two years in 
prison for defending the rights of his people against this NATO member (and 
AI sponsor).  Nor was there a peep from this "unofficial" champion of 
humanity about the fate of President Gonzalo and the thousands and thousands 
of the best sons and daughters of the Peruvian masses waging a herculean 
struggle, led by the Communist Party of Peru, against one of the most 
vicious obviators of "human rights" on the planet. 

It is no accident that this Cinderella of "human rights," wearing the 
tattered imprimatur of western hypocrisy, should show up at China's doorstep 
at precisely this time.  With his paymaster, US imperialism, assembling the 
largest naval force in the region since the Vietnam war, Mr Sane is part of 
that carefully orchestrated cacophonous herd of lachrymose hyenas--craven, 
grovelling, spineless and base, waiting to be trotted out as needed, 
prattling on endlessly about "human dignity" and "democracy" but, in unison, 
falling silent before the heroic cries emanating from imperialism's dungeons.


Those who engage in a real life and death struggle for the "human rights" of 
85% of the world's humanity, those who, like our comrades in Peru, are  
struggling against a voracious imperialism, can expect no help from Mr Sane 
and his high-falutin' colleagues.  In the "community of nations" (meaning, 
in real life, inter-imperialist rivals), "human rights" does not spring full 
blown as a platonic, pre-existing idea; rather, it is one carefully nurtured 
and developed, with the aid of articulate hirelings like Mr Sane, to be 
wielded or sheathed depending on the needs of the moment.  As the crisis 
sharpens, perhaps Mr Sane and Amnesty International will see their stock 
rise once again.

                                  Louis Godena 



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