From: Luis Quispe <lquispe-AT-blythe.org>
Subject: Re: Pierre Sane, AI's House Negro Kneels before Imperialism
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 22:31:37 -0500 (EST)


>Comrade Louis,
 Your analogy of the not casual "coincidence" of the diplomatic offensive
of Yankee imperialism against the Chinesse goes hand-in-hand with
the "human rights" campaign of "Ammesty International," is right on
target. "AI on Behalf of US imperialism" fits them like a glove.

In struggle,
Luis.
 
> 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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