I find very interesting is the attitude of a vast majority of human rights activists and against the death penalty. If you notice, despite claiming to stand against the death sentences and against activities such as torture and detention in inhumane conditions, what they actually do, almost always, is to campaign for the recognition of ' innocence of the condemned.
In other words, do not say "Mumia Abu-Jamal should not be executed," but "Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent", which is why there are activists who have tried, in his time, to suspend the sentence of Timothy McVeigh to death. No one says that the prison at Guantanamo should be closed , but that the Guantanamo detainees should essere liberati (sottinteso, in quanto innocenti). In realtà la maggioranza dei cosiddetti attivisti per i diritti civili non riescono, forse condizionati da decenni di film americani in cui i poliziotti buoni pestano solo i colpevoli e i poliziotti cattivi solo gli innocenti, a considerare che la tortura e le condizioni inumane di prigionia non vadano applicate neanche ai colpevoli.
Il risultato di questo atteggiamento è, in senso lato, la scarsa credibilità della maggior parte delle campagne che i suddetti attivisti lanciano, specie in occidente, e nello specifico episodi come quello della storia d'amore fra Moazzam Begg e Amnesty International.
Moazzam Begg è un ragazzo di Birmingham that around 16 years in the early 90s, entered into a gang, and when the police arrested him - for benefit fraud, not for activities related to the gang - was found during a search of his room material "strange": a bulletproof vest, a night vision device, fundamentalist propaganda material. All that stuff, says in court the young Moazzam, is just there because he makes "collection". The judge believes.
When arrested, the young man has already been Begg (1993) in a training camp in Afghanistan (it in his book), though poor, he believed they wanted to train to be a volunteer, a Muslim version of Peace Corps, and once arrived there seemed bad manners to leave immediately, and then it was in Bosnia during the civil war - but in this case by mistake: he wanted to be a teacher and told him that there were in Bosnia Vacancies, he did not read the papers and did not know there was a civil war.
He also tried to reach Chechnya, still to be a teacher, or the gardener, and imagine his surprise when the Georgian border guards were sent back because of the war. The poor have begun to think that the misfortune pursued him.
Eventually insh'allah, has his dream, leaving Britain in mid-2001 with the family going to grow potatoes in Afghanistan. The poor must have been absolutely desperate when after a few months what has happened has happened, and in a panic decided to leave Kabul, coincidentally on the same street and in the same convoy they were traveling with Taliban forces fleeing the capital .
short, if you end up in Guantanamo Moazzam Begg has been for bad luck, a bit 'like when my great-grandfather, in Brooklyn, finished in just because the police (and racist italianofoba) found him with a baseball bat hand near a port with both knees broken, who had just convinced him to pay the entrance fee to the union. Evidence, at best, circumstantial, eppure...
Ma vabbe'. Il problema è che Moazzam Begg doveva, effettivamente, essere tirato fuori da Guantanamo perchè quella di Guantanamo è una prigione illegale, ma questo non significa che sia innocente - esattamente come Timothy McVeigh non doveva essere giustiziato sebbene fosse innegabilmente colpevole (e, per giunta, di destra). Invece Mo, il caro ragazzo, non ha fatto a tempo a ritornare in UK, libero come l'aria, che è diventato dalla sera alla mattina una ragazza pon-pon per le associazioni pacifiste e soprattutto per Amnesty International.
Ha fondato un'associazione, Cageprisoners, che si occupa dei diritti dei prigionieri (solo se sono jihadisti, ça va sans dire ) and organizes tours and conferences sponsored by Amnesty International. Amnesty International, will be the case of notice explicitly, is sponsoring the conference of a man who defines justice of the Taliban "austere" and the only way to "bring order to Afghanistan." Why Amnesty and its activists, who are, to use a term dear to Yossarian, Ur iel, Nicholas and many others, the phony of the first water, mica is not well defended the rights of the guilty, the ro live on a high moral stand and defend only the innocent. In the end, no different from the cops Bolzaneto: for both, the rights belong to those who deserve them, the innocents - just change the definition of who is innocent.
Then it happens that a head of Amnesty, one who has studied the problems of religious fundamentalism for thirty years and is familiar with Amnesty precisely because the human rights violations perpetrated by theocratic regimes, in Afghanistan, Iran or Alabama, have the courage to send a letter to the directors of the association, asking whether it is a good idea to associate the name of Amnesty that of Moazzam Begg - the world's most famous English supporter of the Taliban, "as he called himself on occasion - not for Islamophobia, but why an organization like Amnesty International do not buy sponsored by what is in effect ultra-conservative ideology and opposing the very concept of universal human rights.
The result, as was obvious, is that a few hours after news was leaked to newspapers , the head of Amnesty has been suspended from his post and Amnesty has been careful to stress that the war continues to Germanic
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