{"id":789,"date":"2007-02-21T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T12:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=789"},"modified":"2007-02-21T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T12:24:14","slug":"human-rights-groups-now-responsible-for-commiting-human-wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Groups Now Responsible For Commiting Human Wrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would love to start a group to sue the Human Rights groups for abusing people with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070221.wamnesty21\/BNStory\/National\/home\" target=\"_blank\">frivolous legal action<\/a>.  We could call it a Human Wrongs group.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Canada&#8217;s practice of turning detainees over to Afghan security forces, widely accused of torture and abuse, violates international law and the Charter of Rights, Amnesty International and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association say.<\/p>\n<p>The two groups will Wednesday file an application in Federal Court in Ottawa seeking judicial review of the military&#8217;s controversial policy. Named as respondents in the action are Defence Minister Gordon O&#8217;Connor, General Rick Hillier, Canada&#8217;s Chief of the Defence Staff, and Attorney-General Robert Nicholson.<\/p>\n<p>The legal action will be announced today by Alex Neve, Amnesty International Canada&#8217;s Secretary-General, and Shirley Heafey, a B.C. Civil Liberties Association board member.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What these groups don&#8217;t realize is that we are not at war with Afghanistan.  We are there now in rebuilding\/reconstructive role.  This means we work WITH their police forces and not against them.<\/p>\n<p>If there are issues with the Afghani police forces, that is a concern and should be addressed via the appropriate Internal Affairs (or similar equivalent) department within their police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would love to start a group to sue the Human Rights groups for abusing people with frivolous legal action. We could call it a Human Wrongs group. Canada&#8217;s practice of turning detainees over to Afghan security forces, widely accused of torture and abuse, violates international law and the Charter of Rights, Amnesty International and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,30,52,53,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armed-forces","category-crime-and-punishment","category-legal-cowchips","category-politics-federal","category-politics-international","category-sarcastic-bastard-in-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}