If the US government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior US officials involved in the torture scandal. And if those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them. The apparent high-level architects of torture should think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera because they may find themselves under arrest as Augusto Pinochet famously did in London in 1998.
The French Riviera? What a bloody giveaway!
Conservative bloggers have been noting that Amnesty International has become little more than a branch of MoveOn.org and this announcement gives the game away. This pretty much proves it.
Calls to arrest American officials vacationing in the south of France? What do they think this is, the Kerry administration? This isn't going to happen. Rumsfeld will not be sunbathing in France. So the Belgian bounty hunter team under contract with Amnesty might as well pack up and go home. Or whatever it is that Belgians do when they aren't being a pain in the butt to America.
Because if they ever try to slap the cuffs on at a NASCAR race the guardians of the international community's legal standards are in for a world of hurt.
