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- galael, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Has Digg been hot-linked to a bunch of right wing hate sites recently? What's with all of the "let them die" posts? Is the new American motto "We've got ours so screw you!" What happened to the America of truth and justice and liberty for all that I used to know?
- WordsnCollision, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Definitely a good cause, especially the "Mayhem" part... doncha just hate mayhem?
- Ghoztt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8It's not happening here. But it is happening now. --> Wish more people would realize that.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Because I am sure the people out committing torture, murder and mayhem give a crap what Amnesty International think.
- SilentJay74, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I love it. There is an AT&T DSL ad at the bottom of the real ads. Is that part of the anti-torture ads?
- Bernbach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5that one with the duct tape is awesome so simple
that makes the best kinds of ads - xman00, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5And even more telling is the fact that this parent post is getting dugg down even now. To the person who is about to digg me down, do you truly feel indifferent when innocent people suffer, or are you just filled with impotent rage because you're watching your conservative world view implode all around you? I would really like know. Why don't you post a comment explaining why you feel the need to bury a post that expressses concern over the suffering of innocents. I think many of us would like to know how you got to the place you are, if for no other reason than to make sure we never sink to your level of existence.
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3And be happy we are here and not there.
- wassim2k, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It would be nice if American citizens were that passionate about something (besides American Idol).
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30100
This is too funny. - spaceninja, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4We have to feel sorry for these people.... eh I don't, I wish we would get out of any country that we are in. When we do go to help some country they just shoot at us. Let them all die without our help and see how attitudes change.
- alexkorova, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's not liberty and justice, that's death.
- iJessicaRabbit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3They bring awareness to people who might not have previously been aware of the negative activities happening around the world... that's a pretty important thing. Baby steps to a better future are better than nothing.
- shinedout, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I work at an ad agency in New York. This is some seriously well thought out guerrilla techniques. What won't surprise you is that we usually can't do this type of thing in America. We try! But clients always think it will be too crazy for American people. Go figure.
- exomni, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I actually love every single one of these ads.
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What can they do if they wanted to? It would be seen as intering in the affairs of another country which is always viewed as evil. Plus let's face it. No nation ever takes action against another just becasue it's the "right" thing to do. There is always something in it for the one doing the saving.
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I vote cheeseburgers!
- Elky25, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1very witty and clever way to bring attention to important issues.
- alexkorova, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I can't see them, I use adblock :(
- Mentosan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You don't have to feel sorry . This add campaign it's only a reminder of the problems around the globe and to make people more willing to do something or at least condemn these abuses. U.S policy is not targeted in any way....or maybe the death penalty is. good day!
P.S. you don't need to act like we ( U.S) are the victims..we are OK. - i4detail, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://campokutta.com/
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1These are great from a marketing standpoint. It gets the messages across in an intriguing way that will make people stop to see what's being said. I may not agree with all of them, like the capital punishment ones since I think people need to be afraid of the acts they commit to have a safe society, but as a graphic designer I can respect their work.
- 711groove, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Oh, the fact that every few years another one of them murders a bandmate and eats him and/or makes a necklace from his bone fragments?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1AI didn't 'come out in favor of Hezbollah', it condemned both Hezbollah and Israel. You might remember (but probably not) that most of the victims in that war were Lebanese and that both sides targeted civilians (although a much larger proportion of the Lebanese victims were non-combattants than the Israelis. On the Israeli side the majority of the victims were soldiers.). Both sides were acting like savages and both sides were condemned. Simple really.
Human Rights Watch recently condemned the Israeli indiscriminate violence too: "In its harshest condemnation of Israel since the Second Lebanon War, Human Rights Watch charged that most of the Lebanese civilian casualties came from indiscriminate Israeli air strikes, according to a report to released Thursday.
Presenting the group's findings at a news conference, Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said there were only rare cases of Hezbollah operating in civilian villages.
"To the contrary, once the war started, most Hezbollah military officials and even many political officials left the villages," he said. And indeed what we found is that most Hezbollah military activity was conducted from prepared positions outside Lebanese villages in the hills and valleys around." (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=Human+Rights+Watch&itemNo=901620) - IADTatami, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It's not enough to merely be happy that we are here. We must also take measures to ensure that here never becomes anything like there. This requires becoming most unhappy any time you see anything that looks like the ugliness you think can only happen "there".
If you tolerate free speech zones now, you may find yourself tolerating worse later.
If you tolerate the torture of non-citizens now, you may find yourself tolerating the torture of your own countrymen later. Paranoid? We tortured American citizens who dared to blow the whistle on the corruption they witnessed in Iraq not too long ago.
The slippery slope is real. - norman619, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You also have to make sure you aren't so PC that you let the fox into the hen house. I'm all for treating my fellow man with the same dignity and respect I expect for myself but don't forget that sometimes we have to do things we find distasteful to protect and save the lives of the innocent. If we have a person in custody with information which would save the lives of many, possibly even my own loved ones, I feel we need to do EVERYTHING we can to get that information. To sit by and value this person's comfort and well being more than the lives of the many innocent people who may die is insanity and stupidity. If we are wrong then oh well. How many innocent people are convicted of crimes they didn't commit? It is an imperfect world we live in. My friend the world is not black and white. It is infinite shades of grey. When you behave like an animal you should be treated as such.
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Please tell me what this "awareness" will do to improve things. Do you honestly think protesting, complaining, and/or depicting how a country mistreats its people will change things? It will not. Things inside a country will change only when the people in that country want them to change AND are willing to act to make things change. You can browbeat these countries all you like it will not change a thing. Instead of worrying about what's going on in someone else's home why not focus on your own problems? The only way we will change another country is by force. Even then it's iffy. When the US does this the US gets demonized. When the US does nothing it is demonized. It's pretty sad. It is pretty naive to think AI can accomplish anything even if they weren't as messed up as they really are.
- 1337Einstein, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1When will this madness end?
...madness? [sorry, had to] - Baroja1898, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Not too many have caught your sarcasm.
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2No *****!
http://sigcarlfred.blogspot.com/2005/05/truth-about-amnesty-international-lies.html
FTA:
"The Truth About Amnesty International: The Lies And The Whole Truth Today, Amnesty International (predictably) slammed the US and Israel in a report on the state of global human rights. Notwithstanding the upside down nature of the report- somehow democratic states are portrayed as the worst offenders, with the mainstream media dutifully and gleefully playing along as the most egregious human rights violators barely are worthy of mention.
The media, in their response to the AI report are devoting millions of words excoriating the US, Israel and other democratic states. What the media and AI will not tell you is why there is an imbalance in the amount of words expended on the US, Israel and other states in the AI report. The fact of the matter is, outside of democratic states, AI is severely hampered in their information gathering. That's right- the worst offenders do not allow access to their countries. There is a dearth of information. In other words, AI is aware they don't know. AI can't be bothered to tell you that reality. If they did, their credibility as the informed source of human rights information would be compromised. "
They truly are pussies. - Chip53, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Tell it to the terrorists, I'm sure they'll be impressed.
- norman619, on 10/10/2007, -3/+3http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525974885&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
A more accurate view of this organization. - picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0agreed!!
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I'm glad I finally found a voice of reason here. Amnesty International is a ***** joke. They only go after certain groups, and they do it with disproportionate fervor.
- Lister169, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2"Every morning I get up, I thank God for drugs, murder, and perversion, because without them...we'd all be out of a job."
- Liam76, on 10/10/2007, -11/+11What no adds about rockets being launched daily from civilian areas and children used to pick up the launchers?
Oh it is amnesty international, it is ok to do that to jews. - Baroja1898, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0That wasn't a war. That was a slaughter.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It will, it has, it does. Support by Amnesty International has helped people inside certain countries to act to change things. On the other hand the (threat of) the use of force by the US has frequently strenghtened the hand of hardliners in Iran and many other countries.
- Baroja1898, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Well, Amnesty Int'l gets results, at least sometimes. Dictators that don't care what their people think of them still get mighty nervous when they get tons of mail from concerned people all over the world. I used to write for Amnesty and they would send us follow ups. Simply writing letters actually saved a lot of people from torture.
- barkingmoonbat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I used to donate to Amnesty, but then last summer they came out on the side of Hezbollah during the Hezbollah-Israel war. I decided there and then that I wasn't going to donate to an organisation which had become politicised, in such a blatantly stupid way.
- BornLegend, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Do I need to point out that the poster on nr.6 is in french not spanish? =P
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1We tried to give liberty and justice to people. It didn't work. See: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.
- KingBunny, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Oh good. Now people will be slightly more aware of bad things happening in other countries which our governments continue to ignore.
I'm totally voting for puppet B instead of puppet A now!!!
We're saved! :| - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1It's funny how most of them are from Europe.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0What the hell. I was expecting some Ron Paul campaign ads.
- fictionalOne, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0What ad? (I love adblock!!)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2Pussies.
- dukeeeey, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1025207215019783053
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -11/+3All those countries are getting ***** bombed. As an American, it’s our god-given right to torture, murder, and cause mayhem all over the world…......specially if they happen to be brown people!
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