Please, Get with the Message or Just Shut Up!

I'm sorry, but I cannot support Amnesty International or any of the other civil libertarian and/or human rights groups who don't focus all their attention on the abysmal record of the US regarding our system of judicial injustice. Time after time, buried in the blogosphere, I come across articles like this at Counterpunch, detailing the ridiculous abuses to which we subject our prison population. Of course anyone who decries our treatment of prisoners is immediately accused of coddling. The O'Reiley's of our world have set our level of discourse in this regard at the lowest possible level. Rather than engage in the necessary campaigns to expose systemic abuses and educate our citizenry to the colossal waste, corruption and racism of our prison system, we're content to complain about Chinese restrictions on the internet. Get real people. Amnesty International, whether consciously or not, serves as a front for the State Department in whitewashing our pervasive human rights abuses right here at home.