Amnesty International: Follow the Money

Roger Simon asks the question: How much are these guys being paid to spew this propaganda?

Those “cards at Amnesty International are it at it again with their Solzhenitsyn jokes.

William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty’s Washington-based branch, speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” defended the human rights group’s recent criticism of U.S. treatment of detainees at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado detention without access to lawyers or a judicial system or to their families,” Schulz said.

“And in some cases, at least, we know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.”

Outrageous comments which have been strongly criticised and denied.

Okay, here’s what I’d like to know. How much are these guys being paid to spew this propaganda? I mean what’s the salary of the excutive director of Amnesty International’s Washington Branch and the other key Amnesty executives? Shouldn’t such things be transparent in a pro bono organization like that? I just Googled the question and unfortunately ended up on Monster.com. Maybe someone more web savvy can come up with better information, because people who continue to use the rhetoric applied to Soviet mass murder to characterize US government activities in the War on Terror most probably are making a fair amount of money from it (assuming they’re not members of Islamic Jihad or Al Qaeda). Furthermore, it would be interesting to study Amnesty fund-raising patterns as they relate to increases and decreases in this kind of inflammatory and idiotic verbiage

Good question, Roger.

So, follow the money.