HUMAN RIGHTS BOTCH - AT 7:54 P.M. ET:  Human Rights Watch, one of the major "human rights" organizations, is increasingly being exposed as the crackpot organization it's become over the years.  (e.g.:  One of its Middle East "experts" was recently revealed as collecting Nazi paraphernalia.)   And other "human rights" groups are coming under scrutiny. 

"Human rights," of course, is a term that has, historically, been appropriated by pro-communist and pro-fascist elements to try to cloak their operations in respectability. 

Iranian freedom activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi alerts us to the latest "human rights" farce, as reported on the website of Azarmehr, another Iranian freedom activist.  Press TV, mentioned in the story, is owned by the Iranian regime.  Get this:

I just got home and while channel hopping tuned into Press TV. It was Andrew Gilligan's Forum, which tonight debated torture. The guests included the London Director of Human Rights Watch, Tom Porteous, and the executive director of Reprieve, Clare Algar.

How absurd, actually how disgusting! It is the anniversary of the massacre of Iranian political prisoners in 1988, and the television station where the program is aired from is funded by a junta that is holding show trials and forced confessions on its state TV.

Gilligan is presenting a program debating torture on a TV which is funded by a regime that gang rapes male and female detainees who have taken part in peaceful protests - and the likes of Andrew Gilligan, Tom Porteous and Clare Algar not once mention any human rights abuse in the country where their paymasters are ruling with an iron fist.

COMMENT:  Why should anyone be surprised?  This is the way the game is played.  So-called "human rights activists" appear on a television program funded by one of the most repressive regimes in the world, and just play along.  Then they go back to their offices, write something critical of the United States, and get interviewed by "journalists" eager to hear their views.  It's sickening, but groups like Human Rights Watch are influential, and influence young people. 

Don't expect these groups to be confronted by the mainstream media.  That's not in the script.

September 13, 2009