Thursday, April 13, 2006
Condi Cozies Up To One Dictator To Criticize Another...There's our Secretary of State, shaking hands with the dictator of Equatorial Guinea before condemning the dictatorship currently running Iran.
Condi's own State Department put together a report on Equatorial Guinea's treatment of its citizens. It accuses the nation of some of the following beauties, among other things:
• abridgement of citizens' right to change their government
• security force torture, beating, and other physical abuse of prisoners and detainees
• harsh and life-threatening prison conditions
• impunity
• arbitrary arrest, detention, and incommunicado detention
• harassment, detention, and deportation of foreign residents
• judicial corruption and lack of due process
• restrictions on the right of privacy
• severe restrictions on freedom of speech and of the press
• restrictions on the rights of assembly, association, and movement
• government corruption
• restrictions on human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
• violence and discrimination against women
• trafficking in persons
• discrimination against ethnic minorities and HIV/AID victims
• restrictions on labor rights
• forced labor
• child labor
That's quite a rap sheet.
Now, compare it to Iran's report. Not a whole lot of space between them, eh?
So where exactly does Condi Rice get the moral authority to criticize Iran?
(Thanks to LiberalOasis...)
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