Amnesty International sets up Twitter account mocking Dick Cheney

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Eric W. Dolan

The human rights organization Amnesty International has set up a Twitter account named "Cheney's Conscience" that mocks the former vice president and links to a petition calling on U.S. Attorney General Holder to open a torture investigation.

"Is it Friday yet?! Who knew whitewashing #torture would be this hard?" a tweet from August 23 said.

"Look, of course waterboarding isn’t #torture. The lawyers I instructed to tell me it wasn’t torture said so!" said another from August 19.

The bio of the Twitter page admits that the account is intended as a parody, but adds "there's nothing funny about war crimes." It also says Cheney's new memoir, In My Time, should be shelved in the "True Crime" section of bookstores.

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/25/amnesty-international-sets-up-twitter-account-mocking-dick-cheney/

[sasha031]

1. here is the link

https://twitter.com/#!/fakecheney

[EFerrari]

6. We should set up accounts for his brain and heart

and have at it. :evilgrin:

[malaise]

2. Glen Greenwald is eating him alive

on M$NBComcast right now

[Luminous Animal]

3. Here a link to Greenwald's article today on war criminal Cheney

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/25/cheney/index.html (emphasis mine in quote below)

"Less than three years ago, Dick Cheney was presiding over policies that left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead from a war of aggression, constructed a worldwide torture regime, and spied on thousands of Americans without the warrants required by law, all of which resulted in his leaving office as one of the most reviled political figures in decades. But thanks to the decision to block all legal investigations into his chronic criminality, those matters have been relegated to mere pedestrian partisan disputes, and Cheney is thus now preparing to be feted -- and further enriched -- as a Wise and Serious Statesman with the release of his memoirs this week: one in which he proudly boasts (yet again) of the very crimes for which he was immunized. As he embarks on his massive publicity-generating media tour of interviews, Cheney faces no indictments or criminal juries, but rather reverent, rehabilitative tributes, illustrated by this, from Politico today..."

[malaise]

4. Thanks

:hi:

[EFerrari]

5. Thanks!