…is beginning to crumble.
There is a vital role for groups like HRW and Amnesty to play in the world. Properly understood, their mission is to use their moral authority to shame and condemn tyranny and those who wish to make the world a hospitable place for tyrants and terrorists. But moral authority requires moral clarity. HRW and Amnesty have been overtaken by activists who use their position to wage easy campaigns against open societies instead of taking on the more difficult, thankless, and sometimes dangerous struggle against closed ones.
Kind of like the global warming scam. Amnesty International should be ashamed, but it’s apparently incapable of it.
Amnesty International was the same way when I was in college in the late 80’s. Useful idiots. They claimed to be for human rights everywhere, but oddly enough, they only ever seemed to demonstrate against the United States, and maybe Israel. Effectively, they were tools for totalitarianism.