Amnesty International DV Campaign Criminalizes the “Innocent on a Huge Scale”
Steven Baskerville sounds off about Amnesty International and its stance on domestic violence…
“In recent years Amnesty has become a mouthpiece for the radical feminist agenda, to the point of pushing programs that violate human rights. Amnesty’s campaign against “domestic violence,” for example, is a prescription for criminalizing the innocent on a huge scale.
Even on its face, “domestic violence” is a matter not of human rights but of crime. No one suggests that ordinary theft or assault, when not perpetrated by government agents, are “human rights” violations. They are crimes for which the criminal justice system either provides or it does not. If not, the system is dysfunctional, but it has nothing to do with “human rights.”
But this is precisely what is wrong with the trumped-up hysteria over “domestic violence” (and most accusations are indeed trumped-up): It exists precisely to circumvent the legal safeguards and protections for the rights of the accused that make free countries free. Newfangled gender crimes like “domestic violence” exist to punish those who cannot be convicted with evidence.
Why can alleged assailants not be charged and tried according to standard laws against violent assault? Because domestic “violence” criminalizes almost anything, even if it is not violent or even physical.
In domestic violence cases there is seldom a trial, almost never a jury, and no one is ever acquitted. One study published in Criminology and Public Policy found that everyone arrested for domestic violence receives some punishment. Special “domestic violence courts” now exist for the express purpose of processing more convictions.
It is based on this presumption of guilt that Amnesty can claim that in the US “a woman is battered every 15 seconds.” Amnesty provides no documentation for this preposterous figure, because none exists. We also learn that “Amnesty International considers domestic violence a form of torture,” demonstrating an Orwellian willingness to redefine words and cheapening their own campaign against real torture….”
Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/baskerville/baskerville13.1.html
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