Illegally,
IOW, without the complicity of the authorities. Not comparable, IMO.
Absolutely correct, Lynne. While this is going on in the UAE, we are
sending people to jail for abuse of prisoners in Iraq. While the
apologist keep pointing to all sorts of things saying "look here, the
same thing goes one here so it's okay," the thing they seem to fail to
realize that if there is some sort of slave trade in the US, it's
underground, it's illegal and neither George W. Bush, nor John Kerry
nor Dick Chaney, nor Jimmy Carter, nor George W. H. Bush, nor Bill
Clinton, nor Al Gore, etc. are involved it it. The perpetrators of
such slave trade in this country will eventually be caught and have to
answer to society for their crimes. I doubt very seriously if that will
happen in the UAE.
I would like to see the AERC take a public stand that it does not
support the WEC in the UAE and recommend to USAE that they withdraw the
US team. If the riders chose to go and ride as individuals that's their
decision, but as an organization we should expect a higher standard. As
a country we boycotted the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow because of the
Soviet's atrocities in Afghanistan. That was the right decision at that
time, boycotting the WEC would be the right decision now.
Truman
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Mahatma Gamdi
-- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for
lunch
Democracy is two
wolves and a
lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb
contesting
the vote!
--Benjamin Franklin
