How do we Fight the Saddams? 

How do we Fight the Saddams?

In a column last winter, about the time of the US invasion of Iraq, Richard Cohen chided those who were protesting this action, asking where were the protests against Saddam for all those years? It was a silly question because of the way he asked it, but it did, very obliquely, bring up an important topic. What can citizens of more or less "free" countries, such as the United States and Great Britian, do to combat regimes like that of Saddam Hussein. Once in awhile a nation, such as South Africa in the eighties, will somehow rise to such a level of public consciousness that its policies become the subject of worldwide condemnation and public protest. That is rare, though, and the kind of brutality practiced by Saddam and his thugs is not rare. It happens every day, still, in countries throughout the world.

So, how do you find out about the behavior of these nations, and what can you do to combat it? It so happens that there is an organization that has, for more than forty years, been dedicated to exposing and combatting the horrors that nations perpetrate upon their own people. You've heard of it. Now please check it out. Just click here, on Amnesty International.