Little Hawk, the story you mentioned about Amnesty International back in the first Gulf War was an admitted low point for an organization I have supported for years. However,the ground level work-people sending letters or emails from local groups all over the world is something that continues to be the bread and butter of Amnesty INternational, and in my opinion should not be merely dismissed because of that unfortunate incident. Years ago, when I was very active with AI, word came to our local group that a prisoner of conscience in Ukraine that we had been working hard on his release, had in fact been released, and when a few months went by and we had a hand written letter from him, written in Ukranian which we had to translate, it was one of the joyous days in my life. Please just remember stories such as mine when you say you don't trust AI-who else is doing anything similar?