THIS IS MUST READ FOR EVERYBODY: America`s Deplorable Human Rights Record

Far and away, America's human rights record
is the world's worst. No other nation
approaches its unprincipled history. Earlier
crimes against humanity were largely internal
and regional.

Twentieth century ones went global. New
millennium ones elevated atrocities and other
human rights abuses to an unprecedented
level. It keeps rising. America is guilty of
virtually every crime imaginable and then
some.
Former dovish US diplomat, advisor, and
father of Soviet containment George Kennan
explained what reflects America's post-WW II
foreign and domestic policy. His February
1948 "Memo PPS23" said:
"(W)e have 50% of the world's wealth but
only 6.3% of its population. (It makes us) the
object of envy and resentment. Our real task
in the coming period is to devise a pattern of
relationships (to let us) maintain this position
of disparity without positive detriment to our
national society."
"To do so we will have to dispense with all
sentimentality and daydreaming; and our
attention will have to be concentrated
everywhere on our immediate national
objectives. We need not deceive ourselves
that we can afford today the luxury of
altruism and world benefaction...."
"We should dispense with the aspiration to
'be liked' or to be regarded as the repository
of a high-minded international altruism."
"We should (stop talking about) unreal
objectives such as human rights, the raising
of the living standards, and democratization."
"The day is not far off when we are going to
have to deal in straight power concepts. The
less we are hampered by idealistic slogans
(ideas and practices), the better."
Ravaging one nation after another followed.
America today wages multiple direct and
proxy wars. US military bases infest the
world. CIA elements operate everywhere. US
special forces perform various military
related services globally. Wherever they show
up, they're killers, not protectors.
Domestically, America is more battleground
than homeland. FBI, CIA, NSA, FEMA,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
Border Patrol, and other federal agencies
work jointly with state and local authorities
against the interests of most US residents.
Anyone can be arrested, charged,
prosecuted, and imprisoned for any reason
or none at all. By presidential diktat, any US
citizen at home or abroad can be murdered.
Others can be arrested and detained
indefinitely uncharged in military prisons.
Innocence is no defense. State terrorism is
policy at home and abroad. That's how police
states operate.
Freedom, human rights, and other
democratic values are non-starters.
Supporting what's right is hazardous.
Challenging Washington's right to dominate
globally risks persecution or death. America
is unfit and unsafe to live in.
For the past 13 years, China's State Council
Information Office published comprehensive
reports on US human rights. Its most recent
is titled "The Human Rights Record of the
United States in 2011."
It said America's State Department publishes
annual human rights reports for over 190
countries. It turns a blind eye to its own
appalling record. China explains what
Washington and supportive media suppress.
Its latest May 2012 report reveals America's
"true human rights situation….and urges the
United States to confront its own actions." Six
topics are covered:
(1) life, property and personal security;
(2) civil and political rights;
(3) economic, social and cultural rights;
(4) racial discrimination;
(5) women's and children's rights; and
(6) human rights violations abroad.
China's report reveals "a small yet illustrative
fraction of the United States' dismal record
on its own human rights situation."
America's "tarnished human rights record
has left it in no state - whether on a moral,
political or legal basis - to act as the world's
human rights justice, to place itself above
other countries and release the Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices year after
year (that) accuse and blame other
countries."
At the same time, it absolves itself through
silence, duplicity, and/or bald-faced lies.
According to the State Department:
"The protection of fundamental human rights
was a foundation stone in the establishment
of the United States over 200 years ago."
"Since then, a central goal of U.S. foreign
policy has been the promotion of respect for
human rights, as embodied in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights."
"The United States understands that the
existence of human rights helps secure the
peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of
law, combat crime and corruption,
strengthen democracies, and prevent
humanitarian crises."
China's report advised Washington to clean
up its own act at home, stop interfering in
the internal affairs of other countries, and
"cease using double standards on human
rights" to advance its own imperial agenda.
Beijing accused Washington of "severe"
human and civil rights violations. At the same
time, it claims Americans live in the "land of
the free."
Why then were around 1,000 peaceful
Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested in the
early weeks of their campaign? Police
brutality was brutal and unconscionable. It
continues to reflect despotism, not
democracy.
America furthers "international disorder." It
tramples on the rights of global citizens and
its own. It operates the world's largest
domestic gulag. It's also one of the most
repressive.
Press freedom is a figure of speech.
Dominant media sources produce
propaganda and other forms of managed
news and information. Truth is a scarce
commodity. Constitutional freedoms are
denied.
Money power runs America. Predatory
capitalism benefits at the expense of most
others. Congress is infested with millionaires.
Complicit with corporate crooks, they harm
ordinary people and wage war on humanity.
America's 1% benefits at the expense of
most others. Social America is eroding en
route to disappearing altogether. Resisters
face harsh crackdowns.
Poverty is at record levels. So is
homelessness, hunger, and overall
deprivation. Racism is institutionalized. Basic
needs go unmet. Praying to the wrong God is
called terrorism. Numerous other human
rights abuses reveal a nation unfit to live in.
America's human rights record is appalling.
Political prisoners fill its gulag. Dissent is
criminalized. Police state laws target resisters.
Torture is official policy. So is permanent war
on the world.
Peace, stability and security are four-letter
words. Elections are farcical. Duopoly power
controls them. Ordinary people have no say.
State Department charges against other
nations are mostly uncorroborated. China
uses data from the US Justice Department
(DOJ), FBI, other US agencies, state ones, think
tanks, as well as domestic and international
media.
They reveal a far different America than
Washington or scoundrel media reflect. Dark
truths are exposed to the light of day. They're
in plain sight for anyone to see.
On October 19, RIA Novosti headlined "US
Takes Flak Over Human Rights Record,"
saying:
Russia's Foreign Ministry denounced
America's human rights record. It cited
"maltreatment of children, breach of privacy,
police brutality, secret jails and freedom of
expression issues."
Russia's lower house State Duma got the
report. On October 22, it'll hold hearings on
human rights. A "Duma source privy to the
document" told RIA Novosti that "hundreds
of thousands of children in the United States
are mistreated…."
In 2010 alone, around 1,600 deaths resulted.
Special attention was given to how adopted
Russian children are treated. Citing US NGOs,
Russia's Foreign Ministry said "about one
police officer in 100 has been involved in
criminal abuses, including segxwal harassment,
indecent behavior or rape."
America has the largest domestic gulag.
Numerous secret prisons operate abroad.
Internal spying is out-of-control. Privacy is
routinely violated.
Last December, another Russian report
criticized America's human rights record. On
December 28, Russia Today (rt.com)
headlined "US violating human rights at
home and abroad: Russian report," saying:
Russia's Foreign Ministry discussed
numerous US domestic and foreign human
rights abuses. On the pretext of fighting
terrorism alone, fundamental rights are
denied.
"The situation in the United States….is far
from the ideals proclaimed in Washington,"
the report said. "The incumbent
administration continues to apply most of
the methods of controlling society and
interfering in the private lives of the
American people that were adopted….under
George Bush on the pretext of combating
terror."
Russia also condemned "the exterritorial
application of US legislation (that) seriously
harms Russian-US relations."
"It leads to violations of the basic rights and
freedoms of Russians, including arbitrary
arrests and abductions from third countries,
cruel treatment, criminal prosecution on the
basis of evidence given by false agents and
doubtful evidence."
Washington-led NATO was accused of
appalling human rights abuses. Civilian
casualties it's responsible for "provide a
portrait of" military recklessness and
lawlessness.
Crimes of war and against humanity define
its operations. Eyewitnesses provide
damning evidence.
Democracy at home is hypocrisy, not real. It
exists in name only. Fundamental freedoms
are absent or endangered. Speaking truth to
power is hazardous.
The state of America at home and abroad is
appalling. Indisputable evidence reveals a
record reflecting tyranny. Conditions aren't
improving.
They're worsening en route to
institutionalizing total police state control. It's
fast approaching. No one is safe anymore for
good reason. Humanity is at risk.
America's agenda reflects unchallenged
dominance no matter the cost. Truth is the
most dangerous disinfectant. Suppressing it
is policy. Propaganda wars precede hot ones.
Human rights and civil liberties are denied for
our own good.
Patriotism means going along or else.
Humanity may not survive unless policies this
out-of-control are stopped. Awareness
enough to do it is sorely lacking. Hopefully
something will change before it's too late.

Posted: at 13-11-2012 08:53 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming

I will come back to finish reading too long

Posted: at 14-11-2012 07:11 AM (11 years ago) | Hero

 

Posted: at 14-11-2012 08:28 AM (11 years ago) | Grande Master

Russian n China to accuse U.S of human right's violations dey should go to hell
n live U.S alone.........i mean watin dey kn? nonsense

Posted: at 14-11-2012 01:56 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming