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China Tells US to Quit as Human Rights Judge
BEIJING - The United States is beset by violence, racism and torture and has no authority to condemn other governments' human rights problems, China said on Sunday, countering U.S. criticism of Beijing's crackdown.
Pro-democracy protesters carry portraits of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei urging for his release before walking to a China's liaision office in Hong Kong April 10, 2011. Chinese characters on a placard reads ''Release pro-democracy protesters. To build a democratic China''. (Reuters/Bobby Yip) The row between Beijing and Washington over human rights has intensified since China's ruling Communist Party extended its clampdown on dissidents and rights activists, a move which has sparked an outcry from Washington and other Western governments.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is the most prominent of the activists to be detained by police or held in secretive custody in the latest crackdown.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday she was "deeply concerned" about it, and cited "negative trends" including Ai's detention.
A U.S. State Department report on global human rights released on Friday said Beijing had stepped up restrictions on lawyers, activists, bloggers and journalists, and tightened controls on civil society.
It has also increased its efforts to control the press, Internet and Internet access, the report said.
But China has shown no sign of bowing to foreign pressure.
Its Foreign Ministry on Saturday dismissed the U.S. report as meddling, and its own annual report about U.S. human rights stressed Beijing's dismissive view.
"Stop the domineering behavior of exploiting human rights to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries," it said, according to excerpts published by the official Xinhua news agency.
"The United States ignores its own severe human rights problems, ardently promoting its so-called 'human rights diplomacy', treating human rights as a political tool to vilify other countries and to advance its own strategic interests," said a passage from the Chinese report
Produced by the State Council Information Office, the government's public relations arm, the report dwelled on what it said were severe deprivations and threats facing many Americans, as well as Washington's invasion of Iraq.
It also cited the United States' refusal to ratify a number of international human rights pacts, and listed poverty, hunger and homelessness as stains on the country's rights record.
"The United States is the world's worst country for violent crimes," said the report. "Citizens' lives, property and personal safety do not receive the protection they should."
"Racial discrimination is deeply rooted in the United States, permeating every aspect of social life," it said.
Criticism of China's human rights problems do not come just from foreign governments and groups.
Chinese rights lawyers and advocates have also been dismayed by a recent burst of arrests, detentions and heavy sentences against dissidents and activists.
On Sunday, hundreds of Chinese police moved to prevent a planned outdoor service by a church in Beijing that had been evicted from its former premises.
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Show AllOr they'll what? Does the U.S. need China more than China needs the U.S.? I don't know, but personally like I having anyone speak out against human rights violations even if it's the highly hypocritical U.S. government. But where will "the invisible hand of the market" end up being on this issue?
Fine post. Our nation's take on human rights is colored by our alliances and our financial interests. Speaking out against violators of human rights is not a subject that should be tinged by self interest, or by hypocrites who ignore our own numerous violations.
China owns most of the US debt. If they wanted to they could call it all in and bankrupt the USA tomorrow. It's not likely to happen since there is an incestuous relationship going on there for one and the military consequences would be earth shattering for two.
While China today is far worse domestically than the USA for repression and human-rights violations, the USA is moving rapidly in their direction. The USA has executions carried out disproportionately on the poor, some level of domestic torture and incarceration without trial, poverty, healthcare only if you can afford it, discrimination and an utterly corrupt administration bought and operated by the MIC, Banks&Wallstreet, large corporations and all aided by the government/Corporate fed sycophantic MSM propaganda. And exceptionalism.
Internationally it could be said that the USA's main export is death as in the millions killed by meddling in foreign countries or starting wars.
There is no moral high ground on this one.
In re China's U.S. debt holdings:
It is important to remember that these "debts" are all in "lighter-than-air" electronic or paper currency. Whereas much of the actual gold and resources that used to back up such currencies reside within the U.S..
It is also relevant that the U.S has an unequaled and even unrivaled war-machine at its disposal, its Navy provides "safety" not just in its own waters but for the Global Ocean, for example.
Other relevant points can be made concerning the real potential of internal U.S. trade and commerce to sustain a robust economy and the existence and potential of foreign trade to do the same within the confines of the Americas as a whole.
In other words, the U.S Empire could tell China -and the Emirs, and the Japanese, representing the majority of the OTHER two-thirds of the Debt- to go piss up a rope tomorrow, rebuild the dollar as a purely domestic or Americas-based currency the day after, and glow in the warmth of a purely domestic and Americas-based production and trade economy next year if the Imperialists so wished.
They don't because they are not PURE Imperialists, but rather Imperialist-Corporatists ( the Red Party and Pentagon type) or Corporatist-Imperialists (the Blue Party and Financier type) who are perfectly happy to have the Army decked out in uniforms made in Chinese political prison sweatshops, or profit from "fluctuations" in the value of the Yen while U.S. workers apply for social assistance.
None of this puts the U.S. Empire at the mercy of its current creditors.
Rather the U.S. Citizen is at the mercy of the Friedmanite and Reaganite loons who rule them at home.
-matti.
One word: oil.
As far as human rights China runs one of the most severe Gulags in human history. But just because its track record on human rights sucks, it still makes a good point about US hypocrisy. For one example, take a look at this compelling op-ed in the NY Times of a man wrongfully and knowingly sentenced to die on death row with our esteemed Supreme Court in favor of the state and its willful misrepresentation of evidence to convict an innocent man:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/opinion/10thompson.html?ref=opinion
For the true high ground in lecturing on the human rights record of others we must turn to Gandhi:
During 1930′s, a young boy had become obsessed with eating sugar. His mother was very upset with this. But no matter how much she scolded him and tried to break his habit, he continued to satisfy his sweet tooth. Totally frustrated, she decided to take her son to see his idol – Mahatma Gandhi; perhaps her son would listen to him.
She walked miles, for hours under scorching sun to finally reach Gandhi’s ashram. There, she shared with Gandhi her predicament. -
“Bapu, my son eats too much sugar. It is not good for his health. Would you please advise him to stop eating it?”
Gandhi listened to the woman carefully, thought for a while and replied,
“Please come back after two weeks. I will talk to your son.”
The woman looked perplexed and wondered why had he not asked the boy to stop eating sugar right away. She took the boy by the hand and went home.
Two weeks later they revisited Gandhi. Gandhi looked directly at the boy and said,
“Boy, you should stop eating sugar. It is not good for your health.”
The boy nodded and promised he would not continue this habit any longer. The boy’s mother was puzzled. She turned to Gandhi and asked,
“Bapu, Why didn’t you tell him that two weeks ago when I brought him here to see you?”
Gandhi smiled,
“Mother, two weeks ago I was eating a lot of sugar myself.”
Your story about Ghadhi is wonderful--thank you for this, and thank you for the link to yet one more instance of the corruption of justice in the U.S.
I shudder when I hear Obama and Clinton maunder on about morality, justice, human rights abuses, etc.-- their hypocrisy is so over-the-top.
" As far as human rights China runs one of the most severe Gulags in human history ..."
What is AmurKKKa running in Iraq - - Disneyworld?
From your name perhaps Iraqis don't count as humans? Stop quoting Gandhi with your dirty American mouth when your humanity is not overwhelmed by the simple and plain truth staring you in the face noted above. If Gandhi were alive today, he would go on hunger strike in front of the American embassy in New Delhi.
You judge me from my name? Really? And I'm not allowed to quote Gandhi as a guide for my belief that it takes one to know one. I used the term about China running "one of the most severe Gulags" and therefore I've dismissed Iraqis. How about Afghanis? How about Latin Americans crushed by the acolytes of Milton Friedman; you didn't mention them so does that mean they don't count in your book. How about the Tibetans, who have been destroyed by the Chinese, they don't count either. Can you exhaust the list of all the peoples of the world not touched by tyranny and injustice?
However, what does count for me is not only the tyranny of the state, whether the US, China, Libya, etc. but the tyranny of the individual, such as yourself, who can judge me by name and restrict my commentary unless it reflects your exact view of reality. Would I want you to lead us to the promised land when you sound just like the Queen of Hearts in Wonderland or Robespierre after the Revolution in France? I don't think so. I may not meet your expectations but i'm not stupid.
Yeah, about time China tells the United States to shut the f*ck up!
The U.S. has zero credibility in the human rights department and should put its own house in order before lecturing others.
I know that China sends a lot of dissidents to jail and the like, but that is not the point here: the point is the unbelievable hypocrisy of the United States and of the Obama administration.
As for China's human rights record, first of all, that is its business (it is an internal matter), and, secondly, if anyone may speak to it, that would be international human rights organizations, and not other states, especially not states that have such a shameful record as the United States.
I so agree!
Do you realise that you are implying a limitation of Citizen's right to Free Speech in the language of your post?
And no, the Communist Party of China's record of repression is NOT just an "internal matter"!
Humans are humans wherever they are. And humans have a right to speak about the human rights of humans whomever they are.
The evil Oligarchists of China win a point for pointing out that they evil Oigarchists of the U.S have just as much blood on their hands as the Chinese do. Yes.
But that does not mean that I may not speak about the sins of BOTH -far from it!
-matti.
Reply to matti's Apr 11 2011 - 4:00am post:
You are going too fast and, in your haste, you are not paying attention and giving a bit of thought to what another human being has said.
I spoke of institutions (the US government and state independent huiman rights organization), not human beings. There is nothing in my post that remotely suggests that individual human beings do not have a right to speak about the rights of human beings or the violation of said rights. However, there is definitely something in it about the arrogance and hypocrisy of certain institutions (the U.S. government). See the torture at Abu Ghraib, the Guantanamo concentration camp and the torture that still occurs there, the military tribunals, the torture and illicit detention of Private Manning, extraordinary rendition, the Diego Garcia detention site, the U.S. soldiers who kept body parts as trophies of the Afghanis they murdered for play, and, above all, the U.S. unprovoked invasion, occupation, and savaging of Iraq and Afghanistan that have left hundreds of thousands human beings dead, and so on and so forth. (For the record, the attacks of 9/11 were prepared in Europe and the United States, and 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabian, and the nanothermite found in the dust produced by the destruction of the WTC 1, 2, and 7 was not made in Afghanistan, but in Amerikkkanistan.)
Secondly, I did countenance critique of state practices by institutions that are not state actors (for example, independent human rights organizations).
Thirdly, what China does within its borders is, of course, an internal matter, if, that is, one upholds the right of the self-determination of sovereign states. Similarly, what Gaddafi does within the borders of his own country is an internal matter, although his actions are criminal by my moral standards. The same goes for Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast. One may regret, object to and be outraged by the behavior of other nations, but that in itself does not give one the right to interfere or meddle in their internal affairs.
Tell the people of Tibet about China's "internal matter".
Every non-Native American that is concerned about China/Tibet needs to go back to Europe or where ever. Tibet, Hawaii, Alaska - maybe none of them ever asked to be a part of another country. Besides, why stop at Tibet? Hong Kong and Macoa are part of China, also.
You seem aptly named and your posts invariable are not helpful or conducive to further conversation. Who the hell are you to tell people what they may or may not be concerned about or where they should reside.
A pity that you pour cold water on every thread in which you participate.
I find your assumtions about those people who support freedom and choice everywhere to be self serving smarmy and not conducive to open debate. Who the fuck are you to judge the intentions or knowledge of so many you have never met?
You support one of the worst hypocrites on this site,the aptly named Dizi, and sidetrack the real meaning of my post to your own ends.
The real vulgarity is in your political position.
Thumbs up to you. Several years ago, the comment section of Common Dreams was written by people with 'common dreams'. Seems the past year or so, the comment section has seen a lot of use by those filled with hate and the desire to cause conflict. Reason, logic and goodness have left the stage...........immaturity, rashness and crude language have entered...........
..And you are one of the very worst offenders. You and the absurd RBTL are as clever as a moss covered rock. All you two do here is spread dissention and divisveness and most here know it I suspect. You are treated as you deserve, as any troll would be.
Hint to the jackwagon RBTL...Ignore doesnt really mean respond to...imbecile.
isnt it a bit rich for YOU to call dizi a *hypocrite* ?
http://tinyurl.com/26jbdl2
No idea what that link is supposed to prove....Or where you find me hypocritical. But I guess one line and run away is your style,huh?
Seems doubledee is only concerned with being a hate-filled poster, never offering any positive solutions, only smart-assed remarks. I hope one day someone will love him/her and make his/her life better.
So, DD, explain to me the difference in - let me make it easy for you - "Alaska and Hawaii" and "Tibet". Are you a "Native American" or a child/descendent of some immigrants? Enquiring minds want to know. What is your perspective? An invader and occupier or an occupied invadee?
In China's view, Tibet was liberated from a ruling class that believed in slavery and allowing a few to control the politics and money of Tibet. Few people debate that there is much less poverty and better health-care in Tibet today as opposed to 60 years ago.
Please, pour some hot water and information in your posts. Give us some facts, please.
"In China's view, Tibet was liberated from a ruling class that believed in slavery and allowing a few to control the politics and money of Tibet. Few people debate that there is much less poverty and better health-care in Tibet today as opposed to 60 years ago."
Well sure. This is what China says. Just like America claims to liberate Iraq. What do the people of Tibet say? If the US says it is "liberating" Iraq, or wherever, do you believe the US? Why then do you believe China?
And many places in the world are richer and better off than they were 60 years ago. Including places with authoritarian rulers supported by the US.
"Please, pour some hot water and information in your posts. Give us some facts, please."
Why are any of the facts you ask for relevant? DD's personal background does not matter.
Good rfloh: I made my comment to point out that governments have excuses for doing what they do. Let me say again - I do not think China is any better or any worse than the US. In both places, plenty of food and opportunity. Tibet is in much better shape than Iraq. The Chinese do not have billion$$ invested in military and security there. I think it was March 28 when Tibet celebrated Serf's Emancipation Day, celebrated.
doubledee has insulted me on other threads, then never responds to explain why. When I read the 'tone' of his/her comments, I get the feeling that DD is a very sad, lonely, hate-filled person with nothing better to do than try and upset people who are here expressing their opinions and thoughts. I don't insult other posters, so I would like to understand more about those who do.
If you are for liberating Tibet, then why not for liberating Hawaii and Alaska? - that is my question. Any American that supports liberating Tibet needs to look into a mirror. If that person is not 100% Native American, then...........need I explain further?
You are a liar. I have ALWAYS explained why I think your posts ridiculous, inane and bigoted...always! Further you have insulted numerous people with your elitism and your assumptions about people you have never met. Also, I have already noted that one of my grandchildren is a Red Lakes Band Chippewa thus I have first hand knowledge of injustice and inequality.
You are nothing more, and certainly nothing less, than an instigator of separatism and I doubt seriously your supplied background, if only for the fact that you post at what would be ridiculously odd hours in China where you claim to be living. I think you a fraud and someone who seeks to gratify his/her own twisted ego by attempting to drive wedges between people.
I suspect you to be a lonely and friendless little person living above your mothers garage.
What's the old playground retort.....takes one to know one.
Why you want to attack me personally, I have not a clue.
I've been a reader and supporter of CD for many years and only in the past year or so have people like you showed-up here on this website, filled with hate, accusations and not the Common Dreams of some of us who believe in a better world and work to make it that way.
If you have explained your responses, then I know that we are intellectually different. I am a nobody, one person out of 7 billion that has made friends in many places. It is my goal in life to travel and meet common people in obscure places and to prove to them that not all Americans are like you and the majority of the American politicians and religious leaders. To be friendly and helpful in small ways. It is my way of trying to make the world a better place. I do not make false, un-informed accusations against those I do not know - I leave that to people who like to be violent, combative and start wars.
Peace to you and hopefully you can find peace with yourself and the universe you live in. I have peace in my life, peace in my heart, I have peace - it is a wonderful thing. Recently someone accused me of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, and it is true. I got tired of seeing the shit in this world and changed my perspective. My universe, my world is filled with beautiful people and when I meet someone who is having problems, I do what I can to help that person.
BTW, my mother does not have a garage. Help your grandchild if he/she suffers form injustice and inequality, just a suggestion.
"If you are for liberating Tibet, then why not for liberating Hawaii and Alaska? - that is my question. Any American that supports liberating Tibet needs to look into a mirror. If that person is not 100% Native American, then...........need I explain further?
"
I already explained why. Since you need me to explain again, I will shout:
HAVE YOU ASKED TIBETANS WHAT THEY WANT?
THAT IS THE KEY POINT. THAT IS THE ONLY POINT THAT MATTERS
Is there any liberation movement in Hawaii? Go ask Hawaiians what they want. Go ask Alaskans what they want. Even in Puerto Rico, which isn't a state, there is no strong independence movement: IIRC, it is along the lines of 1/3 want independence, 1/3 want to become a full state, and 1/3 don't really care and don't mind the current status quo.
That is the point that matters. Self-determination. The rest is just obfuscation and propaganda. It is why China's claims about "freeing" Tibet are as irrelevant as American claims about "freeing" Iraqis.
If Tibetans are "free", why is China, or you, so reluctant about letting Tibetans themselves determine their future?
My opinion is this: I cannot change government, I cannot affect government policies, therefore, I do not try to work for or against any government. Many Americans gripe about Tibet, while allowing atrocities on American soil and in many other places in the world. Few Iraqis wished to be liberated, ergo, IMHO, Americans should worry about Iraq, not Tibet.
IMHO, it is better to have a clean, landscaped lawn before telling your neighbor to get rid of the weedy lawn down the street.
Thus you are a part of the problem and no help in any solution. Exactly as I have been saying all along...troll.
You seem to know a lot about "trolls". Oh well....
I don't complain and I do not fight, but I work on a grassroots level.
What has your complaining and derogatory comments gotten you?
Are you willing to "take up arms"? I am not, I do not believe in war or violence.
I am living my dream to travel and be able to help those less fortunate than myself, just a very very small thing in the scope of the universe, but at least I am trying.
I do not condemn others, but offer suggestions, trying to use reason and logic. You, on the other hand, use name-calling, false assumptions and cry-baby tactics. It's your choice and you are free to practice it. I find your methods to be useless, so I use hands-on, practical methods.
I do not find all of your postings to be negative. I've seen a couple of your posts I really liked and agreed with. But, when you lower yourself to name-calling and false assumptions, it is hard for me to accept anything you write as legitimate, seems you only want to cause controversy - just my opinion.
I treat you exactly as I think you deserve to be treated, from the content of your posts. You admit to no activism, no organization, no usefulness to the struggle. You condemn any and all not "indigenous" thus driving a wedge when a sincere and dedicated person would be seeking to build bridges. You, as much as Boehner, Palin, Obama or Reid, are the face of the enemy. Ennui and apathy are your weapons but you remain pitifully unarmed in this venue.
You and RBTL are both frauds and, as I have positied previously, trolls, nothing more and certainly nothing less.
You say I condemn instead of building bridges - my comment "to look into the mirror" is so that people will see reality and begin to build bridges. Like the saying from the Bible: get the speck from your own eye before trying to remove the log from someone else's eye.
No activism, etc. Right, just like after Katrina when I spent a lot of my personal savings, housed volunteers, helped the less fortunate though not joining any 'organized or official' group. Like I've stated before, I worked grassroots and answered to no one, yet in September & October 2005 in the western part of Hancock County, Mississippi I was well-known as "the guy in the green pick-up who brings us what we really need". I lived 60 miles north of there, was hit fairly bad myself, no electricity for two months, but I was prepared. I've lived in Third World countries and knew how to survive comfortably without the modern luxuries of life.
So, tell me what you do, tell me how you know so much about "trolls". I've been reading and posting here on CD for many years. Seems none of the other long-time posters call me a troll.
If you could read, then you would read my comment that said I do not work with or against government. Example: if I'm on a lifeboat with 100 people, and some of them are injured and afraid, while others are squabbling over who should be the leader - I would aid and assist the injured and afraid - and leave our fate to the Ruler of the Universe, the Creator, God or whoever. If you were on the lifeboat, not injured or afraid, I would let you and the others decide my fate and have no problem with that. If you think I am the enemy and part of the problem, does that mean you would decide it would be best to throw me and those injured and afraid folks overboard? What do you propose to do to your enemies like me, Boehner, Palin, Obama and Reid?
Interesting that, living in China as you claimed, you were present in New Orleans as well. The lies always expose the liar eventually.
Your entire premise that individual actions win out is a fraud and a failure. Especially when coupled to the continuous insults and divisive comments that characterize your posts here.
You are, in the end, an ignorant and trollish little person and you share the obvious bigotry of your ally, RBTL.
Dude, your reading comprehension skills must be that of a five year old. Yes, in 2005 I lived in Mississippi, in 2006 I traveled to several states to visit old friends and aging relatives, in 2007 I worked in NY State, Louisiana and Mississippi. In 2008 I worked in Mississippi, NY, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Texas. In 2009 I worked in Missouri, then quit my job, went to Thailand, then Spain, then back to Mississippi. In 2010, I moved to China. I don't wish to call you stupid, but.....get real dude, are you so ignorant that you do not understand that a single man has many options? Oh, but wait, I am telling a lie, I am not single, I got married in 2010 in China, got a resident visa in China in 2010, and another this year, which, in case you are so stupid not to know, this is the year 2011.
Man, whatever your problem is with me, I do wish you would get over it, you offer no solutions, no examples of what you have done to make this world a better place. You are the very type of person that I seek to help, because you seem to be unhappy and helpless without hope.
Now, if you wish to respond again, then I will take every post you have written on this thread and prove to you that you are the one telling lies. You have made statements that cannot and are not true. If you want me to do it, I will. I have the time and I have the patience. Plus, I have the common sense and the common dream to do so.
Tell me, I have asked more than once, how do you know so much about trolls, when you are a new poster to CD and I have been here for years? You refuse to answer that question, why? Why? Why?
Also, copy and paste one "insult" I have posted, please.
Plus, New Orleans is in Louisiana, I worked in Mississippi which suffered much more damage from Katrina than Louisiana. My post clearly states I was 60 miles north of Hancock County, Mississippi. Look at a map, if you do not know geography. I know, I was there. Where were you and where did you get your information?
Dude, you need to learn to read at a basic elementary school level and maybe learn some geography and you need to understand that Katrina was over 5 years ago. WOW!!!! That's about all I can say, but I do know this, if you respond, you will make up false claims and be totally detached from anything I have written and posted. WOW!!!
Look at this and I would like to know your opinion: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-04/14/content_12325159.htm This article appeared a few days ago in the China Daily and I sent the link to some friends.
Also, if you would like, I can look for the link to what is called "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010", published in the China Daily on 11 April 2011. Since I subscribe to the China Daily and have the hard copy here - it was printed in the newspaper, two full pages of text - if there is anything you would like to know from that report I can relay that info to you. It is referenced, much like a research paper from a university.
And I want to remind you, I would like to have some examples of what you are doing to make this world a better place. I gave my Katrina example and have attempted to give my China example, but I can provide many more. I would like to know what efforts you are putting forth to make this world a better place. I may be able to learn some new methods.
DD, here is a direct quote from one of your post: Also, I have already noted that one of my grandchildren is a Red Lakes Band Chippewa thus I have first hand knowledge of injustice and inequality.
Now, in your intelligence, show me where you have posted this statement before. It is not on this thread, therefore you are ________ (fill in the blank).
DD, really nice explanation here, very detailed.
Unfortunately, the U.S. has lost any reputation it once had as a defender and promoter of liberty. The most stirring recent statement of this came from Jack Kennedy in 1961:
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
That represented a high water mark in this nation's devotion to freedom -- and its standing as a world moral power.
But the slide from the ideals we as a nation once supported can't justify China's oppression of its own people, or people anywhere. A substantial portion of the U.S. population still believes in -- and would, if they could, pay any price for -- the survival and success of liberty. The voice of those U.S. citizens must be heard. The Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton in particular, can't cut it.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb discussing what’s for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb willing to contest the majority decision”.
Good ol' Cold War propaganda; blacks, braceros, natives, etc., knew too little Liberty when JFK told those lies.
karlof1, of course you're exactly right. But somehow, in those days, people like me (a high school student) felt there was a moral dimension to the country that now seems lacking. The civil rights movement that followed Kennedy's death was to some extent inspired by those words, and helped to some extent the people you mention.
'U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday she was "deeply concerned"'
A right-wing extremist occupying a top US government position is "deeply concerned" about a geopolitical rival gaining any kind of ground in the race for global influence, prestige and thus "king of the hill" of plunder/oppression.
Notice how she exploits the people's concerns over human rights in the process!
Before we criticize anyone about human rights...
Just remember 4 words....'Abu Ghraib/ Guantanamo Bay'
People who live in glass houses shouldn't!
Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, ...
ah ho
God Damn Amerikkka.
Manzanar
What about IRAQ, IRAQ, IRAQ ...
1.5 million killed.
2-3 million wounded
4 million displaced, homeless.
Women in veils back in force.
All made in USA. Abu Ghraib makes the crime look like theater. Americans cannot understand the wanton murder and destruction of MILLIONS. Repeat, and open your ears and eyes - - MILLIONS.
This is not a mere "human rights violation". It is an UNSPEAKABLE CRIME AGAINST the HUMAN RACE that will have to be answered for now or sometime in the future. But accounted for surely it will one day to hold the American polity responsible for being quiescent onlookers on the monstrous acts of their leaders in their name. I am not even mentioning Vietnam and the Congo and Afganistan.