Wow.
I was just linked to this, and I couldn't stop reading it once I started.
Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing as "the world judge of human rights" again. As in previous years, the reports are full of accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China, but turn a blind eye to, or dodge and even cover up rampant human rights abuses on its own territory. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009 is prepared to help people around the world understand the real situation of human rights in the United States.
The report is extremely long, but well worth reading. It's full of facts that most of us living in the USA do actually know, or have been pulled from public records. To see everything all lined up like this, though, is incredibly eye opening.
I wonder if our government will even address this report, or if they'll ignore it simply because it came from China. Yes, other countries have plenty of violations of human rights, including China. But we certainly have plenty of our own violations, and we seem to have fallen into this habit of just accepting them as a fact of life.
Hey, USA? We totally deserved this. Pot? Meet kettle.
Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing as "the world judge of human rights" again. As in previous years, the reports are full of accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China, but turn a blind eye to, or dodge and even cover up rampant human rights abuses on its own territory. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009 is prepared to help people around the world understand the real situation of human rights in the United States.
The report is extremely long, but well worth reading. It's full of facts that most of us living in the USA do actually know, or have been pulled from public records. To see everything all lined up like this, though, is incredibly eye opening.
I wonder if our government will even address this report, or if they'll ignore it simply because it came from China. Yes, other countries have plenty of violations of human rights, including China. But we certainly have plenty of our own violations, and we seem to have fallen into this habit of just accepting them as a fact of life.
Hey, USA? We totally deserved this. Pot? Meet kettle.