Human Rights - The American Double Standard
By EuroYank - Virginia Hoge On Friday, February 20, 2009 At 5:25 AM
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Human Rights Abuses
Committed Daily In the USA
Committed Daily In the USA
People often think that human rights violations only happen in other areas of the world, not in the United States. In reality, human rights abuses are committed daily in the U.S., even in the most routine aspects of people's lives.
Racial profiling, police brutality, prison conditions, and abuses in the "war on terror," are all human rights abuses. Racial profiling is so pervasive that it has impacted nearly 32 million people in the United States - about the population of Canada.
Our leaders in the United States, proudly present our country as being an advocate on the front lines for human rights ....
Lets Investigate This Double Standard which
is a cover for advancing special self-interests...
# The USA often has not ratified various international human rights related treaties
(and where it has, there have been many, many reservations).
# American diplomats were influential in drawing up the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet the USA has not always put its words into action.
See ...
*Human Rights and U.S. Policy
In the USA Health Care Is A Privilege
Not A Basic Human Right
(USA has 47 million uninsured)
The United States is the only industrialized nation that views
health care as a privilege, not a basic human right.
*Human Rights and U.S. Policy
In the USA Health Care Is A Privilege
Not A Basic Human Right
(USA has 47 million uninsured)
The United States is the only industrialized nation that views
health care as a privilege, not a basic human right.
Access to Health Care 101
Wes Clark on the American Health System
Regarding the Death Penalty
The USA is engaged in a cruel, brutalizing, unreliable, unnecessary and hugely expensive activity for no measurable gain. There is no evidence that the US authorities have prevented a single crime with this policy.
They have diverted countless millions of dollars away from more constructive efforts to fight crime. And the macabre absurdity is that it creates more victims - the family members of the condemned - often in the name of victims' rights. The death penalty is a symptom of a culture of violence, not a solution to it.
The sooner US politicians begin to find the political courage to educate public opinion rather than hide behind it, the better.
There have been about 500,000 murders in the USA since 1977. In the same period, 716 men and women have been executed. This is a punishment, these basic statistics suggest, reserved for the “worst of the worst” of murderers in the USA.
But how can that be true if, for example, learning disabled prisoners are among the condemned? It is time they [U.S. leaders] took it upon themselves to measure US standards of decency against the aspirations of the international community on the death penalty.
But how can that be true if, for example, learning disabled prisoners are among the condemned? It is time they [U.S. leaders] took it upon themselves to measure US standards of decency against the aspirations of the international community on the death penalty.
Most of us are aware of police brutality.
Here is a 450 page
*Human Rights Watch
American Prison Industrial Complex See ...
*Economic Apartheid in America
The USA has the world's largest prison population of roughly 2 million people, which accounts for about a quarter of the world's prison population. America's incarceration rate was roughly constant from 1925 to 1973, with an average of 110 people behind bars for every 100,000 residents.
By 2000, however, the rate of incarceration in state and federal prisons had more than quadrupled, to 478.
America has over taken Russia as the world's most aggressive jailer. When local jails are included in the American tally, the United States locks up nearly 700 people per 100,000, compared with 102 for Canada, 132 for England and Wales, 85 for France and a paltry 48 in Japan.
USA Kicked Off the United Nations
Human Rights Commission
At the beginning of May, 2001, the United States lost its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission for the first time since the panel's founding in 1947. (The Human Rights Commission assigns investigators to probe abuses around the world.)
Human Rights Commission
At the beginning of May, 2001, the United States lost its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Commission for the first time since the panel's founding in 1947. (The Human Rights Commission assigns investigators to probe abuses around the world.)
The U.S. was voted off by their allies (not by their enemies.)
See ..
*U.S. Arrogance on Display in UN Human Rights Commission Flap
*U.S. Arrogance on Display in UN Human Rights Commission Flap
Critics had pointed out that the U.S's recent “go-alone” stances on many international issues had been factors as well.
Examples include not supporting the international criminal court, not supporting the international landmine treaty, its stance on the death penalty, not paying its dues at the U.N. (leaving it to others to make up in some way, especially European nations), backing down from Kyoto, and so on.
Admittedly, the U.S. has been more vocal than many nations on some human rights issues, but when it has come to major initiatives and substantial changes to promote and support human rights, the U.S. has, as mentioned above, often been alone, acting in their own interests, as some examples throughout this web site will show.
The USA
A Rogue Nation
A Rogue Nation
When it has come to major initiatives and substantial changes to promote
and support human rights, the U.S. has often been a Rogue Nation acting alone,
in its own best interests ...
and support human rights, the U.S. has often been a Rogue Nation acting alone,
in its own best interests ...
*Rogue Nation
It is interesting to look at the USA's position on some of the standard international human rights treaties, given the USA's vocal position on human rights and insistence that it is the premier promoter of human rights.
Of the twelve main treaties, the United States has only signed the following, but not ratified any of them (as of 21 August, 2002):
See ...
*International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
*Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
*Convention on the Rights of the Child
*International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
*Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
*Convention on the Rights of the Child
American
Read My Lips Service
Read My Lips Service
Also as of 21 August, 2002 the USA has not
either signed or ratified the following:
either signed or ratified the following:
In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of soldiers refusing to participate in the war and occupation in Iraq. They have applied for conscientious objector (CO) status, which would allow them exemption from participation in war, based on reasons of conscience or conviction.
However, the US government has denied most of these petitions and has aggressively pursued soldiers who have gone absent without leave (AWOL), a crime punishable by a maximum sentence of death by firing squad.
The following videos are disturbing, but you need to see what is really going on in your name ...
Doctors of the World-USA - Health is a Human Right
Stop Torturing - The USA Should Not Torture Prisoners Video
Hi EuroYank,
You've requested my views concerning this post. Just to let you know, I'm going to use this as the basis of a post on the RLCC site and link here.
I believe that by now, you know that I don't hold with the secular state. Neither do I hold with the theocratic state that became the Roman Catholic Church or any other such coercive church or state. The Popes who took up arms and who had and have armed guards, etc., did not and do not follow the Christ spirit.
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. (Matthew 16:25 KJV)
Jesus was a total pacifist. Even when he cleaned the temple of the money people (we don't need banks, money, or interest, etc.) he harmed no one. His righteous indignation about what is allowed in our Father's voluntary house put the fear into them though. It was foreshadowing. Different souls reacted differently. The Pharisees sought to and did have Jesus wrongfully executed. Jesus sacrificed himself so that the truth would shine. Let's follow it all together.
I won't address every last point in your post. I will say that I believe your heart is attempting to head in the right direction. I do not assign evil intentions to you. (The image of the slut – God save her - doesn't compute though. Are you saying with that, that that's America?) Taking care of each other is Christian. Taking care is the obvious intention of your post. What I will address is whether or not the things suggested as solutions are the right approaches to that end.
Let me take just healthcare to make the overall point.
Single-Payer of course is correct. The problem is with coercive taxes being used for it. The problem lies in a coercive democracy. From the real Christian perspective, Jesus forced no one to join him. He cleaned the temple. Therefore, our Christian Commons does not have to have with in it, and should not and will not have within it, the spirit of coercion or mammon or taxes, etc. We will not go out and drag others into the Commons. Nor will we force them to remain once within.
Trying to regenerate, transform, transfigure, rebirth, or however one wishes to term it, The United States of America is a waste of time. You can reach out to Americans to call them to come out and to enter the Strait Gate to follow the Narrow Way, but that's it.
The United States of America is the old wineskin that cannot be made to hold the new wine that is total pacifism, the giving and sharing economy (moneyless in the end), and the complete absence of sexual harm and other forms of selfishness.
If The United States of America were to change from greed (capitalism), violence, and sexual depravity, etc., it would no longer be The United States of America of The Declaration of Independence or The Constitution of The United States of America. It would rather be Christian through and through and saved.
What the self-styled liberals are seeking to do is force the self-styled conservatives to conform to greater softheartedness. At the same time, those so-called liberals and conservatives are inconsistent. Those liberals are against some forms of selfishness and harm (hardheartedness) but not others. The same holds for the conservatives.
All harm is wrong. The means and ends must match. The circle must work. What we send out must not harm us (one soul) when it comes back around. Our logic must become divine. Cleaning the voluntary place for harmlessness is not harmful. It's instructive in righteousness. It's about cleaning the heart within.
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats nor any secular party practices or advocates this in total. Single-payer is socialism; however, what about housing and food and clothing and all the other things? Why bother with the mixed economy when we don't even need a medium of exchange if we all together (reinforcing, morally supporting each other) are moved by the Holy Spirit to do voluntary Christlike-things only? Really, do we have a choice in the end to do other then righteousness and become whole, healthy, pain free, non-suffering, enlightened, and all the rest of the good?
Gather the people together to decide what is consistent with Christlikeness. They will make the right choices. The only requirement for it to work is never going with the lesser light. Always choose the most unselfish. Then everything good will unfold before humanity.
The problem in this world right now is that it is impossible to follow the so-called rules and not be working iniquity. Jesus was placed in an untenable position through no fault of his own. How could he do as the High Priest of the Sanhedrin commanded and also do the will of God? He couldn't. It was that High Priest and that Sanhedrin and Caesar and the Roman Empire that were wrong and not doing the will of God.
The people who murdered him were actually following the worldly rules simply because those rules had no final standard. They leave themselves room for their excuses for not doing what is ultimately right and best. That doesn't work in the end though. It always fails. Nothing short of doing our very best will see us rise. That's the position of the U.S. Constitution: No final standard. It's a mess. It's subject to interpretations rather than held up against the New Commandment (that isn't a mess or inconsistent to any degree).
We need to get rid of hypocrisy to the nth degree. We need to seek that together as the whole of humanity. When we do that, the positive results will be beyond our imaginations.
Is this utopian? No, it's not, because as I know you, EuroYank, know, Utopia is "nowhere." This is bringing the real, New Heaven to Earth to conflate with it. It is idealistic? Yes, of course it is idealistic. We are to seek perfection. There's nothing wrong with that. Can people change, or are they stuck with immutable natures? Our natures allow us to change. It is all a choice. It is all only a matter of time and timing and patience and perseverance and actually doing the work of sowing and reaping and sharing, etc.
There is always a New World Order forming. One is selfish while the other is not. The current world order is people coercively lording it over others. Those people are both the violators and the protectors. It's confusion. The real New World Order is the vision of Jesus that takes the current system and turns it rightside up for the first time again (meaning that in the real eternal Heaven it has always been so) and then levels it. The result is all serving all. The lowliest now, the ones considered that, are then seen as the best and all emulate that. That's what Jesus's said we are to do, and he was, and remains, completely correct that, that is the best and finally the only way to be. Only good can come of it. That's the point.
On a more personal level, I think you should go ahead and use your name. Yes, the powers that be will hate that. They may crucify you. You'll be in good company though.
Blessings To All,
Tom Usher
Real Liberal Christian Church and
The Christian Commons Project
This may be the first time EVER that I agree, completely, with a Christian.
I'm an Atheist. A very devout and very militant Atheist but my peronal belief is that my views and positions are more Christ-like then most all Christians I know.
Let me see if I understand correctly Mr. Usher.
Based on your philosophy, would Gay and Lesbian humans have the same rights and social standing as the rest? Because you mention sexual preference in that light.
I believe we're all humans and that we all have the same rights regardless of who we portray ourselves as here on earth, be it transexual, homosexual or heterosexual, Christian, Jew or Atheist because my position is and always will be that IF there's a God and IF he's all loving and all seeing as he's portrayed he would understand ALL humans and all suffering and leave no one behind, thus my confidence in my own personal belief, that there isn't a God.
And yes, I'm a total Pacifist; the death penalty, prison punishment and war are simply wrong and display what I consider inhuman qualities that infer our weakness.