Human Rights Record of United States in 2007 = By James Secor

[L. Coyote]

Human Rights Record of United States in 2007
By James Secor - http://mwcnews.net/content/view/21087/1/

....The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007 is prepared to help people around the world understand the real situation of human rights in the United States and as a reminder for the United States to reflect upon its own issues.

I. On Life, Property and Personal Security

The increase of violent crimes in the United States poses a serious threat to its people's lives, liberty and personal security.

According to a FBI report on crime statistics
... 1.41 million violent crimes were reported nationwide in 2006 ...
... an estimated 25 million crimes of violence and theft.
... one violent crime was committed in every 22.2 seconds
... one murder committed in every 30.9 minutes
... one rape in every 5.7 minutes
... one robbery in every 1.2 minutes
... one aggravated assault in every 36.6 seconds (FBI Release its 2006 Crime Statistics, FBI, www.fbi.gov/pressre1/pressre107/cius092407.htm).

... about 30,000 people die from gun wounds every year ....

II. On Human Rights Violations by Law Enforcement and Judicial Departments

The abuse of power by law enforcement and judicial departments in the United States has seriously violated the freedom and rights of its citizens.

Cases in which U.S. law enforcement authorities allegedly violated victims' civil rights increased by 25%
... the world's largest prison
... the highest inmates/population ratio in the world.
... 209 people exonerated through DNA served time on death row ...

... Civil and Political Rights ... are being increasingly marginalized in the United States.
The House of Representatives and the Senate of the U.S. Congress passed the Protect America Act ....

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... Economic, Social and Cultural rights ... have not been properly protected.

Poor population in the United States is constantly increasing. According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau in August 2007, the official poverty rate in 2006 was 12.3%. There were 36.5 million people, or 7.7 million families living in poverty in 2006. .....

... Racial Discrimination ... is a deep-rooted social illness in the United States.

Black people and other minor ethnic groups live in the bottom of the American society. According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau in August 2007, median income of black households was 61% of that for non-Hispanic white households. Median income for Hispanic households stood at 72% of that for non-Hispanic white households ......

... Violation of Human Rights in Other Countries ... United States has a notorious record of trampling on the sovereignty of and violating human rights in other countries.

The invasion of Iraq by American troops has produced the largest human rights tragedy and the greatest humanitarian disaster in modern world. It was reported that since the invasion in 2003, 660,000 Iraqis have died, of which 99% were civilians. That translates into a daily toll of 450 ....

[Perry Logan]

1. It's what we all knew, quantified.

[L. Coyote]

2. In brief: Human Rights Record of USA = daily toll of 450+ lives

Human Rights Record of USA = daily toll of 450 lives

[pleah]

3. Cases in which US law enforcement authorities (allegedly)

violated victims' civil rights increased by 25%! 209 people exonerated through DNA served time on death row.
How many people have not been given the opportunity to use DNA to prove their innocence of a crime?
It seems at least once a month I read a story about someone denied this.

Iraq is a war crime. Afgani war, I don't even know how many have died there.

[L. Coyote]

4. Civil rights violated by voter caging too!

[Callie857]

5. Why is the left silent on the causes and needed solutions?

Poverty, suffering, homelessness, erosion of civil and human rights, and so many other problems have increased because of bad trade deals, outsourcing, the acceptance of the lies of the corporate elites, that there are "jobs Americans won't do" and "worker shortages". There are no worker shortages or jobs Americans won't do. These facts were proven to be lies, by the study released by Dr. George Borjas of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

The left claims to care about social justice and civil rights, but it not only doesn't care to discuss these facts, the left actually attacks citizens who do. Accusing them of being "racist" or "xenophobic". Too many democratic leaders actually do the same thing. Citizens who are displaced in the workplace are suffering from long term un/under employment. They face homelessness and severe privation. Hunger, and the illnesses hunger brings, even death. This is no exageration it is a plain fact. The MSM, and that includes even those media outlets claimed by the left as alternative media ignore these facts except in the instances they feel are best exploited.

James L. Secor is a prime example of this. Secor works for the Communist Chinese government at a University there. He is no activist for social justice or civil rights. He is a propagandist who writes such pieces to denigrate the United States as a whole, because he profits from denigrating the very concepts of civil rights and social justice that the US historically represented. He never writes about the wrongs of the economic policies that have brought about the increases in suffering in the US. He has written pieces in Counterpunch and other such "alternative" media sources, including in Middle Eastern and Asian publications that are apologists for the brutal repression and oppression in the Middle East and China, Korea and elsewhere. His ideological agenda is to serve America up as being a shameful and dead nation, thereby claiming it's constitution and bill of rights were meaningless.. and no longer any inspiration to oppressed people around the world.

L. Coyote, actually Hispanic wages are higher than Black Americans, not lower. The statistics by the GAO prove that. Also, the study released by Dr. Borjas of the Kennedy School of Government (Harvard) proved that illegal immigration, drives down the wages of and displaces poor Americans, most especially Black Americans. The study also revealed that the majority of new jobs claims under the Bush administration had been filled by illegal immigrants, most of which were from Latin American countries.

Rather than the US government challenging wealthy Latin American countries like Mexico to honor the promises they made when they co-wrote NAFTA legislation, Mexico's government just never bothered to follow through on promises to raise wages and increase opportunities for their poorest, the US government, first under Bill Clinton and then Bush II allowed Mexico to get away with it. This has hurt working poor and struggling middle class American workers, displacing them from jobs that had been unoutsourcable. Please stop manipulating the facts.

[L. Coyote]

6. Please stop manipulating the facts.

Don't give me crap for posting something useful to read.

So, are you defending the US record on Human Rights under Republicans?
Or just attacking this writer for presenting information to consider?

DU'ers are not a bunch of drop-outs who do not understand critical reasoning.