The Mirror Turns: UN Human Rights Committee says...
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| This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow) |
Despite our government’s many military entanglements and abuses
of authority at home, most Americans still maintain a pretty high
opinion of our country and the way our government treats its citizens and others
around the world.
The thing is, the
unquestioning zeal regularly expressed for “our way of life” by
cheerleading mainstream media personalities and politicians isn’t something that’s
universally shared, according to a recent report issued by the United
Nations Human Rights Committee.
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Whereas it is
usually the United States that stands in judgment of other countries,
and has traditionally used the UN to justify the wars it’s waged since
the Korean Conflict, the script has been flipped in this case, with
America now being portrayed as a bully and a villain, not only abroad,
but at home as well.
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“The committee’s
recommendations highlight the gaps between US human rights obligations
and current laws and practices,” said ACLU Human Rights Program Director
Jamil Dakwar in a statement issued last week by the organization’s
national office. “The Human Rights Committee rightly called out the
United States for setting dangerous examples from counterterrorism
operations to an unfair criminal justice system to inhumane treatment of
migrants.”
Local reactions to the report
released on March 27 were no less critical of the United States, as well
as the American media, few of which gave much play to the committee’s
findings.
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“It is shocking that media in Los
Angeles [capital of the world] -- print, broadcast, and social -- have nearly entirely ignored
what can only be called a factual but nevertheless horrifying, detailed
indictment of violations of human rights in our country,” said local
civil rights activist Marvin Schachter. Schachter is a longtime member
of the ACLU, both its Southern California and Pasadena Foothills
chapters. He is also a member of the Pasadena United Nations
Association. More
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