Wednesday, April 02, 2014

The U.S. as seen by the U.N. Human Rights Committee

We don't look very good to the Committee. They don't like the fact that in many states we have criminalized homelessness. But that's not all. Government surveillance, drone strikes, our use of torture, the failure to prosecute senior members of its armed forces and private contractors involved in torture and targeted killings, the continued use of the death penalty in a 16 states, the high number  of fatal shootings by police forces, the high proportion of black people in our jails, the failure to close Guantanamo.

Do you think they see us clearly?.

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