Obama Administration Castigates US Human Rights Record in UN Report
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 9:06 PM
The Obama administration told the United Nations Human Rights Council that America’s human rights record was less than perfect in a report this week. The administration told the sham UN council that it’s committed to closing Gitmo.
The AP reported:
The Obama administration has told the United Nations that America’s human rights record is less than perfect but stressed that the U.S. political system has built-in safeguards that promote improvements.
In its first-ever report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on conditions in the United States, the State Department said Monday that some Americans, notably minorities, are still victims of discrimination. Despite success in reforming such inequities as slavery and the denial of women’s right to vote, the department said, considerable progress is still needed.
“Although we have made great strides, work remains to meet our goal of ensuring equality before the law for all,” it said.
The report noted that although the U.S. now has an African-American president and that women and Hispanics have won greater social and economic success, large segments of American society suffer from unfair policies and practices.
High unemployment rates, hate crime, poverty, poor housing, lack of access to health care and discriminatory hiring practices are among the challenges the report identified as affecting blacks, Latinos, Muslims, South Asians, Native Americans and gays and lesbians in the United States.
The report, which drew on meetings that U.S. officials held with various groups around the country since January, also cited concerns from civil rights activists and citizens related to immigration and racial profiling by law enforcement agencies.
The 29-page report was submitted to the Human Rights Council on Friday but was not published until Monday. Members of the council, which the United States joined only last year, are required to submit reviews of their rights records. The report was the first “Universal Periodic Review” produced by the U.S.
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bg commented:
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Kifaya!!
IMPEACH!!
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Adirondack Patriot commented:
Clearly, the sophomoric tone of the report reflects the incompetency of this President.
The fact that life isn’t fair for some Americans doesn’t constitute human rights violations.
kathie commented:
An American wrote that report? That person has spent too much time with the good Rev. Wright.
Just_Saying commented:
Absolutely insane administration. Get out of the UN!!
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Snake Eater commented:
Good lord why doesn’t Obama just ask Congress for a formal declaration of war on this evil country? The Marxist simians in the Congress will be happy to oblige him and we can all finally drop the pretense of legitimacy they think they have.
kato commented:
The standard liberal litany, except the list gets longer with each passing decade.
I still remember when lefty folk singer Phil Ochs made an unfunny joke about the “Dykes of the American Revolution” and got a big laugh from all the braying liberal jackasses in the audience. Now dykes and sodomites are sacred, like spotted owls.
kato commented:
One great injustice of the past 40 years is that hundreds of billions of dollars have been expropriated from prudent Americans and handed to people who refuse to get educated, refuse to raise their children (most of them bastards), refuse to pay their bills, refuse to obey the laws, and do nothing but complain that they haven’t been given enough.
You know who they are.
Lisa G in NZ commented:
Adirondack Patriot
August 24th, 2010 | 9:17 pm | #2
The fact that life isn’t fair for some Americans doesn’t constitute human rights violations.
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exactly…
F*k off you corrupt UN nations with horrible human rights records of your own. Go home and solve your own nations killing fields. Get of America’s tit.
how much would USA save if defunded the damn UN?
Lisa G in NZ commented:
(I meant “get off”… sorry, angry typing)
Chippy commented:
This report is a renouncement of the entire Obama regime. The first biracial president can’t make anything better. The socialists/commies/islamists/radicals have been running congress and implementing their policies since 2007. I guess the chickens have finally come home to roost.
jomojava the infidel commented:
“Although we have made great strides, work remains to meet our goal of ensuring equality before the law for all”
Here’s one to work on: If I cheat on my taxes, the full force of government comes down on my head.
If Timmy Geithner cheats on his taxes, he ends up with a Cabinet position.
StrngernFiction commented:
Unfortunately I’ve heard Glenn Beck and other conservative commentators use the America has its faults line, which is simply stating the obvious. Well you don’t say, America has its faults? As in America makes mistakes? So America isn’t perfect?
Pinkie French commented:
piss off!
Chisum commented:
American human rights issues? This administration is clueless.
Report to the UN? Outrageous!
Especially when I read stories like this:
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/08/24/cairo-time-is-actually-worth-your-time/
But we can’t criticise Muslims. That’s intolerant.
What is the UN doing to improve the lot of women in muslim countries? Do they even acknowledge that there are human rights violations?
Brooklyn commented:
This seems all part of the Disastrous Democratic Partisan game plan.
ACLU nutty indeed.
They will put this anti-USA fraud on the record with the UN, then they will push for more taxation, welfare spending, etc., while vilifying the American Public.
The joke is vivid, as they totally tossed out the real Abuse of the rights of Americans to vote in the Black Panther – PHILA case.
The effort to go after Sheriff Joe is another prime example. Look for more political opposition to be targeted for Human Rights abuses soon, in some fictional nonsense.
This is how they pushed the Palestinian PR game, which grew to dehumanize the Israelis and play on ugly Anti-Semitism.
Now, liberal Democrats take the Anti-US Fashion they created – fabricated over the years, to the next level.
Waiting for the likes of Hillary, Barack, Nancy, Harry, Chuck, etc., to push the USA into International Tribunals of some kind.
That is their dream, and it really is mindless.
The land of the Free, with Freedom of Speech, Civil Rights, Women’s Liberty, Freedom of Religion, etc., is being put on trial by these terrible Partisans for their own greed and insanity.
Like the old Witch Trials of long ago, as they exploit the game, and aid fools in Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, etc.
It is a monstrous thing these Democratic Partisans do…
Iconoclast commented:
When Americans take control of the House in January, the first order of business **MUST** be a bill of impeachment for malfeasance, if not treason. This Kenyan socialist moslem cannot be allowed to wreak another two years of havoc on our nation.
Andreas K. commented:
I love those UN reports. Just like the (sh)amnesty international human rights repots they’re always a source of great amusement for me.
Because if you go by them, the US, Germany, Austria, Japan, we’re all little Hitlers who like to torture kittens and eat babies.
Ironically how this human rights council allows the bashing of Israel, but not even the mentioning of sharia law. Could it be because there are so many islamo-fascist countries on it? Dun dun DUN!
squeaky commented:
“the first order of business ..” probably install a caller-id and when the world [that has such issues with us] calls let it go to voice mail. such short term memories….
bill-tb commented:
I don’t recall America ever saying her humans rights record were perfect.
But at least we didn’t slaughter the 10s of millions the leftist countries killed in the pursuit of the utopia Marxism.
My guess is the Obama Mao lovers didn’t want to talk about the 50-70 million Mao killed. The reason there is a range is because nobody knows how many actually were killed.
So I wonder, how is the Muslim slaughter in Africa going, anybody keeping a tally?
Agent99 commented:
Does anyone recall when Hussein requested UN Inspectors to investigate the USA? I certaintly do. He should have been STOPPED: i;e Impeached RIGHT THEN!!! And NOW??? BHO is hauling the State Of Arizona before the UN Human Rights Council. (((RE-Submitting)) Arizona link …pending.
reliapundit commented:
obama isn’t just appeasing our enemies; he’s aiding and abetting them.
Sojourner commented:
and it gets worse.. in that report, he’s now hauled the State of Arizona before the UN Human Rights Council..
..”Apparently Barack Obama is not content to make a federal case out of his immigration feud with Arizona; he just made it an international one.
..The president’s first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council contains a rich vein of offensive material. So far, one aspect has not been reported: our petty president used the situation to bash Arizona’s immigration law — and possibly transfer jurisdiction over the law from Arizona to the UN:”
http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16411&posts=1&start=1
greenfairie commented:
Get both Obama and the UN out of the U.S.!
Andreas K. commented:
bill-tb
August 25th, 2010 | 6:06 am | #23
But at least we didn’t slaughter the 10s of millions the leftist countries killed in the pursuit of the utopia Marxism.
My guess is the Obama Mao lovers didn’t want to talk about the 50-70 million Mao killed. The reason there is a range is because nobody knows how many actually were killed.
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Oh I know how that works out.
A few years ago the local government here in Vienna had a bust set up for… Che Guevara. Yep, the butcher himself.
Freedom Party protested against it, because they believed that there shouldn’t be anything like that for a criminal like Che.
The socialists responded with: “THAT’S A LIE!!!!” and the media left it at that.
bg commented:
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just a sample:
UN – NWO
["My hope is that this charter will be
a kind of Ten Commandments" -MG
"The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will
in fact become like the Ten Commandments" -MS]
Islam – NWO
[Today, the responsibility, which used to be laid at
the door of God, is fastened on the shoulders of man.]
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’ .…
evidently Obama believes the New World
Order rests upon his messianic shoulders..
btw, OBAMA was SELECTED to TRANSITION US into the NWO..
don’t believe me, wait 2 more years, never mind 30 to 50.. *sigh*
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bg commented:
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murder by government
[But what connects them all is this. As a government's power is more unrestrained, as its power reaches into all the corners of culture and society, and as it is less democratic, then the more likely it is to kill its own citizens. There is more than a correlation here. As totalitarian power increases, democide multiplies until it curves sharply upward when totalitarianism is near absolute. As a governing elite has the power to do whatever it wants, whether to satisfy its most personal desires, to pursue what it believes is right and true, it may do so whatever the cost in lives. In this case power is the necessary condition for mass murder. Once an elite have it, other causes and conditions can operated to bring about the immediate genocide, terrorism, massacres, or whatever killing an elite feels is warranted.]
U.S. government funds mosque renovation
and rehabilitation around the world
[Just a cursory search of the term “mosque” on the State Department’s list of “projects” reveals 26 examples of federal funds going to fund construction, renovation, and rehabilitation of various mosques abroad. The benefiting countries include Bulgaria, Pakistan, Mali, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Egypt, Tunisia, the Maldives, Yemen, Turkmenistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Sudan, Serbia and Montenegro.
The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) — which is putting millions toward “heritage preservation” projects in the developing world — financed mosque-related projects in all the aforementioned countries.
[..Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told TheDC that despite American efforts to reach out to Muslims around the world, a recent Zogby poll found that in the Muslim world, the percentage of the population which views America favorably still hovers around 18%.
“We have always felt this type of outreach is completely ineffective and that ultimately we have to approach it like the Cold War where we are fighting an ideology and we have to be poignantly open about what part of political Islam we are trying to change and modify,” Jasser said. “If we are going to have this long war of ideas we cannot fund these religious institutions. We can fund anti-Islamist institutions based in liberty.”
Herbert London, president of Hudson Institute, told TheDC that he is extremely troubled by the use of government funds for religious purposes. “I wouldn’t be okay with it if these were synagogues that they were funding,” he said.]
bottom line:
we don’t need no constitution..
“one can lead a leftist tool to knowledge;
but one cannot make a leftist tool think.”
-bg
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bg commented:
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what are “human rights” in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey,
Venezuela, Haitii, Cuba, Russia, Pakistan, etc??
just a sample:
had a hard time accessing..
Iran
Human Rights in Islamic Republic of Iran
* News and Publications
* Report 2009
* Report 2008
* Report 2007
TV ‘confession’ of Iran stoning case woman criticized | Amnesty …
12 August 2010
Amnesty International criticized the TV “confession” of an Iranian woman
in which Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, awaiting execution by stoning for adultery, appears …
Story
Sentences against jailed Iranian religious minority leaders …
10 August 2010
Amnesty International has condemned the sentencing of seven members of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority to 20 years in jail on a series of politically motivated …
Story
Iran: Further information: Wife of stoning case lawyer released …
9 August 2010
Fereshteh Halimi, the wife of human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, was released on 7 August. Her brother and father, both of whom had been arrested, had been …
Urgent Action MDE 13/082/2010
Iran: “Review” of stoning death sentence: Sakineh Mohammadi …
9 August 2010
The Supreme Court began a review of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s
death sentence on 4 August 2010: this appears aimed solely at reducing international pressure on …
Urgent Action MDE 13/083/2010
Iran: Further information: Appeal for Iranian man rejected: Ja’far …
5 August 2010
Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected Ja’far Kazemi’s request to appeal against his death sentence. The sentence was imposed for his alleged participation in anti- …
Urgent Action MDE 13/081/2010
Iran must release or try US hikers held without charge for a year …
30 July 2010
Shane Michael Bauer, Joshua Felix Fattal and Sarah Emily Shourd
were arrested by Iranian forces in the Iraq-Iran border area a year ago.
Story
Iran must end harassment of stoning case lawyer | Amnesty …
28 July 2010
Amnesty International urges Iran to stop harassing human rights lawyers amid continuing uncertainty over the whereabouts of the defence counsel
in a controversial …
Story
Iran: Family of stoning case lawyer detained: Further Information
26 July 2010
The wife and brother-in-law of human rights lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, have been arrested, apparently to pressure Mohammad Mostafaei to turn himself in for arrest …
Urgent Action MDE 13/080/2010
Iran: Amnesty International Condemns Suicide Bomb Attacks on …
16 July 2010
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 16 July 2010.
AI Index: MDE 13/078/2010. IRAN: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNS SUICIDE BOMB ATTACKS ON MOSQUE. …
Public Statement MDE 13/078/2010
Iran: Health of prisoners of conscience at Iranian government’s …
16 July 2010]
good luck..
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bg commented:
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again, just a sample:
Nazanin Afshin Jam about Child Executions in Iran 9/08
Iran’s ‘Excruciating’ Human Rights Record – Council on Foreign Relations
Nations Criticize Iran’s Human Rights Record 6/10
IRAN REGIME WORST HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSER IN THE WORLD 8/10
shhh, don’t look at ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS, they don’t exist, just look
at the BIG EVIL SATAN HUMAN RIGHTS as compared to THIN AIR!!
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bg commented:
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go talk to them unconditionally Obama..
please go, make them see the righteousness
of your very existence.. you (fitb) bastard!!
SHAME ON US & THE REST OF THE SO CALLED CIVILIZED NATIONS..
MOST ESPECIALLY YOU BLEEDING HEART (FITB) LEFTIST BASTARD
LOVERS!!
BTW YOU PROGRESSIVE DEM A-HOLES, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF
“BLACKS” BEING KIDNAPPED, RAPED & STARVED IN THE SUDAN &
ELSEWHERE ACROSS AFRICA – REMINISCENT OF THE GOOD OLD
ISLAMIC JIHAD – MINUS ANY COMPETITION – DAYS..
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bg commented:
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how about..
Cuba??
Venezuela??
Saudi Arabia
again, just a sample..
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bg commented:
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how about lovely (gasp, choke, cough)..
MEXICO??
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bg commented:
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the UN is to US what ISRAEL is to HAMAS
& HEZBOLLAH (both Obama supporters)..
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bg commented:
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btw: imho each countries human rights abuses should be judged individually, not compared, but at the very least not stand alone
(so to speak), as if the US were the only country on planet Earth
with human rights abuses, however defined, according to the UN..
ie: Arizona’s ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION Law
that is replicate of US Federal Law?? duh!!
but i’d really like to know why are so many other countries WITH TRULY SEVERE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE ISSUES are consistently ignored??
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