"The US government had never taken its human rights treaty obligations seriously"
never... that's a strong word...
do as we say, not as we do... it's the rule in dysfunctional families and arrogant, unilateralist nation states...
if the jerks in our government could only fully grasp the fact that that there are literally billions of people around the globe who would like nothing better than to believe that the u.s. walks its talk... they desperately want to know that SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE is doing the right things... Submit To Propeller
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do as we say, not as we do... it's the rule in dysfunctional families and arrogant, unilateralist nation states...
The US ratified only three human rights treaties out of seven major human rights treaties. In fact, the US and Somalia are the only two countries in the world that have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child--and Somalia does not have a functional government!
Judging from the lack of domestic application of human rights law, and from the gap between human rights law and US law in many areas, we can certainly say that the US government had never taken its human rights treaty obligations seriously
- Jamil Dakwar, staff attorney with the Human Rights Program – National Legal Department of the American Civil Liberties Union
if the jerks in our government could only fully grasp the fact that that there are literally billions of people around the globe who would like nothing better than to believe that the u.s. walks its talk... they desperately want to know that SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE is doing the right things... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
8/03/2006
