Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy

rhadamanthus · Feb 20, 2012

Greenwald drives it home.

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Each year, the U.S. State Department, as required by law, issues a “Human Rights Report” which details abuses by other countries. To call it an exercise in hypocrisy is to understate the case: it is almost impossible to find any tyrannical power denounced by the State Department which the U.S. Government (and its closest allies) do not regularly exercise itself. Indeed, it’s often impossible to imagine how the authors of these reports can refrain from cackling mischievously over the glaring ironies of what they are denouncing (my all-time favorite example is discussed in the update here).

In 2010, the State Department included a long section on the oppressive detention practices of China. The “principal human rights problems” of the tyrannical Chinese government include “a lack of due process in judicial proceedings” and “the use of administrative detention.” Indeed, “arbitrary arrest and detention remained serious problems. The law grants police broad administrative detention powers and the ability to detain individuals for extended periods without formal arrest or criminal charges.” Can one even find the words to condemn these Chinese monsters?
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Even random glances at State Department Human Rights reports will lead one to the most suffocatingly hypocritical denunciations by the U.S. Government. It condemns China, for instance, for the harsh detention conditions of one detainee who “was repeatedly subjected to solitary confinement. . . . The longest period of such confinement reportedly lasted 11 months.” Accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, convicted of no crime, spent 10 months in extreme solitary confinement; the U.S. prison industry is teeming with prisoners who are subjected to this abuse (as one American held for 10 years in solitary confinement by China put it last month in an Op-Ed: “Imagine how shocked I was to find years later that we, the United States of America, hold more human beings in long-term solitary confinement than any other country in the world. I had supposed it would be China — but, no, it’s us”); meanwhile, Israel routinely uses harsh solitary confinement for Palestinian prisoners and even places Palestinian children in solitary confinement for weeks on end.
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Northside Storm · Feb 20, 2012

rhadamanthus said: ↑

Greenwald drives it home.

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But America wars on TERROR. Using TERROR. so it is justified. fight fire with fire! peace IS war. war IS peace.

rocketsjudoka · Feb 20, 2012

bingsha10 said: ↑

On War, the establishment parties are both the same. Obama has proven that.
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Not exactly. Obama pressed ahead with a full withdrawl out of Iraq while part of McCain's platform was an indefinite commitment to Iraq. While there has been an Afghanistan surge Obama is pressing ahead with a withdrawl there also.

rhadamanthus · Feb 20, 2012

rocketsjudoka said: ↑

Not exactly. Obama pressed ahead with a full withdrawl out of Iraq while part of McCain's platform was an indefinite commitment to Iraq. While there has been an Afghanistan surge Obama is pressing ahead with a withdrawl there also.
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Oh please. Obama pressed ahead with a full withdrawal because he could not get immunity for US troop crimes anymore. His policy was clearly pro-commitment up until that point.

rocketsjudoka · Feb 20, 2012

rhadamanthus said: ↑

Oh please. Obama pressed ahead with a full withdrawal because he could not get immunity for US troop crimes anymore. His policy was clearly pro-commitment up until that point.
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That was what he campaigned on.

rhadamanthus · Feb 20, 2012

rocketsjudoka said: ↑

That was what he campaigned on.
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Right. Another campaign promise that was not so...followed through on.

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