Final week, 12 August, the Trump Administration’s State Division launched a report, up to date from 2024, that assesses the “Human Rights Practices” of almost 200 nations and territories worldwide.
As you could have guessed, South Africa was amongst these fingered by the US in that report for supposed “human rights violations and considerations”.
Within the govt abstract, the report principally alleged that “the human rights state of affairs in South Africa considerably worsened throughout the 12 months, together with stories of arbitrary or illegal killings, arrest and detention, and the repression of racial minorities.”
The report additionally accused the South African authorities of not taking “credible steps to analyze, prosecute, and punish officers who dedicated human rights abuses.”
US ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST SA INCLUDE:
Beneath Part 1, titled LIFE: Extrajudicial Killings, the report alleges “the (SA) authorities or its brokers dedicated arbitrary or illegal killings.” This part included stories of SA police concerned in shoot-outs and killings of prison suspects.
For some purpose, this part additionally references what has turn out to be loosely referred to as the “pig farm” murders – as if that heinous crime is someway the South African authorities’s fault.
Part 2, titled LIBERTY: Freedom of the Press, proceeds to lecture SA concerning the constitutional proper to freedom of expression, unbiased press, and different media.
In Part 3, SECURITY OF THE PERSON, SA is accused (in fact), of “Acts of Antisemitism and Antisemitic Incitement.” (It is because most of us – like a lot of the world – condemn Israel’s unrelenting holocaust in Gaza.)
SPOT THE STAGGERING HYPOCRISY
Are you able to see it but…?
The USA of America, the largest mass-murdering terrorist organisation on the earth, a part of the imperial, neocolonial, genocidal axis of evil that’s US/NATO/Israel…is accusing our little S’Africa…of “human rights violations”?
Is that this a joke? Is that purported to be humorous?
Boy, speak concerning the pot calling the kettle…the k-word.
Yeah, certain, the ANC have confirmed themselves, over 30 years, to be hopelessly, utterly corrupt and incompetent on a degree that actually…boggles the thoughts.
However their “human rights violations”…pale compared to yours, ‘Murica.
TYPICAL WESTERN GEOPOLITICAL PROJECTION
That is clearly one other traditional case of Western geopolitical projection. The place they, the West, accuse different nations on the earth of precisely what they’re responsible of.
, there’s an previous proverb attributed to Chaucer, and as soon as quoted by Benjamin Franklin, that claims, “Folks dwelling in glass homes shouldn’t throw stones.”
Utilized right here, the folks dwelling within the glass home are the US authorities – Republicans AND Democrats. The stones they’re throwing is their “Human Rights” report card slapped on SA and a lot of the world. And the glass home…is America’s lengthy historical past of genocidal warfare crimes and human rights violations.
US REPORT MIXES FACTS, DECEPTION AND POLITICAL SPIN – HRW
Human Rights Watch has slammed the Trump Administration’s report for mixing information, deception and political spin. “The State Division’s new human rights report is in lots of locations an train of whitewashing and deception,” mentioned Sarah Yager, Washington director at HRW. “Whole classes of abuses have been erased, whereas critical rights violations by allied governments have been papered over.”
HRW additionally claimed that “by undermining the credibility of the report, the administration places human rights defenders in danger, weakens protections for asylum seekers, and undercuts the worldwide battle towards authoritarianism.”
LET’S FLIP THAT REPORT CARD – BACK AT YOU, USA
So…how about we give the US (and their NATO allies and Zionist puppetmasters) a little bit “Human Rights” report card of our personal?
Now, if I needed to be nastily petty…I may begin alll the best way again in 1945 when the US turned the primary and solely nation in historical past to drop – not one, however two – nuclear bombs on one other nation. When the US nuked the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, precisely 80 years in the past this month.
I may then transfer on to Korea and Vietnam…the Chilly Battle (and all that got here with it) and each coup, assassination, pressured regime change, and proxy warfare in South America and Africa for the reason that ‘60s.
As a substitute, let’s begin extra just lately…from just some a long time in the past.
9/11 AND THE GWOT
Let’s begin with 11 September 2001, when the US authorities – or, at the least, rogue, deep state parts inside the US authorities, in collaboration with Saudi Arabia and, in fact, Israel’s Mossad – attacked the US and killed almost 3 000 civilians in a false-flag terrorist assault on the WTC in New York.
Why?
To justify what was coming subsequent; the so-called International Battle on Terror (GWOT) within the Center East and North Africa. Eight nations attacked and destroyed in simply over twenty years – together with latest unlawful airstrikes on Iran’s non-existent “nuclear programme”.
All for stolen assets…and all on the behest of Israel.
PROVOKING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE ‘WAR’
As we converse, Donald Trump is claiming credit score for brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to finish a warfare – that the US began, or at the least provoked.
(Ever heard of a woman named Victoria Nuland? Look her up. Particularly, in relation to her function within the Maidan coup, and the way it finally led to the present Russia-Ukraine battle.)
By now, it’s no secret that inside weeks of Russia’s SMO into Ukraine in late February 2022, a peace deal was on the desk between Putin and Zelensky referred to as the Istanbul course of, brokered in Türkiye.
Nonetheless, lest we overlook, after the Istanbul assembly and deal, the US/NATO despatched their mass-murdering, warmongering minion – the man with the dangerous hairdresser – ex-British PM Boris ‘Bojo’ Johnson to Kiev. The place he coerced Zelensky to betray the peace take care of Putin, and select warfare as a substitute of peace.
Thus far, in accordance with a number of army analysts, Ukraine misplaced virtually 2 million troops in that battle. (That determine has simply been confirmed in paperwork leaked by the Ukraine army previously few days.)
And US/NATO…is deeply complicit.
Sadly, even when Trump does someway miraculously arbitrate peace between Russia and Ukraine…you possibly can make certain that one other American-led warfare is within the pipeline – with Iran, China, or another long-time US-targeted nation.
In truth, as I write this, information has simply damaged that the US has deployed spyplanes, warships, a submarine and 4000 troops to Venezuela- probably the most oil-rich nation on earth. (Don’t fear, this time it’s undoubtedly not concerning the oil. The US army are solely there to fight…”lethal drug cartels”. Oh, and…to convey some good ol’ customary ‘Murican type democracy to the Venezuelans, in fact.)
SUPPORTING AND FUNDING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN GAZA
Since 7 October 2023 thus far, Israel’s maniacal IDF has slaughtered greater than 60 000 Palestinians in Gaza – greater than 18 000 of them youngsters – and injured or maimed greater than 150 000. Reportedly, greater than 500 000 Gazans now face hunger from a man-made famine.
Final week, on 10 August, the IDF murdered one other 5 journalists, bringing the variety of journos and media members killed for the reason that outbreak of Israel’s holocaust to just about 270. In keeping with Brown College’s Prices of Battle mission, that’s greater than all of the journos killed in each warfare over the previous 150 years – mixed.
But, Israel’s gross genocidal warfare crimes and human rights violations are usually not solely overwhelmingly supported by pro-Zionist neocons in Trump’s cupboard – and the democratic celebration – they’re brazenly cheered by them.
Whereas a lot of the caring world now seems to be turning on Israel, the US continues to fund, arm and usually assist the Zionist regime and its blatant, brazen, ethnic-cleansing holocaust in Gaza.
BLOCKING FREE SPEECH & MEDICAL AID, FOR ISRAEL
Since Trump got here to energy, the US has clamped down on varsity and campus scholar protests that criticize Israel’s mass homicide in Gaza, or present any solidarity with the Palestinians being slaughtered.
Thus far, at the least 6000 college students have had their visas revoked, at the least 300 of them for “pro-Palestinian activism on campus.” A lot of them face deportation.
This, after Trump promised Congress he was restoring free speech, and after JD Vance lectured Europe in Munich about their “free speech violations.”
In a latest improvement, zealous Zionist (and scummiest Cuban since Scarface), US Secretary of State, psycho Marco Rubio simply introduced that the US is halting medical-humanitarian visas for folks from Gaza. The choice will stop wounded Palestinians from coming to the US for remedy.
Rubio introduced the choice instantly after fashionable right-wing pro-Zionist influencer, Lara Loomer (who, for some weird purpose, appears to have Trump’s ear), posted a video of Gazans arriving at US airports and referred to as them “a risk to the nation.”
ILLEGAL MASS DEPORTATIONS, IN DEFIANCE OF COURT ORDERS
On 15 March, the Trump administration invoked the traditional Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and deported over 250 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
Regardless of a court docket order and short-term restraining order by the Columbia District Courtroom to halt the deportation, the migrants – alleged to be ‘gang members’ – have been taken into custody and despatched to the Terrorism Confinement Middle (CECOT) in Tecoluca.
This transfer by the Trump Administration was met with fierce criticism from the general public and authorized group because it bypassed due judicial course of and violated human rights. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Democracy Ahead filed a lawsuit on behalf of the migrants, arguing that the Act was being abused, for the reason that migrants weren’t given the chance to problem their elimination.
A minimum of two of Trump’s deported “gangsters” have turned out to be innocents who are usually not gang members and haven’t any prison document. Amongst them is Venezuelan soccer star, Jerce Reyes Barrios, who was bundled and deported with gangbangers after his tattoo was misinterpreted as an indication of gang affiliation.
The opposite harmless wrongly recognized as a gang member and deported was 31-year-old Venezuelan make-up artist identified solely as Andry.
‘BEFORE YOU ACCUSE ME…’
I imagine it was the late nice Bo Diddley (lined by Eric Clapton) who as soon as sang: “Earlier than you accuse me…check out your self.”
So I’ve a little bit reminder for Trump and his cupboard – for what it’s value…
Y’all hardcore Christians, proper..? Nicely, then…you would possibly wish to revisit a passage from that smart and weighty “sacred” sermon on the mount:
“Why do you take a look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye…and ignore the log in your personal eye?” – Matthew 7:3
If that doesn’t give you the results you want, do that one:
“Decide not, lest ye be judged.” – Matthew 7:1
DO YOU THINK THE USA HAS THE LEGAL OR MORAL AUTHORITY TO JUDGE ANY OTHER COUNTRY FOR ‘HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS’?
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