Roundup: Shocking truth exposes the lies of the "human rights defenders" in the United States

A few days ago, the United States relied on hearsay and out-of-the-box materials to piece together the so-called "2020 National Human Rights Report", and as always, it wantonly smeared and pointed fingers at the human rights situation in other countries. In fact, the United States' own human rights problems are piled up, and the us government's human rights record in the past four years is full of bad records.

The United States has accumulated a lot of difficulties due to the failure of its own system, which eventually led to the Riot on Capitol Hill; the chronic disease of racial discrimination in the United States has never been eradicated, which has repeatedly led to the tragedy of the destruction of ethnic minorities; the United States has experienced a new crown epidemic that is far more serious than any other country in the world due to its own ineffective epidemic prevention... One shocking truth after another about the United States' trampling on human rights has completely exposed the shameless lie that the United States has long labeled itself as a "defender of human rights."

- Democratic disorder creates tearing

The disorder of democracy leads to political chaos that tears American society apart. The politics of money in the United States has distorted public opinion and turned elections into a "one-man show" for the wealthy. Money is deeply rooted in all aspects of American elections. Without enough money, there is simply no competition for any important political position.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice Studies at New York University, huge sums of money dominate the current political campaign in the United States to a degree not seen in decades. The "Super Political Action Committee" allowed billionaires to pour unlimited money into the campaign, drowning out the voices of ordinary Americans. "Black money organizations" obscure donor identities and prevent voters from knowing who is trying to influence their vote.

The Wall Street Journal website commented on November 9 last year that in the 2020 election, Americans' confidence in their own democracy fell to a 20-year low. Political polarization grew, hate politics evolved into a national "plague," and post-election riots led to the fall of Congress.

In recent years, gun trade and shootings in the United States have hit record highs, and people have lost confidence in social order. It is difficult for the two parties in the United States to reach a consensus on gun control based on partisan interests, and the long-term ongoing gun epidemic is due to political divisions and partisan struggles, and the price is that tens of thousands of Americans are reduced to the soul of the gun every year.

- Racial paralysis often occurs

Minorities in the United States are in a difficult position to suffer from systemic racial discrimination. The sensational case of white American police officers "kneeling to kill" Freud, an African-American man, was heard on March 29. The Boston Globe lamented: "[The white police officer suspected of killing Floyd] Shawan will not be the only defendant in the courtroom, and the entire United States will be put on trial." ”

Freud's moaning, "I can't breathe," is the dying cry of more than one African-American who died of police brutality, and the common voice of more minorities who have suffered the same fate.

U.S. federal statistics show that young African-American men are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than white young men, with African-American men aged 15 to 19 being shot at 31.17 per million, while white men in the same age group are shot at only 1.47 per million. According to the Police Violence Map website, at least 301 African-Americans were shot and killed by police in the United States in 2013, 320 in 2014, 351 in 2015, 309 in 2016, 282 in 2017, 260 in 2018, 278 in 2019 and 233 in 2020.

Are U.S. police officers who violently enforce the law usually subject to fair legal sanctions? The answer is no. There is a general "natural trust" among juries hearing violent police enforcement cases in law enforcement. Jennina Bell, a professor at Indiana University School of Law, said the data showed that jury members were more likely to believe police and police testimony than eyewitness testimony.

African-Americans are not the only victims of racism in the United States, and minorities such as Latinos and Asians have long suffered from racial discrimination. Especially since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, some American politicians have stigmatized Asians in order to shirk their responsibility for ineffective epidemic prevention, resulting in a surge in violent hate crimes against Asian Americans in the United States. In the past two months, "Stop hating Asians" has become the slogan of a new anti-racial discrimination campaign after "Black Lives Matters Your Life," with demonstrations taking place across the country.

-- The gap between the rich and the poor has widened again

The gap between the rich and the poor in American society today is accelerating, and the lives of the people at the bottom are miserable. Since last year, the pandemic has spiraled out of control into a massive wave of unemployment, with tens of millions of people losing health insurance and one in six Americans and a quarter of American children at risk of starvation. Vulnerable groups have become the biggest victims of the government's passive response to the epidemic.

Experts believe that the epidemic has exacerbated the existential crisis of the people at the bottom of the United States, but the middle-class crisis caused by the uneven distribution of wealth in the United States has long existed and continues to deteriorate, which is causing social and political turmoil. Chris Baskirk, editor of America's Great, a conservative website in the United States, said the uneven distribution of wealth was caused by stagnation in real wage growth that had lasted for nearly half a century and other structural problems, most likely creating an unsustainable situation.

-- The epidemic is out of control and causes tragedy

The United States has a population of less than 5% of the world's total population, but as of now, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has exceeded 25% of the global total, the number of deaths accounts for nearly 20% of the global total, and more than 550,000 Americans have lost their precious lives.

Deborah Burks, coordinator of the Trump administration's White House Coronavirus Response Task Force, bluntly said in a documentary broadcast by CNN that the federal government's delivery of contradictory messages to the public was the "number one mistake" made by the United States in responding to the epidemic.

In the documentary, Anthony Fauci, a key member of the Trump administration's White House Coronavirus Response Task Force and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that the president's comments on social media, such as calling for lifting the lockdown, were shocking and "a huge blow" to the fight against the epidemic.

- Rampant and overbearing and destroying the rules

Blatant withdrawal from the World Health Organization, withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, threats to international institutions with bullying, brutal implementation of unilateral sanctions, cruel treatment of asylum seekers, continued to forcibly repatriate migrants during the epidemic, amnesty for war criminals who massacre civilians in other countries...

The United States under the Trump administration owes a lot of "human rights accounts" to the international community. Over the past four years, the United States has insisted on pursuing its own priorities, promoting isolationism, unilateralism, and bullying, and has become the biggest "troublemaker" endangering global security and stability.

On June 19, 2018, the self-proclaimed "champion of human rights" in the United States brazenly announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The day before, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had just criticized the United States for forcibly separating migrant children from their parents in border areas.

In September 2018 and March 2019, former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton and then-Secretary of State Pompeo separately threatened that if the ICC investigated the alleged war crimes committed by the United States and its allies, the U.S. side would retaliate against those "directly responsible for the investigation" such as banning entry, freezing assets, and even imposing economic sanctions on the ICC. James Goldstone, a U.S. legal figure, commented that the senior officials' remarks show that the U.S. government takes international law seriously "only when it is in the interests of the United States."

Between July 2017 and July 2020, U.S. immigration authorities forcibly detained more than 5,400 children in the southern border region separately from their parents who were refugees or illegal immigrants, in violation of international human rights law and international humanitarianism, resulting in the tragedy of separation of flesh and bones, and the death of many children in detention. In 2019, a total of 850,000 migrants were arrested in the U.S. southern border region, most of them subjected to brutal treatment and human rights abuses. In 2020, the detention places where immigrants are held in the United States have become the "hardest hit areas" for the spread of the new crown virus, and the US government has forcibly repatriated a large number of illegal immigrants at the time of the spread of the epidemic, increasing the risk of the epidemic in Central American countries.

In the past three months, more than 100,000 illegal immigrants have poured into the United States. U.S. law enforcement officials separated more than 5,000 children from their parents and held them in crowded, improvised rooms, creating "child camps." The U.S. government refuses to acknowledge the immediate immigration crisis and even prevents journalists from reporting on the real situation in "child concentration camps." The policy of the United States Government in violating the rights of migrants, in particular the rights of migrants, has been strongly criticized and condemned both in the United States and in the international community.

During the recently concluded session of the Un Human Rights Council, representatives of some countries pointed out that at present, the United States pursues "vaccine nationalism", hoarding a large number of new coronavirus vaccines that far exceed the needs of its population and refusing to provide vaccines to other countries, including allies; successive armed interventions by the United States have caused a large number of civilian casualties in other countries; the United States has imposed unilateral coercive measures that seriously violate international law on many countries, seriously violating human rights in other countries, and even leading to humanitarian crises.

(Editing by Liang Zhen)