Temat: US Human Rights report...
warren whitmore:
Rafal Wolk:
warren whitmore:
There are a lot of things wrong with capitalism, the United States and so on.
However, you as a Pole should know that the alternative was far worse.
Of course, but when the line between the two is thiner than the paper that the Bill of Rights was written on...
I don't, for one moment, believe that it is.
Most people don't. It's extremely hard for anyone to actually believe that what was written in that report is true, unfortunately it is.
Here's a page that you may want to familiarize yourself with for further information on this topic
http://www.amnestyusa.org/us-human-rights/page.do?id=1...
here's a great quote from the front page
"Policies of the US government have become increasing focused on tracking and persecuting individuals expressing their right to free expression, disregarding longstanding US and international law guaranteeing that right."
It might look like the US is the "leader of the free world" but in reality things are not as peachy as the propaganda machine would have you believe.
Here's yet another example of the UN itself criticizing the US Human Rights record
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0921-03.htm
and yet another quote taken from a US gov't site
"According to the US Census Bureau, 35.9 million people live below the poverty line in America, including 12.9 million children.
This is despite abundance of food resources. Almost 100 billion pounds of food is wasted in America each year. 700 million hungry human beings in different parts of the world would have gladly accepted this food.
Here are some statistics on the nature of poverty and the waste of food and money in America.
-In 2004, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 14 percent during the year, according to a 27-city study by the United States Conference of Mayors.
-Also in this study, it was noted that on average, 20 percent of requests for emergency food assistance have gone unmet in 2004.
-According to the Bread for the World Institute 3.5 percent of U.S. households experience hunger. Some people in these households frequently skip meals or eat too little, sometimes going without food for a whole day. 9.6 million people, including 3 million children, live in these homes.
-America's Second Harvest (
http://www.secondharvest.org/), the nation's largest network of food banks, reports that 23.3 million people turned to the agencies they serve in 2001, an increase of over 2 million since 1997. Forty percent were from working families.
33 million Americans continue to live in households that did not have an adequate supply of food. Nearly one-third of these households contain adults or children who went hungry at some point in 2000.
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, March 2002, "Household Food Security in the United States, 2000"
There's not a drop of propaganda in the Chinese report... I do agree, that it's simply a way to take the unwanted attention of China for the time being, but in no way did they temper with hard, cold facts.
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