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01 December 2012
By Stephen Lendman During Chinese President Hu
Jintao's state visit, a US - China Joint Statement
said: "The United States stressed that
the promotion of human rights and democracy is an
important part of its foreign policy. China stressed
that there should be no interference in any country's
internal affairs." Washington often chides other
nations about their abuses and injustices at home and
abroad. In fact, no other nation matches America's
disdain for human and civil rights, yet as Washington
Post writers John Pomfret and Scott Wilson said in
their January 20 article headlined, "Obama hosts Hu
Jintao on state visit, presses China on human
rights:" "President Obama used his summit
Wednesday with Chinese President Hu Jintao to place
human rights front and center in the US relationship
with the world's preeminent ascending power." New York Times writers Helene
Cooper and Mark Landler stressed the same theme in
their January 19 article headlined, "Obama Pushes Hu
on Rights but Stresses Ties to China," stating: Obama "prodded China to make
progress on human rights,' quoting him saying they're
a: "source of tension between our
two governments. (Americans) have some core
views....about the universality of certain rights:
freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of
assembly....(T)he world is more just when the rights
and responsibilities of all nations and all people are
upheld, including the universal rights of every human
being," ones Washington flaunts globally while
pointing fingers at others. A previous article addressed
China's documentation of US human rights abuses,
accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/chinas-documentation-of-us-human-rights.html Below are some of its
revelations, and while China is no human rights model,
America is far more guilty of crimes against humanity
and the supreme international crime against peace -
waging unjustifiable wars of aggression. Last November, the UN Human
Rights Council (HRC) cited others "carried out on the
pretext of combating terrorism." Specific human rights
violations were covered, notably torture and other
abuses at Guantanamo, ones America won't address or
correct as well as similar practices overseas and in
homeland gulag prisons. America notoriously commits
the most egregious human rights crimes repeatedly.
Pointing fingers at others exposes its gross
hypocrisy. Yet on March 11, 2010, mostly
with no source documentation, the US State Department
issued its "2009 Human Rights Report: China (including
Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)," calling the People's
Republic of China (PRC) "an authoritarian state in
which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
constitutionally is the paramount source of power,"
practicing: -- "cultural and religious
repression;" -- harassment of human rights
activists; -- persecution and disbarment of
lawyers who defend them; -- control of free expression,
the Internet, and free access; -- extrajudicial killings; -- torture and coerced prisoner
confessions; -- using forced labor, including
in prison; -- monitoring, harassing,
detaining, arresting, and imprisoning "journalists,
writers, dissidents, activists, petitioners, and
defense lawyers and their families;" -- denial of due process; -- political control of courts
and judges; -- administrative detentions and
prolonged illegal ones; -- "tight restriction (on)
freedom to assemble, practice religion, and travel;" -- failure "to protect refugees
and asylum-seekers adequately;" -- forced repatriations of North
Koreans; -- pressure on other countries to
repatriate Chinese citizens; -- monitoring and restricting
local and international NGOs; -- "endemic corruption; -- trafficking in persons; -- discrimination against women,
minorities, and persons with disabilities; -- forced abortion(s and)
sterilization(s);" -- no legal right to strike or
have independent union representation; -- "arbitrary or unlawful
deprivation of life;" -- harsh and degrading treatment
in prisons; -- arbitrary arrests and
detentions; -- "arbitrary interference with
privacy, family, home, or correspondence;" and more. On March 13, China's Information
Office of the State Council responded with its own
comprehensive report, titled: "The Human Rights Record
of the United States in 2009," correctly saying
America: "released its Country Reports on
Human Rights Practices for 2009....posing as 'the
world judge of human rights' again. As in previous
years, the reports are full of accusations of the
human rights situation in more than 190 countries and
regions including China, but turn a blind eye to, or
dodge and even cover up rampant human rights abuses on
its own territory (and those of other nations. China's
report) is prepared to help people around the world
understand the real situation of human rights in the
United States." Countering US misinformation, it
presented an accurate account of what US propaganda
suppresses, revealing important, substantiated facts
about: -- the world's most lawless
state; -- a society in social crisis; -- a domestic armed camp under
police state laws that suppress human rights and civil
liberties, criminalize dissent, allow illegal spying,
control information, persecute political prisoners for
political advantage, and deny them due process and
judicial fairness; -- torture as official US policy
at home and abroad; -- the operator of the world's
largest global gulag; -- systematic targeted killings; -- permanent wars for
unchallengeable world dominance: -- targeting peaceful nations; -- committing ruthless state
terror; -- endangering world stability
and peace; -- illegally transferring public
wealth to elitist private hands; -- stealing elections; -- running a one-party state with
two wings, each as criminally ruthless and corrupted
as the other, and; -- as a result, is hated and
feared globally and to a growing degree at home. Overall, America is a lawless,
violent terror state, intolerant of human and civil
rights, democratic values, and basic notions of
freedom and equal justice. Hardly a record to extol. Indeed
one to suppress, what America's major media cooperate
in doing, assuring more people abroad understand than
shamefully few at home. China's analysis covered six
major topics, using corroborating data from the US
Justice Department (DOJ), FBI, other US agencies,
state ones, think tanks, and international and US
media reports, revealing a far different America than
portrayed in the mainstream and by misleading
government reports. It revealed millions of violent
and property crimes; systemic civil, human and
political rights violations; denial of economic,
social and cultural rights; racial discrimination
against Blacks, Latinos, Muslims, Immigrants of color,
and Native Americans; flaunting the rights of women
and children; and committing human rights violations
globally. It's a record of shame, not pride, including
prison abuse in the world's largest gulag. It's real, accurate and
disturbing, not the fiction popularly believed or
portrayed daily in films, television, and published
reports. It's an ugly America, not what Obama
proclaimed on Human Rights day, December 10, 2010,
saying: "Today, we continue the fight to
make universal human rights a reality for every
person, regardless of race, gender, religion,
nationality, sexual orientation, or
circumstance....The United States will always speak
for those who are voiceless, defend those who are
oppressed, and bear witness to those who want nothing
more than to exercise their universal human rights." Not a word about how many
millions America murdered globally since 9/11/01
alone, how many others are persecuted at home, and how
many hundreds of political prisoners remain
incarcerated - in fact, many thousands including
undocumented Latino and other immigrants. No mention either of the millions
of homeless, hungry, deprived and forgotten. Ignored
was decades of public wealth transferred to people
already with too much, mass poverty and deprivation,
targeting the middle class for destruction, America
now corporate-occupied territory, planned neoserfdom
for working people, the American dream disappearing
like smoke, and democratic freedoms more illusion than
reality. Ignored was the real America on a
fast track toward tyranny and ruin, its people trashed
like yesterday's garbage. Working men and women
experience it daily, more than ever after the
maliciously manufactured hard times, ushering in an
era of want and need while those with super-wealth get
richer under a system benefitting them, no others. The
real America must be exposed, denounced and replaced
before conditions are so bad it's too late. Stephen Lendman lives in
Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and
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