US human rights report

I also do not find much justification in giving too much importance to the report published by a country whose own record of human rights at home and abroad is questionable.

Two questions have been raised in the US. One, the people who voted in majority in favour of Al Gore, saw their rights infringed and two, the higher courts in the States proved so conservative and inept that they failed in their duty to declare what was just pasting a black chapter on the history of US judiciary. They can perhaps learn from the progressive higher judiciary of the very countries that they criticise.

Globally, the US has blatantly flouted all international conventions and norms whenever it wanted to protect its own interests even if it meant sacrificing its own people (who gives a damn to others?). The invasion of the tiny island country of Granada, hijacking of Noriega -- the very person who they installed in power in Panama, alleged assassination of leaders like Patrick Lubumba, and Salvador Allende, and, above all, illegally confining 600 people (I refuse to use the word prisoner) in inhuman chains and jackets without trial - are a few examples to study.

What the average American people do not realise is that they are expendable to protect the interest of the big businesses and enterprises. It is after all the "capital" that must be protected at all cost even if it means sacrificing own people in Vietnam, Iraq or any country that needs to be disciplined. Remember the Aesop's fable of the wolf and the lamb? So everything is right if you are the victor, the law of the jungle prevails.