Ongoing Human Rights Violations
The United States gets to violate human rights with impunity. There are no international sanctions, no arrest orders, no one coming to the rescue for the oppressed and abused populations.
We are torturing immigrants; exposing them to medical neglect, physical and psychological torture, serving them rotten food, forcing them to live in deplorable and inhumane conditions, and so much more. This is happening in detention centers across the country. The number of deaths in ICE custody this year has surpassed every other year since 2004.
Our own government has released a report acknowledging this abuse. Our Human Rights Watch has confirmed the crimes. Amnesty International has declared that two detention centers in Florida are violating human rights, calling on the federal and Florida governments to address these documented human rights violations. And that's just two of the hundreds of centers in the U.S.
And yet it continues. We carry on, unphased. Kristi Noem and other sycophants in the government defend our crimes against humanity like they're justifiable, even righteous. At the same time, Americans seem to think this hasn't been an ongoing dynamic between the U.S. and the rest of the world. Every U.S. administration in modern history has committed crimes against humanity, and none have been held to account.
The world can't hold the U.S. accountable because we're too powerful, too trigger-happy. Nowadays, we whip tariffs across the world with frivolity and threaten the sovereignty of other nations for failing to do our bidding or the bidding of our president's favorite donors. But even before this administration we have committed unspeakable acts both foreign and domestic, and waved off calls for our adherence to international law. How can we assert that a president isn't above the law, when our entire government is? Answer: we can't, as determined by the Supreme Court.
The United States is a sick nation, drunk on power and high on self-righteousness and supremacy. The rest of the world should intervene. Americans should stand together against our atrocities. The question is if and when either of those things will happen. I wish I were more optimistic about this prospect. All I can do is all I can do. Many Americans are doing what we can. Many more need to. generalstrikeus.com