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One of President Biden’s first priorities should be to set a human Rights foreign policy.
Unfortunately, given the impeached president trump’s vile treatment of individuals within our borders, an improved foreign policy regarding human rights is not enough. Reinstatement of the constitutional protections of domestic human rights ignored by the impeached president trump, and his federal henchmen, must also be addressed during the new administration’s first one hundred days.
During the impeached president trump’s tenure, human rights in the U.S. took a distant backseat to his greed, corruption, and his intense racial hatred. The horrendous policies of his evil and disgusting regime must be reversed, and taken far in the proper direction, here at home and around the world.
The United States’ reputation for its concern for human rights has never been stellar, but in the past seventy-five years, as a nation living in a huge glass house, our leaders threw way too many stones at other countries.
Were the Biden administration to ignore the many human rights violations by ICE agents during the impeached president trump’s years in the White House would be unconscionable. Every one of these agents, and personnel from other agencies, who participated in the criminal acts ordered by the impeached president trump, or one of his corrupt stooges, must face the legal consequences of their actions. To defend themselves by explaining, “I was just following orders,” is no justification. It didn’t work in Nuremberg for Hitler’s Nazis, it must be no different for the impeached president trump’s Nazis.
The new administration has an opportunity to put things right on so many levels, if he truly has the desire. But this will be an extremely difficult task. First, the new President will need to convince the members if Congress to go against decades of tradition. Instead of maintaining it the singular duty of government as protecting the financial interests of the ruling billionaire class, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of the government must revert to the functions designated by the Founding Fathers. Some sincere efforts by members in these three branches of government must be made to work for the best interests and well-being of average Americans. (Of course this is a contradiction of the congressional Republicans’ long-standing loyalty oath to the super-wealthy, everyone knows that. But, if conditions don’t improve for the bottom 90% of American society, the ruling billionaire class will soon kill the “Golden Goose” they’ve relied on for decades. Their collective greed has put the poor old bird $18 Trillion in debt, and the government plans to use the COVID-19 as an excuse to borrow uncounted trillions more to feed the ruling billionaire class’ greed.)
Yes, it’s true that right-wingers and most centrist don’t want to pay for improvements of any kind in the U.S., they expect the infrastructure, environment, economic, societal, and many other issues to cure themselves. In addition to themselves, the right-wingers and most centrists want their politicians to protect the poor, victimized billionaires’ privileged tax structure. In fact, these misinformed and truly ignorant a$$-kissers-of-the-ultra-wealthy would be happy if the ruling billionaire class paid no taxes at all.
The new administration has more repairs to make to the damage done by the previous administration than any other time in history. And with Moscow Mitch and his Senate Republican majority fighting to keep the U.S. in the usual GOP “failure mode”, the new administration has its work cut out.
The United States should strive to be a world leader on human rights. Human Rights Watch offers 12 priorities for the next US administration to create a rights-focused foreign policy.
www.hrw.org
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