I do agree that there is an inherent contradiction in saying justice is a universal concept, and saying injustice is more understandable in poorer countries than wealthier ones. I also think the facts are contradictory. I do believe all countries should strive equally for justice and a lack of corruption, but I think countries in Finland have less excuses when systems fail than countries like Botswana do. We know that lack of education, lack or resources and poverty all contribute to corruption, and saying that they should not doesn't help. At one stage Rwanda had something like 650,000 people in prison, and 3 judges. Not all trials were free and fair - and we understand why not. Rwanda took action and is now doing well, btw.
Well, after the examples we've been setting for the last 10 years, we shouldn't be commenting on other country's injustice. Case in point, Rwanda may have 650,000 people in prison, we have over 2.5 million. The US has more people incarcerated than any other country in the world. Even more than Stalin's Russia. And 70% of the prison population, are there for non-violent crimes. Many there are due to mandatory sentencing related to drug laws.
And it gets worse! We are a country based on the rule of law, yet we don't enforce the law, when it comes to certain crimes and individuals. We used to be the
beacon of democracy, now we're the
mecca of hypocrisy! When Hillary Clinton went to the UN complained about human rights violations in Rwanda, the whole room broke out laughing! That's what we've become. A big ******* joke!
You can't talk about other country's injustice, when you've made it legal to "indefinately detain" your citizens, without any due process of law. All that is required, is someone at the Pentagon to classify you as an "unlawful enemy combatant" and you can be plucked off the street and held without charges, until the day you die and there's not a ******* thing you can do about it. No legal recourse or action is at your disposal, to question why you've been incarcerated.
Bush was pretty bad in compromising our Constitutional rights, but Obama will go down as the President who signed into law, the bill that officially killed our Constitution, as the Supreme Law of the Land.
President ObamaÂ’s signing of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) whose Section 1021 sanctions the military detention of American citizens without charge, essentially aims to put the last nail in the coffin of our Constitution, our teetering Republic and our most basic democratic traditions.
And the point of all this, is crowd control, by outlawing dissent. They don't come out and say that directly, that would be a red flag that the nation would notice, instead, everything is interpreted through the paradigm of the "war on terror". Everything is related to terrorism, no matter how innocuous it may be.
Have you noticed whenever someone states something that is absolutely true, but isn't in line with (what were told) is the "popular sentiment" of the country, you're labeled a terrorist sympathizer.
Someone on another thread screamed, "Hamas is a terrorist organization". I responded, "Well, they also do street improvements". And they shot back, "Well, you're a terrorist sympathizer!" I mean, how ridiculous is that line of discourse?
Since 9/11, everything is re-defined to pave the way for a totalitarian state.
suppressing popular resistance, dissent and protest, movements of peace and justice, [have been] recast as “civil disorder,” “civil disturbance” and “domestic terror.”
If Martin Luther King were alive today, most likely, he'd be a detainee at GITMO.
It really pisses me off people claiming to love this country, but support the Patriot and Military Commission's Act's. Yeah, they love the Constitution so much, they made it null and void.
