US kills and tortures its own citizens if they are labeled 'criminals' or 'terrorists', or just lets cops murder activists without being charged.
US has heavy surveillance infrastructure, and a kafkaesque 'private' credit system that I have no doubt the TLAs can manipulate with their banking partners.
US politicians are currently working to ban the histories of racism and genocide from public schools when they make the country look bad. US media frequently participates in disinformation campaigns coordinated with state intelligence.
US has done more successful election manipulation/coups than any other country on the planet.
As a US citizen, I am vastly more afraid of of the US government than I am the CCP.
Not a fan of any authoritarianism, but USA could also be described the same way. We have massive data warehouses that just collect everything, phone calls, texts, internet packets. We just have different owners, but its the same game.
If you haven't read up on the unclassified docs that have been released about the secret agencies of this country, you should. We've done everything and worse to our own citizens. Including firebombing entire cities, sending the military to kill people striking, dosing unaware Americans with LSD... the list is long.
I'm not proud of what the government here in America is doing to its own citizens. Prison population, border detainment, Guantanamo... The USA is imprisons over 2 million people. Our human rights record is not strong.
I don't know what you are referring to. But for a americanophile who sees the USA as the leader of the free world and protector of human rights that a way more shocking than if a known police state does it. Et tu, Brute?
The fact that you are being down voted is a shame.
The US government tortures people and cares not for the rule of law, this is the entity people seem perfectly happy to support? Where do people draw the line? Is it at genocide?
I am really surprised at how great the gap has become between the US Government's rhetoric and actual policy on human rights, foreign policy and government transparency.
I just hope that Americans realise this and demand change sooner than later.
These acts are not what one would expect of a nation which was once the bastion of freedom for all the world, and I agree that the US & UK have been acting hypocritical for far too long now.
Can the "American Dream" survive the current state of affairs?
As a person coming from a former Soviet satellite republic, I must say, that the more I read,the less and less difference I see between the countries that are well known for disregarding human rights and the "land of freedom" - the US. The only difference I can think of is that they probably won't shoot you in the broad daylight, like it happens in Russia. But other than that, the image is complete - if you do something the government doesn't like,they can absolutely destroy you. They can put you in prison without a court order, freeze your assets for indefinite amount of time, spy on you, send agents to follow you, deny you the information why they are doing this, and they do threaten journalists to not write about some cases or risk prosecution for violating "national security".
I am honestly sorry for people who live in the US and happen to do something that their government perceives as wrong.
This sounds like the sort of harassment that would happen to people in dodgy countries with poor human rights records. And the truth is, America isn't a democracy under the rule of law, it's a nasty vicious oligarchy that denies human rights to its citizens while hypocritically lecturing other countries on those rights.
tl;dr US government doesn't only protect their war criminals, but also other kinds of criminals. And US public either doesn't care, or can't do anything.
The US government has become practically unresponsive to even the gravest of crimes, such as torture and pervasive surveillance of it's own citizens. Crimes committed by those in power are either ignored, fined a percentage of their profit, or wrist slapped while those who oppose the powerful have their lives ruined.
Yes, a morally good person can no longer work for the US government, a threshold into evil has been crossed -- was it acceptable to work for the Stasi, for Mao or Stalin? No it wasn't, and isn't acceptable to assist the US government.
To be sincere, our government (Brazil) is hypocritical, because it doesn't give a damn about individual rights. Every month bills are being passed to restrict liberties, we have zero transparency in the government and the party in power uses the local intelligence agency (ABIN) to spy on political adversaries. The president is boasting the anti-american instance mainly for votes.
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