5 Human Rights Abuses America Commits Right Here at Home

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http://www.alternet.org/5-human-rights-abuses-america-commits-right-here-home

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1. Michael Dunn and George Zimmerman Found Not Guilty Of Killing Unarmed Teenagers

Zimmerman walked up to Trayvon Martin on Feb. 16, 2012 while the boy was walking to his father’s home in Sanford, Fla. The two got into a scuffle and it ended with Martin taking a fatal bullet to the chest. Zimmerman was arrested one month later, sparking arguments from many who felt the death of a white teenager would have led to a quicker law enforcement response. A jury found Zimmerman not guity.

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2. Rekia Boyd

On March 21, 2012, 22-year-old Rekia Boyd was near Douglas Park, in Chicago, with three friends when Dante Servin, an off-duty cop, confronted them over loud music coming from a house party he claimed they were attending. After one of the males in the group told Servin to ‘’move the fuck on,’’ the cop claimed the man reached for a weapon and began shooting at the group. Boyd, who was not armed, was fatally shot in the back of the head fleeing the scene. Antonio Cross was actually carrying a cell phone, not a weapon, prosecutors claim. Cross was wounded but survived.

3. Death Penalty

While the European Union and most industrialized nations have banned the death penalty, the United States ranks in the top five countries that carried out executions in 2013, according to a recent report by the Guardian. More than 75 percent of the murder victims in cases ending with executions were white, even though nationally only 50 percent of murder victims are generally white, according to deathpenaltyinfo.org. Think Progress reports that, of the 30 executions performed in 2013, the majority of victims were white.

4. Voter ID laws

Though Republican claims of voter fraud and other electoral meltdowns has been thoroughly debunked, red-state legislatures have enacted scores of restrictive voting laws in recent years. These measures are designed to needlessly police the process to deter turnout in perceived Democratic strongholds. New laws, such as requiring tougher voter ID standards and fewer early voting options, have made it harder for many citizens to vote. This is especially true for blacks, Latinos, students and lower-income people who may not have the required documentation or easy ways to get it.

[Demeter]

1. And after denial of life and due process,

there's denial of food, water, shelter, education, medical care, voting rights, and justice.


Find me a candidate with a similar laundry list, and the will to tackle it, and I will vote for him/her.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

2. Michael Dunn was NOT found Not Guilty...

He was convicted of attempted murder, and there was a hung jury on murder one. That is not the same as not guilty. He is currently awaiting retrial on murder one (although, I think they should go for murder 2, proving intent is the hard part). Regardless, he is spending the rest of his life in jail.

[ReRe]

3. K&R

This article made one thing very clear to me. The USA can't govern itself anymore, mainly because we have become "The Corporate States of America." The Corporation doesn't like regulations, and it has absolutely no use for the Constitution with its Bill of Rights nor any of those pesky human rights conventions, and they have no special place in their hearts (since Corporations are people, my friend,) or love for, the United Nations. And don't even mention the International Criminal Court (ICC.) We have become a lawless rogue nation.

Could it be that those two mothers could find recourse at the ICC? At the UN?