Last week, 12 August, the Trump Administration’s State Department released a report, updated from 2024, that assesses the “Human Rights Practices” of nearly 200 countries and territories worldwide.
As you may have guessed, South Africa was among those fingered by the US in that report for supposed “human rights violations and concerns”.
In the executive summary, the report basically alleged that “the human rights situation in South Africa significantly worsened during the year, including reports of arbitrary or unlawful killings, arrest and detention, and the repression of racial minorities.”
The report also accused the South African government of not taking “credible steps to investigate, prosecute, and punish officials who committed human rights abuses.”
US ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST SA INCLUDE:
Under Section 1, titled LIFE: Extrajudicial Killings, the report alleges “the (SA) government or its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings.” This section included reports of SA police involved in shoot-outs and killings of criminal suspects.
For some reason, this section also references what has become loosely known as the “pig farm” murders – as if that heinous crime is somehow the South African government’s fault.
Section 2, titled LIBERTY: Freedom of the Press, proceeds to lecture SA about the constitutional right to freedom of expression, independent press, and other media.
In Section 3, SECURITY OF THE PERSON, SA is accused (of course), of “Acts of Antisemitism and Antisemitic Incitement.” (This is because most of us – like most of the world – condemn Israel’s unrelenting holocaust in Gaza.)
SPOT THE STAGGERING HYPOCRISY
Can you see it yet…?
The United States of America, the biggest mass-murdering terrorist organisation in the world, part of the imperial, neocolonial, genocidal axis of evil that is US/NATO/Israel…is accusing our little S’Africa…of “human rights violations”?
Is this a joke? Is that supposed to be funny?
Boy, talk about the pot calling the kettle…the k-word.
Yeah, sure, the ANC have proven themselves, over 30 years, to be hopelessly, completely corrupt and incompetent on a level that literally…boggles the mind.
But their “human rights violations”…pale in comparison to yours, ‘Murica.
TYPICAL WESTERN GEOPOLITICAL PROJECTION
This is clearly another classic case of Western geopolitical projection. Where they, the West, accuse other countries in the world of exactly what they’re guilty of.
You know, there’s an old proverb attributed to Chaucer, and once quoted by Benjamin Franklin, that says, “People living in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
Applied here, the people living in the glass house are the US government – Republicans AND Democrats. The stones they’re throwing is their “Human Rights” report card slapped on SA and most of the world. And the glass house…is America’s long history of genocidal war crimes and human rights violations.
US REPORT MIXES FACTS, DECEPTION AND POLITICAL SPIN – HRW
Human Rights Watch has slammed the Trump Administration’s report for mixing facts, deception and political spin. “The State Department’s new human rights report is in many places an exercise of whitewashing and deception,” said Sarah Yager, Washington director at HRW. “Entire categories of abuses have been erased, while serious rights violations by allied governments have been papered over.”
HRW also claimed that “by undermining the credibility of the report, the administration puts human rights defenders at risk, weakens protections for asylum seekers, and undercuts the global fight against authoritarianism.”
LET’S FLIP THAT REPORT CARD – BACK AT YOU, USA
So…how about we give the US (and their NATO allies and Zionist puppetmasters) a little “Human Rights” report card of our own?
Now, if I wanted to be nastily petty…I could start alll the way back in 1945 when the US became the first and only country in history to drop – not one, but two – nuclear bombs on another nation. When the US nuked the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, exactly 80 years ago this month.
I could then move on to Korea and Vietnam…the Cold War (and all that came with it) and every coup, assassination, forced regime change, and proxy war in South America and Africa since the ‘60s.
Instead, let’s start more recently…from just a few decades ago.
9/11 AND THE GWOT
Let’s start with 11 September 2001, when the US government – or, at least, rogue, deep state elements within the US government, in collaboration with Saudi Arabia and, of course, Israel’s Mossad – attacked the US and killed nearly 3 000 civilians in a false-flag terrorist attack on the WTC in New York.
Why?
To justify what was coming next; the so-called Global War on Terror (GWOT) in the Middle East and North Africa. Eight countries attacked and destroyed in just over two decades – including recent illegal airstrikes on Iran’s non-existent “nuclear programme”.
All for stolen resources…and all at the behest of Israel.
PROVOKING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE ‘WAR’
As we speak, Donald Trump is claiming credit for brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to end a war – that the US started, or at least provoked.
(Ever heard of a lady named Victoria Nuland? Look her up. Specifically, in relation to her role in the Maidan coup, and how it ultimately led to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict.)
By now, it’s no secret that within weeks of Russia’s SMO into Ukraine in late February 2022, a peace deal was on the table between Putin and Zelensky called the Istanbul process, brokered in Türkiye.
However, lest we forget, after the Istanbul meeting and deal, the US/NATO sent their mass-murdering, warmongering minion – the guy with the bad hairdresser – ex-British PM Boris ‘Bojo’ Johnson to Kiev. Where he coerced Zelensky to betray the peace deal with Putin, and choose war instead of peace.
To date, according to several military analysts, Ukraine lost almost 2 million troops in that conflict. (That figure has just been confirmed in documents leaked by the Ukraine military in the past few days.)
And US/NATO…is deeply complicit.
Sadly, even if Trump does somehow miraculously arbitrate peace between Russia and Ukraine…you can be sure that another American-led war is in the pipeline – with Iran, China, or some other long-time US-targeted country.
In fact, as I write this, news has just broken that the US has deployed spyplanes, warships, a submarine and 4000 troops to Venezuela- the most oil-rich country on earth. (Don’t worry, this time it’s definitely not about the oil. The US military are only there to combat…”deadly drug cartels”. Oh, and…to bring some good ol’ fashioned ‘Murican style democracy to the Venezuelans, of course.)
SUPPORTING AND FUNDING ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN GAZA
Since 7 October 2023 to date, Israel’s maniacal IDF has slaughtered more than 60 000 Palestinians in Gaza – more than 18 000 of them children – and injured or maimed more than 150 000. Reportedly, more than 500 000 Gazans now face starvation from a man-made famine.
Last week, on 10 August, the IDF murdered another five journalists, bringing the number of journos and media members killed since the outbreak of Israel’s holocaust to nearly 270. According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, that’s more than all the journos killed in every war over the past 150 years – combined.
Yet, Israel’s gross genocidal war crimes and human rights violations are not only overwhelmingly supported by pro-Zionist neocons in Trump’s cabinet – and the democratic party – they’re openly cheered by them.
While most of the caring world now appears to be turning on Israel, the US continues to fund, arm and generally support the Zionist regime and its blatant, brazen, ethnic-cleansing holocaust in Gaza.
BLOCKING FREE SPEECH & MEDICAL AID, FOR ISRAEL
Since Trump came to power, the US has clamped down on varsity and campus student protests that criticize Israel’s mass murder in Gaza, or show any solidarity with the Palestinians being slaughtered.
To date, at least 6000 students have had their visas revoked, at least 300 of them for “pro-Palestinian activism on campus.” Many of them face deportation.
This, after Trump promised Congress he was restoring free speech, and after JD Vance lectured Europe in Munich about their “free speech violations.”
In a recent development, zealous Zionist (and scummiest Cuban since Scarface), US Secretary of State, psycho Marco Rubio just announced that the US is halting medical-humanitarian visas for people from Gaza. The decision will prevent wounded Palestinians from coming to the US for treatment.
Rubio announced the decision immediately after popular right-wing pro-Zionist influencer, Lara Loomer (who, for some bizarre reason, seems to have Trump’s ear), posted a video of Gazans arriving at US airports and called them “a threat to the country.”
ILLEGAL MASS DEPORTATIONS, IN DEFIANCE OF COURT ORDERS
On 15 March, the Trump administration invoked the ancient Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and deported over 250 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador.
Despite a court order and temporary restraining order by the Columbia District Court to halt the deportation, the migrants – alleged to be ‘gang members’ – were taken into custody and sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca.
This move by the Trump Administration was met with fierce criticism from the public and legal community as it bypassed due judicial process and violated human rights. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit on behalf of the migrants, arguing that the Act was being abused, since the migrants were not given the opportunity to challenge their removal.
At least two of Trump’s deported “gangsters” have turned out to be innocents who are not gang members and have no criminal record. Among them is Venezuelan soccer star, Jerce Reyes Barrios, who was bundled and deported with gangbangers after his tattoo was misinterpreted as a sign of gang affiliation.
The other innocent wrongly identified as a gang member and deported was 31-year-old Venezuelan makeup artist known only as Andry.
‘BEFORE YOU ACCUSE ME…’
I believe it was the late great Bo Diddley (covered by Eric Clapton) who once sang: “Before you accuse me…take a look at yourself.”
So I have a little reminder for Trump and his cabinet – for what it’s worth…
Y’all hardcore Christians, right..? Well, then…you might want to revisit a passage from that wise and weighty “sacred” sermon on the mount:
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye…and ignore the log in your own eye?” – Matthew 7:3
If that doesn’t work for you, try this one:
“Judge not, lest ye be judged.” – Matthew 7:1
DO YOU THINK THE USA HAS THE LEGAL OR MORAL AUTHORITY TO JUDGE ANY OTHER COUNTRY FOR ‘HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS’?
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