Chinese report documents human rights disaster in the United States

[Roph]

The United States is the only country in the world that claims to be superior in every aspect, especially in human rights, and that lie is again exposed, this time by a report from China on the United States, all from US sources. The US is in fact a backward cesspool, the most backward country in the industrialized world.

The Chinese report quite legitimately notes that the US government "releases Country Reports on Human Rights Practices year after year to accuse other countries, and takes human rights as a political instrument to interfere in other countries' internal affairs, defame other nations' image and seek its own strategic interests. This fully exposes its double standards on the human rights issue..."

Delivering the US government a well-deserved dose of its own medicine does not, of course, absolve the Chinese regime of its own gross violations of human rights. It rules autocratically over 1.3 billion people, most of them desperately poor peasants and super-exploited workers.

That being said, the Chinese report is an eye-opening document—factual, sober, even understated, drawn entirely from public government and media sources in the United States, with each item carefully documented. It presents a picture of 21st century America as much of the world sees it, one which is in sharp contrast to the official mythology and American media propaganda.

Firerain came.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/03/19/18641919.php

Full report: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-03/12/c_13208219.htm

[Zylos]

So what else is new with the USA?  

I'd hope that most Americans are already aware of how bad the country really is on rights.

[SirJackRex]

While advocating "freedom of speech," "freedom of the press" and "Internet freedom," the U.S. government unscrupulously monitors and restricts the citizens' rights to freedom when it comes to its own interests and needs.

I lol'd so hard. I agree with Zylos though, but China really caught us at a shitty time to write this. Shit happens in recessions.

[Moss.]

The United States is the only country in the world that claims to be superior in every aspect

We do? I haven't heard about this.

Or better yet:

The United States is the only country in the world that claims to be superior in every aspect

Other's don't? Do other countries boast that they are second best?

[firerain]

I'd hope that most Americans are already aware of how bad the country really is on rights.

The sad truth is most really aren't. Yay freedom.

[Holkeye]

Don't forget that this is from China.

[Kokowam]

When the news says something, it automatically makes it true!

[SirJackRex]

there were actually quite a few sources for each sentence, however there were some that just said something like (Beijing yada yada yada).

I think the last line in the quoted text is hilarious.
"[...]one which is in sharp contrast to the official mythology and American media propaganda."
If you watch any sort of large media outlet, there's no praise; it's all doom and gloom. In addition to that, you rarely hear government officials talking about how the USA is a flawless nation. These guys are living on a different planet. Their articles have to be biased, as they openly state that they consider themselves to be a democratic news source. lol at Bay Area hipsters that think they're raw journalism.