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U.S. All Talk and No Action on Human Rights

Criticizing human rights records without accompanying punitive action makes such reports meaningless.

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plipino:

"worst repression campaign" against Tibetans. WOW! Some god is judging China. Get off your moralization and come back to earth.

mohammad allam:

oh do you think mr bashier that America also has a sense of human rights?Its amazing.

Darden Cavalcade:

Very true, Mr. Goth. Sad. But true. We're all goons now.

CarolTate2:

I think the US should just close it's pocketbook & get rid of all the Free Trade Agreements...
If you want to ship something into or out of this country, you should pay import or export taxes....I'm just so tired of people screaming for our help, taking our money & then condemning us if we do or do not help.....This country was founded by hard-headed courageous people who won our freedom from tyranny........The rest of the world should take a lesson & fight for your freedoms. why is it that USA children are expected to die for your freedoms & you do not???????......
You may make disparaging remarks about my country, but NOONE OWNS THIS COUNTRY........if you think so, just face the real Americans & try to collect!

one-life-to-live:

HELLO WORLD!

BOYCOTTING THE OLYMPIC-2008 IN CHINA IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO A RIGHT DECISION TO MAKE TO ALL!

China a land of violence-believers! land of tortures! land of liars, communist thieves and robbers, invaders!, land of doing all worst things for benefiting evil chinese vampires! chinese thugs! chinese bloody communist regimes! chinese devastators! chinese liars! chinese robbers! chinese human body parts harvesters and sellers! land of vampires and blood-suckers!

Pls. listen to your conscience before starting doing or not-doing business with the evil China and its murderous vampires' empire!

All world good men, good leaders, good policies makers, good law-makers should listen to your own conscience before starting dealing with China in any aspect!

Sad Sad World! A world full with too many useless thinkers, advisors, policies makers, law-makers, law-enforcers, leaders, etc,.

Michael D. Houst:

Write your congressmen and senators and urge them to push for removal of China from their most favored nation trading status.

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China-man:

Good job for Chines Police and securty forces,because they restore peace and stability of Tibet region.and they arrest all subaraties ,looters and the street gangs.

Good job for Chines goverment and thier securty forces.

Mohammad allam:

American talk when there is no interest of him and when there is interest they not only talk but also act.see the example of Iraq and Afghanistan.

marc mercury :

In the words of Jesus Christ which are below for all of us to recall or be enlightened.
Christ or God Himself is speaking about the 2 GREATEST COMMANDMANTS that we as Christians and I might add, the world should follow.

From Gods word, the Bible from the
Passage Matthew 22:37:

37 And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Passage Matthew 22:39:

39 And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.


It seems that all have failed or sinned and fall short Gods love towards mankind. That is why
Christ (God) came into the world. To Save all of mankind against the violence,abuse towards one another both physical and mental and all our evil thoughts.

China and U.S. have yet to learn of Gods love towards each other. Crimes punishable by death or hope of Gods forgiveness of the above sins thru Gods son Jesus and a once and for all clear hope of life after death.
We truly can live without guilt and have everlasting love for each other, but not of ourselves, but thru the Spirit of Christ Jesus of Nazareth, the baby born in a manger wrapped the the burial clothes of death that gave us the hope of life. Jesus forever changed how we dated history and truly how we should look inwardly and see our own sin within.
Sincerely ,
In Spirit of Christ Jesus and hope for the Tibetians and prayers That the Dali himself really come to know Jesus,
Marc Mercury


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warning:

Consider this a fair warning to those who are planning to enter China and violate Chinese laws. Stay the h3ll out of China because you WILL be arrested and punished to the fullest extend of the law if you even so must as to raise the flag of the Tibetan rebels. Chinese people are fed up and will exercise their citizen duty to punish those who come into China and break our laws intentionally. Now you are warned.

Zulander:

To "One life to live" Are you on drugs? Why are you posting same mesage to different sites? What is up with ALL CAPs?

one-life-to-live:

THE WORLD SUDDENLY ALTOGETHER BOYCOTT OLYMPIC-2008 THAT WILL LET CHINA PLAYS WITH ITSELF! AND LET CHINA TO WIN ALL GOLD MEDALS FOR ITSELF!

IF THIS HOLDS TRUE THEN THE ENTIRE WORLD POSITIVELY SEND CHINA A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT ONLY CHINESE VAMPIRE CAN PLAY WITH ITS OWN IN THIS WORLD!

PLS. BOYCOTT OLYMPIC-2008 TO EXPRESS SUPPORTS TO ALL TIBET AND ITS UNFORTUNATED TIBETANS!

PLS. BOYCOTT OLYMPIC-2008 TO EXPRESS CONCERNS AND SUPPORTS TO ALL VICTIMIZED AFRICANS WHO HAVE BEEN HOLOCAUSTED BY SUDAN SUPPORTED AND BACKED BY CHINA!
PLS. BOYCOTT OLYMPIC-2008 TO EXPRESS CONCERNS AND SUPPORTS TO THE ISLAMIC UYGHUR SOVEREIGNED NATION, INVADED AND OCCUPIED BY CHINA AND THESE MUSLIM PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND EMPRISONED SYSTEMATICALLY BY CHINESE MURDERERS OR INVADER!
PLS. BOYCOTT OLYMPIC-2008 TO EXPRESS SUPPORTS TO VIETNAM AND ITS CITIZENS VICTIMIZED BY BLOODY CHINA WHICH INVADED MURDERED VN SOLDIERS AND OCCUPIED SPRATTLY AND PARACEL ISLANDS OF VIETNAM!
THE WORLD CANNOT EXPECT MUCH FROM THE UN! WHILE BLOODY CHINA IS STILL IN THE UNSC!
PLS. REMOVE CHINA FROM THE UNSC AND UN TO CLEAN UP THIS CORRUPTED PLACE THAT HAS BEEN EXPLOITED REPEATEDLY BY CHINA!
PLS THE ENTIRE WORLD NATIONS MUST UNITE AND SHOW AFRICAN NATIONS TO STAY AWAY FROM BLOODY CHINA! AND AVOID THE HOLOCAUST PROBLEM THAT CHINA HAD DONE TO CAMBODIA AND ITS INNOCENTS NOT VERY LONG AGO!
THE ENTIRE WORLD NATIONS THAT HAVE TO WAKE UP TO STAY AWAY FROM BEING FOOLED BY CHINA WITH ITS SYSTEMATIC CORRUPTIONS CHINESE WAYS!!!!

ff:

"The U.S. State Dept. also repeatedly criticizes many of its Middle Eastern friends for their dismal human rights records. But some of these countries remain as major recipients of U.S. aid. "

Yes, and this is because America would have even less influence over their behavior if we were to cut them off. They would simply jump into bed with China and Russia, and so be free to ignore human rights completely. Diplomacy is about choosing the least bad of different options, and punitive measures would be counterproductive. But, hey, why come to grips with messy realities when you can instead make cheap criticisms about American hypocrisy? After all, you're a pundit, not a policy-maker, and so you don't have to answer for the consequences of your ideas.

Truman:

More rank hypocrisy from the Bush administration. And more proof of how desperately we need a change from having our government run by big corporations in the guise of Bush and Cheney and the Republicans.

suresh:

It is not just US, the world is very good at offering lip service. Witness how world condemned Afghan expulsion of a laborer who converted to Christianity or jailing of democratic leader in Muyanmar. Wasn’t it mere lip service, to be forgotten the day after?

Andrew:

first off, to consider the US on par with any of the nations mentioned on the report is just plain stupid. Considering that Abu Ghraib was done out of the sight of the people above the prison and Guantanamo being an anomaly of this president that is doomed to extinction with the next one, the tiny case one does have becomes even smaller. These incidents involving altogether a couple hundred people, while wrong, are miniscule in comparison with what so many others have done. Even the fact that Guantanamo will die with Bush's presidency is a testament to the fact that US mistakes are short-lived, in comparison with these regimes.

Secondly, if you find a way to go about changing the regime of a country with over a billion people, then please let me know. If we took away favored nation status, we wouldn't be doing anything but pissing them off and hurting our own economy as well as theirs. As for the others, its a simple case of 'the devil you know is better than the devil you don't'. Why on Earth would you ever see a country topple or demand regime change in a friendly nation? Americans are always in favor of democracy and liberty, but if that means replacing a friendly autocratic government with a religious, hostile government, well it is quite obvious why Americans would be willing to look the other way.

I give Kudos to the US government for actually doing these reports when very few others actually will. Why is the US not in its own report? The answer is actually pretty simple: it doesn't have to be. The actions of the US government are vetted every day and night by people around the world. Contrary to conspiracy lore, there are not hundreds of people locked up in secret camps (Guantanamo is no secret), being tortured day and night in complete secrecy. Most Americans are in disgust with Guantanamo, and it won't live to see the end of the decade. That is why the US is not engaged in full-blown hypocrisy. Unlike others, we can change our government's policies peacefully from within, without changing the government. We also manage to go back, admit our mistakes, and generally apologize for them (slavery, Japanese internment). Instead of bashing on the US for its far-from-perfect record, why don't you just concentrate your hate on the people who really deserve it, instead of blowing out of a proportion the case against America.

Anonymous:

WRONG!

It is all because China is a BIG creditor of USA, in this age of banking meltdowns. A "friend" in need is a "friend" indeed!

sports:

What a selfish idea to ask athletes to boycott the Olympics.

Don't politicize sports!
Athletes and Olympics have nothing to do with politics.

People with hidden political agenda will anything, including hurting the athletes.

Anonymous:

"TOTALLY WRONG"!

"CHINA IS THE MOST DANGEROUS SOURCE TO ALL ALL MANKIND! EXPECIALLY TO ALL AFRICAN NATIONS AND PEOPLE"

CHINA IS THE WORLD MOST EVIL AND MOST DANGEROUS NATION RUN BY MURDERERS! SPIES! DEVASTATORS, CORRUPTION-SPREADER/DISTRIBUTOR! THE HUNGRY WOLVES!

THE WORLD MUST BOYCOTT CHINA IN ALL ASPECTS! TO SHOW THIS LAND OF VAMPIRE THAT WORLD PEOPLE CANNOT LIVE WITH VAMPIRES SUCH AS:

1/ DON'T BY ANYTHING "MADE IN CHINA"
2/ DON'T SELL ANYTHING TO CHINA: OIL, GAZ, RAW MATERIALS, MINERALS!
3/ DON'T LET CHINESE SPIES ENTER FREELY INTO YOUR NATIONS IN THE FORMS OF STUDENTS, BUSINESS INDIVIDUALS
4/ DON'T ALLOW CHINESE IMMIGRANTS TO FIND JOBS IN ANY SENSITIVE TECHNICAL AND RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTS TO LET CHINESE SPIES TO STEAL SECRETS OF ALL FORMS!
5/ DON'T MARRY CHINESE SPIES AS WOMEN TO BECOME YOUR WIVES AND WILL CONVINCE YOU TO STEAL TECHNICAL AND MILITARY SECRETS AS ALWAYS FOUND IN USA, JAPAN, AND ELSEWHERE!
6/ BOYCOTT OLYMPIC-2008 IN CHINA TO TELL THESE VAMPIRES THE WORLD CANNOT PLAY AND BEING FORCED TO ACCEPT CHINESE WAYS OF BRUTALITY AND ILLMORAL LIFE-STYLE!

IN SUMMARY, STAY AWAY FROM CHINA AND CHINESE SPIES AND THIEVES AS FAR AS BETTER FOR ALL OF CITIZENS IN THIS WORLD!

CHINA IS FORMED BY THUGS AND BELIEVING IN STEALING EVERYTHING FROM ALL OTHER NATIONS SUCH AS:
INVADED SOVEREIGNED TIBET NATION AND FINALLY ANNEXED THIS NATION TO TURN INTO A PIECE OF LAND OF CHINA! SAME WITH INNER MONGOLIA, VIETNAM'S PARACEL AND SPRATTLY ISLAND, PHILIPPINES' ISLAND, INDIA'S LAND, JAPAN'S OCEANIC REGION AND NATURAL RESOURCES, UYGHUR THE MUSLIM NATION, CHINA BROUGHT HOLOCAUST TO CAMBODIA AS TRAINED KHMER ROUGES TO SLAUGHTER MILLIONS OF CAMBODIAN INNOCENTS AND ONLY VIETNAN CAME IN TO DESTROY ALL KHMER ROUGES TO RESCUE THESE UNFORTUNATED COMBODIA ALONE AND NO NATIONS ON THIS PANET EARTH DID ANYTHING TO THIS CAMBODIA, CHINA TRAINED SUDAN TO SLAUGHTER SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND AFRICANS IN THE DAY LIGHT RECENTLY! AND NO NATION IN THIS WORLD HAS COME TO SAVE THESE INNOCENT AFRICANS! ETC

THE WORLD MUST STAND UP AND SELF-CLEANING SHAME TO SUPPORT TIBET NATION AND ITS INNOCENT CITIZENS LIVING AS REFUGEES IN THE ENTIRE WORLD DUE TO CHINA STEALS TIBET AND SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROY TIBET CULTURE TO TRANSFORM ALL TIBETANS INTO CHINESE SLAVES!
1.5 BILLIONS CHINESE IN CHINA ARE 1.5 BILLIONS OF SLAVES AND NO MORE AND NO LESS THAN A BUNCH OF SLAVES LIVE WITH CONSTANT FEAR IN FRONT OF CHINESE MURDERRERS' GUNS, TANKS THAT ARE ALWAYS READY TO KILL OFF ANY BRAVE CHINESE TO PROTEST THESE COMMUNIST CHINESE MURDERERS OR VAMPIRES!

WE THE FREE WORLD CITIZENS SHOULD NEVER LIVE WITH THE BLIND EYES TO SEE THE BLOODY CHINA TO SET RULE TO THE ENTIRE WORLD AND TEACH US TO BELEIVE IN VIOLENCE AND INVADING OTHER NATIONS AS SAID ABOVE!

THE ENTIRE WORLD MUST REUNITE TO VOTE FOR REMOVING CHINA FROM THE UN AND UNSC! CHINA IS A MEMBER IN THE UNSC TO EXPLOIT THIS PLACE TO DO HARMS TO ALL OTHER NATIONS!!!! PLS. REMOVE CHINA OUT OF THE UN AND UNSC AND JAPAN, GERMANY ARE THE VALUABLE NATIONS TO PERFECTLY DESERVE TO REPLACE CHINA AND RUSSIA AS WELL!!
CHINA HAS MADE WEAPONS TO KILL THE WORLD!!!!! AND WE MUST REALIZE THIS DANGER AND BE READY TO CONFRONT CHINA!!!!!

THE ENTIRE WORLD MUST REALIZE THIS WARNING:

"PLAY AND DO BUSINESS WITH CHINA IS SIMILAR AS TO DANCE WITH A DRACULA OR BLOOD-SUCKING VAMPIRE!"

GOD BLESS ALL SUFFERING TIBETANS!
INDEPENCE AND FREEDOM BACK TO TIBET NATION AND UYGHUR MUSLIM NATION OCCUPIED BY CHINA!
GOD BLESS ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE IN AFRICA CONTINENT WHO ARE INTHE PROCESS TO BE SYSTEMATICALLY MURDERED BY CHINA LIKE MILLION CAMBODIANS WERE SYSTEMATICALLY KILLED BY KHMER ROUGES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE BLOODY RED CHINA!!!

BOYCOTT THE GAMES:

Since China owns us and we can't do anything about it (they make all our stuff, they own our debt) we should at least do a symbolic protest and boycott the Olympic Games.

http://tibet.org/

ray:

too much freedom = no freedom
I never understood why we are allowed to have guns. How many school shootings? How many armed robberies? And how many police killings does it take for us to realize if others have rights to own guns, that might take my right to live away? Nobody will ask you if you give them the consent to shoot you before they shoot you. This kind of stuff in China will never happen because they are not allowed to have guns. Chinese government is corrupted because it is communist? Who are we to judge who is right and wrong? We can't force everyone to act like us, do we actually give them the so called "human rights" to choose for their own good? Or we are forcing them to change? I don't even want to point out who did what in our government. Do we care about civilian's human rights in Iraq? Or we just have double standards. And what can I say about Tibetans' "peaceful protest"? So far they have clashed with Chinese police, Indian police, Nepalese police, New York police...

If we want to talk about world peace and human rights, start from ourselves first, stop invading other countries and stop killing innocents. And guess what, you will never know when someone will point a gun at you for whatever reason.

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