As always, a nice totally unsupported generalization from Blur that slams the US.
OK, Blur. Make the case. Let's see your supporting data.
Just be advised that when you're done detailing all the police brutality, discriminatory racial disparities in incarceration, abusive conditions of confinement, state-sponsored executions, violations of workers' rights, discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the military, and the abuse of migrant child farmworkers....
Then you will have to show how this makes the US "one of the worst" when compared to the long list of nations that are openly slaughtering either ethnic or religious minorities.
I think it's going to be a bit tough comparing the US "discrimination against gay men and lesbians in the military" to the ethnically inspired violence in Senegal's Casamance, the Great Lakes, the Horn of Africa, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast or perhaps the problem of fundamental rights to freedom of association, expression, and assembly being tightly restricted in North Korea, Burma, Vietnam, Afghanistan and China. Let's not forget East Timor, either. But, go ahead, I'd love to see you compare these.
Or perhaps you'd like to compare/contrast that with Russian forces' violations of humanitarian law in the Chechen war? Uzbekistan's unrelenting crackdown against political and religious dissenters?
Human Rights violations in Turkmenistan? Kazakhstan? Kosovo, Bosnia, and Tajikistan?
Torture remains common in Turkey; don't forget to compare that.
And the Middle East! Got to add those folks to the list! Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza all feature the slaughter of civilians for ethnic/religious reasons. How's that compare to worker's rights in the US?
"The rights to freedom of expression and association were trampled across the region. There were no independent and critical local media in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, and Syria. In Tunisia and Egypt, the state-run broadcast and major print media were not open to independent or critical perspectives. Journalists were harassed, arrested, or imprisoned in Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, and areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority (P.A.), and the independent weekly La Nation remained suspended in Algeria. P.A. authorities ordered the closure of five radio and television stations between May 5 and June 2, and arrested Samir Qumsiah, chair of the Council of Private Radio and Television Stations, after he called for a thirty-minute broadcasting halt to protest the closures." Of course, no freedom of expression for entire populations isn't as serious as gay rights in the military, is it?
I look forward to watching you make your case, Blur.
Or are you just doing another one of your "drive by" anti-US generalizations?
