Uncle Sam Says: Do as I Say, Not as I Do

Of course, if you consider yourself almighty, omnipotent, supreme, brilliant and perfect, there is nothing odd about the fact that, in your vanity, you treat everyone as if they were beneath you and even attribute atrocious defects to them.

The U.S. authorities assume that they represent the country of the chosen, the ones with the divine task of correcting everyone . . . but they have forgotten to correct themselves when needed.

The issue is that recently the U.S. Department of State, the supposed guiding entity for the empire’s foreign affairs, insisted on publishing another report — one published every year — on the violation of human rights in every corner of this world, excluding the territory within the U.S.

The report was extremely harsh on Venezuela and China, nations which had immediate and strong reactions to the evaluations made by one of the least qualified countries to even begin to make judgments on how citizens are treated in foreign courts.

The Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. declared that the new absurd report gives continuity to the aggressive and destabilizing activity by America against the Venezuelan nation, especially when the empire has no right to preach to anyone on matters of human rights.

The Venezuelan embassy’s declaration reminds us of the genocidal wars launched by the White House in Afghanistan and Iraq, both with high numbers of civilian casualties; the proliferation of secret jails, where the U.S. military is allowed to apply torture as a “method of interrogation;” and the uncertainty of the American citizens, themselves victims of the economic crisis, which has led to 10% unemployment and the suffering that coincides which such a statistic.

For its part, China emphasized the fact that the White House uses the issue of human rights as a political instrument in order to “interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, stain another’s perception and fuel its own strategic interests.”

China accused the United States of having provoked the current global economic crisis and being responsible for the “global assault on human rights.” China claims the U.S. swayed the media establishment in favor or its wretched policies, which consist of security measures restraining individual liberties, instituted since the 9/11 attacks.

Proving this point, in the last few days the U.S. Senate approved an extension for an additional year of the so called “Patriot Act,” a law which permits the suppression of civil liberties and sacred individual rights — which are held up as a banner for imperial propaganda — under the pretext of the fight against terrorism.

A country so vulnerable to the same charge — violation of human rights — should not be pointing at its neighbors.