Arpad Tota, from Hungary, notes the black irony behind the U.S. custom of judging other nations in the category of 'respect for human rights.'
Watching America:
Each year the US state dept issues a report on Hungary that measures our respect for human rights and how we’re proceeding on our road to democracy.
. . I’m thinking: Why don’t you report on your mother, you yankee peasant! America has no moral basis for this. . . .
For weeks I’ve been wondering what the difference is between a Soviet and an American gulag. What's to like about an American concentration camp, or even accept, pardon or explain? Why do they hold terrorists there? How do we know who's a real terrorist if a confession can be beaten out of anyone. And they complied with the law; they just took their subject on a little Egyptian study tour.
[Photo from Watching America, captioned: "Airport in Szymany, Poland, Identified as a Potential CIA 'Secret Prison.'"]
Hat tip to Talkleft
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