Posted on 01/14/2017 8:30:39 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Human Rights Watch lists Trump as threat to human rights
By Brooke Seipel - 01/14/17 10:01 AM EST
Human Rights Watch is listing President-elect Donald Trump as a threat to human rights, calling his campaign a “vivid illustration of the politics of intolerance.”
“Donald Trump’s election as US president after a campaign fomenting hatred and intolerance, and the rising influence of political parties in Europe that reject universal rights, have put the postwar human rights system at risk,” the group said in a Friday statement announcing a new report.
The 687-page World Report analyzes Trump’s campaign, pointing to his rhetoric as a cause for worry over human rights violations.
“(Trump’s) campaign floated proposals that would harm millions of people, including plans to engage in massive deportations of immigrants, to curtail women’s rights and media freedoms, and to use torture,” the report says, quoting Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth.
“Unless Trump repudiates these proposals, his administration risks committing massive rights violations in the US and shirking a longstanding, bipartisan belief, however imperfectly applied, in a rights-based foreign policy agenda.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
For Trump this is a higher honor...he has made the right enemies
I note the Trump folks ain’t at Davos
They use the empty phrase “human rights”, which is fluid, everchanging, and vaguely described as a set of rules that tell governments what they must do and must not do.
In other words, a prescription for tyranny by whoever decides what “human rights” are at the moment.
For example, I have read that there is a supposed “human right” to education. How can that be? If you have to take from one person to give to another, you are violating the first persons right to property.
Resources are not infinite. You cannot have a right to things that belong to others.
In so doing they show their own hatred and intolerance.
The HRW has already given more attention to what Trump might do than to the genocide of hundreds of thousands of innocent Christians, Yazidi, and others.
I guess the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people at the hands of muzzie extremists didn’t fit their narrative.
Yes. Depending if one country wants what another has. Things like diamonds, oil, other natural resources. That’s why dictators are allowed to remain in power in some countries and are trade partners in others. Some may get invaded and experience regime change if they’re cutting off heads and torturing people.
This is really partisan.
They should perhaps lose their 501c.
We patriots have complained but tried to bring about change by voting. I have a feeling this peaceful change is not going to last. There may be a bad moon rising and trouble on the way.
Stock up!
Yeah, whatever.
Frankly, I’m becoming dulled by the constant whining. If it ever had any effect, it’s losing it.
There is absolutely no intrinsic right for anyone to covet land in another country and move there in complete disregard for the laws of that country.
I wonder if the people pushing this claptrap would agree that anyone who likes their house can move in, regardless of how the homeowners feel about it.
We do have a right to control who comes into our country, just as we have a right to say who can enter our homes.
Human Rights Watch is SOROS.
Wonderful!
Gottem skeered
The Left is imploding. Donald Trump was the detonator.
They’re only hope is the lone gunman route.
Now, that's some serious diarrhea of the pen.
What human rights is Trump threatening? There is no human right to cross borders in breach of law without good reason.
Ironic that I read this after watching the awesome video this morning of the president (?) of Hungary speaking to his new Border Control officers. One of his memorable quotes was
Human rights does not include national suicide.
They are all jumping the shark.
Let them scream now, and continue screaming. They will all be ignored.
First, put them in the bed in the presidential suite......might make the "piss" part of the fake news crap into a little bit of reality....
BINGO.
For citizens, Freepers, Americans, etc who have never had human rights violations against your family....
ZERO human rights organizations will respond if you contact them alleging violations against the government if you are a white family.
They are exactly what you say: Soros funded creepy organizations with hidden global agendas.
Every one of them.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The major constitutional problem with “human rights,” especially during the lawless Obama administration, is this. Corrupt, state sovereignty-ignoring federal lawmakers have been letting likewise corrupt judges get away with using vote-winning, politically correct, constitutionally unprotected “human rights" to trump rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect, the fictitious constitutional rights to have an abortion and gay “marriage” good examples.
In fact, the congressional record shows that John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, had indicated that Congress has no constitutional authority to protect rights that the states haven’t amended the Constitution to expressly protect, Trump and Sessions will need to inventory federal civil rights laws and remove from the books those laws that Congress can’t reasonably justify with specific constitutional clauses.
“Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” —John Bingham, Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
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