Posted on 08/12/2018 10:30:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump’s anti-press rhetoric is “very close to incitement to violence” that would lead to journalists censoring themselves or being attacked, the outgoing UN human rights commissioner has said.
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, a Jordanian prince and diplomat, is stepping down this month as UN high commissioner for human rights after deciding not to stand for a second four-year term, in the face of a waning commitment among world powers to fighting abuses.
Zeid said the Trump administration’s lack of concern about human rights marked a distinct break with previous administrations, and that Trump’s own rhetoric aimed at minorities and at the press was redolent of two of the worst eras of the 20th century, the run-up to the two world wars.
In an interview with the Guardian, he singled out the US president’s repeated designation of the press as “the enemy of the people”.
“We began to see a campaign against the media … that could have potentially, and still can, set in motion a chain of events which could quite easily lead to harm being inflicted on journalists just going about their work and potentially some self-censorship,” Zeid said. “And in that context, it’s getting very close to incitement to violence.”
He said it would be up to a court but determine whether Trump was actually guilty of incitement depending on the circumstances, if say, a journalist was stabbed while covering a rally. He said Trump’s example was already being followed elsewhere, giving license to authoritarian leaders to crack down on the media in ways they had not previously dared to. Zeid pointed to the Cambodian leader, Hun Sen, who he said had used similar language when he closed down independent media organisations....
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More likely the other way around but you just never know?
The privileged little a-rab royal is all prissy because Our President wisely withdrew from their kangaroo court of a commission so he is parroting US lib media.
All very predictable in our globalist, moo-slime tainted world.
Looks like the UN human rights chief is either illiterate or an imbecile.
Why are these gangs of criminal parasites still on our soil?
Stop funding the UN and demand that these international Enemies do their partying is some other country.
Belgium would be perfect.
Even if the charge were true, it is still clearly less destructive to world safety than the actual violence that the 57 koranimal nations perpetrate daily worldwide.
What's up with that?
There you have the left wing Guardian on the one side and the UN puke on the other playing a game of what I call propaganda ping pong.
One of the most established media practices.
If you pay attention, the slithering snakes will identify themselves.
The UN and human rights should never be used in the same sentence. The UN is the greatest threat against the American people’s Bill of Rights.
The A-holes at the UN obviously don’t care about the media’s incitement against Trump, his administration, and his supporters, incitement that resulted in real violence and even attempted murder. I guess calling the President and his supporters Nazis, fascists, Hitlers, etc, doesn’t count huh UN?
Zero is always the woman in those types of negotiations.
Boo hoo hoo. The MSM should be able to sling crap at others at will but nobody should be able to dish it right back to them. That’s so unfaaaaaaar!
As if we give the slightest chit what anybody at the corrupt UN thinks about anything.
UN human rights chief: Trump’s attacks on press ‘close to incitement of violence’
UN human right. Now there is something to mull over.
As soon as I see UN I stop reading as it is not credible.
Yep, and if it actually existed then this person should be focused on hundreds of other areas where socialist governments that are bankrupting themselves are forced to kill their own people who are standing up to the failed systems.
See toons here related to who is blocking the free press
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,328025.0.html
Do Him Like Gaddafi’ — Antifa Protesters Caught On Video Threatening To Kill The President
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/13/i-asked-leftists-protesters-what-they-would-do-if-they-met-trump-their-answers-horrified-me/
NBC covering up attack against their own employees.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/08/12/nbc-ignores-own-reporter-and-crew-assaulted-antifa
Kathy Griffin had no comment, right?
Kathy Griffin had no comment, right?
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