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US Admits Human Rights Shortcomings In UN Report (O Admin. says our record 'less than perfect')
AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/23/10 | Matthew Lee - ap

Posted on 08/23/2010 2:30:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has told the United Nations that America's human rights record is less than perfect while stressing that the U.S. political system has built-in safeguards that promote improvements.

In its first-ever report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on conditions in the United States, the State Department said some minorities are still victims of discrimination. Despite progress in reforming past unfair policies and practices, the report said "work remains to meet our goal of ensuring equality before the law for all."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: humanrights; report; shortcomings; unitednations
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To: NormsRevenge

As always, they’re confusing equality of opportunity with equality about,.

You say that the United States is less than perfect?

Show me where there is any discrimination of at all of any kind?

And I’ll show you a giant lawsuit, making thousands For those who have been discriminated against and their learners too. -— remember the few black farmers that were discriminated against?

himHow? I sure didn’t discriminate against them. I doubt anyone else did too, but if you shout long enough, and you shout hard enough, anyone can get any amount of money from the US government, just as long as you make sure first that you are a special category — lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered freaks come first— whenever you put a sign outside then you will find that they’re lined up outside waiting for some of that free money.

This is the future of America — any imagined ill will be taken care of by a check from the government.


41 posted on 08/24/2010 8:04:58 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: NormsRevenge

“U.S. admits Human Rights Shortcomings?”

No it didn’t!....The ass clown in the White House said it which invalidates it!


42 posted on 08/24/2010 11:21:30 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: NormsRevenge

Sounds like treason to me.


43 posted on 08/25/2010 10:31:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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