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Originally Posted by 2HousePlague
Abuse of Power
Sorry, for the Sunday rant, but I am growing a little impatient with some money owed to me by a former boss who employed me when I was child.
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There are two sets of laws or conditions - one for "us" and one from "them".
For clarification, if you are not "us", you automatically become "them".
The US has signed but still never ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It remains the only country in the western world and, in fact, the whole world with the exception of Somalia, who has not ratified this treaty.
Oddly, even for treaties which have been signed and ratified and become part of Federal Law, barriers are put in place to prohibit US citizens from excercising their rights under these treaties.
There is also a strange and, possibly arrogant attitude which oozes when scrutiny is applied to the US's own human rights record. While countries like Indonesia, UK, Peru, Rwanda, Germany, Colombia blah were open at the highest level with inspections, - the US attitude is of being defensive and along the lines of "Are you confusing us with some other country?" and "Is this an intentional insult to the US and our nation's legal system?" etc. Basically there is a problem with reality.