UN expert: US police violating international law

by **mrswdk** on Sun Jun 07, 2020 11:25 am

The UN rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, who led the UN’s investigation into the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, says she has observed ‘repeated’ violations of international law in the US Government response to current protests, including the misuse of so-called ‘non-lethal’ weapons and techniques (e.g. rubber bullets, tear gas) against journalists and peaceful protestors:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-06-05/ ... xpert-says

When will European governments like France and the UK enforce military measures against this brutal regime, as they did in Libya, Syria etc?

by **saxitoxin** on Sun Jun 07, 2020 12:38 pm

mrswdk wrote:When will European governments like France and the UK enforce military measures against this brutal regime, as they did in Libya, Syria etc?

When they can collectively put to sea more than three aircraft carriers against -

by **jimboston** on Sun Jun 07, 2020 9:42 pm

I just love how so-called “experts” throw around condemnations from miles away... while police officers (who are mostly middle class people with families and outside lives) have to stand there and get pelted by rocks or worse.

I also dislike the characterization of police force being used on protestors.
I would say it’s used on rioters, not protestors.

by **jonesthecurl** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 3:00 pm

Yeah, it's not like the U.S. ever has opinions about matters which are far away, or ever interferes, after all.

by **saxitoxin** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 3:11 pm

jonesthecurl wrote:Yeah, it's not like the U.S. ever has opinions about matters which are far away, or ever interferes, after all.

yup, that's why we elected Trump ... and that's why the last three presidents all voted against him; under Trump, the age of hypocrisy is winding down

by **mrswdk** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 4:36 pm

saxitoxin wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:Yeah, it's not like the U.S. ever has opinions about matters which are far away, or ever interferes, after all.

yup, that's why we elected Trump ...

Apart from when he interferes in Hong Kong, or the South China Sea, or Taiwan etc.

by **jimboston** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 5:04 pm

jonesthecurl wrote:Yeah, it's not like the U.S. ever has opinions about matters which are far away, or ever interferes, after all.

I don’t support US intervention in general either.

Re. The Hong Kong riots... I don’t think the US should do diddly squat about that.
Or the US “Commitment” to defend Taiwan from China... I think that’s baloney and we wouldn’t follow through anyway.

by **mrswdk** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 5:48 pm

jimboston wrote:Re. The Hong Kong riots... I don’t think the US should do diddly squat about that.
Or the US “Commitment” to defend Taiwan from China... I think that’s baloney and we wouldn’t follow through anyway.

Hey look at that, something jim and I agree on.

by **saxitoxin** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 6:34 pm

mrswdk wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:Yeah, it's not like the U.S. ever has opinions about matters which are far away, or ever interferes, after all.

yup, that's why we elected Trump ...

Apart from when he interferes in Hong Kong, or the South China Sea, or Taiwan etc.

Obviously tweeting (Trump) represents a trajectory of improvement over bombing (Obama / Bush / Clinton / Bush / Reagan).

by **hotfire** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:09 pm

saxitoxin wrote:
mrswdk wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:Yeah, it's not like the U.S. ever has opinions about matters which are far away, or ever interferes, after all.

yup, that's why we elected Trump ...

Apart from when he interferes in Hong Kong, or the South China Sea, or Taiwan etc.

Obviously tweeting (Trump) represents a trajectory of improvement over bombing (Obama / Bush / Clinton / Bush / Reagan).

Tweeting represents an improved deniability for the deaths created by the tweets...

by **Jdsizzleslice** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:22 pm

hotfire wrote:Tweeting represents an improved deniability for the deaths created by the tweets...

Death by Tweet?

by **hotfire** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:35 pm

It deniably has happened and deniably will again.

by **Jdsizzleslice** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:53 pm

Right...

by **saxitoxin** on Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:11 pm

Pelosi and Schumer are under fire for their latest publicity stunt that involved wearing Kente cloth sashes at a memorial they decided to organize for George Floyd (who, before his death, was most famous for once holding a pregnant woman at gunpoint) in the Capitol. Kente cloth?

The statue of King Kamehameha looks like he's saying WTF is this shit? I'm surprised they didn't try to throw one of those sashes over him because ... like, the statue is black, so close enough!

by **Dukasaur** on Tue Jun 09, 2020 5:45 am

mrswdk wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:Yeah, it's not like the U.S. ever has opinions about matters which are far away, or ever interferes, after all.

yup, that's why we elected Trump ...

Apart from when he interferes in Hong Kong, or the South China Sea, or Taiwan etc.

Or Yemen, or Venezuela, or Britain, or Ukraine...

by **mrswdk** on Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:11 am

Dukasaur wrote:
mrswdk wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:
jonesthecurl wrote:Yeah, it's not like the U.S. ever has opinions about matters which are far away, or ever interferes, after all.

yup, that's why we elected Trump ...

Apart from when he interferes in Hong Kong, or the South China Sea, or Taiwan etc.

Or Yemen, or Venezuela, or Britain, or Ukraine...

Or Iraq, or Turkey, or Denmark...