Tit-for-tat

Whenever the U.S. publishes its annual human rights report, China retaliates with is own report on the state of human rights in the U.S. It has become a tradition. While the U.S. is lambasting the human rights situation in more than 190 countries around the world, pretending to know what is right or wrong, Washington doesn't even have one word to say about what could possibly be improved in the human rights situation in the U.S. itself.

That makes the U.S. an easy prey for China's scribes. (The People's Daily Online: The Human Rights Record of the US in 2006 and China's HUman Rights). The indictment is blisteringly hot:

+ rampant violent crimes
+ the largest number of privately owned guns in the world
+ common violations of human rights by law enforcement and judicial departments
+ robberies, kidnappings and false arrest by the Chicago police
+ thousands of innocent people jailed
+ three quarters opf terrorism suspects seized after September 11, 2001 haven't made it to trila because of lack of evidence
+ the world's largest number of prisoners (2.2 million)
+ the use of dogs to terrify and attack prisoners
+ the use of chemical agents against prisoners
+ at least 13% of inmates in U.S. prisons suffered from sexual assaults
+ illegal surveillance as part of anti-terrorism investigations
+ the gathering of information on antiwar and environmental protesters
+ the U.S. democracy is one in which money talks
+ in 2005, 12.6% of the U.S. population was living in poverty.
+ there are 600,000 homeless people
+ the U.S., together with Lesotho, Liberia, Swaziland and Papua New Guinea does not guarantee paid maternity leave
+ racial discrimination remains rampant: white people's income was 64% more than the income of blacks and 40% more than hispanics
+ only around 15% of the seats in the U.S. Congress are occupied by women
+ 20% of children under 6 live in poverty
+ the U.S. is one of the few countries that sentences child offenders to death
+ the U.S. violates human rights in other countries: 655,000 Iraqis have died since the war started
+ the U.S. is violating the Geneva Conventions by systematically abusing prisoners
+ people are illegally detained at Guantanamo Bay

The U.S. is guilty of the worst violations of human rights: genocide, aggression, occupation and torture.