• Trump's Ministry Of Truth Redefines "Human Rights"

    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 18 08:41:46 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the
    | State Department's annual reports on international human
    | rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as
    | harsh prison conditions, government corruption and
    | restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR
    | has learned.
    |
    | Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant
    | to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid
    | allocations and security assistance, will no longer call
    | governments out for such things as denying freedom of
    | movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn
    | retaining political prisoners without due process or
    | restrictions on "free and fair elections."
    | ... <https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts>

    --bks

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Fri Apr 18 12:48:25 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    ["Followup-To:" header set to talk.politics.misc.]
    On 2025-04-18, Bradley K. Sherman <[email protected]> wrote:
    |
    | The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the
    | State Department's annual reports on international human
    | rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as
    | harsh prison conditions, government corruption and
    | restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR
    | has learned.
    |
    | Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant
    | to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid
    | allocations and security assistance, will no longer call
    | governments out for such things as denying freedom of
    | movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn
    | retaining political prisoners without due process or
    | restrictions on "free and fair elections."
    | ...
    <https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts>

    --bks

    Human Rights are going to be scaled back further, as the West deals with
    the consequences of open borders, open society and social diversity. At
    some point people are going to realise that "Human Rights" gets in the
    way or certain political solutions, and the rights will dissapear.

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Fri Apr 18 13:00:12 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in
    news:vtthaa$lgc$[email protected]:

    |
    | The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the
    | State Department's annual reports on international human
    | rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as
    | harsh prison conditions, government corruption and
    | restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR
    | has learned.
    |
    | Despite decades of precedent, the reports, which are meant
    | to inform congressional decisions on foreign aid
    | allocations and security assistance, will no longer call
    | governments out for such things as denying freedom of
    | movement and peaceful assembly. They won't condemn
    | retaining political prisoners without due process or
    | restrictions on "free and fair elections."
    | ...
    <https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-ri ghts-report-cuts>

    --bks


    This old keeper comes to mind.






    "What happened at Abu Ghraib was mistreatment, not torture"
    David Hartung, April 24, 2009

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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to Borax Man on Fri Apr 18 14:09:14 2025
    On 18/4/25 5:48, Borax Man wrote:
    Human Rights are going to be scaled back further, as the West deals with
    the consequences of open borders, open society and social diversity. At
    some point people are going to realise that "Human Rights" gets in the
    way or certain political solutions, and the rights will dissapear.

    The USA realised that in 1791 when we enacted the Bill of Rights.

    An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and
    Settling the Succession of the Crown

    Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at
    Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the
    estates of the people of this realm, did upon the thirteenth day
    of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred
    eighty-eight [old style date] present unto their Majesties, then
    called and known by the names and style of William and Mary,
    prince and princess of Orange, being present in their proper
    persons, a certain declaration in writing made by the said Lords
    and Commons in the words following, viz.:

    Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of
    divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him,
    did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion
    and the laws and liberties of this kingdom;

    By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and
    suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of
    Parliament;

    By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly
    petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power;

    By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the
    great seal for erecting a court called the Court of Commissioners
    for Ecclesiastical Causes;

    By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of
    prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was
    granted by Parliament;

    By raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in
    time of peace without consent of Parliament, and quartering
    soldiers contrary to law;

    By causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed
    at the same time when papists were both armed and employed
    contrary to law;

    By violating the freedom of election of members to serve in
    Parliament;

    By prosecutions in the Court of King's Bench for matters and
    causes cognizable only in Parliament, and by divers other
    arbitrary and illegal courses;

    And whereas of late years partial corrupt and unqualified persons
    have been returned and served on juries in trials, and
    particularly divers jurors in trials for high treason which were
    not freeholders;

    And excessive bail hath been required of persons committed in
    criminal cases to elude the benefit of the laws made for the
    liberty of the subjects;

    And excessive fines have been imposed;

    And illegal and cruel punishments inflicted;

    And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures
    before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom
    the same were to be levied;

    All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and
    statutes and freedom of this realm;

    And whereas the said late King James the Second having abdicated
    the government and the throne being thereby vacant, his Highness
    the prince of Orange (whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make
    the glorious instrument of delivering this kingdom from popery
    and arbitrary power) did (by the advice of the Lords Spiritual
    and Temporal and divers principal persons of the Commons) cause
    letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being
    Protestants, and other letters to the several counties, cities,
    universities, boroughs and cinque ports, for the choosing of such
    persons to represent them as were of right to be sent to
    Parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster upon the two and
    twentieth day of January in this year one thousand six hundred
    eighty and eight [old style date], in order to such an
    establishment as that their religion, laws and liberties might
    not again be in danger of being subverted, upon which letters
    elections having been accordingly made;

    And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons,
    pursuant to their respective letters and elections, being now
    assembled in a full and free representative of this nation,
    taking into their most serious consideration the best means for
    attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their
    ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and
    asserting their ancient rights and liberties declare

    That the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution
    of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal;

    That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution
    of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised
    of late, is illegal;

    That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners
    for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts
    of like nature, are illegal and pernicious;

    That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of
    prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time, or in
    other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal;

    That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and
    all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;

    That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in
    time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament, is
    against law;

    That the subjects which are Protestants may have arms for their
    defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law;

    That election of members of Parliament ought to be free;

    That the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in
    Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court
    or place out of Parliament;

    That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines
    imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted;

    That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors
    which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be
    freeholders;

    That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of
    particular persons before conviction are illegal and void;

    And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending,
    strengthening and preserving of the laws, Parliaments ought to be
    held frequently.

    And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the
    premises as their undoubted rights and liberties, and that no
    declarations, judgments, doings or proceedings to the prejudice
    of the people in any of the said premises ought in any wise to be
    drawn hereafter into consequence or example; to which demand of
    their rights they are particularly encouraged by the declaration
    of his Highness the prince of Orange as being the only means for
    obtaining a full redress and remedy therein. Having therefore an
    entire confidence that his said Highness the prince of Orange
    will perfect the deliverance so far advanced by him, and will
    still preserve them from the violation of their rights which they
    have here asserted, and from all other attempts upon their
    religion, rights and liberties, the said Lords Spiritual and
    Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster do resolve that
    William and Mary, prince and princess of Orange, be and be
    declared king and queen of England, France and Ireland and the
    dominions thereunto belonging, to hold the crown and royal
    dignity of the said kingdoms and dominions to them, the said
    prince and princess, during their lives and the life of the
    survivor to them, and that the sole and full exercise of the
    regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange
    in the names of the said prince and princess during their joint
    lives, and after their deceases the said crown and royal dignity
    of the same kingdoms and dominions to be to the heirs of the body
    of the said princess, and for default of such issue to the
    Princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body, and for
    default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said prince
    of Orange. And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do
    pray the said prince and princess to accept the same accordingly.

    And that the oaths hereafter mentioned be taken by all persons of
    whom the oaths have allegiance and supremacy might be required by
    law, instead of them; and that the said oaths of allegiance and
    supremacy be abrogated.

    I, A.B., do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful
    and bear true allegiance to their Majesties King William and
    Queen Mary. So help me God.

    I, A.B., do swear that I do from my heart abhor, detest and
    abjure as impious and heretical this damnable doctrine and
    position, that princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or
    any authority of the see of Rome may be deposed or murdered by
    their subjects or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no
    foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate hath or ought
    to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence or
    authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. So
    help me God.

    Upon which their said Majesties did accept the crown and royal
    dignity of the kingdoms of England, France and Ireland, and the
    dominions thereunto belonging, according to the resolution and
    desire of the said Lords and Commons contained in the said
    declaration. And thereupon their Majesties were pleased that the
    said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, being the two
    Houses of Parliament, should continue to sit, and with their
    Majesties' royal concurrence make effectual provision for the
    settlement of the religion, laws and liberties of this kingdom,
    so that the same for the future might not be in danger again of
    being subverted, to which the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal
    and Commons did agree, and proceed to act accordingly. Now in
    pursuance of the premises the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal
    and Commons in Parliament assembled, for the ratifying,
    confirming and establishing the said declaration and the
    articles, clauses, matters and things therein contained by the
    force of law made in due form by authority of Parliament, do pray
    that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the
    rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration
    are the true, ancient and indubitable rights and liberties of the
    people of this kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed,
    adjudged, deemed and taken to be; and that all and every the
    particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and
    observed as they are expressed in the said declaration, and all
    officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and
    their successors according to the same in all time to come. And
    the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, seriously
    considering how it hath pleased Almighty God in his marvellous
    providence and merciful goodness to this nation to provide and
    preserve their said Majesties' royal persons most happily to
    reign over us upon the throne of their ancestors, for which they
    render unto him from the bottom of their hearts their humblest
    thanks and praises, do truly, firmly, assuredly and in the
    sincerity of their hearts think, and do hereby recognize,
    acknowledge and declare, that King James the Second having
    abdicated the government, and their Majesties having accepted the
    crown and royal dignity as aforesaid, their said Majesties did
    become, were, are and of right ought to be by the laws of this
    realm our sovereign liege lord and lady, king and queen of
    England, France and Ireland and the dominions thereunto
    belonging, in and to whose princely persons the royal state,
    crown and dignity of the said realms with all honours, styles,
    titles, regalities, prerogatives, powers, jurisdictions and
    authorities to the same belonging and appertaining are most
    fully, rightfully and entirely invested and incorporated, united
    and annexed. And for preventing all questions and divisions in
    this realm by reason of any pretended titles to the crown, and
    for preserving a certainty in the succession thereof, in and upon
    which the unity, peace, tranquility and safety of this nation
    doth under God wholly consist and depend, the said Lords
    Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do beseech their Majesties
    that it may be enacted, established and declared, that the crown
    and regal government of the said kingdoms and dominions, with all
    and singular the premises thereunto belonging and appertaining,
    shall be and continue to their said Majesties and the survivor of
    them during their lives and the life of the survivor of them, and
    that the entire, perfect and full exercise of the regal power and
    government be only in and executed by his Majesty in the names of
    both their Majesties during their joint lives; and after their
    deceases the said crown and premises shall be and remain to the
    heirs of the body of her Majesty, and for default of such issue
    to her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs
    of the body of his said Majesty; and thereunto the said Lords
    Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the name of all the
    people aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves,
    their heirs and posterities for ever, and do faithfully promise
    that they will stand to, maintain and defend their said
    Majesties, and also the limitation and succession of the crown
    herein specified and contained, to the utmost of their powers
    with their lives and estates against all persons whatsoever that
    shall attempt anything to the contrary. And whereas it hath been
    found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and
    welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish
    prince, or by any king or queen marrying a papist, the said Lords
    Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do further pray that it may be
    enacted, that all and every person and persons that is, are or
    shall be reconciled to or shall hold communion with the see or
    Church of Rome, or shall profess the popish religion, or shall
    marry a papist, shall be excluded and be for ever incapable to
    inherit, possess or enjoy the crown and government of this realm
    and Ireland and the dominions thereunto belonging or any part of
    the same, or to have, use or exercise any regal power, authority
    or jurisdiction within the same; and in all and every such case
    or cases the people of these realms shall be and are hereby
    absolved of their allegiance; and the said crown and government
    shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person
    or persons being Protestants as should have inherited and enjoyed
    the same in case the said person or persons so reconciled,
    holding communion or professing or marrying as aforesaid were
    naturally dead; and that every king and queen of this realm who
    at any time hereafter shall come to and succeed in the imperial
    crown of this kingdom shall on the first day of the meeting of
    the first Parliament next after his or her coming to the crown,
    sitting in his or her throne in the House of Peers in the
    presence of the Lords and Commons therein assembled, or at his or
    her coronation before such person or persons who shall administer
    the coronation oath to him or her at the time of his or her
    taking the said oath (which shall first happen), make, subscribe
    and audibly repeat the declaration mentioned in the statute made
    in the thirtieth year of the reign of King Charles the Second
    entitled, _An Act for the more effectual preserving the king's
    person and government by disabling papists from sitting in either
    House of Parliament._ But if it shall happen that such king or
    queen upon his or her succession to the crown of this realm shall
    be under the age of twelve years, then every such king or queen
    shall make, subscribe and audibly repeat the same declaration at
    his or her coronation or the first day of the meeting of the
    first Parliament as aforesaid which shall first happen after such
    king or queen shall have attained the said age of twelve years.
    All which their Majesties are contented and pleased shall be
    declared, enacted and established by authority of this present
    Parliament, and shall stand, remain and be the law of this realm
    for ever; and the same are by their said Majesties, by and with
    the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and
    Commons in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same,
    declared, enacted and established accordingly.

    II. And be it further declared and enacted by the authority
    aforesaid, that from and after this present session of Parliament
    no dispensation by _non obstante_ of or to any statute or any
    part thereof shall be allowed, but that the same shall be held
    void and of no effect, except a dispensation be allowed of in
    such statute, and except in such cases as shall be specially
    provided for by one or more bill or bills to be passed during
    this present session of Parliament.

    III. Provided that no charter or grant or pardon granted before
    the three and twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord
    one thousand six hundred eighty-nine shall be any ways impeached
    or invalidated by this Act, but that the same shall be and remain
    of the same force and effect in law and no other than as if this
    Act had never been made.
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