Torog and Hamster can be proud

[BlueCat]

I was reading at a Chinese news site and found this paper going around. It has hit the German and Russian news sites too.
It is interesting to read what the rest of the world thinks...
We sure do sound terrible.


The United States has been releasing annually Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, censuring other countries for their human rights situations, but it has turned a blind eye to serious violations of human rights on its own soil. This double standard on human rights issues cannot but meet with strong rejection and opposition worldwide, leaving the United States more and more isolated in the international community...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...ent_813904.htm

BlueCat Reviewed by BlueCat on 07-17-2005. Torog and Hamster can be proud I was reading at a Chinese news site and found this paper going around. It has hit the German and Russian news sites too. It is interesting to read what the rest of the world thinks... We sure do sound terrible. :( The United States has been releasing annually Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, censuring other countries for their human rights situations, but it has turned a blind eye to serious violations of human rights on its own soil. This double standard on human rights Rating: 5

[F L E S H]

I just read something you might find interesting, Cat...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ogrowthinsouth

Latinos see backlash to growth in South By Annette Fuentes
Fri Jul 15, 7:38 AM ET



Latinos are not only the largest minority, they are also the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. Most of that growth is coming from children born to Latino parents - not from immigrants.

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Behind the dry statistics, though, are the real life experiences of Latinos. Some of the recent stories surfacing from the newest centers of Latino population - many in the South - are troubling tales of anti-immigrant backlash and government institutions' unpreparedness to speak the language and understand the cultures of their newest residents.


Exhibit A is the ongoing saga of Felipa Barrera, an immigrant whose 11-year-old daughter was placed in foster care by a judge in Lebanon, a suburb of Nashville. Barrera was accused of hitting her daughter. But Judge Barry Tatum overstepped his authority when he ordered her to learn English or risk losing custody permanently. Barrera, who has been in the country for a decade, is one of 400 Mixteco Indians in Lebanon who speak their own language. Her attorneys argued that being a good parent has nothing to do with what language one speaks.


Though the judge relented on his language order, Barrera's due process rights were violated, say her lawyers, because there was no interpreter during the first hearings. That isn't unusual, according to attorney Melody Fowler Green, of the American Civil Liberties Union: "I did many cases in Arkansas, and there was just one certified interpreter for the federal court. The laws aren't keeping up with the population growth."


The case has stirred controversy beyond Lebanon and spotlighted the burgeoning Latino communities in the South. Nashville had 7,000 Latinos in 1990 and today has more than 40,000, according to The Pew Hispanic Center. Atlanta's Latino growth rose from 55,000 to more than a quarter of a million in that period.


Barrera's case is not an aberration but a chapter in an anti-immigrant backlash in the South that prompted the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund to open an office in Atlanta three years ago.


"We were hearing stories of a lack of interpreters and violence," says Nina Perales, MALDEF's regional counsel in San Antonio. In Norcross, Ga., MALDEF defended a Mexican store owner who was fined for having a Spanish sign. In North Carolina, it intervened when a challenge was filed against voters with Spanish surnames in an effort to disqualify them. "The backlash bleeds into different areas, like voting rights," she says.


In a region where race relations historically have been painted in black and white, the emerging Latino South is posing challenges to local and state governments. But whatever their color or language, the new Southerners are entitled to equal justice under the law.


Annette Fuentes is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

[nicholasstanko]

I just read something you might find interesting, Cat...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ogrowthinsouth

Latinos see backlash to growth in South By Annette Fuentes
Fri Jul 15, 7:38 AM ET



Latinos are not only the largest minority, they are also the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. Most of that growth is coming from children born to Latino parents - not from immigrants.

ADVERTISEMENT

Behind the dry statistics, though, are the real life experiences of Latinos. Some of the recent stories surfacing from the newest centers of Latino population - many in the South - are troubling tales of anti-immigrant backlash and government institutions' unpreparedness to speak the language and understand the cultures of their newest residents.


Exhibit A is the ongoing saga of Felipa Barrera, an immigrant whose 11-year-old daughter was placed in foster care by a judge in Lebanon, a suburb of Nashville. Barrera was accused of hitting her daughter. But Judge Barry Tatum overstepped his authority when he ordered her to learn English or risk losing custody permanently. Barrera, who has been in the country for a decade, is one of 400 Mixteco Indians in Lebanon who speak their own language. Her attorneys argued that being a good parent has nothing to do with what language one speaks.


Though the judge relented on his language order, Barrera's due process rights were violated, say her lawyers, because there was no interpreter during the first hearings. That isn't unusual, according to attorney Melody Fowler Green, of the American Civil Liberties Union: "I did many cases in Arkansas, and there was just one certified interpreter for the federal court. The laws aren't keeping up with the population growth."


The case has stirred controversy beyond Lebanon and spotlighted the burgeoning Latino communities in the South. Nashville had 7,000 Latinos in 1990 and today has more than 40,000, according to The Pew Hispanic Center. Atlanta's Latino growth rose from 55,000 to more than a quarter of a million in that period.


Barrera's case is not an aberration but a chapter in an anti-immigrant backlash in the South that prompted the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund to open an office in Atlanta three years ago.


"We were hearing stories of a lack of interpreters and violence," says Nina Perales, MALDEF's regional counsel in San Antonio. In Norcross, Ga., MALDEF defended a Mexican store owner who was fined for having a Spanish sign. In North Carolina, it intervened when a challenge was filed against voters with Spanish surnames in an effort to disqualify them. "The backlash bleeds into different areas, like voting rights," she says.


In a region where race relations historically have been painted in black and white, the emerging Latino South is posing challenges to local and state governments. But whatever their color or language, the new Southerners are entitled to equal justice under the law.


Annette Fuentes is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Let me just point out that any person BORN in the united states is considered a citizen.

If you allow a million plus people to just wantonly cross the border to have kids, of course the latin population will increse expedentiously their children granted all rights...even though they were stolen.

[Psycho4Bud]

Chineese paper has the nerve to bad mouth our system? What a JOKE!!!! Tibet, Taiwan, etc... In their own land; one baby per family...parents that have a female child are killing them because they want a male to carry on the family name. In their hospitals, they tie a womans tubes after birth to uphold their philosophy. And they have the nerve to badmouth!!

From the article:
　In 2001, there were 638,000 narcotics-related cases, and drug abuse accounted for 25 percent of violent crime in the United States.

When the communist regime took over after WW2 you know how they dealt with the opium abuse problem? They pulled the addict, sometimes the whole family, out of their house and executed them in the street for all to see. No trial, no addiction aid, BANG BANG one less drug user! Fuck China and their opinion of us!!!

[Button Basher]

Fuck China and their opinion of us!!!

Yeah, they shouldn't have the right unless their opinion doesn't upset you, huh?

I wonder if they said the same thing when the US filed it's report.

[Psycho4Bud]

Yeah, they shouldn't have the right unless their opinion doesn't upset you, huh?

I wonder if they said the same thing when the US filed it's report.

Read this and tell me they have the right to call any kettle black!
http://www.angelfire.com/stars/dorina/dpchina.html

I'm DEFINATELY not saying that we are perfect..but that fuckin country has no right to talk about anything we do!

[Psycho4Bud]

Another nice article about Chineese justice:

Chinese soldiers escort drug dealers to a public sentence at the Wulin Square in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang province June 24, 2005. Twenty drug dealers were sentenced and six of them were executed on Friday. The public sentence was part of activities to mark the upcoming International Anti-Drugs day that falls on Sunday

http://english.sohu.com/20050627/n226090671.shtml

[Button Basher]

I believe they do. It's called freedom of speech. You know, that little gem?

Whoever was in charge of the "country reports" obviously didn't have the balls to badmouth their own when it came to violations of human rights, but were very quick to point fingers. I'd be surprised if they even looked into it themselves. Unamerican?

[Psycho4Bud]

I believe they do. It's called freedom of speech. You know, that little gem?

Whoever was in charge of the "country reports" obviously didn't have the balls to badmouth their own when it came to violations of human rights, but were very quick to point fingers. I'd be surprised if they even looked into it themselves. Unamerican?

Freedom of speach? If they badmouthed their own like that they would find themselves in lock up. Like I said, we're not perfect but we ARE alot better than these fucks on human rights issues.

[Button Basher]

Perhaps you guys are, but i'd have thought you could admit your faults in light of others. Obviously not, so people took it into their own hands. Don't kill the messenger man.