You don't have to be courageous to learn about the stuff in America that arouses the ire of Amnesty International; all you have to do is read the newspaper or tune in the TV. OTOH criticizing people who seriously abuse human rights can result in having your own human rights--even your right to life--seriously abused. At best, then, CNN's "the devil made me do it" jeremiad is always at work. And that systematically makes criticism of (classic) liberal polities such as the US and the UK inherently a half-truth.If your news organization can't be accused of a pro-American, pro-conservative "bias," your organization will in actual fact have an anti-American, anticonservative slant by default.
Maybe all of this anti-American stuff has been going on for years, but I was not that aware of it. It has me seriously worried.
the watchdogs are not only useless, they make a mockery of human rights and liberty.
While they are the worst, the issue of human rights is a control issue. So often where here these two words -- human rights -- from politicians, bureaucrats, mainstream media, academics and clerics. Yet they avoid like the plague the two words--individual rights.
Human rights is a group think tool that parasitical elite and especially collectivists use to manipulate large segments of the population. What it boils down to is sacrifice the individual for the betterment of the group. Talk about an oxymoron. Without the individual there cannot be a group.
It's the same with liberty/freedom. That is an individual concept that's been hijacked by parasitical elites. In short, freedom is the inalienable right to do whatever a person chooses so long as they do not initiate force, threat of force or fraud against anyone.
I'd say that more than 97% of the population abides by that. Whereas 99+% of politicians and bureaucrats initiate force, threat of force or fraud against people. Somewhat lower percentages of other parasitical elites mainly foist fraud and deception on people.