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Transforming LA Sheriffs; Some Human Rights Groups Are Warmongers
Activists Working to Transform LA County Sheriffs Hope Changes Will Apply for the Entire Country. Los Angeles activists’ vigorous push to reform the violent and corrupt Sheriff’s Department may develop into an effective national program to reduce police violence, racism and classism.
Are Human Rights Activists Today’s Warmongers? Almost everyone likes the idea of human rights. The phrase itself is freighted with goodness. Supporting human rights is like supporting world peace. The modern human rights movement began as a band of outsiders, fighting governments on behalf of the faceless and voiceless. President Jimmy Carter brought it into the American foreign policy establishment by naming an outspoken assistant secretary of state for human rights. This meant that concern for the poor, the brutalized, and the imprisoned would be heard in the highest councils of government. Now, several decades after the human rights movement traded its outsider status for influence in Washington, it is clear that this has produced negative as well as positive results.
Sources: Popular Resistance, Truthout.
Paul Brown is a retired neuroscience professor whose primary interests are human rights, overpopulation, mass extinction, global warming, and the military-industrial complex. Links to all his Before It’s News articles are at /contributor/pages/189/210/stories.html.
