Republican racists love profiling minorities, and I’m pleased that the Obama administration is holding to their opposition to it, despite Republican fear mongering. Jan Brewer is going ballistic.
A US State Department report to the United Nations on human rights contained a reference to Arizona’s recent controversial illegal immigrant law and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is protesting it. The State Department listed its opposition to the Arizona law as an example of upholding human rights in the US.
On Friday, Brewer demanded, in a letter [racist delinked] to Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton that the reference to Arizona and it’s new law be removed from the report. The report is part of a UN review of human rights in which all member nations submit progress reports every four years.
Brewer wrote, “The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional.”… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <The Examiner>
If Brewer does not want to be held up for the international disgrace that she and the Republican party deserve, she should not have violated international law, let alone our own Constitution in her attempt to deprive Latinos of their human rights. That’s also what Rachel Maddow thinks:
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And I’ll take it one step further. After Bush let New Orleans drown, the Republican government of Louisiana spent the federal relief money that was supposed to go to the areas hardest hit by Katrina and spent it on tourist areas, on oil companies, and everywhere except the poor parishes of New Orleans where it was needed most. With their neighborhoods still devastated, black citizens cannot return home, and Republicans have a whiter state. Jan Brewer and the Republican party did not have the benefit of a disaster to whiten their state, but they are so desperate to keep control of Arizona that they invented an immigration crisis to harass their Latino citizens into leaving.
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If I remember correctly in 1944 SCOTUS ruled against the plaintiff in Korematsu V US Government and by a 6-3 decision said that the internment of Japanese citizens was a legal act done by POTUS. Hell if this is correct information all AZ has to do is send any person of color, Native , Asian, Hispanic to camps while it will be determined if they are all her illegally or legally which if Guantanamo is any precedent the findings would take years. Of course until they are found to be legal residents they could not vote and waaa laaa Whit Arizona rules. I am sure we white folks could come up with some reason or another that would warrant detention of all persons of color. After all Glen Beck had 150,000,000 people in Washington on Saturday. That’s almost 1/2 the entire population of the US.
Mark, you are in a mood today. As much as like FDR, both POTUS and SCOTUS were dead wrong.
Mark is in a mood today. 🙂 SB 1070 is an unconstitutional law and will be overturned in court. As Rachel pointed out, you can write Nazi laws all you like – just except the US Judicial Dept to come after your ass. Still feels “gross” Herr Brewer, eh?
It certainly should be overturned, Lisa, but given the current makeup od SCOTUS, I’m not sure.
The UN Commission on Human Rights spoke out almost immediately against Arizona’s SB 1070:
Source (which has a lot of supportive and documenting internal links):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100511/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2003
Thanks for the link!
Oh goody you pissed off the UN. bah.
Thanks Nameless. Sadly, Democrats see no more concerned about binding global accords than Republicans. Otherwise Bush would be in a cell by now for war crimes.
More examples of why we Democrats have to get off our whining butts and push back against these assholes on the right. We sure can’t depend on today’s SCOTUS.
The order to relocate the Japanese-Americans was a misguided decision based on misguided advice by an otherwise good president. It was not one of FDR’s finest moments but it also demonstrates that presidents ain’t always perfect.
Amen, Leslie. 🙂
I made this comment somewhere else forget where), and I will make it here – I thought the GOP didn’t like the UN, so why do they care what is in its reports?!
The point was worth repeating, Kevin.
It’s nice to part of the World than against it. Remember, your either with us or your against us. I shudder to think of that time.
I shudder even more to think of returning to it/