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The post that was quoted here has been removedhttp://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/united-states
This Human Rights Watch report ought to shame any American.
The United States has a vibrant civil society and media that enjoy strong constitutional protections. The victims of abuse are typically the weakest and most vulnerable in US society: immigrants, racial and ethnic minorities, children, the elderly, the poor, and prisoners.
The US incarcerates more people than any other country. Practices contrary to human rights principles, such as the death penalty, juvenile life-without-parole sentences, and solitary confinement are common and often marked by racial disparities. Increasing numbers of non-citizens are held in immigration detention facilities although many are not dangerous or at risk of absconding. Federal prosecutions for illegal entry and reentry have escalated.
The federal government under President Barack Obama has continued some abusive counterterrorism policies, including detentions without charge at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and proceedings before fundamentally flawed military commissions.
Remember the phrase, when asked what makes America great? in the original video ? "Freedom." Well for a country that values freedom so much, how interesting that The US incarcerates more people than any other country.
In American politics as in George Orwell's 1984, words like "freedom" have come to be used in the pursuit of its direct opposite.