Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [It's way past time to unleash narco-trafficking terrorist insurgents and launch a seventy-nine bombing campaign by an aerial armada from the world community on this - the most flagrant - violator of elementary international standards for minority representation in federal governing bodies. After all, in two hundred and twenty five years not a single president of this benighted autocracy has been a woman, not one has come from a non-Northern European ethnic background - in one of the most racially and culturally diverse nations in human history. Never has a single representative of a racial minority political party served in the cabinet. Although a sizeable percentage of the country was militarily seized and annexed from Mexico, Spanish-speakers have no language and cultural rights enshrined in its constitution. The indigenous people are living on reservations that are the prototypes for all subsequent ethnic cleansing and concentration camps. Conquered and subjugated peoples, from Puerto Rico to Guam and from the Marshall Islands to the Mariana Islands have absolutely no representatives in the national parliament. Let the international community make an example of the most egregious offender, and would-be emulators of this monstrous regime will tremble.] US Police Brutality Concerns UN Panel By Alexander G. Higgins Associated Press Writer Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2001; 4:42 a.m. EDT GENEVA �� The U. N. panel that oversees global compliance with a treaty against racial discrimination expressed concern over police brutality toward minorities in the United States. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination noted "with concern the incidents of police violence and brutality, including cases of deaths, which affected minority groups and foreigners in particular." The group said Monday there was also a disturbing correlation between race and the imposition of the death penalty. U.S. officials in Geneva had no immediate reaction to the report but said it was being sent to Washington for review. But the panel praised the United States for steps taken in recent years "to redress racial and ethnic discrimination" in industry. It commended the 1997 Initiative on Race, the establishment of the Minority Business Development Agency in the Commerce Department, and efforts to eliminate the practice of racial profiling. But it rejected the U.S. government's assertion that "affirmative action" was only an option and not a requirement under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The committee also rejected the U.S. argument that "purely private" acts of racism were beyond "the scope of government regulation." � __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [email protected] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
