This is The US of A.....

In the recent past I have had a lot of arguments with my dear American friends, specially of Indian origin, on human rights. The way the Americans pose about these issues is quite flabbergasting. The position generally taken is that they are as pure as a new born baby's pink ass. Very good friends at that. How ever it becomes impossible to hold a decent and intelligent conversation with them, when it comes to human rights issues in India or elsewhere in the world. Such a high horse stand, almost unbelievable. The US of A'ians very conveniently forget what their ancestors did to the beautiful Americas in terms of human rights while they pose as today's Messiahs. I do not condone any form of human Rights Violations, I also agree that we Indians are the biggest born out of wedlockians (to use the B word) along with some others in this world. How ever the Americans are no better and some times worse. In fact it is not even their country to begin with, in the strictest sense of the word. How ever we have to grow Intellectually, Spiritually and Emotionally to understand the compulsions of civilizations and try to address some needs which may result in some positive actions. So this small extract is for those of my American friends, who think they are God's own people. 

An interesting read.

Courtesy Col Ajay Vir. Via Col Anil Kaul.....
USA & Human Rights --- A Joke !!!

Here is SOME historical information on the United States with respect to Human Rights.

1. First, since the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is so worried about the religious minorities in India it needs to request the State Department to provide these minorities with permanent visas to migrate to the US. It is the Congress Party that ruled India since independence. The Congress Party must be held responsible for the poor economic condition of religious minorities in India. It has betrayed and neglected the religious minorities by practicing vote bank politics. Also, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to question Sonia Gandhi, the President of the Congress Party and Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance, on how she amassed so much wealth in such a short period to be listed in Business Insider as the fourth richest world leader. Hopefully, Sonia Gandhi can provide these poor and oppressed religious minorities with a roadmap to become wealthy like the Gandhi-Vadra dynasty.

2. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why the US government subjected more than 110,000 Japanese American citizens to internment camps during WWII? Why did the US Supreme Court upheld this Unconstitutional Executive Order? Also, why were approximately 14,500 people of German and Italian ancestry, and another 2,200 ethnic Japanese deported from Latin American countries subject to the United States' wartime confinement program during WWI?

3. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to look right in their own backyard and examine why a segment of Americans were questioning the religious background of the late President, John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic President of the US.

4. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why a large percentage of African-Americans are incarcerated, unemployed, poorly educated, living under the poverty level, etc. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why the US Congress and State Legislatures have no reservation for African-Americans similar to how the Scheduled Castes (SC) or Dalits, (formerly called untouchables) are guaranteed a minimum of 84 seats in the Lok Sabha (Indian's Parliament). Also, Schedule Castes have reservations in the labor force, schools, colleges, and other public institutions.

5. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why so many Mexican-Americans are unemployed, poorly educated, living under the poverty level, etc. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why no Mexican-American has ever become the President of the US, or the Leader of any Political Party, etc. although most have lived here prior to the coming of the Pilgrims (actually invaders and plunderers from Europe). On the other hand, Sonia Miano Gandhi, a native of Italy and a Roman Catholic, is the President of the Congress Party and Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance which ruled India for the past ten years.

6. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why no Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi, etc. has ever become President of the US, Leader of any Political Party, or a US Senator, etc. Similar to how Sonia Gandhi has become the President of the Congress Party and Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance. Zakir Hussain, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Ali Ahmed Fakhruddin, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, and Giani Zail Singh have become President and Manmohan Singh has become the Prime Minister in India. K. R. Narayanan, a Dalit or untouchable was elected the President of India. Indira Gandhi was elected numerous times to govern India. Pratibha Devisingh Patil was elected the first woman President of India unlike the US that has never elected a woman President. Also, the Lok Sabha (Indian's Parliament) has two seats reserved for members of the Anglo-Indian community. India is home to his Holiness, the Dali Lama. Some of the most influential and famous Indians were/are from the Parsi community, the least populated minority community in India. However, they refused to accept minority religious status.

7. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why Sikhs and Hindu Americans were beaten and killed in the US after they were mistakenly targeted as Muslims.

8. Since the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is so concerned about the rights of minorities in India it needs to address why the US government confiscated the property of some Japanese's citizens to build US military bases in Japan after WWII. The Tom Lantos HRC needs to address why did the US government in collaboration with the British expell the indigenous inhabitants i.e., Chagossians, from the island of Diego Garcia, to build a US military base. Also, what about the Human Rights of the innocent Japanese civilians who were nuked by the US military during WW II?

9. Where was the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission when close to three million minorities, mostly Hindus were raped and killed in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by the Pakistani Military in operation "Searchlight"?
10. Where was the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission when millions of Vietnamese civilians were carpet bombed and exposed to weapons of mass destruction i.e., Napalm and Agent Orange by the US military?

11. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to look right in its backyard and ask why approximately after 200 years of independence from Britain, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and other Minorities were denied the most basic of human rights until the signing of the Civil Right Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by President, Lyndon B. Johnson. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why African Americans were lynched, denied voting rights, forced to attend segregated schools, bus, and other public accommodations in the Southern and Western US. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why African Americans were beaten in Howard Beach, Bensonhurst, Rodney King Police Brutality, etc. . The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why African Americans were massacred in Rosewood Central Florida, Colfax and Thibodaux Louisiana, Tulsa Race Riot, etc.
12. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. It needs to address why African, Latino and Asian Americans in New York had their Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and Fourteenth Amendment Rights of Equal Protection violated.

13. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why no native American has ever become the President of the US, leader of any Political Party, etc. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why no native American is included in this Human Rights Commission or making laws in the US Congress. The home of their ancestors who had welcomed the Pilgrims to the Americas, who were being prosecuted and denied religious freedom in their former homeland in Europe. 

14. The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission needs to address why the US Congress and State Legislatures do not have any reservation for Native Americans similar to how the Scheduled Tribes (ST) or Adivasis in India are allocated a minimum of 46 seats in the Lok Sabha (Indian's Parliament). Also, Adivasis have reservations in the labor force, schools, colleges, and other public institutions. The Tom Lantos HRC needs to address why the US government has broken all the treaties with the Native Americans.
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing is another example on how the US government wasted a golden opportunity to extend an olive branch to Prime Minister Candidate Narendra Modi, the Bharataya Janata Party (BJP), and other Indians. India has an excellent record for protecting the Human Rights of religious minorities. Very few other nations can match her record when it comes to rights of religious minorities. India should be seen as a model nation for protecting the Human and Civil Rights of religious minorities.

Patanjali Rambrich

The best part is when I try to point out some more similar things to my American Green Card/Citizen Indian friends when they were shouting "the killer of Godhra Minorities is to become the Indian Prime Minister, shame on India". The reply is always "why do you go into our past to justify your today, we are talking of today". Wonderful! Godhra happened more than 12 years ago, and most of the culprits have been brought to book. Not only that Modi was not involved as per the Different courts which gave judgement, yet in the American eyes whoa! The chipmunks are not even US citizens yet but talk of "we and our past" The building up of a nation of Hippocrites....

Foot Note 

Mission Statement of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission

The mission of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is to promote, defend and advocate internationally recognized human rights norms in a nonpartisan manner, both within and outside of Congress, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant human rights instruments. In particular, the Commission shall:

• Develop congressional strategies to promote, defend and advocate internationally recognized human rights norms reflecting the role and responsibilities of the United States Congress.
• Raise greater awareness of human rights issues among Members of Congress and their staff, as well as the public.
• Provide expert human rights advice to Members of Congress and their staff
• Advocate on behalf of individuals or groups whose human rights are violated or are in danger of being violated.
• Collaborate closely with professional staff of relevant congressional committees on human rights matters.
• Collaborate closely with the President of the United States and the Executive Branch, as well as recognized national and international human rights entities, to promote human rights initiatives in the United States Congress.
• Encourage Members of Congress to actively engage in human rights matters.

What can you really expect from a nation of hippocrites? If you go into a line by line analysis of the above mentioned write up, it goes way beyond human rights. It gives you a glimmer of the true nature of the United States of America. Mind you, I have some very very good American friends males and females. As persons they are amazing, cant ask for anything more from friends. However when it comes to defending what their country stands for, in the face of absolutely just criticism, these very same people take recourse to being stupid on all counts. But I know they are not stupid but being stupid for that moment in time, just so hey hey. . Anyway I agree we are a Nation of bigger "Out of wedlockians" if I may use the B word, no doubt in that. However sometimes the old proverb holds. "Those living in glass houses should refrain from throwing stones". Reminds me of a famous gazhal by Jagjit Singh. I always listen to it on long drives in my Indi. This one is dedicated to those Indian, Mexican, American Indians and those Indians who deem them selves to be ...........

"Yaad nahi kya kya dekha, sare manjar bhul gaye;
Uski galion se jab laute, apna hi ghar bhul gaye.
Khub gaye pardesh key apne diwaaro dar bhul gaye,
Shish mahal ne aisa ghera mitti ke ghar bhul gaye;
Uski galion se jab laute apna hi ghar bhul gaye.
Tujhko bhi jab apni kasme apne vade yaad nahi,
Hum bhi apne khawab teri ankhon
mein rakh kar bhul gaye;
Uski galion se jab laute apna hi ghar bhul gaye.
Mujhko jinhone katla kiya hai, koi unhe batlaye najeer,
Meri lash ki pahlu mein wo apna khanjar bhul gaye;
Uski galiyon se jab laute apna hi ghar bhul gaye.
yaad nahi kya kya dekha tha sare manjar bhul gaye,
Uski galiyon se jab laute apna hi ghar bhul gaye. "

Amen to that