[…] go ahead and read a few of the reports generated by Marco Rubio/Donald Trump’s State Department and compare them to literally any of those published before Trump’s second term began.
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But if you really want to see how this administration is rewriting its world view to serve its own ends, you need to click through and see the depressingly long list of human rights violations and international crimes the Trump administration no longer desires to treat as violations or criminal acts.
Everything highlighted and struck-through is something the State Department will not be investigating or reporting on as long as the GOP is still in power.
Starting from the top, here’s only a partial list of what the Trump administration will be deliberately turning a blind eye to for at least the next three years:
Prison conditions
Due process rights
Property seizures and/or restitution
Libel and slander laws
“National security (used as a pretext for punishing critics)”
Freedom of peaceful assembly
Abuse of refugees and asylum seekers
Access to basic services for asylum seekers
Abuses or irregularities in recent elections
Participation of women or members of marginalized people in elections
“Section 4: Corruption in government”
Retribution against human rights defenders
Rape and domestic violence
Gender-based violence
Child abuse or neglect
Sexual exploitation of children
Institutionalization of people with disabilities
Everything under the heading: “Lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons”
That’s not even the entire list, but it’s indicative enough of what this administration thinks should be treated as acceptable behavior by the government, government officials, and anyone in the general population deserving enough of having their crimes against others (and humanity in general) ignored by the people in power.
This sort of thing would be considered breathtakingly horrendous anywhere in the world. That it’s happening in the nation that many considered to be the “Leader of the Free World” is absolutely sickening.
