"Americans in Danger" report points out political persecution of human rights defenders in the U.S. and unavailablity of efficient remedies for human rights violations

The legal abuse syndrome, where the government undermines enforcement of human rights and targets human rights defenders, in violation of the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), is not something new.

It existed for a long time, but started to be brought to the surface with the advancement of the Internet and the social media, and thus availability of non-mainstream media sources, including individuals, to address large audiences directly.

I have been writing extensively on this blog about the erosion of the rule of law in the U.S. by judges, unlawfully self-gifted with impunity, and acting in collusion with other branches of the government, thus undermining the "checks and balances" written into the U.S. Constitution, by far an idealistic document that government officials are sworn to uphold, but instead disregard and undermine.

Some efforts are being made by various grass roots movements to systemize knowledge about the pattern utilized by various government officials in the U.S., on state and federal level, separately and in collusion with one another, to carry out the goals of legal abuse, keeping the non-elite citizenry of the U.S. under governmental control and quashing any criticism of misconduct in the government, and especially criticism of misconduct of well-connected individuals.

Today, a grassroots movement OPT IN USA issued a press-release about its report, AMERICANS IN JEOPARDY: When Human Rights Protection Becomes America’s Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branch Shell Game”. 

The report points out the existence in the U.S. of the so-called "The Third Degree", or TTD,  a “persistent pattern of persecution and mental torture imposed through U.S. legal system abuse” on some Americans, and specifically on human rights defenders.

The press-release mentions "in a September 15, 2015 letter to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a coalition of 38 NGOs (non-governmental organizations)

described TTD as “unchecked judicial misconduct” and claimed “the ineffectiveness of domestic remedies is an integral part of its pathology.”

 

I encourage my readers to read the report "Americans in Jeopardy" interlinked above.  

 

Yet, here is the full description of TTD from the report:

 

 

 

 

I wonder how many of my readers were subjected to each and every point of TTD described in the report.  I know a lot of people who was.

 

The existence and further emerging of grass-roots movements that are addressing this issue is certainly encouraging.

 

I wonder whether the United Nations and the international community will take notice and apply international pressure to the U.S. to stop political persecution of human rights defenders and start giving its people real effective remedies for violations of human rights.