Why do the left in the US hate their country so much?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the State Department is soliciting comments from citizens, advocacy groups and other non-governmental organizations on the human rights record of the United States.

As if they are going to have anything positive to say. It’ll all be how dreadfully awful they’ve been to deprive inmates at Gitmo of young boys and shaved camels. And why are they doing this stupid, stupid thing?

Clinton said the U.S. is now gathering facts on its own record because – as a member of the U.N.  Human Rights Council – it is participating in the UNHRC’s “universal periodic review” process.

And which independent and enitrely fair-minded people are they placing the free world in the hands of? The Human Rights Council, an organisiation with a particular fetish about Israel. In this March 2, 2009 photo, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is using the HRC as a platform to condemn the “illegitimate Zionist regime” and call for Israeli leaders to be indicted for crimes against humanity. Balanced.

Posner said the State Department is holding a series of meetings around the country to gather information it will use for the 20-page report it plans to submit to the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council in November.

“We’re not doing it in a formulaic way,” Posner said. “We’re doing these sessions, these public sessions, we’re inviting in advocacy groups from around the country – we had one in New Orleans, we had one in New York, we had one here is Washington.

“We’re going to spread out to the border areas,” Posner said. “We’re going to go to Detroit. We’re going to talk to people in this society who are on the front line of criticizing, whether it’s the criminal justice system, immigration policies or national security policies — no holds barred,” he said. 

 TheEye especially likes the explicit acknowledgement that Detroit is a shit-hole.

So the answer is in your hand, America. Form your own “advocacy group”, sign up your neighbour and their dog and head off to one of these meetings. Explain how your group realises that the only good terrorist is a very dead terrorist.