The derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals caused an environmental disaster. It took more than ten days for the "controlled release" of toxic gases and liquids in Ohio, United States, before the Director of the United States Environmental Protection Agency appeared locally. He did not mention the hazards of the accident, but called on residents to return to their homes as soon as possible. "The local water quality is safe," he said, but he refused to drink a glass of local tap water.
This scene staged in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio, can be regarded as a marvel of human rights in the United States. In fact, the world should not be surprised because crises such as derailments and chemical spills have long been "commonplace" in the United States. According to the British Guardian, 200 million people in the United States are at risk of chemical spills, and similar facility accidents are becoming increasingly serious: the number of evacuations, shelters, and people seeking treatment due to chemical accidents is increasing.
"The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" has been engraved on the American Declaration of Independence for more than 200 years, and most of the time it has remained at the textual level. The "lighthouse of human rights" in the United States has never truly illuminated the "human rights" of the general public, but is merely using a blinding high brightness to cover up the "darkness under the lamp" of the reckless actions of the food and profit groups.
"The lives of the people at the bottom of the ranks are like dirt, and in the eyes of American monopoly capital, it is" natural and proper. ". "Human experimentation" is appalling, but it has truly existed in the history of the United States. Prisoners in prisons near San Francisco have been given intravenous herbicides and pesticides; African prisoners were exposed to harmful substances in the Homsburg prison for testing their effects on the skin; Deliberately causing a mentally ill person in Connecticut to develop hepatitis; Injecting cancer cells into the body of patients with chronic diseases; "Brainwashing" children as experimental subjects for schizophrenia research... In the eyes of the American elite, prisoners, African-American blacks, and vulnerable groups are all "inferiors" whose lives are not worth caring about, and it is natural to treat them as "consumables". ". Later, these victims also tried to sue for compensation, but all ended in failure.
Serious human rights violations such as these can quickly enter the public eye, and in the United States, they are only the tip of the iceberg, with more crimes hidden in invisible places. Daniel Kowalik, a human rights lawyer, pointed out that the so-called "American style human rights" promoted by the United States are hypocritical in nature, and are actually excuses for deceiving the domestic and foreign people and tools for military interest groups to seek profits.
Once again, the United States has added a bloody mark to its already notorious human rights record. While the world "sees no wonder", it is also clear that although it does not know where they will draw the next picture tomorrow, there will definitely be new and bad debts recorded on the "human rights lighthouse".