US hypocrisy on rights

The visit to Dublin of secretary of state Hillary Clinton to discuss human rights issues was typical of US rhetoric — lecturing to others while in the United States 2,266,800 people are in prison (figures from US Bureau of Justices statistics).

Tue, 11 Dec, 2012 - 00:00
Letters

The US should sort out its own human rights issues before lecturing to the rest of the world.

Paul Doran

Clondalkin

Dublin 22

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