The examples of human rights violations by the US you are posting are good food for thought. However, they are the tip of the iceberg. I would cite US involvement in the lesser known slaughter of East Timorese by the US installed Suharto regime in 1978. US Senator Daniel Moynihan, who was the UN Ambassador during Suharto's "annexation" of East Timor in 1978 writes [Chomsky's paraphrase]:
"The United States wished things to turn out as they did and worked to bring this about. The Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it out with no inconsiderable success." [Moynihan was well aware of how things turned out, noting that within a few weeks some 60,000 people had been killed ]"10 percent of the population, almost the same proportion of casualties experienced by the Soviet Union during the Second World War."
(taken from Noam Chomsky "Year 501: the Conquest Continues", pp 133-4, Cambridge MA, South End Press, 1993)
Moynihan boasted about his role in a massacre that he compares to the exploits of the Nazis in a national publication. (NYRB June 28, 1990) No one noticed, of course.
What the US government, cultural planners, and corporate interests do inside the US only pales in comparison to their exploits abroad. The depth and complexity of their thought control is astounding, and I believe to cite the domestic human rights violations of our "democratic" government distracts from real atrocities commited in the name of "freedom" and "democracy" around the world and therefore aids and abets the American thought control process.
But then again, I was unaware of the treaty you spoke of earlier. Hmmmm...sounds familiar. Perhaps the Nuclear Test Ban treaty will ring a bell? A very interesting fact that demands some serious consideration...
I apologize for the length and irrelavance to PD of this post, of course.
Garry klingg@cwu.edu