The United States has joined other human rights abusers.

Neil Lisst

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:55 AM
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The United States has joined other human rights abusers.

Edited on Mon Nov-07-05 12:57 AM by Neil Lisst

The story of the CIA secret prisons is HUGE everywhere in the world but the USA. If you ever wondered if the US mainstream media is literally and figuratively owned, you need only look at the short attention given this story in the USA.

This story is big in Canada, big everywhere thinking people judge human rights abuser.

Here is our comment on it for today:

Would like to hear your comments on the topic or the political cartoon regarding the topic.

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mermaid

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:57 AM
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1. USA Has Been Human-Rights Abusers Since Forever.

They will not protect transgender people like me against employment discrimination, and they are trying to make it illegal for gay people to marry the person they love.

As far as I am concerned, both of these practices are forms of human-rights abuses.

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Neil Lisst

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Mon Nov-07-05 01:23 AM
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6. those are human rights issues, too

However, I was thinking about the prisons in the news where people are shipped off in secret to other countries and tortured in the name of national security.

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mermaid

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Tue Nov-08-05 12:23 AM
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10. Yeah

But we tend to think most of the issues that directly impact US...and for me, the issue that most directly impacts ME...and negatively....is employment discrimination. In a way, by not allowing me to earn a living, this country is subjecting me to a slow torture, and eventual death of my spirit, and eventually, death of my physical self, because I will no longer be able, financially, to sustain even the most basic of survival necessities.

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LoZoccolo

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Mon Nov-07-05 12:57 AM
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2. Why is the guy wearing a baseball cap on /Jeopardy/?

I don't think I've ever seen that on the real show.

I can't think of a reason they would put his face in the shadows either.

Otherwise the cartoon is pretty good.

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Neil Lisst

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Mon Nov-07-05 01:04 AM
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3. He's Neil Lisst. It's his schtick.

Edited on Mon Nov-07-05 01:17 AM by Neil Lisst

We never show his eyes or his face clearly.

His name is Neil Lisst, because he's a nihilist. Neil is a darker figure which we use as needed to address some topics. He's a vehicle, and we weave personal tidbits into him. He always wears a cap, and we don't see him clearly. Why? Because it's his words that matter.

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Canuckistanian

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Mon Nov-07-05 01:08 AM
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4. Yup, it's big here all right

I've heard three radio shows about it this week.
Hey, Neill, good stuff. Do you publish anywhere?

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Neil Lisst

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Mon Nov-07-05 01:14 AM
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5. Yes, to answer your question ...

Edited on Mon Nov-07-05 01:18 AM by Neil Lisst

We publish at this site online ...

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/neillisst
where we have over 60 daily comics up over the past 8 weeks.

We are currently being republished in Germany and Israel, as well.

We have been read in 73 countries, and are averaging 5000-7500 pageviews a day.

My partner on this project is a Canadian. He wrote me two days ago and wanted us to do something about American Gulags, and this is what I wrote yesterday, and he drew today. We slid it into the schedule because it's timely.

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melody

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Mon Nov-07-05 01:52 AM
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7. this wealthy government has permitted its poor to live hand to mouth

And it plots against the basic human rights of its citizens. Our tax dollars have been used to fund military protection of NATO, while our citizens have had no health insurance. The Democrats have tried, but unfortunately they are opposed by very rich and powerful forces.

The right-wing of the US government has ALWAYS been against human rights inside the country. One wonders if the international community is only now taking notice because it threatens them.

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Neil Lisst

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Mon Nov-07-05 02:44 AM
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8. Human rights are many and varied.

The fact is, in most civilized countries in the world, people have more freedom and more rights than in the USA.

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mermaid

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Tue Nov-08-05 12:26 AM
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11. Yep. Always Has. Unless We Stand Against The Practice, It Always WILL!!

n/t

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Neil Lisst

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Mon Nov-07-05 09:22 AM
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9. Wanna play Jeopardy? Human Rights Jeopardy?

Edited on Mon Nov-07-05 09:23 AM by Neil Lisst

Today we look at the US and human rights.

Remember when we used to be the ones who stood AGAINST human rights violators?

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