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“(A)s he prepares to tidy his desk, Zeid says that he played it right: holding all countries to the same standard and using the office as a bully pulpit for leaders who do not listen, or do not meet their private pledges.

Importantly, he says that method is hard-wired into the system now. Future commissioners will struggle to ignore reports of illegal detentions and crackdowns on peaceful protesters. Excuses will be given behind closed doors, but the news releases will be sent out anyway.”

UN human rights chief to leave post with principles intact and few friends Hussein worked for UN amid Balkan atrocities of 1990s and was instrumental in setting up International Criminal Court.

"In the supposed land of the free and home of the brave, we have been conspicuously disappeared".

WE NEED A SAFE SPACE. It’s that simple for people being persecuted through U.S. legal system abuse.

Our ranks undoubtedly include hundreds of thousands of Americans if not a million or more. Most of us are part of historically oppressed groups such as the poor. But many of us led affluent lives; were people of considerable acclaim. Then for a wide variety of reasons, America’s legal establishment was met with a choice to protect our rights or allow some wealthy or otherwise powerful interest(s) to violate them with impunity.

Distinct patterns of legal irregularities emerged. Classic evidence of retaliation, unlawful bias, and concerted action against many of us was quite apparent. Yet from one level and branch of U.S. government to another for decades -- no matter the caliber of our advocacy -- we have been met with silence or denied relief on explicit terms, all of which was arbitrary and capricious.

In the supposed land of the free and home of the brave, we have been conspicuously disappeared, i.e. removed from our careers and the family lives as well as friendships to which we aspired and perhaps had at one time. The plight and its life altering damage rarely go away, even in the rare instance when our difficulties attract major media attention.

Apparently a proverbial line has been drawn in the sand between our government and us; targets of persistent U.S. legal system abuse. But this act which denies us the privileges and immunities of American citizenship is NOT a sovereign act. Instead, it is the rogue conduct of unscrupulous individuals acting under color of law. Nonetheless, in failing to rise above their treachery, America as a sovereign violates its Constitution and international human rights treaties.

The world needs to know of America’s rather cavalier failure to protect a substantial and growing segment of its population from persecution and psychological torture imposed through U.S. legal system abuse. Opt IN USA is carrying that story to the world and in doing so, endeavors to be and carve out a safe space for its constituents.

Opt IN USA is part of THE LAW PROJECT, a proud member of the:

• Global Net 21 Network,
• U.S. Human Rights Network,
• MAHB (The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere) of Stanford University, and
• United Nations Association of the United States of America, Council of Organizations.

Coveted opportunity for oral arguments before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has been extended to our comrades at Opt IN USA . . .

ORAL ARGUMENTS on the ineffectiveness of workforce protections for federal agency whistleblowers to be heard by the FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS in Washington, D.C. on February 8, 2017 at 10:00 ET.

Summary of Opt IN USA's initial press release on the matter:

"Briefing in Carson v. MSPB before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has become a referendum on four federal workforce oversight agencies. The briefs reveal an ominous gap in federal whistleblower and merit system protection, honed through the agencies' actions and inaction. Proposed amici briefs suggest the matter is part of a constitutional and international human rights crisis being addressed by Opt IN USA, a grassroots U.S. foreign policy reform and international human rights campaign."
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Full Story @ https://www.prlog.org/12553910-four-federal-workforce-agencies-linked-to-international-human-rights-violations.html

"Going forward, The Law Project will limit its case-based advocacy to helping people who want SOLUTIONS; not merely the satisfaction of continued dissent or the comfort of being assisted, even if ineffectively. Our ranks need reasonably prompt relief, ultimate vindication, and maximum healing. Yet most of us pursue other goals, hoping to attain all we need nonetheless. Perhaps our community is overwhelmed by the magnitude of what its members need to succeed (whether individually or collectively) instead of being focused on the manageable roles through which our success can be achieved. Somehow our efforts get divorced from considerations of what they achieve. Enough with the disconnect!

It’s Gonna Be A Bright, Bright Sun Shiny Day! In Memory of the Late Rodney A. Logal -- National Judicial Conduct and Disability Law Project, Inc. a/k/a The Law Project (TLP), will celebrate its eleventh year as a U.S. nonprofit legal reform