Liberty and justice for all United States persons abroad

The Isaac Brock Society

Article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United States

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Petros Posted in Issues regarding US persons abroad 16 Comments

Here is Article 8 of UDHR with my original commentary:

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 8 makes a bill of attainder an illegal act internationally and protects all people from punitive treatment without a fair trial.

I am sorry to say that I had completely misread Article Eight, and I now offer a new understanding of how the United States abuses expats under this article. Continue reading →

Anti-Americanism in Canada

Posted on May 25, 2012 by usxcanada Posted in Issues regarding US persons abroad 43 Comments

It is difficult to think of another group in Canada in the particular and peculiar situation of Americans
— J.M. Bumsted

“U.S. persons” in Canada face difficulties that are encountered nowhere else on earth — at least not to the same degree, due to numbers and history and geographic location. A lengthy academic encyclopedia article touches on many strands of the complex web that ensnares American-Canadians. Brief excerpts from most of the ten sections are provided in the appendix below. The existence of that article in that collection was a landmark — a recognition that Americans are in fact one of Canada’s peoples! (By the way, nobody ever refers to an American-Canadian in the routine multicultural obeisances, do they?)

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