Comparing the United States to Hitler’s Germany in 1933, a former British ambassador expressed shock at Donald Trump’s statements. A UN panel has issued a warning about the Charlottesville matter.
British ambassador Peter Westmacott compared Trump’s “campaign style” rally in Phoenix to what might have been seen in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
At that event in Phoenix, Trump railed against the press, which has been very critical of his response to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA.
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination invoked its “urgent warning procedure,” denouncing failure of the US at the highest level to condemn the violent racist events and demonstrations led by white supremacists. In the past, the United States promoted tolerance and understanding between ethnic groups. Things have changed under Trump.
The UN employed its urgent warning procedure used for cases where unrest might “spiral into terrible events,” said the committee chairperson Anastasia Crickley.
The last time the UN issued decisions like this was last year in Burundi. I am alarmed to find my country, the United States of America, classed with Hitler’s Germany and Burundi.
I contact my Senate and Congressional representatives regularly on this matter. What else I can do, I am not sure.