I agree, as a New Zealander living in Spain. I've been staggered over the last decade or so to hear of the USA performing:
* "extraordinary renditions" (kidnapping), sometimes of the wrong person who after months gets dumped in Albania.
* "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding (torture)
* holding people indefinitely without charge or trial in Guantanamo Bay
* killing people remotely in foreign countries, including their own citizens based on the president's decision. Sometimes through mistaken identity or bad intel or pure human error the wrong person is killed, or the right person is killed with their children
* The "Kids for Cash Scandal" where a judge received kickbacks from a prison owner to give juveniles harsher sentences.
* And finally, spying at an enormous degree on the US population at large.
These are astonishing things and I'm even more staggered that people en masse don't get outraged by these things and demand change.
* "extraordinary renditions" (kidnapping), sometimes of the wrong person who after months gets dumped in Albania.
* "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding (torture)
* holding people indefinitely without charge or trial in Guantanamo Bay
* killing people remotely in foreign countries, including their own citizens based on the president's decision. Sometimes through mistaken identity or bad intel or pure human error the wrong person is killed, or the right person is killed with their children
* The "Kids for Cash Scandal" where a judge received kickbacks from a prison owner to give juveniles harsher sentences.
* And finally, spying at an enormous degree on the US population at large.
These are astonishing things and I'm even more staggered that people en masse don't get outraged by these things and demand change.