The Hon. Mr. Federical Villagas,
President of the 16th Council (2022)
The United Nations Human Rights Council
Complaint Procedure Unit
Human Rights Council Branch
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Re: The Prevention of the US Military Forced Relocation of its Homeless Citizens, Particularly The American African, Federal Black Citizens
Narrative (A)
As federal, black citizens of a “super” citizenship status, this is their/our National Citizenship by which they/we are to experience “equal justice/protections under law, as is enjoyed by white citizens”, a matter that generationally, American African, chattel slave descendant have never fully experience, which is the root cause of America’s woes.
In the midst of the ever-growing American homelessness crisis, and since January 2021 to present, five million plus (5,000,000+), Foreign National whom are now also homeless, scattered throughout my/our country, with the ominously, looming arrival of the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, with every internationally associated stakeholders, of government and private sectors, carefully weighing their options to not repeat the 1984 Summer Olympics.
In blatant violation of everything that is supposedly sacred, moral, just, tranquilly peace, civil and humane for all humanity, the Olympic Committees and the international communities allowed for the LA law enforcement agencies to “sweep”, or “leaf blow” the homeless, i.e., “Jesus” out of sight from a watching world, not wanting it to see the living, human evidence of America’s failed government and society.
Apparently, since its’ 1896 inception, this kind of matter occurred in every host nation and city of the summer Olympiads as part of its expected legacy, and not so much agitation.
The 1984 LA Summer Olympics And The Anti-Homeless, Poor Peoples Legacy of the Olympic Committees Legacy
However, when such occurred during the 1984 LA Olympics season, though there was outcry, the Olympic Committee once again lived up to its legacy and did nothing of real value to prevent law enforcement’s mistreat LA’s homeless, particularly as most of them were American African, US black citizens.
In fact, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has the ugly legacy of overseeing and chiding the violation of both United Nations, International Human Rights Laws, as well as its own Olympism mission, values and principles for civil interaction for humanities betterment, in every hosting nation and cities.
This uncivilized behavior of the local government (LA city/county, state, federal), and private sector business stakeholders, along with the approving Triad Olympic Committees, of LA, USA, and International set a precedent for 38 years of law enforcement, “homeless encampment sweeps”, literal bulldozing of, “leaf blowing” homeless citizens away from special national and international events.
Cases in point – the 1984 LA Olympics | the 1985 bulldozing of Justiceville | 1987 Papal visit of John Paul II | the 2022 National and Super Bowl Championship Games, all of which violated US Civil Rights Law, i.e., the 1866-68 Civil Rights/14th Amendment
As Record shows, and you well know, the United Nations Human Rights Council, as well as other such bodies within and independently outside of the UN, i.e., NGO’s has essentially, and rightly, cited LA as being a violator of International Human Rights Laws.
In calling upon the US Federal Government to take corrective action concerning homelessness, as recent as August 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says,
“…it remains concerned at the increasing number of state and local laws that criminalize homelessness and at the disproportionately high number of persons belonging to racial and ethnic minorities affected by homelessness.”
Quoting the National Homeless Law Center (NHLC),
“Using its strongest language, the Committee, which issued similar concerns during the U.S.’s last review in 2014, further “reiterates its recommendation that the [U.S.] abolish laws and policies that criminalize homelessness; implement strong financial and legal incentives to decriminalize homelessness, including by conditioning or withdrawing funding from state and local authorities that criminalize homelessness and encourage them to redirect funding from criminal justice responses to adequate housing and shelter programs, in particular for persons belonging to racial and ethnic minorities most affected by homelessness.”
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has clarified in its General Comment, Number 4, (1991) that regardless of their state of development, States are take certain steps to realize the right to adequate housing immediately and that in this respect priority must be given to those social groups living in unfavorable conditions (para. 10 and 11). Obviously, living in street situation or having no access to adequate housing at all, means living in one of the most unfavorable conditions.
Should America commit this human rights violation of military enforcement against humanity to resolve a societal caused, malady, i.e., homelessness, the moral of light of this “nation under GOD” shall cease to shine, thereby and inevitably ingulfing the world in the new American Nightmare.
For the sake of all nations, this looming tragedy must not be allowed!