1 - Congress Broke (and probably is still breaking) Their Own Inside Trading Laws
Insider trading is basically the highly immoral practice of using non-public information, such as a law being changed, in order to take advantage of the market and gain a ton of money doing so. It's something that's supposed to be very illegal, unless you happen to be a member of congress.
Back in 2010 the Wall Street Journal revealed that people from congress and their staff had been reviewing proposed legislation in order to rack up large sums of money from the stock market. We're not just talking about a few black sheep either. We're talking about at least 72 people breaking their own laws while at the same time they were putting bankers in jail for doing the same thing they were.
2 - Extradition Treaties Make Less Here
Extradition Treaties are important in that they help to reassure justice world wide by making countries send back people convicted of crimes to the country they were convicted of those crimes. Recently, Washington requested the extradition of Edward Snowden from Russia to which Putin refused. Obama had a temper tantrum over it in spite of his own denial of smaller extradition requests from other countries. The Guardian helped point out that Obama's White House is currently harboring a terrorist who bombed an airplane murdering 73 Cuban's as well as a genocidal dictator.
3- The Fact That We Use Chemical Weapons
Some of you may know that white phosphorus is a highly flammable, light-emitting substance that is legally used to illuminate a battlefield or to create a smokescreen. It is highly illegal the moment the stuff is used physically against people as it has the tendency to not stop burning the moment it touches skin, continuing through muscle and bone. It also simultaneously releases a toxic gas that burns the eyes and throat and damages the lungs. All together this makes its use as an offensive weapon one that is highly criminal. So you might be surprised to learn that the U.S. Government used it during the 2004 siege of Felluja.
Looking into this is where the hypocrisy unravels. We were invading this Iraqi city with chemical weapons based on the accusation of the country's dictator for being in possession of chemical weapons just like the ones we used. Thanks to the pentagon's description of white phosphorous as only burning people (conveniently leaving out the part about the toxic gas) that it falls under the incendiary weapons protocols and has since been left alone.
