Cross posted at Reject the UN
Finally some sanity is starting to enter the US State Department. The U.N. Human Rights Council (the successor to the Human Rights Commission) has the loathing and disgust of the US State Department.
It has taken the State Department 30 years to finally come to the conclusion that the UN is full of racists and that they will never be able to enforce Human Rights Standards on the majority of the member states of the UN. Those nice standards found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That pesky little document they had to sign to become a member of the UN.
From Reuters:
The United States has quietly informed Western allies of its intention to walk away from the U.N. Human Rights Council, diplomatic sources said on Friday.
The U.S. delegation has observer status, with the right to speak, in the 47-member state forum, which meets in Geneva, and has never stood for election to the Council since it was set up two years ago.
n a Council debate on Friday on the situation in Myanmar, the United States failed to take the floor on a topic on which until now it has always been vocal, a possible sign that it had little further interest in the body. The Council replaced the widely discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights.
But it is seen by critics as having fallen under control of a bloc of Islamic and African countries, which have a majority when backed by their frequent allies Russia, China and Cuba.
Nations such as Russia, China, Cuba, Libya, Zimbabwe, Sudan. You know. The bastions of Human Rights. The guiding lights in Freedoms.
There are no offenders of Human Rights in the world any more. All people have the same rights. Male and female, black, white and yellow, Christian, Muslim and Jew are all free everywhere on this planet. They must be for the U.N. Human Rights Council to do the following:
Freedom is bursting out all over! Thus now they can go after the minor abuses of Human Rights. Forget about the killings in Darfur. Forget about the fact that women have no rights in Muslim nations. And forget about the fact that thousands die each day needlessly due to their governments' inexcusable mismanagement of their nations.The State Department spokesman noted growing U.S. skepticism about council activities noting that it focused on criticizing Israel instead of dealing with other human rights issues.
U.N. officials set up the council in 2006 to replace the organization's Human Rights Commission. They disbanded the commission after wide criticism by international human rights groups, complaining that member countries with poor rights records frequently joined forces to block effective action
This theater of the absurd goes even further when the UNHRC starts to investigate the United States elections for racism and xenophobia.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Doudou Diène, will undertake a country visit to the United States from 19 May to 6 June 2008 at the invitation of the Government of the United States.Do you suppose they will now investigate Saudi Arabia for their election violations? Or China? Or Jordan? Or Lebanon? Or Syria? Or any of the African nations? Or Venezuela? Or Cuba? No. They have investigated the US. And of course we know what their findings will be. It will be against the US.
The Special Rapporteur will visit the cities of Washington, New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico to gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. He is scheduled to hold meetings with representatives of the Government, both at national and local levels, and with members of the legislative and judiciary branches. Discussions will also be held with non-governmental organizations, community members, representatives of political parties, academics and other organizations and individuals working in the field of racism and discrimination.
The Special Rapporteur will submit a final report on the visit for consideration at a forthcoming session of the Human Rights Council in 2009.
Instead of getting angry, we should howl with laughter, and then pull all of our funding from the UN. We shall then see who will have the last laugh.
2 comments:
we should have pulled our funding decades ago Katie..great post!
That state department is another nest of leftist vipers. None the less it's nice of them to acknowledge the bleeding obvious. Thanks guys, now can you bloody do something about it, or do we have to wait another couple of decades for you to waffle into action.
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