[Olog-hai]

Hmm. The Venezuelan ambassador to the so-called HRC has almost the same name as the birth name of Eamon de Valera, the infamous Irish president.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

More evidence of the UN’s essential absurdity.
Congratulating Venezuela ? Really ?

[circlecity]

Didn’t Venezuela just declare “emergency” martial law?

[Retain Mike]

Here is an excerpt from an essay which uses the original UN Human Rights in discussing a place for US involvement in international affairs.

The Second World War had a much different outcome because the United States was the only belligerent that not only survived decimation but prospered during those years. Great material wealth and power allowed Eleanor Roosevelt to put before the San Francisco Conference the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the philosophical foundation for the United Nations. In its thirty provisions only two deal with material matters and twenty eight emphasized the intangible attributes of property with which John Locke and James Madison would have been familiar. She brought to the international community the idea of representative governments deriving their responsibilities from the governed. Of course behind this concept was our heritage of Christian faith in which all Americans understood they acted in submission to the Supreme Authority. Based on reaffirmation of dedication to human rights, the UN determined to eliminate the scourge of war and promote justice, freedom, and respect for law. Armed forces would then be used to promote these common interests.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/history.shtml

United Nation Charter
http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml

[Jan_Sobieski]

I hear that the Islamic State (ISIS) was a close second, but the there were a couple dissenting votes, so they went with Venezuela

[Dick Bachert]

Oh, be still my heart!

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Waaaaayyyy back in 1984, WGST-AM radio in Atlanta (not exactly a hotbed of radical, conservative Americanist philosophy) polled its listening audience and asked the question “Is the United Nations doing a good job?” 81% responded “NO!”

So, DECADES later, why the hell are we still involved with one of the most corrupt and liberty-threatening organizations ever invented?

Sounds like a question for YOUR congress critter’s next TOWN HALL MEETING to me.

Some essential history if you are to fully grasp the rot – and the plot -- at the core of this thoroughly corrupt gaggle of over-educated morons:

ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAzl21AfnZU

ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0qV2OM8ajQ

ORIGINS OF THE UN, PART 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrkshIXYiPs