Posted on 11/05/2010 1:45:57 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
The United Nations Human Rights Council, a conclave of 47 nations that includes such notorious human rights violators as China, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia, met in Geneva on Friday, to question the United States about its human rights failings.
It heard, among other things, that the U.S. discriminates against Muslims, that its police are barbaric and that it has been holding political prisoners behind bars for years.
Russia urged the U.S. to abolish the death penalty. Cuba and Iran called on Washington to close Guantanamo prison and investigate alleged torture by its troops abroad. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, told the U.S. it must better promote religious tolerance. Mexico complained that racial profiling had become a common practice in some U.S. states.
Some of these allegations, and many more, come from Americans themselves — especially from a stridently critical network of U.S. organizations whose input dominates the U.N. digest of submissions from “civil society” that are part of the council’s background reading.
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OUT OF THE UN!
Why are we still bothering with the UN?
Your tax dollars at work!
Is this about the government stealing (via excessive, confiscatory and punitive taxation) from the hard working citizens?
More evidence that the American Left is made up of quislings. As if we needed more proof.
The UNAmerican U.N. has got to go! Get out! This is OUR country, not yours.
Memo to John Boehner:
Defund the UN.
The UN is a total waste of prime Manhattan real estate.
“Mr. Obama, tear down this building!”
Here’s hoping that the Republican House cuts off ALL funding to the UN.
In the meantime, I’ll look forward to Obama defending the US against the UN. (Yeah, that’ll happen. Right after non-Muslims can go to Mecca without getting killed.)
My message to the GOP in the house. 1. Defund Obamacare. 2. Not one more dime to the UN. 3. Axe everything not related to an enumerated power given Congress in the US Constitution. 4. Cut bozo’s WH slush fund and budget by %99. 5. Investigate every czar and the DOJ.
It heard, among other things, that the U.S. discriminates against Muslims, that its police are barbaric and that it has been holding political prisoners behind bars for years.
We should just burn them alive the way they do to Christians. what a bunch of hypocrites
LEADERSHIP would be: A US President calling the UN what it is, a corrupt talking-shop for dictators seeking legitimacy, and demanding MAJOR reform or the US will pull out.
Russia only has a temporary moratorium that many of their politicians are trying to get rescinded. This of course forgets the fact that Russia does carry out the death penalty for political troublemakers in the form of "accidents."
Cuba and Iran called on Washington to close Guantanamo prison and investigate alleged torture by its troops abroad.
Two countries with prisons notorious for their inhumane conditions and torture.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, told the U.S. it must better promote religious tolerance.
Indonesia is a country famous for anti-Christian riots, and the murders of Christians where the murderers get off with a slap on the wrist if they are prosecuted at all. Church burnings are common. The government also has a practice of moving Muslims en-masse into majority Christian areas in order to Islamify them.
Mexico complained that racial profiling had become a common practice in some U.S. states.
Do you know how "gringos" get treated by the police in Mexico? They also tend to be not too nice to the Mexican Indians.
This is going to be one big pot/kettle fest.
Answer: It was the only organization that could make that body of water look clean and unpolluted by comparison.
ditto but he won’t.
Remind me again...how much of our money goes to this anti-U.S. cabal?
Western civilization needs to shut it down by stopping funding.
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