Posted on 05/21/2007 2:36:54 PM PDT by knighthawk
When outlaws run UN committees, global community is a dubious concept
LISTEN carefully and you will hear regular appeals to "the international community" or to "the UN" or to "what the rest of the world thinks". These sort of appeals pop up when the speaker happens not to like some outcome produced by the democratic process here in Australia. So the speaker might dislike some outcome having to do with rights, or with labour standards, or just about anything really. And rather than go through the hassles and hard work of actually changing the minds of some of his or her fellow citizens, this speaker appeals in some grandiose way to what "the international community thinks" as though that were self-evidently good and the end of the matter. Personally, I think a fairly large dose of scepticism is warranted.
Start with the UN itself. The old UN Commission on Human Rights was dismantled in June last year for being ineffective, biased, ridiculous: take your pick. In its place we have the UN Human Rights Council, with 47 member countries. And in its short lifespan it has already made nine resolutions criticising human rights abuses.
Sounds good, right? Well, not one of those resolutions was critical of Sudan (over Darfur), or Zimbabwe, or China, or anywhere, save Israel. Yes, Israel is the only country this new body has criticised (on nine separate occasions, no less) for rights abuses. Gee, nothing to be sceptical about in that.
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Good article!
No more UN for US-list
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
I nominate Al Sharpton as our next Ambassador to Mugabe-land.
The reason for the creation and empowerment of transnational organizations and institutions appears simply to cause great harm America and the rights of our citizens in the world stage. To add insult to injury, these institutions allow the enemies of all humanity positions of power and authority. The UN is beyond shame, and beyond hope.
So are the people who continue to support this farce.
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