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U.N Panel to Investigate U.S. Human Rights Violations
Fox News

Posted on 03/18/2003 12:08:03 PM PST by apeman81

According to Fox news, the U.N. has decided to include the U.S. in its investigations of human rights violations. The investigation is to be headed by, drumroll please, Libya!

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


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This would be insulting as hell, if it was softened by the absolutely ridiculous choice of Libya as the chair of the committee. Libya, for crying out loud! I mean, damn, Libya! I didn’t think old Kofi HAD a sense of humor. Libya! What a fornicating joke!
1 posted on 03/18/2003 12:08:03 PM PST by apeman81
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Message to UN: Impotency? There's a little blue pill that can help...
2 posted on 03/18/2003 12:08:58 PM PST by mhking
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Libya Opens United Nations Human Rights Body, Group Kicked Out For Protesting Libya's Lack Of Rights
3 posted on 03/18/2003 12:09:34 PM PST by Shermy
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I really hope the UN succeeds in their efforts to be completely and utterly IRRELEVANT!!!
4 posted on 03/18/2003 12:09:36 PM PST by Paul L. Hepperla
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Include the U.S. in what capacity? As in, INVESTIGATING the U.S.? You can bet it's got to do with death penalty, 2nd amendment rights, and hate crimes...
5 posted on 03/18/2003 12:10:15 PM PST by craig_eddy
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It's all about Mumia.
6 posted on 03/18/2003 12:12:05 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: apeman81
Who else to add? Sudan, China, Kurd killers, Indonesia, Philipines, North Korea, etc.....

Time to vacate the UN.
7 posted on 03/18/2003 12:12:20 PM PST by Spirited
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What's next? Iraq, the head of the disarmament commission, initiates in investigation into the U.S. for weapons violations?

An Alice in Wonderland moment.

8 posted on 03/18/2003 12:12:25 PM PST by Carolina
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I know that a similar analogy has been made before, but putting a country like Libya in charge of a Human Rights Commission is like appointing Himmler to investigate charges of abuses of Jews in concentration camps. The U.N. is the theatre of the absurd and I honestly wonder if they can do anything more to top this.
9 posted on 03/18/2003 12:12:39 PM PST by Enterprise
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This is Monty Python isn't it. The plot couldn't be any more insane.

UN is done.
10 posted on 03/18/2003 12:12:45 PM PST by OpusatFR (Al Sharpton for Democrat Presidential Candidate!)
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To: apeman81
The United Nations?

I-R-R-E-L-E-V-A-N-T
11 posted on 03/18/2003 12:13:40 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)
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To: mhking
Let me guess, they will ask the French to enforce this?
12 posted on 03/18/2003 12:14:12 PM PST by samuel_adams_us
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To: apeman81
Time to turn the UN building into condos.
13 posted on 03/18/2003 12:16:49 PM PST by Cassanova Frankenstein (Cry Havoc!)
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To: mhking
On a serious note, many "think tank" experts believe that issues such as this will serve as a catalyst for forming a new UN (for lack of a better acronym). This international body will be composed of democratic governments dedicated to securing peace and promoting prosperity. They will recognize that the 21st century enemies of democracy will require a new form of diplomacy. VP Cheney alluded to this numerous times on "Meet the Como Aid" last Sunday. IMHO, we are going to see a whole new chapter of World History written before our vary eyes. In the words of Walter Cronkite, "and you were there".
14 posted on 03/18/2003 12:18:11 PM PST by w_over_w (Never bring a box cutter to a Jihad)
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Oh yeah, we're shaking. They are so good at keeping their promises. Do they think this threat will stop the war?
15 posted on 03/18/2003 12:23:31 PM PST by I'm ALL Right!
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"...new form of diplomacy..."

In the form of steel from above?

16 posted on 03/18/2003 12:24:19 PM PST by SquirrelKing (Tagline called on account of rain. Enjoy "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" starring John Wayne...)
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In the form of steel from above?

I meant to put in an example but it is exceeded by your astuteness. Well said . . .

17 posted on 03/18/2003 12:26:45 PM PST by w_over_w (Never bring a box cutter to a Jihad)
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HaHa! Your tagline...!
18 posted on 03/18/2003 12:28:39 PM PST by SquirrelKing (Tagline called on account of rain. Enjoy "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" starring John Wayne...)
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Pardon me while I sneer.
19 posted on 03/18/2003 12:34:31 PM PST by Skwidd (Fire Controlman First Class Extraordinaire)
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The myopic support for the UN in some parts of the US is a testament to the sad state of schooling in this country. I think a big part of the attachment to the UN is the allegiance everyone is taught to principles of democracy, platitudes such as "one man, one vote" and "majority rules".

Translated into global principles, this means to some numbskulls that the world should be governed by majority vote of the nations, and that those who don't accept what the other governments decree (as in Kyoto) are simply schoolyard bullies, refusing to submit to the civilized rules of a polite society, one that has debated and decided, and whose will must then be obeyed.

Let's break that thinking down, shall we:

In Libya, say, a young fellow not smart enough to promote himself from Colonel to General takes power from one strongman in a violent coup, and becomes a new strongman. What is a strongman? A nicety for a dictator, a person who is the only and ultimate political force within a polity. All political decisions, from the organization of the economic structures, ownership of property, allocation of government resources, conduct of military affairs, law, rights and issues of whether someone can continue to live, flow from this individual's will and no one else's.

This person, call him Daffy if you wish, is the person who determines what his country's vote within the UN. His will is no more a reflection of his country's will than any other person's, yet it is the one that counts within the UN.

By contrast, in another country, call it Freedistan, the President is elected by vote of the people. He is responsible for directing his country's foreign policy, including within the UN, but is constrained by the fact that he must be subjected periodically to the voters, and he does not pass the nation's laws, allocate its funds, or even determine the size of its military. All of those issues must be approved by a large body of haggling turkeys to whom the President must defer to and consult with if he wants to get anything through.

When that person then sets a policy at the UN, it may or may not reflect the thinking of his nation's will, but it usually does, and if it does not fairly reflect the polity from which it springs, the nation has methods of ensuring a change in regime.

By what muddled form of thinking does the will of one man, a tyrant who tortures those who disagree with him, merit the legitimacy of a "vote" at a body of Nations, a vote equal to the say of a person who has been chosen to represent a nation like Freelandia? I say the entire structure makes no sense, and not only is structured badly, but is a great force for evil, by perpetuating in easily misled minds that the will of such a body is worthy of consideration, and thus interfering with the beneficial efforts of representative and law-abiding societies to protect their interests in the world from the tyrants.

No nation deserves a "substantive" say in any international body unless that nation has passed a grueling set of tests that ensures that the position it takes within that body are the result of a political process designed to fairly reflect the views and beliefs of the people of that nation. Collections of national diplomatic corps which mingle democracies with dictators are fine for exchanging views, or organizing humanitarian efforts, but as a way to try to bind fair and free societies, they are anathema and should be avoided.

Instead, we need to educate the people of what I call "legitimate" governments to the notion that the UN is, for the most part, a collection of thugs and criminals, whose opinions are not relevant to, and certainly not binding upon, free societies. We should then begin the process of forming a "League of Free Peoples" (the LFP) or "Coalition of Legitimate Governments" (the CLG) or some such group, and only the actions of that body would merit any weight.

Its rules would reflect more accurately the weight that individual governments' views should be given (Iceland's vote would be worth less than ours, for example) and its actions would carry the actual imprimatur of international consensus. Initially, it would be composed of the US, Britain, Australia, Japan, the states of New Europe, as well as weasel democracies like France, Germany and Canada. If Russia, Chile and other semi-democratic states pass the tests of "legitimacy" they could be admitted.

20 posted on 03/18/2003 12:35:21 PM PST by Defiant ("I don't want to kill you, and you don't want to be dead"--Bush, to Iraq)
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