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July 29, 2006
Nothing Better to do at the UN
From the department of "don't they have anything better to do" we see this being reported by Reuters
The United Nations Human Rights Committee on Friday urged U.S. lawmakers to give the District of Columbia a voting member of Congress, saying the lack of such representation appeared inconsistent with international law.
(Hat tip TigerHawk)
Certainly beats doing anything serious, like condeming Hezbollah or Hamas for their deliberate targeting of civilians. Or dealing seriously with the massacres in Sudan.
Among the members of the UN Human Rights Council, we find Algerian, Bahrain, China, Cuba, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia and Zambia. All well known for their record on human rights. Abusing them, that is.
The UN Human Rights Committee appears to be a subset of the UH Human Rights Council. According to the relevant web page on the UN website,
The Human Rights Committee is composed of 18 independent experts who are persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights.Members are elected for a term of four years by States parties in accordance with articles 28 to 39 of the Covenant. Members serve in their personal capacity and may be re-elected if nominated.
The membership of the Committee is a bit better, the members being from places like Japan, Panama, India, Tunisia, Switzerland, Ireland, Columbia, Egypt and the UK. Take a look for yourself.
It all still smacks of anti-American politics to me. With all of the governments around the world doing so much evil to their own people, this is what they consider to be important?
Posted by Tom at July 29, 2006 3:46 PM
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Tom,
Great post -- I have objected to the UN (or the concept) for over 45 years. They have never been any more than a shill for whatever anti-American or anti-Christian philosophy happens to be floating at the time.
They should be dumped along with all the crooked pseudo diplomats therein (exception -- Bolton).
Jack
Posted by: ExPreacherMan at July 29, 2006 9:09 PM
I don't know if I typed this here at your site before, but I would love to see Bolton take off his shoe, a la Kruschev, and bang on his table anytime some non-supportive crank from a country that would not exist if the US did not feed its people anyway said anything derogatory about the US and our allies.
Would't that be a sight to see - hope he wears Dr Schol's inserts!
Posted by: patd95 at July 30, 2006 1:07 AM
