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Friday, November 5, 2010

Imagine a nightmare Kafka-esque vision of the dictatorships of the world standing in judgment of the United States and pointing the finger of accusation at us over our Human Rights record. Imagine no more. That world exists, right now, at the United Nations. And we subject ourselves to it voluntarily. From UN Watch: Cuba Organizing Rogue Speakers' List of Hardliners in Bid to Ambush U.S. at Friday's U.N. Review

The U.S. was ambushed today at its first UN Human Rights Council review after Cuba successfully stacked the speakers list with rogue regimes and other vehement critics. Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia, China, Algeria, Bolivia, Nicaragua and several Muslim states accused America of genocide, war crimes, and systematic anti-Muslim and anti-African racism.

"The U.N. system failed today by allowing non-democracies to hijack the session for political propaganda and to drum up anti-American sentiment worldwide," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental monitoring group. "We applaud the U.S. for setting a model for openness in its approach to the UN review, but it's tragic that many states misused and politicized the process."...

Update: Anne Bayefsky: U.N. Gives Obama a New 'Shellacking' -- Over Human Rights!

...This morning fifty-six countries lined-up for the opportunity to have at the U.S. representatives, many standing in line overnight a day ago in order to be near the top of the list. Making it to the head of the line were Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Iran, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and North Korea.

Recommendations to improve the U.S. human rights record included Cuba's advice to end "violations against migrants and mentally ill persons" and "ensure the right to food and health."

Iran - currently poised to stone an Iranian woman for adultery - told the U.S. "effectively to combat violence against women."

North Korea - which systematically starves a captive population - told the U.S. "to address inequalities in housing, employment and education" and "prohibit brutality...by law enforcement officials."

Libya complained about U.S. "racism, racial discrimination and intolerance."...

3 Comments

Theater of the absurd and abhorrent staged where else but at the UN, known for such productions. Being called ugly by a frog is nothing compared to being castigated for one's shortcomings by these moral exemplars.

I'm surprised the UK wasn't on line too.

http://www.boycottscotland.com

Theodore Dalrymple's latest, The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism, is exceedingly relevant - I would dare to claim probative - in this vein. Easily among the finest volumes along this line of inquiry over the latest few years, imo, obviously, but a substantial volume.

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