This one's going viral just like the last one. UN Watch has added a "prequel" to their speech, showing what the UN Human Rights Council is happy to accept from the presenters there.
Reminds me of Legal or Illegal (contains some disturbing photos).
Yes, extraordinary; as president of the UN's "human rights" council, Luis Alfonso de Alba's officious mendacity is rendered - in living color - for all the world to see. The contrast reflected in this video further substantiates, further accentuates, the commonplace quality the perverse, the morally inverted and even the macabre have achieved in the halls, foyers and assemblys of the U.N. Assuming "achieved" is the right word.
This serves to recall Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" configuration, the institutionalized and matter-of-fact aspect evil can acquire, excepting Arendt's was a post-mortem, a retrospective analysis, whereas now it's taking place in the present, before our very eyes: both at the U.N. and other trans-nationalist orgs in terms of apologetics for that mendacious, malevolent and even macabre set of qualities - and also in the concrete manifestations themselves, e.g., Rwanda, Kosovo, Hussein & Sons' Iraq, Sudan in the south, now Sudan in the west.
Without apology I'll excerpt from my own recent comment, on Darfur, since it gets to the crux of the glamor/power manifestation and apologetic, the mask and the reality behind the mask:
"... the U.N. is more and more obviously a facade for authentically shameful and even malevolent actions, and inactions, to be [masked] with the officious imprimatur of moral/ethical earnestness and gravitas. Yet Hollywood, and still other PR machines, applaud the goings on at Turtle Bay. Glamor and power represent the facade, and it's a facade that sells."
One thing that this spokesperson did--that was done by none of the other commentator--was to criticize the council itself. That gave them the excuse to portray his statements as being beyond the pale.
As an experiment, he should try to carefully select his words, though without sacrificing any meaning. Harshly criticize other countries, but make respectful suggestions to the council. Then see what happens.
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Remarkable.
No..........not remarkable. Entirely believable.
Yes, extraordinary; as president of the UN's "human rights" council, Luis Alfonso de Alba's officious mendacity is rendered - in living color - for all the world to see. The contrast reflected in this video further substantiates, further accentuates, the commonplace quality the perverse, the morally inverted and even the macabre have achieved in the halls, foyers and assemblys of the U.N. Assuming "achieved" is the right word.
This serves to recall Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" configuration, the institutionalized and matter-of-fact aspect evil can acquire, excepting Arendt's was a post-mortem, a retrospective analysis, whereas now it's taking place in the present, before our very eyes: both at the U.N. and other trans-nationalist orgs in terms of apologetics for that mendacious, malevolent and even macabre set of qualities - and also in the concrete manifestations themselves, e.g., Rwanda, Kosovo, Hussein & Sons' Iraq, Sudan in the south, now Sudan in the west.
Without apology I'll excerpt from my own recent comment, on Darfur, since it gets to the crux of the glamor/power manifestation and apologetic, the mask and the reality behind the mask:
"... the U.N. is more and more obviously a facade for authentically shameful and even malevolent actions, and inactions, to be [masked] with the officious imprimatur of moral/ethical earnestness and gravitas. Yet Hollywood, and still other PR machines, applaud the goings on at Turtle Bay. Glamor and power represent the facade, and it's a facade that sells."
Condemned. Short of an about-turn, there is no way out for the UN.
One thing that this spokesperson did--that was done by none of the other commentator--was to criticize the council itself. That gave them the excuse to portray his statements as being beyond the pale.
As an experiment, he should try to carefully select his words, though without sacrificing any meaning. Harshly criticize other countries, but make respectful suggestions to the council. Then see what happens.