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I don’t like Tasers. I don’t like expanding the definition of torture. And I don’t like the UN. Where’s this leading?
UN committee calls Tasers “torture” and advises Portugal not to use them. I’ll think about this for a while.
(via Slashdot)
Apollo posted this at 1:38 AM EST on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 as Politics and the English Language, Dis-United Nations, Liberty and/or Security
Mitt Romney has just jumped to the front of the pack of mediocre candidates for the Republican Nomination:
Romney calls global body a ‘failure’
Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney laughs in response to a reporter’s question during a news conference at the Ohio State University Airport in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon) PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. — Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney called the United Nations a failure on Thursday and said he would support a new coalition of the free nations of the world.
The former Massachusetts governor said the U.N. Human Rights Council has repeatedly condemned Israel while taking no action against nations with repressive regimes.
“The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late,” Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. “We should withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.”
Actually, the United States doesn’t have a seat on the human rights council, which it has been boycotting.
Romney also said he would support a new “coalition of the free nations of the world and bring those nations together so that we can act together.”
Theres a lot not to like about Mitt - but in some of the issues dear to my heart he gets it right.
Jamie posted this at 12:46 PM EDT on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 as Dis-United Nations, Audacity of Hype
The U.N. is as corrupt, brutal and morally compromised as Ahmadinejad himself. In its many affronts to civilization and decency, the U.N. has long since outlived its usefulness and reason for being. Time to shut it down.
Sounds harsh, we know. Isn’t it better, you ask, to have a place where people can peaceably gather and talk out their problems?
Sad as it is to say, the answer is no. For the U.N. has been hijacked by a rather diverse group of kleptocrats, dictators and fanatics who have successfully used it to their own rather nefarious ends.
They’re almost as good as John Derbyshire:
Here’s my candidate for the biggest outrage of all: that the United Nations—and the corrupt, verminous parasites who staff it—are allowed to carry out their filthy work on U.S. territory. They should be expelled, and the UN headquarters site should be burned to the ground, and the ground should then be sown with salt. The UN is an atrocity, an insult to all human decency and human values, and it should not occupy one square inch of U.S. soil. Am I making my feelings plain here? I hope so.
Well, we can always hope.
Hubbard posted this at 9:57 AM EDT on Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 as Dis-United Nations
Whatever we think should be done about refugees, it’s clear that the UN has no business taking care of them.
Typically regarded as the paragon of humanitarianism, refugee camps are in fact one of the biggest stains on the conscience of the international community. The inmates of these facilities lack freedom of movement and have no right to work. They are sometimes not allowed to grow their own food and must depend on rations from humanitarian agencies. Those rations do not always come on time and are rarely sufficient. Refugees are forbidden to sell or barter them for other products they need, such as soap or underwear. Biological anthropologist Kenneth Porter found that Burundian adolescents born in refugee camps and raised on humanitarian assistance in Tanzania were significantly shorter than poor Tanzanian children in neighboring villages who received no assistance at all — a difference that suggests malnutrition while under international protection.
Guglielmo Verdirame of the University of Cambridge and Barbara Harrell-Bond, founding director of the Refugee Studies Center at the University of Oxford, and co-authors of Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianism, found that found that UNHCR in Uganda and Kenya imposed unpaid work on refugees confined to camps, supported dispute resolution mechanisms that illegally imprisoned people for adultery, and failed to protect women from genital mutilation and domestic violence.
UNHCR has even imposed collective punishment on refugees under its protection. In the hellish Kakuma camp in north-eastern Kenya, some refugees protested their conditions by destroying the enclosures through which refugees are herded to collect their food, once in April 1994 and again in April 1996. UNHCR cut off all food distribution, including to women and children, until the enclosures were rebuilt by the refugees. The suspension lasted 21 days in the first case and 14 in the second. Such measures are forbidden even in wartime by Article 33 of the Geneva Convention.
We’re not fans of lawsuits around here, but the UN has earned one. A pity that
You cannot sue the United Nations. If the UN violates your rights, that’s just too bad. There is no judge with jurisdiction, no independent tribunal, no possibility of compensation or justice.
Someone needs to sue them.
Hubbard posted this at 12:05 PM EDT on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 as Dis-United Nations
From Radio Derb 10/13/06:
Here’s my candidate for the biggest outrage of all: that the United Nations—and the corrupt, verminous parasites who staff it—are allowed to carry out their filthy work on U.S. territory. They should be expelled, and the UN headquarters site should be burned to the ground, and the ground should then be sown with salt. The UN is an atrocity, an insult to all human decency and human values, and it should not occupy one square inch of U.S. soil. Am I making my feelings plain here? I hope so.
If John Bolton cannot be confirmed as UN Ambassador, perhaps John Derbyshire could be sent in his stead.
Hubbard posted this at 12:32 PM EDT on Saturday, October 14th, 2006 as Dis-United Nations
Over at the UN:
All the declared candidates are from Asia — which under an informal rotation system expects to field the next secretary-general — except Mrs. Vike-Freiberga, whose candidacy could sink on the geographic considerations despite the fact that several nations would like to see a woman in the post.
China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, signaled early that it would not accept a candidate from a country outside Asia.
Gah. The whole system is annoying. Still, if they insist on putting an Asian in the Secretary General’s chair, why not Lee Kuan Yew? That’d be fun to watch, if nothing else.
Hubbard posted this at 12:56 PM EDT on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 as Dis-United Nations
