House of Paine

goo goos and thugs : wronging human rights

the op ed piece below
   
  sez it all
as far as 
the recent united nations
 remake 
 of 
ellie  R 's
 "discredited"  human rights commission....

in a phrase :

  "what  no hegemons'star chamber ????"

yup
thats what these two slobbering  stooges
         quaw  down at us 
                       from their back bench  
                on the empire purch 




for these ja ja mokes 

"THE TRAGEDY of the latest
 United Nations effort
 to reform its discredited 
Human Rights Commission...."


 is not 
 

"that it's a breathtaking defense 
of the status quo..."

" No, the real sadness 
lies in the fact that
 so many of the supposed defenders 
of human rights have endorsed this charade"

hmmm 
   a  bloc of goo goo's and  thugs

"Their ire suggests 
that a destructive ideology 
now infects the human rights movement .."


"a mix of anti-Americanism 
and utopian internationalism"

hows that grab ya ???

now to the details ....

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all sides seemed to agree 
since the old  commission set up
allowed such bloody fisted goons 
 as north korea and ....sudan 
 to vote 
on whether or not
 the un should  act
on
other folks Hr violations
some thing needed doing 


"The UN remedy? 
Create a Human Rights Council
 elected by a simple majority 
of the General Assembly,
 which could later vote 
to suspend members for bad behavior"


so this seems not so bad 

well then say our boys from k street 
why not 
instead 
this  " US proposal"???

" .. simply ban egregious human rights violators 
from membership"
 don't you love this 
there's a vote that puts one on 
but instead the bruisers want 
a vote that keeps you for ever off 

thats right make it offensive as possible 

can you spell wrecker 

 but there was a better proposal
then this simple majority bar to entry 

a higher bar 
 it would  certainly be
a step further forward to require  
 hr council  
"candidates to get a two-thirds vote
 of the General Assembly"

but lets make progress eh ??

why destroy  the better 
only to fall back on the bad 
because there exists an unreachable  better still...???


unless you want that result ..ie 
to stay put at  todays ground zero 

to cover that obvious conclusion 

here's their delightful miff fit  

" Mary Robinson, 
former UN high commissioner for human rights,
 claimed that American opposition 
to the UN plan 
was no different
 from the stonewalling of thuggish states 
such as Cuba and Pakistan....."

don't need to even touch that up do I 


and 
there's more miffery 


 
this same self righteous
  vixen said, 
''the United States can no longer claim 
to be the standard-bearer on human rights."
thanx to the hi-jinx of bush and company 

 moving on...

comes  this :

"It now appears that the last thing 
many human rights groups really wanted 
was a thoroughly reformed 
human rights body at the UN 
-- meaning an organization dominated by strong democracies---

 If that happened, 
it would deprive them of an international forum 
in which to criticize America 
for its alleged global assault on human rights"

"rights groups rallied around 
a highly politicized UN report 
demanding the closure of the US detention facility
 at Guantanamo Bay. ..."

.

Much of the human rights movement
 has adopted a faith-based approach
 to advancing an otherwise noble agenda: 

They blithely trust UN pledges
 to reform itself and protect individual rights,
 despite all evidence to the contrary.

threat 

 "If the UN is unwilling to pass a resolution
 barring tyrants and dictators
 from the new Human Rights Council,
 the Bush administration must not be afraid 
to walk away. 
Congress should debate whether 
to pull US funding for the organization
 and invest it instead on human rights organizations
 outside of the UN system."

"With or without American participation 
in the Human Rights Council, 
here's what we're likely to see
 in the months ahead: 

The Council will welcome into membership
 a rogue's gallery of dictatorships.
 It will give Sudan a pass 
as the killing in Darfur intensifies.

 It will target Israel, 
the only democracy in the Middle East,
 for special censure.

 And -- working hand in glove with NGOs
 determined to undermine America's global standing
 -- it will treat the US-led war on terrorism 
as the gravest threat to freedom on the planet.

It used to be that cynics about human rights
 were confined to the capitals 
of communist regimes and banana republics.
 Now, it seems, they're manning
 the human rights offices 
in New York, Brussels, and Geneva.

Joseph Loconte is senior fellow 
at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
 Nile Gardiner is the Lomas Fellow 
at the Heritage Foundation. 

Both served on the Congressional Task Force on the UN.