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The United States is apparently going to be sitting down with the UN Human Rights Council today, to discuss the human rights record of the United States as judged by… China, Iran, and Syria, among others.
This sounds like a joke, but a deeply offensive and not funny one.
If you remember, the United States left the UN Human Rights Council back in 2018, while Nikki Haley was still UN ambassador. One of the main reasons – which has not changed in the last two years – was the UN Human Rights Council’s continuing hostility toward Israel. Everything Ambassador Haley said at the time still rings true today.
That hostility toward Israel has continued onward – even to the point of UN countries voting just this last week to only refer to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by only its Muslim name. While some countries in the wake of the Abraham Accords seem to be not as high on catering to the Palestine Authority.
However, the UN Human Rights Council continues its streak of being terrible, awful, no good, and very bad. Russia, China, and Cuba – all bastions of human rights on the globe – each were elected to three-year-terms back in October. If the HRC wishes to be hot garbage, it can do it without the United States.
But thanks to the riots surrounding the death of George Floyd, the UN HRC decided in June that it would “investigate” the human rights record of the United States. And the questions that will apparently be asked today, as revealed by UN Watch, should make you vomit.
China, whose human rights record includes not only mass starvation and repression, but now also the ethnic cleansing of the Uyghur population, is going to have the gall to ask the United States about our “religious intolerance and xenophobia.”
No joke: Ahead of U.N. review of U.S. rights record, China—which herded 1 million Muslims into camps to kill their religion & culture—asks: “What measures has U.S. taken to eliminate systematic racism, racial discrimination, white supremacy, religious intolerance and xenophobia?“ pic.twitter.com/azw4UMagK7
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 8, 2020
Iran, who routinely hunts down and arrests women who are out in public without their heads being covered by a hijab, is going to ask about the oppression of women in the United States.
When the U.S. goes tomorrow before a UNHRC review of its rights record, the Islamic Republic of Iran is planning to take the floor to accuse the U.S. of arbitrary detention, violating international human rights law, targeting dual nationals & oppressing women—i.e., what it does. pic.twitter.com/tu6fxL73Kd
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 8, 2020
If the steam isn’t coming out of your ears yet, get a load of what UN Watch says Syria – who used chemical weapons on their own people – is going to ask.
With these types of INSANE questions planned, why even bother to show up? Why bother to be a part of the UN at all?
Even if President Trump had pulled the United States out of the United Nations, it is a sure bet that Joe Biden would have been running back to kiss ass and sniff hair as fast as possible. So now that the United States is likely to get a drubbing by the UN Human Rights Council, you can bet that Biden will be prostrating himself in order to atone for the racial sins of the United States without even a hint of irony in front of repressive regimes with ACTUAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
President Trump’s foreign policy has been probably his greatest success. If Joe Biden becomes president, we will be going backward with such gems like the Iran Deal. Joe Biden’s worst instincts are all in the foreign policy arena. Time to buckle up and watch Biden bend over.
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GWB says: to discuss the human rights record of the United States as judged by… China, Iran, and Syria, among others
This is the end result of globalism. We would be subject to people all over the world who do not have our best interests at heart, nor any interest in our freedom. They do not agree with our morals. They only desire power and control and will do whatever it takes to achieve it. (Sort of like Democrats. Oh, wait, they are globalists….)
However, the UN Human Rights Council continues its streak of being terrible, awful, no good, and very bad.
“However”? That makes it sound like they’re different. All of the UN (including most of the Security Council) is anti-freedom, anti-national-sovereignty, anti-Israel, anti-America.
“What measures has U.S. taken to eliminate systematic racism, racial discrimination, white supremacy, religious intolerance and xenophobia?“
And this is why we used to have a policy of “Politics stops at the water’s edge.” We used to try not to give our enemies abroad ammunition to use against us. (We didn’t always succeed, but we tried.) Now, our enemies just quote the Democrats to fling mud.
will accuse the U.S. of violating “international humanitarian law & human rights law.“
That sounds a little off. What they’re accusing us of is an illegal occupation of Syria. And, honestly, they’re right. We haven’t declared war on them. We don’t have a UN order under which we’re acting. I think we might have used an expanded GWoT order to justify it (since ISIS went into Syria after hammering northern Iraq). So, they’ve got an argument.
Why bother to be a part of the UN at all?
The important question. And only answerable in the affirmative if you think that capitulating to tyrants is the right way to avoid war. If you’re Neville Chamberlin, the answer is obvious. If you think that war is the ugliest thing about the world, then the answer is obvious.
However, if you agree with John Stuart Mills* on this, then the answer is also obvious: there is NO good reason for us to be involved. Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
(* War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. … A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself..)
(It’s not exactly the way we learned it, but it’s from a “reputable quotation website.”)
you can bet that Biden will be prostrating himself in order to atone for the racial sins of the United States
Of course. Because they don’t love the US. They love power. And globalism gives them that power – and the possibility for more. They are traitors to the US because they would sell us to our enemies for their fancy mansions and world travel and global conclaves. Too bad our schools have indoctrinated so many into the religion of progressivism (which has globalism as a major tenet).
Amy Poindexter says: It incenses me to NO END that we even still let this hive of scum and villainy into this country. Although I know they have more than a few brothers-in-arms among the citizenry [spit] of the US.
Russ Wood says: On the “anti-war” bunch, I quote G K Chesterton” “War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.”
As far as the leftists and the UN go, didn’t Orwell write about “A boot, pressed on the human face – forever”?
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