But I just read on another website how the UN has much gravitas when it comes to human rights and that we should bow down to them. Personally I think it is high time the US started charging them rent on their HQ and took away the diplomatic immunity of their ambassadors and in general just dissociated us from the UN altogether. better yet would be leaving the UN.
jgg1000a wrote: > the facts clearly show why one should IGNORE INTERNATIONAL law and > bodies when it is about politics and not rights, justice or > fairness... It the UN had any decency, they would disassociate > themselves form the hate filled speeches and declarations of their own > Human Rights Body... > > http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2009/04/20/durban-ii-diary-part-3-the-clowning-of-ahmadinejad/ > > >>>> Here is a translation of just one passage - reprinted verbatim in their >>>> own English - provided by the perpetrators themselves, the Permanent >>>> Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN: >>>> > > “Following the World War Two, they [the West? Security Council > members?] resorted to military aggression to make an entire nation > homeless, on the pretext of Jewish sufferings and the ambiguous and > the dubious question of holocaust. [sic] They sent migrants from > Europe, the United States and from other parts of the world to > establish a totally racist government in the occupied Palestine…” > > So there you have it - Holocaust denial in what was ostensibly the > main speech of the Durban Review Conference. The Vatican (among > others) condemned this as “extremist and unacceptable.” I have heard > too that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is quite concerned about the > fallout this will have for the UN, particularly for it’s heavily US > financed pocketbook, if the American people start to have enough of > this reactionary nonsense masquerading as anti-racism. > > But wait - there’s more. > > Because I had a press pass, I was able to attend Ahmadinejad’s press > conference immediately after the walkouts. I didn’t really want to, > but I felt, well, as they say, in for a dime, in for a dollar. This > room too was jam-packed. I kept debating whether to ask a question, > not that I could have. Only about six were answered. Ahmadinejad > drones on and on, of course. Listening to him answer questions is > terrifying and instructive at once. I know this sounds like a bit of > an exaggeration (and, yes, I’m aware of Godwin’s Law) but it must be a > little like it was to have listened to Hitler and Stalin. Language is > turned upside down. Everything is its opposite. “Democracy” is > totalitarianism. “Human rights” are oppression. “Freedom” is > repression. You head starts to spin. I think I remember from 1984 that > Winston Smith got a headache listening to that kind of language. I can > well understand it. > > I’m too tired now to go on. It’s one in the morning here in Geneva. I > am looking out the hotel window to make sure he is gone. What remains > as a question is who allowed Ahmadinejad to speak at this conference > in such a prominent position? It would be interesting to find out - > and to understand their reasoning. More later. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
