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Category: United Nations

  • If You Doubted That the UN Was Useless . . .

    . . . then you might want to read this article.

    Yeah, that’s the same Sudan whose president has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for “crimes against humanity” for genocide in Darfur. But the UN apparently has no problem with giving them a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.

    And we  (the US taxpayer)  pick up 22% of the cost of the UN’s everyday budget and 27% of the cost of UN peacekeeping operations.  “Your tax dollars at work.”

    Maybe those John Birch Society billboards about the UN from the 1960s were right after all. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.

  • UN: Brad (Breanna) Manning tortured

    So after a 14-month investigation, the UN special rapporteur on torture has decided that the US government is guilty of cruel and inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning (who prefers to be called Breanna) and he’s officially accused the US.

    Manning has been in custody for almost two years and was held in solitary confinement at Quantico – more than likely for his own protection. Of course, the UN investigator isn’t concerned with Manning’s safety. I’m sure the UN considers any imprisonment cruel and humane as long as the US is doing it. The Guardian:

    Mendez, who runs the UN office that investigates incidents of alleged torture around the world, told the Guardian: “I conclude that the 11 months under conditions of solitary confinement (regardless of the name given to his regime by the prison authorities) constitutes at a minimum cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in violation of article 16 of the convention against torture. If the effects in regards to pain and suffering inflicted on Manning were more severe, they could constitute torture.”

    I wonder what the UN would conclude if they released Manning into the general population and he was raped daily or killed outright by some prisoner who still had the flame of patriotism burning in his dark soul. I’m pretty sure that if I were ever in prison, I’d prefer solitary confinement. But then, I don’t think I’d be a willing participant in some of the activities that men’s prisons are known for. That might not be the case with Breanna.

  • Head coke addict: Take back Obama’s Nobel Prize

    Evo Morales, Bolivia’s cocaine-fiend-in-chief, thinks President Obama should give back the Nobel Prize that he was awarded his first few days in office;

    ‘How is it possible to give the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who has launched an invasion, a bombing? It’s a violation, an assault, an aggression,’ said Morales, one of Latin America’s most left-leaning leaders and a vocal critic of the United States.

    ‘Obama is the leader of group of thugs who led an assault and an invasion – and that has nothing to do with defending human rights,’ he declared.

    So what happened to all that goodwill that was supposed to be coming our way when Obama became president? I thought working inside of the UN instead of without them was going to make us stronger. It seems that they dislike us no matter what we do – like we’ve been telling the American Left for the past ten years.

    Thanks to ROS for the link.

  • Libya and the Left

    The raging civil war in Libya presents itself as a quandary for the anti-war. anti-US Left. it seems that, according to the UK’s Independent, the US is urging the Saudis to supply weapons to the Libyan guerrillas;

    The Saudis have been told that opponents of Gaddafi need anti-tank rockets and mortars as a first priority to hold off attacks by Gaddafi’s armour, and ground-to-air missiles to shoot down his fighter-bombers.

    Supplies could reach Benghazi within 48 hours but they would need to be delivered to air bases in Libya or to Benghazi airport. If the guerrillas can then go on to the offensive and assault Gaddafi’s strongholds in western Libya, the political pressure on America and Nato – not least from Republican members of Congress – to establish a no-fly zone would be reduced.

    US military planners have already made it clear that a zone of this kind would necessitate US air attacks on Libya’s functioning, if seriously depleted, anti-aircraft missile bases, thus bringing Washington directly into the war on the side of Gaddafi’s opponents.

    So the “Peace President” is planning a proxy war in the Middle East, but, according to the Washington Post, the Left’s darling in South America, Hugo Chavez is still clinging to his old buddy Gaddafi and warns the world that the US is planning on invading Libya for (whatelse) seizing oil fields (like we have in every conflict since Vietnam with such stunning success);

    Though uncharacteristically quiet as Libya slid into anarchy, Chavez has in recent days venerated Gaddafi for his revolutionary credentials and asserted that the United States is about to invade the North African country to seize its oil. He also convened a meeting Friday in the Venezuelan capital in which his allies, including Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia, agreed to a vague peace mission to end the violence in Libya.

    “The countries of the Bolivarian alliance are demanding the United States and the world powers respect the people of Libya,” Chavez said to cheering, red-shirted supporters. “No to imperialist intervention in Libya! No to a new imperialist war that looks for oil over the blood of innocents!”

    Of course, Chavez communist buddies in Nicaragua (Ortega) and Cuba (Castro) chime in to support fellow traveler Gaddafi.

    So while Libyans are struggling against a repressive dictator, Code Pink is more worried that Bradley Manning has no clothes. They nearly broke their neck getting to Egypt, they harp about Israel in regards to the Palestinians, but an actual dictator killing his countrymen gets not a whisper.

    The man who told us he’d get us out Iraq during the 2004 campaign, is urging that the Obama Administration begin a “no fly” zone over Libya;

    Mr. Kerry’s support for a no-flight zone was echoed by two Republicans who spoke on the Sunday television news shows — Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate minority leader, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican presidential candidate in 2008.

    Yeah, there’s no accounting for some opinions.

    Personally, I don’t think there’s not a Libyan life worth an American life. All of the bullshit we’ve put up with from the world over Guantanamo, Hussein, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and how much other bullshit in the last ten years. The world would only find a way to blame us for something if we interfered in Libya. Let them murder each other for a few more months until the UN summons the cajones to screw it up permanently.

    Either way, whether we do something or not, we’re going to get blamed, so we might as well do the thing that gets fewer Americans killed. That’s also the advice, more or less, that I gave TSO on his wedding day.

  • Really? You don’t say.

    Yea, totally did not see this coming.

    BRENDAN TREMBATH: A New York-based Human Rights watchdog says the United Nations and European Union aren’t putting enough pressure on repressive countries. Human Rights Watch’s newly released annual report says the international community has failed to defend people and organizations struggling for human rights. Its local representative says human rights have deteriorated in Asia.

    Really you honestly expect that people actually do something on your behalf.

    Speaking of groups there is this nice little gem.

    “The sad truth behind the leak is that al-Jazeera tried to weaken the peace supporters by presenting the (Palestinian) Authority as if it had surrendered and capitulated to the Israeli side.

    Also seems there is some crazy things going on in Egypt right now.

  • Blackwater founder to fight pirates?

    Yeah, it’s pretty much a product of the chickenshit world we live in. For the last several decades, the whole world has relied on the US to fight everyones’ wars and provide a security umbrella for civilization against the dark forces. Now the US is reluctant to involve itself in some of the more serious problems, so the Gulf States are contemplating hiring a private security force, assembled by Blackwater founder, Eric prince, to combat piracy off the horn of Africa. From an Associated Press link sent to us by Old Trooper;

    Prince’s role revives questions about the use of military contractors. Critics say it could undercut the international community’s effort to train and fund Somali forces to fight al-Qaida-linked Islamist insurgents.

    The European Union is training about 2,000 Somali soldiers with U.S. support, and an African Union force of 8,000 Ugandan and Burundian peacekeepers is propping up the government.

    By introducing contractors, “You could see the privatization of war, with very little accountability to the international community,” said E.J. Hogendoorn, a Nairobi-based analyst with the International Crisis Group think tank. “Who are these private companies accountable to and what prevents them from changing clients when it’s convenient for them?”

    Yeah, well, since no one can summon the testicular fortitude to dedicate some government force to battling piracy, it’s up to privateers. The UN can debate the topic from now until Eternity, they’ll never have the guts and the UN has a reputation for just screwing up, anyway. I can only imagine the stories about blue-helmeted goons raping underage dolphins and flounder.

  • UN inspects Iranian weapons in Nigeria

    While the whole watched with wonderment at the openess displayed by Iran when they let UN officials inspect some selected nuclear facilities this weekend, Nigerian officials seized a shipment of 13 containers marked as building material which originated in Iran;

    A team of U.N. weapons experts and observers examined a seized Iranian weapons shipment found at Nigeria’s biggest port, authorities said Tuesday, a step toward possible new international sanctions against Iran.

    Yeah, we need some more sanctions that no one has any intention to enforce.

    Let’s just name Iran a nation of concern and keep allowing them to distribute their weapons world wide. If they’ll do this with some rockets and small arms, imagine what they’ll do with nukes.

    Those containers have been sitting there since October and the UN is just now sending inspectors? Good reaction time, there, UN.

    Nigerian authorities said the shipment may have been destined for Nigerian politicians planning violence if they lose in upcoming April elections.

    Naw, they were probably destined for some kids’ birthday parties. Why is everyone picking on poor little Iran?

  • Smart diplomacy in the asylum run by lunatics

    For the first time in the history of our country, we’re being humiliated by the lunatics who run the asylum at the United Nation’s Human Rights Counsel. According to Fox News;

    [The Counsel] heard, among other things, that the U.S. discriminates against Muslims, that its police are barbaric and that it has been holding political prisoners behind bars for years.

    Russia urged the U.S. to abolish the death penalty. Cuba and Iran called on Washington to close Guantanamo prison and investigate alleged torture by its troops abroad. Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, told it must better promote religious tolerance. Mexico complained that racial profiling had become a common practice in some U.S. states.

    That’s like Bonnie and Clyde complaining that the police shoot armed bank robbers. I’m really glad….I mean REALLY GLAD…that this administration is working so hard to gain the respect of the world.

    If you’re interested in the membership of the 47 nations who make up the Counsel, here’s a link.