{"id":6038,"date":"2008-12-10T07:31:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T12:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6038"},"modified":"2008-12-10T07:31:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T12:31:25","slug":"colombia-the-new-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6038","title":{"rendered":"Colombia, the new Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mora at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babalublog.com\/archives\/010784.html\" target=\"_blank\">Babalu Blog<\/a> writes that the United Nations is getting bored with just bashing Israel so they&#8217;ve found themselves a new democracy awash in a sea of thugs at which they can aim their false outrage;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UN is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hhGQc7lmGzIhg93isxMnmc98JdQg\">demonizing Colombia<\/a> alongside Israel as a nation whose human rights record must meet UN scrutiny and condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>While Zimbabwe dies of cholera.<br \/>\nWhile Venezuela slides into a dictatorship.<br \/>\nWhile Darfur runs from genocide.<br \/>\nWhile Russia turn into a hell with no future.<br \/>\nWhile Burma goes ignored by the outside as monks are beaten and killed and aid is denied<br \/>\nWhile business as usual goes on in red China.<br \/>\nWhile Cuba continues to abuse truth tellers like Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and harass Yoani Sanchez. While Cuba artificially impoverishes 9 million people to keep them servile and controlled. While Cuba continues to imprison 1000 people, many up on no charges at all except &#8216;dangerousness.&#8217; While Cuba gets away with destroying libraries and mob-lynching dissidents. While Cuba refuses to allow anyone at all to leave the vortex legally.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that: Israel and Colombia are the real problem you see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, actually, the United Nations does that because if they get outraged at Zimbabwe, Cuba, Darfur, etc&#8230; they&#8217;d have to actually do something about it to remain a legitimate human rights defender. As long as they point and yell at the more innocuous offenders, they never really have to actually accomplish anything and their high-paying jobs in cushy offices are secure. And if they actually started making a difference in the world, they&#8217;d lose their jobs to peaceful coexistence &#8211; can&#8217;t have that, can we?<\/p>\n<p>From the link;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colombia was also criticised recently by Human Rights Watch, which said that President Alvaro Uribe&#8217;s administration &#8220;hampers justice efforts&#8221; by obstructing investigations into its alleged links with paramilitaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, <a href=\"http:\/\/tallandrich.com\/2008\/09\/20\/human-rights-watch-expelled-from-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\">Human Rights Watch <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tallandrich.com\/2008\/09\/20\/human-rights-watch-expelled-from-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\">was actually ejected from Venezuela <\/a>a few months back. When will they get their panties bunched about Chavez?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mora at Babalu Blog writes that the United Nations is getting bored with just bashing Israel &hellip; <a title=\"Colombia, the new Israel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6038\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colombia, the new Israel<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-hugo-chavez","category-liberals-suck","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}