Still don't think we should quit the UN?

If yesterday’s post didn’t convince you, maybe Mary Katharine Ham’s “The top 10 UN-believable moments of 2010” will. Here’s one:

No. 7: Have you ever wondered what it might look like if the U.S. subjected itself to a peer review of its human rights record by the world’s leading violators of human rights? The UN’s got you covered, and the Obama administration is honored to be there for it.

The Human Rights Council, which is now only 40 percent democratic, created a process in 2006 by which all members submit a report on their human rights records to the review of the council every four years. This year, Obama administration representatives Esther Brimmer and Michael Posner listened as Iran, North Korea, Egypt and China, among others, lectured the United States on its human rights record and history of racial discrimination.

Don’t forget, it was at this same “peer” review that the Obama administration claimed it was fighting for human rights — by suing Arizona. Yes, an American state, a democratic republic with the rule of law, was held up for judgment to… North Korea. Sorry, that still galls me.

Anyway, be sure to read the rest of MKH’s list; some are real doozies.

via The Anchoress

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

Laura Echevarria says:

December 28, 2010 at 4:56 pm

I mentioned this in the comments section under “Defund the UN” but UN Watch, which is based in Geneva, noted,

Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia, China, Algeria, Bolivia, Nicaragua and several Muslim states accused America of genocide, war crimes, and systematic anti-Muslim and anti-African racism. …The rogue list was challenged last week in the Human Rights Council chamber by U.S. allies but the UN allowed it to apply.

Notice that last sentence–allies of the U.S. tried to prevent this from happening but UN officials allowed it anyway!

Carlos says:

December 29, 2010 at 12:25 am

Let’s see now. All the strife in NE Africa, including attacked displacement camps, all done by muslims? And the known (but strangely mostly unreported by the MSM/LSM) slave states in the muslim world? And the vicious and deadly attacks upon Christian schools and settlements mostly in Africa but also in SE Asia? And the deadly, unprovoked military attacks on South Korea by North Korea in the last few months? And Iran’s and China’s sparkling civil rights records just in the past month, let alone the past three decades?

Yeah, I can see where they’d get upset with the human rights abuses of the United States. It makes them look worse than the alien attackers in the film “Independence Day.”

T$ says:

December 29, 2010 at 1:03 pm

What we should quit, in regard to the UN, is paying dues. That any money from our Treasury goes to this morally bankrupt organization galls me. Some parts of the UN,like the WHO, should receive direct funding, but most of the rest deserves nothing.

December 29, 2010 at 8:19 pm

If the affirmative action, learn-while-you-earn whacko we call our president had any cajones, or if any of the past 9 or ten presidents had a lick of sense (and yes, I include Mr. Reagan in this), we would have stopped payments to that miserable piece of rat poop no later than 1960.

Everyone in the world would have hated us for that. So, how’s that different from the result we have today?