United Nations of Thugs!

[AnotherRican]

The UN (United Thugs) And Human Rights
By R.J. Rummel

Retrieved from http://freedomspeace.blogspot.com/20...an-rights.html

The United Nations has become a weapon and a shield for the world's dictators.

Not all dictators are the same. Some are no more than thugs. While hiding behind their guns and goons, they murder their captive citizens, condone torture (and a few even approve slavery and rape), and loot their country's wealth and resources for personal gain, for power, for an ideology, or for a religion. Of the many such thugs, the list would include Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Idi Amin of Uganda, Pol Pot of Cambodia, and recently deposed Charles Taylor of Liberia Now we have such ruling thugs as General Than Shwe of Burma, Fidel Castro of Cuba, General Teodoro Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei of Iran, Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi of Libya, Kim Jong Il of North Korea, King Fahd Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, General Umar al-Bashir of Sudan, Bashar al-Asad of Syria, Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan, General Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, to mention some of the worst of them. These and the other thugs, along with the more moderate, but sympathetic and collaborative dictators, dominate the UN and now defeat its mission. This is a reluctant conclusion about the UN that I've come to since my early years of strong support.

To many horrified by the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the life devastating atomic bomb, when the United Nations came into being in 1945 they saw it as a global agency of peace, conflict resolution, and human rights, as I did in the 1950s to the 1980s. It is now none of this.

Out of the vast array of facts that make this case, I will select a few. But first, as one who made considerable use of UN reports, studies, and statistical services, such as the Demographic Yearbook and Statistical Yearbook, for my research, the story of the United Nations is not entirely negative. Indeed, some will make the argument that on balance the UN has contributed to the welfare of countries. But, then, one would have to downplay or ignore the political functions of the UN. These are the most important of all, since their purpose is to alleviate, resolve, and prevent the most catastrophic dangers facing humanity--international and internal war in the nuclear age, and mass democide.

Now, in this blog some specifics focused on human rights. Future blogs will focus on other aspects of the UN, and a solution.

The promotion and protection of human rights (the essence of liberal democracy) are essential to create and secure world peace. And the premier UN body charged with doing this is the 53 member UN Commission on Human Rights. Yet, who are its members in 2005? Incredibly, the membership includes some of the worst mass murderers and violators of human rights, including China, Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan (yes, Sudan), Swaziland, Togo, and Zimbabwe. The Chairman of the Commission for 2003 was the terrorist state, Libya. And the United States, one of the best exemplars of civil rights and political liberties and foremost proponents of human rights, was kicked off the Commission for the 2002 session.

The current membership of the Commission simply reflects the continual involvement of the very human rights violators that the Commission is supposed to investigate and expose. No wonder, then, that it has been obstructed from criticizing China's human rights violations, discussing slave labor when the former Soviet Union existed, considering the sale of white women and children in Saudi Arabia, investigating the denial of the most basic human rights to women in Asia and Arab countries, and examining the slave trade in Arab countries. Recently, the Commission has voted against "special observation" of Zimbabwe's violations of human rights; and for the upgrading of the human rights status of Sudan, even while its dictatorship was committing genocide against its southern black Christians and in Darfur, carrying on slavery, and approving of systematic rape.

One of the recent outrages concerns Commission member Cuba. Castro had thrown into prison seventy-five dissidents, including journalists and librarians; and it had executed three men who hijacked a ferryboat to escape from this communist hellhole. No matter. The Commission reelected Cuba to another three-year term, "undoubtedly a recognition of the Cuban Revolution's work in human rights in favor of all our people," so Cuba proclaimed,

The Commission also takes overt action against those upsetting its member dictatorships. Cuba and Libya, for example, successfully pressured the body to end its consultative relationship with the free speech organization Reporters Without Borders. It had the nerve to criticize the UN's human rights record, and among its claims were that Cuba is "the world's biggest prison" (not correct--North Korea is) and "that granting the chair to Qadhafi 's [Libyan] regime has been a disgrace to the commission." One of the reforms Reporters Without Borders suggested was to restrict voting by dictatorships. This is, of course, anathema, and the Commission voted 27 to 23 to suspend its relationship with the organization, with virtually all democratic members voting against it.

And so on and on. Thugs at work.

[gemenilaidback]

"King Fahd Al Saud of Saudi Arabia" Hey you said it not me . Here he is with your leader.

[Yujike]

GLB, everyone knows the Bush familiy is "in bed" with the saudis.



So the Another Nothing is saying that the United Nations are a bunch of thugs...then WHY DID DUBYA WENT THERE AND SENT HIS SEC. OF STATE THERE TO LIE IN ORDER TO GET THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE WAR??????? Thugs usually look for other thugs to form alliances.

[AnotherRican]

Originally Posted by Yujike

GLB, everyone knows the Bush familiy is "in bed" with the saudis.



So the Another Nothing is saying that the United Nations are a bunch of thugs...then WHY DID DUBYA WENT THERE AND SENT HIS SEC. OF STATE THERE TO LIE IN ORDER TO GET THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE WAR??????? Thugs usually look for other thugs to form alliances.

You're logic is so stupid that your comment doesn't even deserve a response! Your idiocy is very amazing!

[gemenilaidback]

Yuhike notice he did not have a response. Or a reply about the pictures. See he is a parrot of the right , its not like he has a brain of his own.