The US is due to come before the UN Human Rights Committee and answer some of the allegations made against its human rights record. Not before time...

"Most governments deserve to be censured by a human rights committee. The United States, far from being an exception, is among the most culpable -- in particular because of its large-scale foreign policy efforts pursued under the rubric of a 'war on terrorism' over the last four years," Solomon told IPS.

The rhetorical use of "human rights" as a political football has mired its transcendent importance in the muck of self-serving hypocrisies based on the tacit precept that might makes right, he added.

"The character of the Bush administration is such that the U.S. delegation to the United Nations will -- in practice -- indignantly refuse to recognize a single standard of human rights whenever such a standard would put the U.S. record in a negative light," said Solomon."

This is hardly news to us, I suppose...but then:

"A superpower that is striving to remake the 60-year-old world body in its own image can hardly be expected to submit to institutional scrutiny of its actual human rights record. The self-designated role of Uncle Sam at the United Nations is to preach and teach without reflecting or learning," he argued.

A harsh truth is that a pronounced form of jingoism is at the core of the Bush administrations approach to the United Nations, Solomon added.

"Human rights violations come in many shapes, styles and sizes. The United States, like many other countries, has a government well-practiced at dodging accountability and proclaiming its own virtues," he said.

"But the U.S. Record, as assessed by independent organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, is reprehensible," Solomon noted."

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The US has already been condemned by the UN World Court for terrorism (unlawful use of force) in the 1980's. Nicaragua was being demolished by US and US backed forces so they took it the the UN. The US was ordered to observe international law and to pay reparations for the damages done. Well the US just ignored the UN and decided to continue in their fun and games in Nicaragua.

So Nicaragua decided to plea to the UN Security Council. However the US (having a permanent seat on the security council) vetoed the ruling (All five permanent seats on the Security Council have to approve for the motion to pass).

Nicaragua is freaking out so they take it to the UN General Assembly. (I'm fairly certain this is what it's called but I might be mistaken. Correct me if I am.) The motion passes with only the US and El Salvador opposed.


If the US is again condemned by the UN for serious human rights, I doubt that it will even be reported in the US. How many people know that the US was condemned for terrorism already and that the US is the leading terrorist country in the world. Everyone else in the world seems to know this, but not us Americans. We are so introverted and blinded by nationalism that we can't see past the Starbucks on the corner.

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World Court Digest
http://www.virtual-institute.de/en/w...6010000100.cfm

Z Magazine
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-c04-s03.html

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Yeah.....'cause everybody knows the United Nations has a stellar human rights record.

"With the United Nations already under fire for the Oil-for-Food mega-scandal and other corruption, sensational allegations of rampant sexual exploitation and rape of young girls and women by the U.N.'s so-called "peacekeepers" and civilian staffers in the Congo is dragging the global body's reputation to an all-time low. "


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=42088

Looks to me like they should be calling themselves up before the committee!!

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It's hard for me to take seriously any criticism that my government doles out to other countries concerning human rights, considering the actions we have taken since 9/11 (and at various times before). I can imagine how farcical it looks to the rest of the world.

Do you mean like the time Bill Clinton Burned over a 120 Christians Alive?

How about the time Bill Clinton accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the "ARMY of CHINA" (as the congressional investigation found out). And then handed the Chinese our Neutron Bomb Technology, Our latest super computer technology, our latest jet fighter engine technology, all our satellite tracking technology, etc....

How about the time Bill Clinton covered up the Al Qaeda (multiple claims of responsibility were made) attack on flight 800 right before the 1996 election, (because he was under attack for being soft on terrorists). I even remember the "bust" (reported on CNN only ONCE and then killed) of the CIA operative who sabotaged several more fuel 747 fuel tanks just to maintain the administrations lies.

I could go on for hours about the many crimes against humanity the US liberal left has committed. But I found a solution, I left your fanatical Liberal destroyed country more than 6 years ago...

Links?

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What for? You want a link to some other guys OPINION before you can think about it? I do not need a link to reality, why do you seem too? Haven't you been alive and concience for the last 20 years or so?


PS: Why don't you make a link that proves me wrong?

Maybe someone wishes to read more on the subject. Asking for links isn't doubting your credibility, it's just asking for more information.

And if I am doubting your credibility, so what? Is it so hard for you to find a credible source? I'm sure it isn't.

And not everything you stated was opinion.

I remember Rebellion, Sinanju, and PoliticalForum (ADMIN) explaining all of this to you before.

http://www.politicalforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=11915

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Commander of comedy, I find your reasoning to be as wild and fleeting as the expressions on Bush's face when he spoke to the press today.