UN investigates USA for "Racism and Xenophobia"

While hundreds of thousands are dying due to the callous indifference of the military junta in Burma and millions are fleeing oppression and hunger in Robert Mugabe’s brutal Zimbabwe, the UN’s farcical Human Rights Council (HRC) is focusing its attention on the United States. This week sees the arrival on US soil of Doudou Diene, the UN Special Rapporteur charged with investigating “racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” in America.

I've written a piece on the issue for National Review Online.

It is hard to take the UN seriously when its peacekeepers are actively engaged in raping refugees in the Congo and even arming rebel groups, or when it turns a blind eye to the man-made starvation of millions in southern Africa. In the arena of human rights, the United Nations has become an emperor with no clothes, a morally bankrupt institution that wallows in its double standards and appeasement of evil. Doudou Diene’s investigation of the United States should be seen for what it is: a desperate piece of political theater that underscores the UN’s growing irrelevance.

Comments

[Doug]

I agree that there are much higher priorities on the UN's list than investigating the US in this way.

But that doesn't mean they are immune to investigation. For example as a side issue it was revealed today in the US press that the FBI opened a file in 2003 to collect evidence of war crimes committed at Guantanamo Bay by the US military. The FBI was told to close the file by persons unnamed. I'd like to know what is in that file. It says a lot that the FBI was so concerned about it that they took it on themselves to open a file on the activities there.

[Steevo]

I'd like to know Doug why you find this hypocritical abuse of authority justification to accuse the US of another 'suspicion'?

Since you wanna start on Guantanamo Bay I suggest you bring up evidence you believe is credible. I don't mean to hijack Nile's excellent post but let's see your facts, Doug. Back yourself up when you deliberately take an opportunity, change the subject, and rehash this smear and great "war crime" originating years ago.

[Ross]

Is it my imagination or do his investigations seem to take him to the sort of places where most people would like to have a long holiday paid for by someone else?

[Sam R]

So the HRC follow the "lead" of UNESCO in biting the hand that feeds it. Hasn't one of Mugabe's side-kicks also been appointed to some or other "human rights" body at Flakey Meadows?
"Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” - takes one to know one!

[Mr Angry]

The UN has long been hijacked by those, mainly pariah, nations who see only the US and Israel as countries needful of UN opprobrium and attack. It is an irrelevent, hypocritical and vastly wasteful anachronism that is now sadly beyond even attempts at reform.

[Johnny (Half)Foreigner]

Not to worry chaps, I expect he'll do a marvellous job:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doudou_Di%C3%A8ne

[Richard]

I hope the US withdraws from the UN and tells it to f off and mind its own business.

If private individuals or organisations are racially prejudiced that's unfortunate but hardly a UN matter. It's not as if George Bush is re-introducing slavery.

[Dave J]

Time to end the UN. In practice, it now largely supports exactly the opposite of everything it was established for.

[Serf]

Time to end the UN. In practice, it now largely supports exactly the opposite of everything it was established for.

Lets replace it with a club whose members have to be working democracies.

[George Hinton]

Screw the little asshole, in any event he's over the retirement age and should be re-settled back in Senegal, where he can live in perfect harmony with his neighbours, and i don't mean contiguous nation states.

Typical of the UN, its become an irrelevant talking shop that bites the western nations that pay for these assholes to spread their poison.

A pox and plague on the lot of 'em.