The U.N. sucks -- I mean, really, really sucks
Yeah, yeah, I'm supposed to be on vacation, but once I check my e-mail leisure goes out the window: Just learned that Libya was elected today to head a U.N. panel that will put together a follow-up event to the stunningly racist and anti-Semitic Durban conference of 2001. Also on the 20-member board for the 2009 world conference supposedly intended to combat racism? Iran! Yeah, that regime that wants to annihilate all those Israeli Jews.
From Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, in Geneva:
"Choosing Libya and Iran to fight racism is like choosing Jack the Ripper to fight sexual harassment. Their election is a painful defeat for all who believe in the anti-discrimination agenda, and a setback for the international human rights movement as a whole. It sends the wrong message and should ring alarm bells. Moammar Khadafy's Libya is the same regime that gave its highest award in 2002 to convicted French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy, that routinely brutalizes black African migrants, and that tortures Bulgarian and Palestinian medics for the crime of being foreigners. It defies common sense and morality to put countries with dreadful records on racism in charge of a world committee to combat racism. Libya’s long record of racism, intolerance and xenophobia clearly does not merit such a reward."
Once again, proof that the U.N. is about as useful to world peace as kangaroo dung.
Dear Bridget:
Your viscous attack on kangaroo dung was totally unwarranted. Dung has its uses as fertilizer, as well as explosives. Anything the UN has done on both human rights and racism has been a sham of a farce of a mockery.
I grew up being taught that the UN was “The last best hope for mankind.” If it is, then there is no hope.
The UN Human Rights Commission has included the likes of Cuba, Congo, China, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Uganda. What could be fairer? Putting Libya and Iran together in charge of racism follows that ignoble tradition...or must be a misunderstanding. Perhaps they believed the purpose was to promote racism.
Yours Truly in Defense of Innocent Kangaroos
Jonathan Dobrer
This is really unrelated, but your formulation -- "really, really sucks" -- makes me think of this, the best football-rivalry song ever composed.
Jonathan, my friend, you are absolutely right: Poo is more useful than the U.N. I apologize to 'roos everywhere.
Chris, you just made me think of the Beavis and Butt-head movie: "This sucks more than anything has sucked before."