Libya to be a watch dog for human rights:
On Wednesday, the General Assembly elected 14 members to its top human-rights body, the U.N. Human Rights Council. U.N. human-rights policymakers now include Libya, Angola, Malaysia, Qatar, and Uganda. On a secret ballot, a whopping 155 countries, or 80 percent of U.N. members, thought Libya would be a great addition.
Obama’s diplomats, sitting in the General Assembly Hall throughout the election, made no attempt to prevent the farce or even to object. On the contrary, Ambassador Susan Rice left the hall before the results were announced in order to hightail it to the microphone. Attempting to spin what was a foregone conclusion, she refused to divulge those states which the U.S. supported. When pressed, she said only that the Obama administration regretted some states on the ballot, but “I am not going to name names. I don’t think that it’s particularly constructive at this point.”
Which is true, but not in the way Rice meant – its not constructive to take exception to this UN action because taking any note, at all, of the UN is not constructive.
In reality, the United Nations hampers the defense of liberty and helps tyrants to rivet even more chains on their people. As in all liberal activities, the UN works out doing the exact opposite of what was intended. It is not something we can fix – the UN, as the UN, will just get worse like this as time goes on.
The reason for this is the fundamental flaw of the UN. The UN is made up of representatives of governments, not representatives of people. The Libyan ambassador won’t represent the people of Libya on the human rights panel – he’ll represent the tyrannical regime which governs Libya. And as such a representative, it will be his main concern to prevent any actions which advance the cause of human freedom – or, indeed, human decency.
A rational international organization would not have a concern about a government like Libya’s getting on the human rights panel because a government like Libya’s would not be a member. No tyrannical regime can gather in congress with non-tyrannical regimes and do anything other than defeat the purpose of the gathering. It is in the nature of things – tyrants are anti-human, and thus are incapable of doing good things for humanity.
We need a President who will recognize the worthlessness of the UN and get us out and kick it out of the United States. Then we can get together with other free peoples and start a new organization which would advance the cause of human freedom.
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