Liberals love the United Nations. Liberals by and large believe in world government (well, in all government actually, and the bigger the government the better)—and they particularly believe that world government should trump the interest of their own nation. Actually, everything trumps the interest of their own nation. Especially their own personal interests.
It’s a conundrum. No wonder they’re so cranky.
Unfortunately the U.N. mimics all big government like the Canadian Liberal government, and from all we know so far, is likewise completely corrupt from years of self-serving (liberal) arrogance, elitism, and narcissim (liberalism). And they are every bit as arrogant about it.
The world’s most repressive countries hold more than a quarter of the seats in the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Commission and their presence has subverted the panel’s mandate, a respected watchdog group reported yesterday.
In its annual report on the world’s biggest human-rights abusers, Freedom House lists 18 countries as the “worst of the worst regimes” and notes that six of them—China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Zimbabwe—are members of the commission.
“Repressive governments enjoying [U.N. Human Rights Commission] membership work in concert and have successfully subverted the commission’s mandate,” Freedom House Executive Director Jennifer Windsor said.
“Rather than serving as the proper international forum for identifying and publicly censuring the world’s most egregious human rights violators, the [commission] instead protects abusers, enabling them to sit in judgment of democratic states that honor and respect the rule of law,” she said.
Besides the six members of the rights commission, the countries listed among the most repressive are: Belarus, Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti, Laos, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Nine other countries—Bhutan, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Swaziland and Togo—that are members of the rights commission have been rated “not free” by Freedom House.
“Not free” countries hold 15 out of the 53 seats on the commission.
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