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I heard Bruce Herschensohn speak yesterday. One interesting point he made was that the U.N. is not an association of the people of the world, as it is often billed. Rather, it is an association of the governments of the world.
This is a very different thing, of course, since by Bruce’s count, over 77 of those governments (40%) do not permit freedom to their citizens.
Bruce observed that the U.N. will never support freedom as long as so many of its member nations do not support it for their own people.
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#2Todd, thank you for the great comment.
Actually, Vik you are not only correct, but I think bruce stated that he was using 77 as a conservative figure. Also, one need only to look at the members of the UN Human Rights commission to understand the utter vaccum of ethics and morality. The membership reads like a who's who of street thugs and mobsters.
One recent vote (in April of this year) on three resolutions to condemn Israel for alleged "violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine," yielded the expected outcome for the morally corrupt commission. Statements from the UN regarding all three resolutions are as follows:
"In the resolution on human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan, adopted by a roll-call vote of 31 in favour, one against, with 21 abstentions, the Commission called upon Israel to comply with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council, in which the Council decided that the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the occupied Syrian Golan was null and void and without international legal effect, and demanded that Israel should rescind its decision. The Commission determined the Israeli decision constituted a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
"On Israeli settlements in the occupied Arab territories, the Commission adopted by a roll-call vote of 27 in favour, two against, with 24 abstentions, a resolution in which it stated that the settlements were a major obstacle to peace and to the creation of a Palestinian State. It urged the Israeli Government to reverse its settlement policy in the occupied territories and to prevent any new installation of settlers. The Commission also demanded that Israel stop and reverse the construction of the so-called security fence, including in and around Jerusalem, which was in contradiction to relevant provisions of international law.
"On the question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine, adopted by a roll-call vote of 31 in favour, seven against, with 15 abstentions, the Commission reaffirmed the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist the Israeli occupation and strongly condemned human rights violations of the Israeli occupation authorities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem. The Commission also strongly condemned the Israeli occupation of the territories as being an aggression, an offence against humanity and a flagrant violation of human rights. It strongly condemned the construction of the Israeli wall in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Just an example of the voting breakdown for the 1st resolution is as follows:
In favour (31): Argentina, Armenia, Bahrain, Bhutan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, China, Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Gabon, India, Indonesia, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
Against (1): United States.
Abstentions (21): Australia, Austria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom,