The Shame And Horror Of The United Nations
SINNERS
February 16, 2005
By Tom Oyler
What is a sin? It is a transgression of a law that has divine sanction.?
The Bible says it is the element in man that puts him “at enmity with
God”.? Most would agree that we have innately or learned the basic
sanctions.? The Decalogue or divine law, the X Commandments, basic to
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam prohibits lying and it prohibits stealing,
the only two sanctions discussed below.? Who commits these two sins??
Oh, just about everyone except maybe Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Jesus, and a
few others.
I was wondering about sin taxes.? The inference is that anyone who
partakes in certain activities or imbibes alcohol is a sinner.? Let’s see.?
Does the consumer of a legal product commit a sin?? Does the provider
or producer of a legal product commit a sin?? Nope.? The legislator, in
order to justify the sin tax, claims that so and so is a burden on
society and thus should pay in essence a user tax.? But, the money they
collect for what they claim is a burden goes elsewhere.? Conclusion:? the
reason for the tax must be a lie.? If the reason for the tax is a lie
then the resulting tax is stealing.? Two sins, lying and stealing.? Why
do legislators do this?? Because they can.? Legislators believe that
the folks they have deemed sinners are second class citizens.? But, it’s
not the folks who are paying the taxes who are the sinners but those
who impose them.? Oops, probably offended someone there, oh well.? (In
defense of the legislator it should be noted that most if not all have
been told by people they trust, members of the Health Industry, that so
and so is a burden.)?
You know it doesn’t take a real bright person to figure out that what
the legislators say are the reasons for the rise in health care costs
are not true.? One of the pre-eminent claims of health nannies and their
surrogates the legislator is that premature death, whatever that is,
causes a rise in health care costs.? The fact is those who die a
so-called premature death save the system money, lots of it.? Let’s just look
at one group who escapes the scurrilous attacks by the health nannies;
it’s not PC.
The latest figures show that Asian men outlive Black men by 13 years.?
Shoot, a black guy is lucky if he gets 10 social security checks.? Now
explain to me how the black guy is costing the system more than the
Asian, pick any part of the system you want.? I would like to here it.? I
love to laugh.??????
And what have health nannies and the legislators accomplished?? They
have made the health industry the largest industry in the U. S., if not
the world.? This is how it works.? The legislator passes tax dollars to
Non-Government Health Organizations who in turn create bogus scenarios
that in turn give the legislator a reason to raise taxes and pass more
tax dollars to the Non-Government Organizations.? It’s a great scam.?
It has made a lot of people rich.? And, the people who pay for this scam
are considered second-class citizens?? The World Health Organization,
WHO, ranks smokers a step below terrorists.? Believe me, fat folk, the
chronically ill, and others are not many steps above on that health
ladder.???
Excerpt from an article “U.N. follies” by Clifford D. May, Feb. 03,
2005
“Then there is the World Heath Organization, a United Nations “special
agency.” WHO’s Director General has just awarded its prize for “best
anti-smoking and nutrition” programs to al Manar – the television station
owned and operated by Hezbollah, among the world’s most lethal
terrorist organizations.
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In fact, Hezbollah has killed more Americans than any other terrorist
organization other than al Qaeda. Al Manar routinely broadcasts programs
to millions in the Middle East inciting suicide bombings against
Americans in Iraq and against Israelis wherever they may be found.
The U.S. government has placed al Manar itself on the “Terrorism
Exclusion List” and even France has banned the TV station for violating that
country’s hate laws. (Examples: in November, al Manar ran programs
accusing Jews of spreading AIDS in the Middle East; earlier, it ran
dramatizations depicting Jews using the blood of Christian children to bake
holiday pastries.)
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But in the view of the World Health Organization, al Manar is doing
important work by warning viewers that smoking is bad for the health –
and, incidentally, instructing them that massacring infidels in good for
the soul. A catchy slogan for both campaigns might be: “Blow up! But
don’t light up!” “
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U.N. follies
February 3, 2005
Clifford D. May
Is the United Nations attempting self-parody??
How else to explain the announcement that a panel has been elected to decide which complaints will be heard by the U.N. Human Rights Commission at its annual meeting in Geneva this spring — and that three of the five members are Cuba, Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia??
Placement on the diplomatically-named Working Group on Situations virtually guarantees that these abject human rights abusers won’t be criticized, censured or sanctioned no matter what crimes they have committed, are committing or plan to commit.?
If any senior U.N. officials are troubled by this system, they are too discreet to say so publicly.
The composition of the broader Human Rights Commission remains no less Orwellian. Currently, it includes not only China and Russia but also Sudan, just elected to another three-year term despite Khartoum’s role in what the United States government calls genocide against black Muslims in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.?
Last week, members of a separate U.N. commission appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan demurred. They said they were unable to find “sufficient evidence” to conclude that those responsible for the mass murders, rapes, home burnings and ethnic cleansing acted with “genocidal intent.” Instead, they said that what had taken place were “crimes against humanity with an ethnic dimension.”
Predictably, Sudanese officials announced that the U.N. had “exonerated” them.
Then there is the World Heath Organization, a United Nations “special agency.” WHO’s Director General has just awarded its prize for “best anti-smoking and nutrition” programs to al Manar – the television station owned and operated by Hezbollah, among the world’s most lethal terrorist organizations.
In fact, Hezbollah has killed more Americans than any other terrorist organization other than al Qaeda. Al Manar routinely broadcasts programs to millions in the Middle East inciting suicide bombings against Americans in Iraq and against Israelis wherever they may be found.?
The U.S. government has placed al Manar itself on the “Terrorism Exclusion List” and even France has banned the TV station for violating that country’s hate laws. (Examples: in November, al Manar ran programs accusing Jews of spreading AIDS in the Middle East; earlier, it ran dramatizations depicting Jews using the blood of Christian children to bake holiday pastries.)
But in the view of the World Health Organization, al Manar is doing important work by warning viewers that smoking is bad for the health – and, incidentally,? instructing them that massacring infidels in good for the soul. A catchy slogan for both campaigns might be: “Blow up! But don’t light up!”?
The U.N. was not supposed to be such a burlesque. Between aggressors and victims, the U.N. was not meant to be neutral.
But, over the years, the U.N. fell into bad habits. When the Khmer Rouge was slaughtering the population of Cambodia, the U.N. failed to act. When genocide against the Tutsis was carried out in Rwanda, the U.N. sat on its hands. Actually, it was worse than that: A small U.N. force that was in the country was pulled back — lest anyone wearing a blue helmet be killed along with the intended victims.
When mass murder was waged against the people of Bosnia and Kosovo, the U.N. exacerbated the situation. Srebrenica was the site of the worst case of genocide in Europe since World War II.? In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb army invaded a U.N. safe area – and with no opposition from U.N. peacekeepers — separated Muslim families and murdered over 7,000 men and boys.?
Yet when President Clinton intervened militarily in Bosnia and Kosovo, it had to be without U.N. authorization.
The U.N. turned a blind eye when Afghanistan was hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists. As Somalia collapsed into anarchy, it fecklessly negotiated with war lords who were interested only in stealing foreign aid from the mouths of starving children.
And then, of course, there is the steady drip of revelations regarding the U.N. Oil for Food Program in Iraq, the largest financial swindle in history. In recent days, questions have arisen, too, about the impartiality of the U.N.’s own investigation into this scandal.
On top of that are disclosures about U.N. peacekeepers in the Congo sexually abusing girls as young as 13.
Where terrorism is concerned, the U.N. has shown little interest. On the contrary, a General Assembly resolution virtually licenses the mass murder of civilians by those who claim to represent “national liberation movements.”?
What does trouble the U.N.? Shashi Tharoor, a senior official, says that it is “the exercise of American power” that “may well be the central issue in world politics today.”
Is it not high time at least to consider alternatives to the U.N., to explore the possibility of developing new organizations in which democratic societies would work together against common enemies and for common goals?
Free Iraq could be a charter member along with liberated Afghanistan, democratic Taiwan (barred by Beijing from having even “observer status” at the U.N.) as well as Israel, the U.N.’s perennial whipping boy. The emerging democracies of Eastern Europe would surely sign up as well.?
A little competition would be healthy for the U.N., an organization whose current policies and practices mock the intentions of its founders, an organization that American taxpayers may not be willing to underwrite indefinitely.
Clifford D. May is the president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism and a Townhall.com member group.
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Outrage as usual
February 11, 2005
Jewish World Review
By Collin Levey
THE new leadership of the U.N. Human Rights Commission calls to mind an old story: Told that the World Bank would be holding a conference on corruption in his country, a Cambodian official joked: “Why – to learn how to do it better?”
Recently elected to this year’s Human Rights Commission “action panel” were Cuba and Zimbabwe. So the regimes of two of the world’s top rights abusers – Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro – will now help decide which human-rights complaints will get a U.N. hearing.
Castro’s most recent roundup of political dissidents merely restocked his island’s now-famous prisons. Mugabe’s abuses are producing a famine in his once-food-exporting nation – and now he’s effectively banned foreign human-rights workers from his country, by banning foreign funding of their work.
OK, it’s d?j? vu all over again. Libya was president of the Human Rights Commission a few years back, and Sudan is now in its third straight membership term, even as the United Nations debates whether what’s going on in Sudan’s Darfur province rises to the level of “genocide” or merely garden-variety state-sponsored mass murder.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s own team of experts concluded in a report last year that governments covet slots on the commission mainly as a way to shield their own derrieres – i.e., “Not to strengthen human rights but to protect themselves against criticism or to criticize others.”
No kidding. The world’s most flagrant rights abusers typically vote as a bloc in favor of letting each other off the hook. In the most recent sessions, Zimbabwe, Cuba, Sudan, China, Egypt and Nigeria joined together reliably to exonerate whichever government was being accused.
But lately there may be an added motive, even for countries with decent human-rights records: Sticking a finger in America’s eye.
Members are nominated by their neighbors in regional blocs. Cuba was Latin America’s choice, Zimbabwe was Africa’s and so on. But Cuba is virtually without significance in the world except as an icon of anti-Americanism. Defiance of the gringos is all Castro has left to peddle anymore. And his neighbors seem happy to buy – subsidizing him to give voice to anti-yanqui sentiments that would be undiplomatic coming from their own mouths.
Contributing to such cynical choices is the fact everyone long ago gave up hope that the Human Rights Commission might play a serious role.
How to turn this around? That U.N. report suggested expanding the commission to include everybody – all 191 U.N. members. This gets it exactly backward: The commission doesn’t need more cacophony, but more clarity.
Not all countries have a right to sit in judgment of their neighbors. Human Rights Watch has argued that, at the very least, members of the commission should be required to have signed human-rights treaties, and have demonstrated some basic level of respect for the principle.
Freedom House, which scores countries according to political freedoms, last year noted that 13 members – a quarter of the commission – ranked as either “repressive” or “not free,” representing the very bottom of the barrel worldwide. Reporters Without Borders has duly observed that nearly half – 25 – haven’t even ratified the human-rights treaties they’re supposedly charged with enforcing.
Why not follow the model of the World Trade Organization, where you don’t get invited to join until you meet some minimum standards of openness to world trade and investment?
A simple fact of numbers at the United Nations is that the brutal and uncivilized countries of the world have the power to dominate discussions and prevent reform. That’s because at the moment, U.N. membership bestows the same legitimacy on countries that live up to mankind’s greatest ideals and those who make manifest the darkest horrors of human nature.
The United Nations has been looking for ideas for reform, so here’s one: Scrap this horror of a “Human Rights Commission” and start a new group that’s willing to acknowledge that not all counties are created equal – that’s a right reserved to men.
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