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Nations United against Rights
Monday, May 28, 2001
By: Robert Tracinski
The United Nations is an organization in which dictatorships enjoy equal status with free nations.
On Friday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with congressional leaders to assuage their anger at America's ejection from the UN's Human Rights Commission. The meeting seems to have been a success; it looks as if Republicans in Congress will give up their attempt to block $244 million in UN dues.
Thus ended the only American response to an action that exposes the dangerous fraud at the heart of the United Nations.
Consider the meaning of the rights commission vote. The UN voted not to reappoint the United States to its seat on the commission--but in the same vote, it gave a seat to Sudan, a country that tolerates the practice of slavery.
What was the reason for this perverse decision? According to Joanna Weschler, the UN representative of Human Rights Watch, America lost the vote because "there has been a growing resentment toward the United States [because of] votes on key human rights standards, including opposition to a treaty to abolish land mines and to the International Criminal Court, and making AIDS drugs available to everyone." Translation: The complaint against America is that we did not agree to compromise our national defense, our national sovereignty and our property rights. In a similar vein, other diplomats have cited, as contributions to the UN's anti-American "grudge," the Bush administration's pursuit of a national missile defense and its opposition to international global-warming controls, which would require us to shut down American industry.
Nations United against Rights
Monday, May 28, 2001
By: Robert Tracinski
The United Nations is an organization in which dictatorships enjoy equal status with free nations.
On Friday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with congressional leaders to assuage their anger at America's ejection from the UN's Human Rights Commission. The meeting seems to have been a success; it looks as if Republicans in Congress will give up their attempt to block $244 million in UN dues.
Thus ended the only American response to an action that exposes the dangerous fraud at the heart of the United Nations.
Consider the meaning of the rights commission vote. The UN voted not to reappoint the United States to its seat on the commission--but in the same vote, it gave a seat to Sudan, a country that tolerates the practice of slavery.
What was the reason for this perverse decision? According to Joanna Weschler, the UN representative of Human Rights Watch, America lost the vote because "there has been a growing resentment toward the United States [because of] votes on key human rights standards, including opposition to a treaty to abolish land mines and to the International Criminal Court, and making AIDS drugs available to everyone." Translation: The complaint against America is that we did not agree to compromise our national defense, our national sovereignty and our property rights. In a similar vein, other diplomats have cited, as contributions to the UN's anti-American "grudge," the Bush administration's pursuit of a national missile defense and its opposition to international global-warming controls, which would require us to shut down American industry.
