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US leaving UN Human Rights Council -- 'a cesspool of political bias'
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the body of bias against US ally Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The move, which the Trump administration has threatened for months, came down one day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable."
Speaking from the State Department, where she was joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Haley defended the move to withdraw from the council, saying US calls for reform were not heeded. "Human rights abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council," said Haley, listing US grievances with the body. "The world's most inhumane regimes continue to escape its scrutiny, and the council continues politicizing scapegoating of countries with positive human rights records in an attempt to distract from the abusers in its ranks."
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:17PM
Did you read the link you sent? Hillary said we should deport them, she didn't actually deport any. And I'm not holding up her or Obama as heroes. The only way either of them look remotely adequate is in comparison to Donald Trump. They supported torture, unlawful surveillance, drone attacks on Americans, and the big banks in the financial crisis. They supported the War on Drugs. They stand with Disney-loving lawmakers and all of the absurd intellectual property laws that make sharing a song or a film online a bigger crime than shoplifting the best laptop from a Best Buy. I hate them.
But they still look like heroes next to Trump. "Go after the terrorists' families." I would support that if it did something other than serve to recruit more terrorists, but it wouldn't. Unless you plan to end humanity with World War 3, every televised six year old Arab that was blown to bits probably means fifty more people sign up with ISIS or Al Queda. "I would do more than waterboarding." "90 day plan to defeat ISIS." How did that work out for you? "Replace Obamacare with something much better." I'm still waiting. The Republicans have had eight years now to make something better than Obamacare, and it's clear they have no idea and no interest in any health care program other than "fuck everybody that isn't rich". "Obama spends too much time golfing, when I'm President I will be too busy getting things done to golf." And then he takes more vacations than Obama did. "Bring back coal power" when the biggest reason coal power in the US is dying is that American natural gas power is replacing it. The US economy has been growing since 2009, but even though the number of jobs keep increasing almost 100% of the increase in inflation-adjusted income has gone to the wealthiest 1%. So what do the President and Republicans in Congress do? The people that rode into office screaming that the Democrats spend too much money started spending even more money, and gave tax cuts that go almost entirely to the 1%. At one point Trump said the federal minimum wage should be at least $10, I even know people that voted for him because of it. I want to ask them how that worked out for them. Not to mention all of the assaults on abortion rights and gay rights, cutting national parks and conservation programs, and so forth.