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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: 4, Insightful) by Snow on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:57PM (9 children)
I don't blame the border agents. I actually feel sorry for them too.
I place the blame squarely on Trump and his administration as well as the spineless scumbags you call Congress.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:12PM
For telling immigration officials to do their jobs? Trump didn't create any of the rules being applied.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:12PM (2 children)
Actually, I do blame them. Nuremberg taught us that "I was only following orders" is no excuse. If they had any conscience, they should feel very ashamed of this. Very ashamed.
Yes, well, that too. And the people who voted for these assholes.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:48AM (1 child)
Dubya, Obama, the CIA and what they did at Gitmo and other black sites taught us that the lessons of Nuremberg no longer apply. "I was only following orders" got all kinds of monsters off the hook.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:43PM
All of the above must hang for that. They must hang.
Monsters must be slain, no matter where they are.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by frojack on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:16PM (3 children)
No blame for Mexico, sending and financing these rush-to-the-border marches?
https://www.fairus.org/issue/illegal-immigration/mexicos-defense-illegal-immigrants [fairus.org]
You seem to be under the delusion that all at once, a bunch of people suddenly decide to march their children 1000 miles with not a peso in their pocket the entire length of Mexico to reach the US.
Son: Your naivete shows no bounds. It doesn't happen that way. This is planned, orchestrated, organized, funded. And its not "coyotes" either. Its the Mexican Government and liberals in the US attempting to fill the voter polls.
Give these parents a choice: Take your children and go back to Mexico today, free transportation. Or sit in jail with your kids in another jail. What decision do you think they would make? They'd choose to stay. Most of these kids are NOT traveling with their parents. No parent would do that knowingly. They were duped.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:36PM
God DAMN you're nuts.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @11:03PM (1 child)
Guía del Migrante Mexicano translated to English [theamericanresistance.com].
I fail to see much there that is nefarious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @12:29AM
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Mykl on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:39AM
The Director's Edition Box Set of Lord of the Rings (Fellowship I think) includes an amazing number of 'making of' features etc, as well as a documentary about Tolkien.
One of the fascinating things I found there was that Tolkien came up with the idea of a Wraith from his experiences of WW1. To summarise, he felt that the only way in which such horrific battles were able to occur, leading to the deaths of millions of soldiers, was the separation between military command (who were looking at bunch of pins on a board hundreds of miles away) and the soldiers in the trenches. Military Command was able to remove the human element from their thought and could treat the war as a series of tactical manoeuvres, similar to a board game. In doing so, they could send thousands of men to their doom and still sleep easy that night. This absence of compassion led him to think of a general with no soul who existed purely to obey their commander - eventually leading to the idea of the RingWraith.
Trump is no Sauron, but Congress are definitely looking like RingWraiths.