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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: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @11:59PM (7 children)
We should dial it up to 11.
Seriously, what is your problem? Get over the childish fantasy that we will all just share and cooperate -- it doesn't even work that way on the playground. Nations are teams of people who fight together to control resources. Killing and/or enslaving ones foes is how it works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:32AM (6 children)
Anytime I start forgetting that there is a small % of pyshopaths amongst humanity I just come to SN and read the comments. I am then reminded why we need to increase mental healthcare and continue limiting gun ownership to people who aren't batshit insane willing to murder their neighbors.
We should dial you all the way down to a padded cell.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @01:52AM (2 children)
It's even worse than that.
Those of us who are sane must take the world back from them before we will have the political authority, whether through reform or revolution, to put in place measures that will prevent people from mistaking the history of humanity for what the future of humanity should be along with an abdication of all responsibility to create a world incrementally better for our children than our present world.
I do not know how we proceed without simultaneously enabling psychopaths who claim to agree with our immediate goals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @06:21PM
Yeah, I'm not a fan of restricting people's freedom especially over things like mental health which can be a very nebulous and easy to abuse accusation.
The best answer I've got is we should re-allocate people from truly useless jobs such as insurance sales and put them on oversight committees. The more eyeballs on an issue the harder it would be to slip abuses through.
It is a tough problem, but instead of focusing on locking people up I think we just need to work on election reform and busting up any business that is "too big to fail".
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday July 08 2018, @12:02PM
Don't worry, you have me on your side. Believe me, we're Making America Great Again!!!!
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:32AM (2 children)
You're just another authoritarian, who disguises his supposed authority with words like "health care". No, you don't get to decide how all the rest of humanity should behave. You should go visit the Tree of Liberty, slash your wrists, and water the tree with the blood of a tyrant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @06:51AM
"health care", as in, Runaway, take your fucking meds! You are going off the deep end again! Not the Livestock, Runaway!
(Score: 2) by tfried on Thursday June 21 2018, @07:49AM
Let me re-mix the conversation for you:
Well said, Runaway, well said. Which is why we need the UN, even if it does mean allowing freedom of speech, and right to life to people who are even more batshit insane and dangerous than those within our own nations' borders. International politics is complicated...