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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) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @02:59AM (1 child)
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"I didn't say that any method of enforcing the law is justified." -- that's right, you didn't. you said -- "Their parents committed a crime and were imprisoned for it. I'm really sorry for those kids, but you don't get a free pass for committing crimes just because you have children. Blame their irresponsible parents, not the system of law." -- in that sentence, "their" refers to the specific asylum seekers and other people swept up on the border by donnie's ice nazis, and therefore "those kids" must be in reference to little children in a cement floor cage in a concentration camp on Texas border, behind armed guards, with no access to relatives, and with zero accountability to the people, which includes both the press and the sitting congress-critters. and then you said -- "Blame their irresponsible parents" -- blame for what? for the kids being tortured as we type? do you not believe these kids are being tortured? even though you can see these children held in conditions amounting to torture in the photos released by the torturers themselves? i never claimed you thought ANY method of enforcing the law is justified, i merely understood what you were saying as the claim that torturing these specific 7yo children was justified because their parents currently stand accused of breaking the law. ...or are you trying to retract some part your original statement?
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(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:47AM
Where were the parents when caught? Did they have a stamped passport from a visa waiver country or a visa if they didn't come from one of those? If "no" it's a pretty open and shut case.