United Nations

the International Zoo for Dictators sends US a message

By J. L. Bastiat ⋅ May 20, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Now, the United Nations is useful, sure. It’s handy to have that many of the world’s worst human-rights violators all busy talking, in the same room, conveniently located where Tony Soprano might get his hooks into them. It would be even handier to have it located someplace you wouldn’t mind bombing semi-annually, like . . . aw, you make it up. You know, to freshen it up a bit.

But in a case of “inmates running the asylum,” the organization that routinely passes Human Rights Commission seats to tin-pot dictatorships with lethally racist, militarist, terrorist, and even genocidal regimes has decided to send . . . aw, see for yourself.

This week sees the arrival on U.S. soil of Doudou Diene, the U.N. special rapporteur charged with investigating “racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” in America. Diene, a French-educated lawyer from Senegal, will spend three weeks touring the country, from Washington and New York to Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

He will compile a lengthy report to be published next year, but which will no doubt have more leaks than a French aircraft carrier in the first Gulf War. It is hard not to conclude that the U.N. is up to mischief in commissioning a major investigation during a presidential-election year.

(Nile Gardiner, United Nations & Racism Investigation on NRO)

And, yeah. Of course he’s a French-educated African. Because that’s the nature of America’s colonial hegemony. mais oui, cela n’est pas nouveau.