Do-Nothing, Good-for-Nothing Council

UN Watch-järjestön edustaja piti YK:n ihmisoikeusneuvoston nejännessä istunnossa, epäilemättä ensimmäisen ja mahdollisesti viimeisen, selväjärkisen puheen.

Faced with compelling reports from around the world of torture, persecution, and violence against women, what has the Council pronounced, and what has it decided?

Nothing. Its response has been silence. Its response has been indifference. Its response has been criminal.

One might say, in Harry Truman’s words, that this has become a Do-Nothing, Good-for-Nothing Council.

But that would be inaccurate. This Council has, after all, done something.

It has enacted one resolution after another condemning one single state: Israel. In eight pronouncements—and there will be three more this session—Hamas and Hezbollah have been granted impunity. The entire rest of the world—millions upon millions of victims, in 191 countries—continue to go ignored.

So yes, this Council is doing something. And the Middle East dictators who orchestrate this campaign will tell you it is a very good thing. That they seek to protect human rights, Palestinian rights.

So too, the racist murderers and rapists of Darfur women tell us they care about the rights of Palestinian women; the occupiers of Tibet care about the occupied; and the butchers of Muslims in Chechnya care about Muslims.

Puolueen edustaja on puheenjohtajan roolin vastauksessaan lähes kaimansa veroinen.

I'm not in a position to thank you for your statement. I should mention that I will not tolerate any similar statements in the Council.
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Otherwise, any statement you make in similar tones to those used today will be taken out of the records.

[Via LGF ja Tundra Tabloids, kts myös Pamela.]