Iran and the "New and Improved" UN Human Rights Council

Iran, the worst violator of human rights, is up for a seat on the "new" (sounds old - very, very old) Human abuse Rights Council. This is beyond the pale.

Iran has put itself forward as a candidate for a seat on the new United Nations Human Rights Council in its inaugural election of forty-seven members scheduled for May 9th. Insiders believe that Iran will be voted in by the General Assembly, because it is grouped with the Asian bloc of nations that are allotted thirteen seats on the forty-seven seat Council. Story here

Still wondering why the U.S. refused to join the new Human Rights council here? Here are some of Iran's "Human Rights" highlights;

CLICK ON THE BOTTOM LINK OF THIS POST TO SEE THESE PICTURES. BEWARE THEY ARE GRAPHIC WHICH IS WHY I MOVED THEM OFF THE MAIN PAGE.

I am sorry if these pictures offend you, but Iran even being mentioned for a Human Rights anything, deeply offends me.

Photo links here and here and here and here and here

"The new Human Rights Council is supposedly a turning point for the United Nations--yet the council underscores how the world body is hopelessly corrupt," said Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute.

"Regimes that used the former rights commission to shield themselves from criticism successfully worked to make the new Human Rights Council toothless. And, according to news reports, there are hardly enough pro-American nations in the UN to elect the United States to the new council. That this council will be little more than a re-packaging of the discredited rights commission is obvious. The UN is run by and for dictatorships.

"And it is only America's cooperation, financing and moral sanction that lends the UN any legitimacy. Our withdrawal from that vicious organization is decades overdue."

 

Comments

[suds46]

Isn't there something kinda hokey about the term "human rights"? Seems to me that term gets all confused with identity politics and rights as applied to groups of people vs. other groups of people Whatever happened to "individual rights"?

[lowandslow]

I don't have a problem looking at these pictures, as unsettling as they are, I'd rather know what our enemies are capable of.
People like Sonic, they are the ones that don't have the stomach for it.

[Sonic]

Given Pamela's well known style of just making stuff up, any chance of a source on those photos?

[Jeremiah]

Sonic (should I even bother?) that's what the "here and here" etc. links are for.

Just google "Iran public executions" and click away.

(Then work on bobbing your head lower than your booty, plus mastering a few Farsi phrases, and you can probably line up work at the Iranian govt offices here in the US.)

[Eg]

So this is 'Reform' the UN/EU way....?

Boy...are we in deep merde.

[elvis]

I doubt if Muslims believe that the photos are unsettling. They are evidence of normative Islam in which only Allah (pus Be upon him) has rights. It may appear that we are fighting terror. No, not any more than one can fight an inanimate object. We are fighting Islam.

[shoelimpy™]

And people wonder why the United States doesn't want to be involved with the Human Rights Council any more.

It is a complete and utter joke.

[JasonP]

That last quote says it for me:

"And it is only America's cooperation, financing and moral sanction that lends the UN any legitimacy. Our withdrawal from that vicious organization is decades overdue"

Yes, way overdue. US out of the UN and UN out of the US ... now.
Pull the plug!

[someonehelpher]

Those are the most obviously photoshopped pictures I've ever seen in my life. You're not only a hack, sweetheart, you're not even a good hack. Next time, find your forged propaganda from someone who actually knows how to create a credible version. Christ, the woman on top looks like a character from South Park.

[Thomas Carney]

I lost all respect for Colin Powell as a person when he said that "...the United States needs the United Nations."

I thought he was a smart man... now I see he's very stupid.

It's time we all turned the screws on our reps in Congress to get US out of the UN!!!

[Thomas Carney]

someonehelpher: you need someone to HELP YOU!!!

Get real, man. Those are not chopped.

If you believe for a second that the people running Iran, Saudi Arabia and some of those other Muslim hellholes think like most civilized people do, Cheech and Chong are lookin' for you, they want what you're smokin'!!!!!!