Reflections On the United Nations
The maniacs are now in control of the lunatic asylum. Well, so what? It's not as though we haven't had ample opportunity to become accustomed to it, after all. It's business as usual, actually. Anyone who might be surprised just hasn't been paying attention. Doublespeak lives and black can be white, in case anyone questions this new reality. Veracity and principle have nothing whatever to do with this, for they have surrendered themselves too, to the new reality.
After all, if people repeat any absurdity to themselves often enough they tend to believe it. The arrogance of self-confidence can be very persuasive. And within the United Nations a great confidence game plays itself out. Whereby the most trenchant and pernicious governments can portray themselves as concerned with human rights and freedoms while practising the most obviously anti-human rights, racist, belligerent and morally corrupt methods of administration.
There is strength in numbers. Simple as that. And when there are sufficient numbers of non-functional, dysfunctional, dystopian states - those whom even international criminal courts condemn for their criminality and genocidal abuse of their own people to support one another - the audacious contempt for their principled counterparts that they convey manages to somehow bring them support denied the legitimate, just states.
The United Nations is vastly over-represented by flailing states. Those that haven't yet reached the nadir of failure, but getting there, with plenty of like-minded, similarly-failed governments to give support to one another. They buttress those states whose disregard for the rule of law, for the rights of their own oppressed populations, and whose governments threaten the balance of world order, in a kind of evil cabal of the majority.
Why the free, democratic states submit to this state of affairs, allowing themselves to be cowed by the blame of historic colonialism to keep them in check through a misplaced sense of guilt over what cannot be now altered and which should be consigned to the dustheap of history, is debatable. But there it is, the miserable human-rights-offending states of the world control the chambers and offshoots of the United Nations, and the democracies tremble in dismay.
Libya, where arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, torture and abysmal prison conditions are the order of the day, reflecting fairly accurately what passes for justice in other Arab and Muslim states, is elevated to serve on the UN Human Rights Council. Where it, along with countries like Iran and Turkey and Syria and Venezuela feel free in the strength of numbers to assail the human rights records of countries like Canada and the United States.
Saudi Arabia, where Wahhabist Islam wields a strict sharia unwilling to permit women any notion of equality under the law and where religions other than Islam are not tolerated, and where the news is strictly controlled, and where freedoms are necessarily truncated to the will and whims of the ruling royalty, is elevated to the board of the new UN Women agency. Iran's ascension was just narrowly defeated, oddly enough.
Burma sees fit to praise Libya's human rights record, and China smiles broadly and fondly on its charges. Algeria enthusiastically praising Libya for its "incessant effort to protect human rights", which more than adequately turns reality on his head and spins the Globe in a counter-direction threatening to toss human life into the chaos of complete confusion; bleak and without hope.
States are free, under this amazing new reality to fund and encourage international terrorism, to threaten their neighbours with annihilation, to foster an aura of nuclear invincibility through determined acquisition of a dire weapon the world sought to isolate from the clutches of pathologically sick minds, and to no avail.
And there is the United States' ambassador, sucking in his gut, and absorbing the thrusts of knife-sharp accusations that it stands alone at the zenith of destructive policies that wreak havoc on the vulnerable world that has struggled far too long under the restrictive leash of American control. The times they are a-changing.
There simply is no accounting for the provocative insanity of the United Nations' membership, values and creatively destructive pathologies of disdain, hatred and revenge. So much for building a fairer, more just and accountable world order.
After all, if people repeat any absurdity to themselves often enough they tend to believe it. The arrogance of self-confidence can be very persuasive. And within the United Nations a great confidence game plays itself out. Whereby the most trenchant and pernicious governments can portray themselves as concerned with human rights and freedoms while practising the most obviously anti-human rights, racist, belligerent and morally corrupt methods of administration.
There is strength in numbers. Simple as that. And when there are sufficient numbers of non-functional, dysfunctional, dystopian states - those whom even international criminal courts condemn for their criminality and genocidal abuse of their own people to support one another - the audacious contempt for their principled counterparts that they convey manages to somehow bring them support denied the legitimate, just states.
The United Nations is vastly over-represented by flailing states. Those that haven't yet reached the nadir of failure, but getting there, with plenty of like-minded, similarly-failed governments to give support to one another. They buttress those states whose disregard for the rule of law, for the rights of their own oppressed populations, and whose governments threaten the balance of world order, in a kind of evil cabal of the majority.
Why the free, democratic states submit to this state of affairs, allowing themselves to be cowed by the blame of historic colonialism to keep them in check through a misplaced sense of guilt over what cannot be now altered and which should be consigned to the dustheap of history, is debatable. But there it is, the miserable human-rights-offending states of the world control the chambers and offshoots of the United Nations, and the democracies tremble in dismay.
Libya, where arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, torture and abysmal prison conditions are the order of the day, reflecting fairly accurately what passes for justice in other Arab and Muslim states, is elevated to serve on the UN Human Rights Council. Where it, along with countries like Iran and Turkey and Syria and Venezuela feel free in the strength of numbers to assail the human rights records of countries like Canada and the United States.
Saudi Arabia, where Wahhabist Islam wields a strict sharia unwilling to permit women any notion of equality under the law and where religions other than Islam are not tolerated, and where the news is strictly controlled, and where freedoms are necessarily truncated to the will and whims of the ruling royalty, is elevated to the board of the new UN Women agency. Iran's ascension was just narrowly defeated, oddly enough.
Burma sees fit to praise Libya's human rights record, and China smiles broadly and fondly on its charges. Algeria enthusiastically praising Libya for its "incessant effort to protect human rights", which more than adequately turns reality on his head and spins the Globe in a counter-direction threatening to toss human life into the chaos of complete confusion; bleak and without hope.
States are free, under this amazing new reality to fund and encourage international terrorism, to threaten their neighbours with annihilation, to foster an aura of nuclear invincibility through determined acquisition of a dire weapon the world sought to isolate from the clutches of pathologically sick minds, and to no avail.
And there is the United States' ambassador, sucking in his gut, and absorbing the thrusts of knife-sharp accusations that it stands alone at the zenith of destructive policies that wreak havoc on the vulnerable world that has struggled far too long under the restrictive leash of American control. The times they are a-changing.
There simply is no accounting for the provocative insanity of the United Nations' membership, values and creatively destructive pathologies of disdain, hatred and revenge. So much for building a fairer, more just and accountable world order.
Labels: Social-Cultural Deviations, United Nations
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