Russia is kicked off the UN Human Rights Council
The UN Human Rights Council is a joke anyway, but this happened today:
The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council following global outrage stemming from alleged atrocities recently committed by Russian troops in Bucha, Ukraine.
A total of 93 members of the assembly voted in favor of the measure, while 24 were against and 58 abstained. Those who voted against the resolution included Russia’s regional ally Belarus, China, North Korea, Iran and Syria.
What has the UN Human Rights Council ever accomplished? The current 15 members – elected by the General Assembly to a three-year term that began in January of 2021, are as follows (now minus Russia of course):
Bolivia, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, France, Gabon, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Senegal, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
As former UN ambassador Nikki Haley said, “Now do Venezuela, Cuba, and China.” I wouldn’t sit on a hot stove till that happens.
Big fat hairy deal.
I wouldn’t belong to any club that would have me as a member.
Let’s include France in that gallery of rogues. At least, as long as Macron remains. Just the other day he opined that he doesn’t support the right to self-defence. Seriously.
“April 1st was no joke for one French farmer. The 35-year-old man was at home alone with his 3-year-old daughter. Around 10 p.m. or 11 p.m., a group of four burglars attempted to break into the farmer’s house.
To protect his child and personal property, the farmer fired two shots with a large caliber rifle at the group of thieves. One of the burglars was shot and killed by the self-defensive actions taken.
The farmer was indicted for murder after killing the 40-year-old man who was breaking into his home.
After hearing about the incident, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the man should have waited for the police to handle the incident. He continued to make his point by saying that the French don’t have the right to self-defense!”
“I am opposed to self-defense” French President Macron
Denial of a right to self-defense is essentially a denial of a person’s right to life…
I suspect that even Putin would agree that the farmer had a right to defend himself and his 3 yr old daughter.
It’s a start, but let’s see them kick Russia off the Security Council, because that would go beyond posturing. I’m not sure if that would be smart or stupid, but it wouldn’t be meaningless.
When the UN was started no one had any illusions about what the Soviet Union was. Excluding them (and their captive nations, such as Ukraine which was given its own seat in the UN) would have made the UN pointless from the start (as opposed to becoming irrelevant over time).
Now that the UN is pointless excluding Russia for real could make the UN dangerously relevant. But it wouldn’t be fake at least.
Geoffrey Britain:
Well, Macron has a security detail, so HE doesn’t need self-defense.
Perhaps I misremember, but did not Pres. Trump remove the US from this UN joke of a Council?
Geoffrey:
Be glad you don’t live in France or Great Britain. Now what Vlad thinks about it is irrelevant. The French can vote Marcon out of power.
Vlad, not likely to be removed by a vote of the Russians, or maybe the Russians like their despot?
excluding Russia for real could make the UN dangerously relevant.
Made me chuckle.
The only country that the so called United Nations Human Rights Committee spends its time bashing and seeking to destroy is the State of Israel. The UNHRC (and the United Nations) can drop dead!
Let’s include France in that gallery of rogues.
Of those listed, only the UK and US are better than France. But UK is very weak on self defense and has worse gun laws than France does.
So only the US? And we have a large political party that would like to remove self defense here.
Maybe Ukraine handing out weapons to civilians will become a thing in Central Europe. The Czechs seem better than most on firearms rights, and I believe Poland isn’t bad.
neo,
Yes, as does every head of state who champions gun control as the answer to crime. But it’s not just hypocritical, it’s an immoral stance. Moreover, in politicians it arguably confers criminal culpability in higher crime rates upon them.
om,
I know of no country, in which I would more prefer to live, than America.
The relevance is in what it reveals about the immorality of Macron, in that a dictator might possess a higher morality on any issue.
The French can indeed replace Macron with a newer edition of Macron. In every western nation, it’s most often a case of “the new boss, same as the old boss”.
Reportedly, support for Putin is increasing in Russia.
LePen is not the same as Macron. and Vlad is not in the same category as either.
Why you would bring Vlad into this discussion is a puzzle. Why not Xi, or the PM of Australia? Or stick closer to home, say Trudeau (sic)?
om,
That LePen may be Macron’s polar opposite is irrelevant. In the unlikely event that she was elected, France’s oligarchy, its media and Deep State would subject her to the same tratment that Trump endured. They’d do all they could to block her at every turn.
My mention of Putin is hardly a puzzle and one I explained; Putin’s “relevance is in what it reveals about the immorality of Macron, in that a dictator might possess a higher morality on any issue.”
Xi is arguably an elected official of the CCP. His perfidy is thus lessened by the political system of which he is apart.
The Australian PM is below most people’s radar and hardly an example of the perfidy attached to Putin. Trudeau has demonstrated himself, at least so far, to be even more immoral than Macron.
By your own calculus, name a more reprehensible leader than Putin. If unable and if he does support a clear case of self-defense then it identifies just how reprehensible is Macron on literally a matter of life and death.
LePen is not Trump, Sorry. Neither is DeSantis.
Macron is not known to have rivals killed, journalists killed. Not known to use Poloniun-210 tea, or nerve agents. You line or reasoning is curious,
The Australian PMs draconian response to the WuFlu is problematic and disappointing. Western cultural approaches to threats are not cookie cutter or uniform.
Little Kim of North Korea is an example of one worse than Putin. But so what. Has Putin said anything about a case similar to Macron? Does Russia have a tradition or constitution that supports self defense? And why would you believe what Putin said?
So, without Russia sitting on this irrelevant council does this mean one less vote against Israel? Like it would make any difference anyway.
Regarding Geoffrey Britain’s comment,
Perhaps it is a case of a broken clock being right twice a day, but Putin , devil though he is, has spoken out against Western CRT madness.
And yes, the goal of removing the right of the law abiding citizen to defend property and person against mob rule , as long as the mob is fighting for “ social justice”, is ultimately part of CRT.
But then again, most sane people throughout history would see the folly in CRT.
A system which seeks to elevate the most backward cultural characteristics above an other wise functioning , and at one point leading, society.
jon baker —
I think it’s likely that Putin thinks that CRT and wokeness in general is a decadent idiocy that only America would come up with.
I also think that he’s only saying it in speeches and in public to wind us up and get us at each other’s throats. Same with saying that he misses Trump who was “Russia’s partner” (or words to that effect). He knows full well what our triggers are and is a past master at trolling us.
Well, regarding French leadership under Macron there is this:
uhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html
So some in Macron’s government see CRT and wokeness as a threat. But France gave us J.P. Satre and S. de Bouivere (sic) so we can’t cut them much slack IMO, and then there is worship of the Goddess of Reason and The Terror in France’s history .,..
“But France gave us…”
One wouldn’t want to forget Foucault or Lacan or Derrida—gosh, where does it all end.
And so, the “French Invasion”? (Payback for having helped us beat the British in 1781?)
Though what it seems to mean is that all of that convoluted, complicated, overwrought, perverse, creative and ingenious nonsense got a lot more widespread traction in America than it ever did in the mother country… Stands to reason, I guess…since that’s how it often is….
(So much for Hofstatder’s, and Asimov’s “American Anti-Intellectualism”…though perhaps the latest 30 or so years is merely the attempt on the part of America’s intellectuals to “catch up”…)
Which kind of brings to mind the “British Invasion”—the curious phenomenon that America’s indigenous rhythm and blues (and rock ‘n roll) had to be mediated via British bands before the music could be embraced en masse in America…
Perhaps.
Which kind of brings to mind the “British Invasion”—the curious phenomenon that America’s indigenous rhythm and blues (and rock ‘n roll) had to be mediated via British bands before the music could be embraced en masse in America…
It was embraced by the adolescent population when The Beatles themselves were adolescents in Liverpool. It was not embraced by the elders. The audience grew older as those adolescents grew older.
https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1966-06-11/
While we’re at it, here are the 100 top singles for the week of 11 June 1966. I see the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Beatles, and Dusty Springfield. I’m not seeing British domination.
Whoa…looks like (just) another “Biden” scandal:
“Exposed: The Russian Companies That Will Get Billions From New Iran Nuclear Deal;
“U.S.-government document shows Russia’s top state companies stand to cash in when sanctions drop”—
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/exposed-the-russian-companies-that-will-get-billions-from-new-iran-nuclear-deal/
H/T Instapundit.
(So who exactly was / is / will always be Putin’s “poodle”….? Well, not poodle, exactly—that wouldn’t be fair to poodles—but “enabler” and/or “partner in crime”…)
Why the USA is a member of this fraud of an organization truly escapes me.
It just provides a venue for totalitarian POS to appear and speak as if they are legitimate or respectable leaders or diplomats, when in fact they are thugs and murderers.
And what’s worse, when a Chavez or Castro or Ortega or Saddam Hussein type murderer gets up to speak, the USA delegates (who “represent” you and me) actually sit there and listen to these criminals justifying their actions and, of course, blaming you know who.
If Hitler or Himmler were still alive representing Germany, they too would be provided a forum at the UN.
Peaceful (mostly) , representative democracies do not need the corrupt UN to cooperate and reach all sorts of economic , political and military agreements.
Corrupt, murderous dictators however, relish the opportunity to give their speeches before the “august” gathering of UN diplomats and gain an air of respectability, honesty and decency, and even get themselves into the NY Times (to be praised, but only if the murderous thug is a leftist), invited to give a talk at Columbia University or invited to some Upper East Side cocktail party where leftist elites can take selfies with their criminal heroes.
But hey, what do I know; I am not an Ivy League grad with 30 years of experience in the State Dept or otherwise lifelong “employment” in public service.
“Why the USA is a member of this fraud of an organization truly escapes me.”
Simply(!) because the current US government is itself fraudulent.
In every way.
This manifests itself in the coup it planned and ran to bring down the previous president…
…and further manifests itself in everything it has done so far and intends to do in the future.
…and is demonstrated by everything it says and claims…
All starting with its fraudulent “election”.
(To be sure it certainly helps to have the support of a grotesquely fraudulent and pschotic media.)
Just one of the latest examples (but there are so many…):
“‘Major housecleaning’ needed after Biden team waged info war using unverified intel, expert says;
“Fred Fleitz, former chief of staff at the National Security Council, made his comments following a report that the U.S. released unverified information in order to stop Russia from invading Ukraine.”—https://justthenews.com/government/security/major-housecleaning-needed-after-white-house-waged-info-war-based-unverified
(To be sure Lee Smith’s been describing for quite some time now to what extent America’s Security establishment has been compromised—and essentially neutralized as an effective force—by its affiliation with and support of the Democratic Party….)
How the country will be able to extricate itself from this level and complexity of abuse remains to be seen…
And the lies keep coming….
Perhaps it is a case of a broken clock being right twice a day, but Putin , devil though he is, has spoken out against Western CRT madness.
I think he’s happy to see it incapacitate the West.
Roll over Prokofiev and tell Akhmatova to move.
Bolivia, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, France, Gabon, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Senegal, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.
We are in the very best of hands.
Barry Meislin:
I don’t know how old you are, but as someone who was around even before the “British invasion,” that’s not the way it worked. Rock and roll, with its R&B influences, was fully embraced in the US prior to that. Elvis, for example, and many Motown big hits were prior to the Brits coming (here’s one of my favorites). I could go on – there are many many examples of different artists and songs. The Brits such as the Beatles took the American musical styles and added to them in a fresh way that appealed to people. But the hits were already there, and they were already “embraced” by the US public.
and they were already “embraced” by the US public.
If my own family and my parents’ circle are any guide, they were not embraced by people born before about 1938.
We bought through the mails a batch of Time-Life CDs of popular music ordered by decade. For the decade after the 2d World War, you’re not just getting the salient figures like Sinatra and Peggy Lee. You listen to it and you can get a visceral sense of why there was a public appetite for new departures. You (or at least I) can get great enjoyment from the salients; the recording studios in that era were generating a lot of shlock. She shlock sold. Lawrence Welk made a good living as a bandleader for 50+ years and from about 1955 to about 1975 few people were more prominent in mass entertainment or more durable. I think it is difficult for people not of a certain vintage to appreciate it except with an anthropological spirit.
Sounds like a good deal for Russia.