Blinken Outrageous
By: Jed Babbin (The American Spectator USA News and Politics)
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Loose Canons Blinken Outrageous The UN Human Rights Council is a sham — and yet the Biden administration is groveling before it. byJed Babbin July 18, 2021, 11:46 PM Giorgio Caracciolo/Shutterstock.com
On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council resolved to address systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the context of law enforcement. It was, as is usual for the UN, a setup to bash the United States.
By no coincidence, on that same day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken invited the UNHRC to formally investigate "the scourge of racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia" in the United States. In a statement accompanying the invitation, Blinken said, "Responsible nations must not shrink from scrutiny of their human rights record; rather, they should acknowledge it with the intent to improve."
Blinken's statement continued,
As the President has repeatedly made clear, great nations such as ours do not hide from our shortcomings; they acknowledge them openly and strive to improve with transparency. It is in this context that the United States intends to issue a formal, standing invitation to all UN experts who report and advise on thematic human rights issues…. As a first step, we have reached out to offer an official visit by the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism and the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues.
I have often written that Biden and his team are multilateralists, meaning that they believe the United States should do nothing with which our allies don't agree. This is the flip side of multilateralism: subjecting the United States to the judgment of international bodies such as the UN's Human Rights Council.
The United States is a sovereign nation. We have the duty to preserve the rights of Americans and pursue our interests both domestically and internationally. The Constitution protects Americans' God-given rights and does not subject us to the jurisdiction of any alliance or any international organization. Blinken's action thus is both an insult to our constitutional government and an intentional subjection of our laws to those who have no right to judge us.
The result of the UNHRC's "investigation" of "the scourge of racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia" in the United States is a foregone conclusion. That is so because the nations that comprise the UNHRC, some of the world's worst abusers of human rights, including China, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, Venezuela, and Libya, will ensure that the UNHRC condemns the United States.
China is committing genocide on its Uighur Muslim population. Its other citizens are not permitted to think or speak in any manner other than the way President Xi Jinping does. There is no freedom of speech, freedom to organize and petition the government for redress of grievances, or any of the other rights preserved by the Bill of Rights. China's citizens aren't allowed to access Western internet sites. Its oppression of its citizenry is complete.
Russia is just as bad. Vladimir Putin's regime assassinates reporters and has jailed Putin's only major political opponent, Alexander Navalny, on trumped-up charges. Navalny is reportedly very ill and may die in prison. There are no free elections. Instead, Putin picks provincial governors and other officials. Putin's thugs have assassinated defectors in Britain, such as Alexander Litvinenko with Polonium-210, and have tried to assassinate Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, with Novichok, a nerve agent.
Cuba's communist government has oppressed its people for 60 years. The hundreds of thousands who have protested against the regime over the past two weeks have been fired upon by police, and hundreds were arrested and probably tortured or made to disappear. The regime of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has cut off the internet and social media.
Pakistan is among the world's worst human rights abusers. The Amnesty International website says that the organization is concerned about
the persistent pattern human rights violations occurring in Pakistan. Arbitrary detention, torture, deaths in custody, forced disappearances, and extrajudicial execution are rampant. The government of Pakistan has failed to protect individuals — particularly women, religious minorities and children — from violence and other human rights abuses committed in the home, in the community, and while in legal custody. It has failed to ensure legal redress after violations have occurred.
Venezuela's socialist regime under Nicolas Maduro is a cheap copy of China, Russia, and Pakistan. What should be a prosperous oil-selling nation has been reduced by socialism — first by Hugo Chavez and then by Maduro — to penury. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Venezuela is in the midst of a human rights crisis. Even the UNHRC said that high-level authorities were responsible for crimes against humanity. HRW says that "the government of Nicolas Maduro and its security forces are responsible for extrajudicial executions and short-term forced disappearances and have jailed opponents, prosecuted civilians in military courts, tortured detainees, and cracked down on protesters. They used a state of emergency implemented in response to COVID-19 as an excuse to punish dissent and intensify their control over the population."
Libya has no government, just warring militias that regularly commit war crimes and other atrocities. Its people are completely unprotected and without rights.
For Blinken to say that the UNHRC has the right to judge us is absurd. His statement is an affront to American law and law enforcement.
We do not imprison people for their political beliefs. We do not assassinate reporters or dissidents at home or abroad. We do not fail to protect individuals — including women, religious minorities, and children — from violence and other human rights abuses committed in the home, in the community, and while in legal custody. Nor do we fail to ensure legal redress after violations have occurred. American cops are too often charged with crimes, but justice is usually served.
Blinken's actions reflect his — and Biden's — belief that the United States is merely the equal of every other country and no better. The invitation to the UNHRC to come into the U.S. to investigate human rights here shows they don't believe the U.S. is worth defending.
Congressional Republicans are, as usual, asleep at the switch. It wouldn't take much for a Republican senator to introduce a resolution condemning Blinken's action and objecting to the UNHRC "investigation." It wouldn't pass, but it would be worth publicizing our strong opposition to Blinken's action. I'm knocking at your door. Is anybody home?
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Inviting the UN to pass judgement on the US?
Where is this leading?
Reparations?
Who other than hard core leftists voted for this?
The resolution dropped all references to reparations.
Now if the RCC would pay up for all the other misery that they have caused, pedophilia, physical abuse et al we'd really have something going on.
I wanted to read that, but I am not, nor ever will be a subscriber to the New York Times.
It is just the Jesuit order?
You can google it there are other articles on this from different sources and this article is the Jesuits.
Here is another church that decided they needed forgiveness.
Calling Reparations Biblical, Tulsa Area Church Gives $200,000 Each to Massacre Survivors
During its worship service last Sunday, Transformation Church in Bixby, Okla., blessed several community members with financial gifts. The megachurch near Tulsa, which has made large donations in the past, gave away $1 million on the Juneteenth weekend, including $200,000 to each of the three remaining survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Those Jesuits were involved slavery, slave trading, sexual abuse, and physical abuse they are really some religious people in that sack. They could spend the next 10 years in the confessional and still not cover all their evil deeds.
Churchleaders.com? Interesting.
All the best to them. I'm for voluntary giving, but let the government demand reparations and they may get what they deserve!
The RCC could sell off some of the hundreds of millions in property and pay back a small part of the horrors that they perpetrated on both black and Indian people.
They might even consider payment to the unwed mothers and the 9,000 Irish children that died in their so-called ''care''.
But they may settle for a couple of ''Our Fathers or Hail Mary's'' and call it even.
Why? Are any of the people ion question alive today?
Everybody should provide for themselves.
Not the slave traders but the pedophiles et al are alive and well as are their victims. Those Jesuit guys, have some ugly stuff going on. If you read my link you know that three of the survivors of the Tulsa massacre are alive today, there is a photo of them.
Oh, and the Irish as well lot's of survivors and the predators alike are alive.
That's what courts & prisons are for.
Not exactly, in some cases it was the government that appointed the RCC to carry out the, shall we say, assignments.
And in other cases the RCC did a good job of hiding the peds and or moving them around but some have been nailed, and the RCC is paying through the nose, with a lot more to come, some is just getting started.
Looking forward to the RCC to try the old duck and dodge. There going to be passing the platter a lot, need that cash.
Uhhh - wait a minute Kavika. Wonder what he meant by "As the President has repeatedly made clear, great nations such as ours do not hide from our shortcomings; they acknowledge them openly and strive to improve with transparency.
Does that mean that, after 232 years (1789), or 529 (1492), that the U. S. is gonna "acknowledge" their open genocide on the Native Americans????
Yeah - BS.
A bit of a different topic than I was discussing with Vic, but a valid one. Hopefully, Biden will acknowledge that and he has started off on the right foot with the appointment of Deb Haaland and numerous other NA's in the administration.
Haaland has opened an investigation into the ''Boarding School'' disaster, a very large step. We'll see what type of cooperation she and gets from other government agencies and the RCC who, of course, was one of the major perpetrators in the Boarding Schools crimes.
I've noticed that there are a number of sources that are now calling them "Reform" schools.
That should be corrected to assimilation asap
Now that Haaland has opened an investigation into them there will be some that will do whatever possible to avoid/hide the real truth. It takes a real person to admit that they/country caused untold suffering, sadly we have a number that are lacking in moral courage.
A 3 person panel to take 3 years to issue a toothless report? Nothing to see here unless you are wearing the 'right' glasses.
Or you have the "left" blinders on; and can simply ignore reality.
Which reality would that be?
I can ignore the official findings of the USSR, CCP and DPRK as easily as any UN panel.
Blinders aren't needed.
Screw the UN.
Has a more inept, useless organization existed on a global scale?
And why are so many progressives so intent on the US kowtowing to the UN to begin with?
Whatever
Yes, it was called the League of Nations, although I would rank the USSR 2nd or 3rd possibly tied with the DPRK
I guess that's just a nationalist rhetorical question that doesn't need to be addressed...
60+ years of bircher rhetoric later and still no traction...
It does need to be addressed. Do you really think we nationalist conservatives are going to care one bit about what UN blue helmets from Russia, China, and Iran have to say about human or civil rights here? All they will do is piss us off because we know what kind of shit hole human and religious rights nations they are. We will not be judged by them. That would be almost as bad as subjecting ourselves to the judgement of American secular progressives.
You should draw arrows between the second and third lines,indicating the cyclic nature of the comments and the logical following of one to the other. It is weak because its members do not abide by the precepts of its founding. Yet you still ask the question.
Woof!