Not seeing too much about this farce in the news:
"The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council...The new resolution, championed by the Obama administration, has a number of disturbing elements. It emphasizes that 'the exercise of the right to freedom of expression carries with it special duties and responsibilities . . ." which include taking action against anything meeting the description of 'negative racial and religious stereotyping.'"
Recall that the "Human Rights Council" is mostly African and Asian (and Muslim)countries and has a long record of vehement anti-Semitism and contempt for Israel. Even Kofi Annan criticized them for that, and said the Human Rights Council has a "disproportionate focus on violations by Israel" while neglecting other parts of the world such as Darfur, which had what he termed "graver" crises." (Wiki)
The Human Rights Council is actually the former UN Human Rights Commission which had to have it's name changed because it was such a joke (recall they had Sudan on the commission). Again Kofi Annan criticized them:
"We have reached a point at which the commission's declining credibility has cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system,' Mr Annan said as he addressed the commission's annual six-week session at its Swiss headquarters...
Unless we re-make our human rights machinery, we may be unable to renew public confidence in the United Nations itself,' he said."
You might also recall from last Spring that the Human Rights Council was responsible for the UN's Geneva "Anti Racism" conference and gave Libya the responsibility for organizing the conference and had Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited to make the opening speech. Thirty countries walked out on the speech.
These are the same people pushing for limits on speech that they feel is offensive to Islam. The US used to reject membership on the council and now it is joining them in the charade.
"Privately, other Western governments were taken aback and watched the weeks of negotiations with dismay as it became clear that American negotiators wanted consensus at all costs..
Even the normally feeble European Union tried to salvage the American capitulation..."
http://weeklystandard.com/Cont.../017/043ytrhc.asp?pg=1
Every day Obama admin moves closer to supporting all the bad actors on the world stage. If you look at other admin people like Mark (praise to Chavez - end talk radio) Lloyd, Cass (police rumors on the internet) Sunstein etc. then its not hard to see a day where people can go to jail for criticizing Islam (other religions will be fine) like Bridget Bardot did in France.
"The Obama administration has marked its first foray into the UN human rights establishment by backing calls for limits on freedom of expression. The newly-minted American policy was rolled out at the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council...The new resolution, championed by the Obama administration, has a number of disturbing elements. It emphasizes that 'the exercise of the right to freedom of expression carries with it special duties and responsibilities . . ." which include taking action against anything meeting the description of 'negative racial and religious stereotyping.'"
Recall that the "Human Rights Council" is mostly African and Asian (and Muslim)countries and has a long record of vehement anti-Semitism and contempt for Israel. Even Kofi Annan criticized them for that, and said the Human Rights Council has a "disproportionate focus on violations by Israel" while neglecting other parts of the world such as Darfur, which had what he termed "graver" crises." (Wiki)
The Human Rights Council is actually the former UN Human Rights Commission which had to have it's name changed because it was such a joke (recall they had Sudan on the commission). Again Kofi Annan criticized them:
"We have reached a point at which the commission's declining credibility has cast a shadow on the reputation of the United Nations system,' Mr Annan said as he addressed the commission's annual six-week session at its Swiss headquarters...
Unless we re-make our human rights machinery, we may be unable to renew public confidence in the United Nations itself,' he said."
You might also recall from last Spring that the Human Rights Council was responsible for the UN's Geneva "Anti Racism" conference and gave Libya the responsibility for organizing the conference and had Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited to make the opening speech. Thirty countries walked out on the speech.
These are the same people pushing for limits on speech that they feel is offensive to Islam. The US used to reject membership on the council and now it is joining them in the charade.
"Privately, other Western governments were taken aback and watched the weeks of negotiations with dismay as it became clear that American negotiators wanted consensus at all costs..
Even the normally feeble European Union tried to salvage the American capitulation..."
http://weeklystandard.com/Cont.../017/043ytrhc.asp?pg=1
Every day Obama admin moves closer to supporting all the bad actors on the world stage. If you look at other admin people like Mark (praise to Chavez - end talk radio) Lloyd, Cass (police rumors on the internet) Sunstein etc. then its not hard to see a day where people can go to jail for criticizing Islam (other religions will be fine) like Bridget Bardot did in France.
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