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US publicly rebuked by UN Human Rights Committee
2006-07-22
GENEVA - The US delegation appearing before the UN Human Rights Committee was on Friday publicly rebuked for its supercilious attitude by the committeeÂ’s president.
Did y'all hear anything?
Speaking to journalists during a briefing, Committee President Christine Chanet said the US delegation seemed to think that international law on matters of human rights did not apply to them beyond their territory.

However, said Chanet, the International Court of Justice and more recently the Supreme Court in the United States had clarified the applicability of international law on the United States.
There's a faint buzzing sound in the background ...
The Committee, responsible for examining how each of the 156 UN member states adheres to the pact signed on civil and political rights, is currently scrutinizing the United States until the end of the month.
... sounds like the echoes of faint, derisive laughter ...
One of the issues being examined is the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The US delegation had first refused to answer questions put to them and had then made it difficult for the Committee by providing answers at the last minute only in English, said Chanet.
Good job Mr. Bolton, I like your work ...
The international jurist considered the Americans “isolated in their unilateral interpretation of international treaty law.”
Because the international community so often isolates us ...
“I also told them that the Committee is not just a recording chamber,” she added. “It is not just there to receive a report and record it like a court stenographer.”
No, you're not a recording chamber, you're an echo chamber ...
The Committee is due to publish a full report when the hearing ends at the end of July.
Sure to be a best-seller at Daily Kos and the other mouth-breathers on the Left ...
Posted by:Steve White

#22  That would work, too, as long as it's an "indigenous" language, 'cause we're all down with that multiculturalism shit. ;)

Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-07-22 19:40  

#21  Swamp Blonde, How about sign language? I know one 'sign' (or gesture) which I think everyone here will be willing to give the UN...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-07-22 15:15  

#20  Last time I checked we have a constitution, that was designed to protect the people from foreign governments forcing their will on us. The UN is nothing more than a group of foreign governments trying to force its collective will on us. Bolten is doing a great job of telling them to FOAD.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-07-22 14:51  

#19  CJ John Marshall.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-07-22 13:24  

#18  Yup. The subject was the confiscation of Cherokee lands where gold had been found in Georgia, and the forced removal of the Cherokee nation to Oklahoma by the US army.

It's known as the Trail of Tears because over 2/3 of them died on the walk.
Posted by: Greath Fleagum9521   2006-07-22 13:12  

#17  FOTSGreg,

That was Andrew Jackson on Chief Justice Madison, I believe.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2006-07-22 13:07  

#16  Stop insulting the Holy Roman Empire, Slavis
Posted by: Oldcat   2006-07-22 11:17  

#15  Maybe we could internationalize their conference a bit better by hiring Monty Pythons Circus to sit in for Bolton?
Posted by: Inspector Clueso   2006-07-22 10:26  

#14  Enforcement of international law, involves devolving national sovereignty into what is referred to as: "Statutes of the Tribunal." The US has participated in processes where Tribunal operations are consistent with US values. But who wants their country pillorized by socialist overachievers who resent America's success and deny Euro-stagnation?
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133   2006-07-22 09:26  

#13  As long as the delegates are in one place, I would like to arrange a showing of "Hotel Rwanda" or "How The UN Allowed Indiscriminate Slaughter, Without Really Trying."
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133   2006-07-22 09:19  

#12  Speaking to journalists during a briefing, Committee President Christine Chanet said the US delegation seemed to think that international law on matters of human rights did not apply to them beyond their territory.

And the other political entity in Cuba does? The entire committee is AWOL from the daily human rights violations by Havana. Now tell me about this proportionality thingy?

UN = Holy Roman Empire. Useless relic of the past.
Posted by: Slavising Sholuting4450   2006-07-22 09:05  

#11  Well, she's right. We shouldn't just answer back in only English. Let's give them the answers next time in Navajo. Or Tohono O'odham.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-07-22 08:58  

#10  it's all so quaint - that 20th century chatter about blaming the US imperialist occupiers. They asked the question, what if you have a war and no one shows up - well we have an answer to that now - women and children get rounded up and the young men are slaughtered by the thousands in fields of daisies.
Posted by: 2b   2006-07-22 07:25  

#9  The President that said the above quote was Andrew Jackson I believe.
Posted by: djohn66   2006-07-22 04:40  

#8  Oh, I forgot to add that the others on the "UNHRC" are likely equally "qualified".
Posted by: Shinegum Thraiger5571   2006-07-22 02:34  

#7  Check out Christine's resume... She's a lifelong parasite and snob, Charter member of the Chattering Class, and now a Great High Muckety-Muck of the Vulture Elite. Pushing people like this on the UN is how France keeps unemployment below 80%.
Posted by: Shinegum Thraiger5571   2006-07-22 02:32  

#6  Did't one of our Presidents once state, when he had a clash with a Supreme Court Justice, something to the extent of "He has his opinion, now let him enforce it."?

I know the quote and the participants, but right now I'm drawing a blank.

I'd like to see this supercilious retard try to enforce her "international law".

Bring it on, babe, but, you see, a lot of us here in the USA have guns - a lot of guns.

So, send in the blue helmets to enforce your international law. It'll be an interesting couple of days.

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2006-07-22 02:17  

#5  Au contraire. We are not isolated in our opinion of your international law. We simply don't give a rat's ass about your opinions. You can stickem' where the sun don't shine. just as you expected.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-07-22 02:13  

#4  We have a super silly attitude? Well, shit, look who we're dealing with here...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-07-22 01:42  

#3  That was a great album, Captain America. Me and my friends probably listened to it 100 times in the summer of '72. I can still recite whole routines by heart.
Posted by: 11A5S   2006-07-22 01:22  

#2  I sense a pee-pee whacking coming soon
Posted by: Captain America   2006-07-22 01:01  

#1  Report and be damned, to mangle a quote.
Posted by: mojo   2006-07-22 00:32  

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