UN, Seat of International Corruption, Investigates the US

Doudou Diene (no, I’m not making this up), a United Nations rapporteur (whatever that is) is touring the US to investigate allegations of institutional racism. This from the International House of Scandal that brought us the UN Oil for Food scam that enriched the greedy while starving poor Iraqis. This from the organization that rapes those it purports to be helping. This from the organization that has on its human rights panel such enlightened countries as Cuba (jailed journalists), China (forced sterilization, no democracy), and Saudi Arabia (abuse of women). This is sick.

Excerpts from Nile Gardiner’s excellent National Review article, Theater of the Absurd:

“With the rare exception of Russia, Diene has chosen to ignore real human-rights violations in most dictatorial states, especially in Africa, Asia, or the Middle East. He has barely said a word about Chinese oppression in Tibet for example, and has been largely silent about the genocide in Darfur.”

“It is hard to take the U.N. seriously when its peacekeepers are actively engaged in raping refugees in the Congo and even arming rebel groups, or when it turns a blind eye to the man-made starvation of millions in southern Africa. In the arena of human rights, the United Nations has become an emperor with no clothes, a morally bankrupt institution that wallows in its double standards and appeasement of evil.”

The institutional racism claim is absurd on its face. Look around you. See all the people of color who are rich, successful, and admired? See the people of color in the halls of power, in every profession, and in every strata of our society? What other country has such a diverse population? You sure can’t find this diversity in Europe, the supposed seat of global enlightenment. Perhaps Mr. Doudou could investigate his home continent of Africa. I don’t know what racism is like there, but I do know that his homeland plays a prominent role in modern day slavery.

We still have race problems here, and we still have poverty. But based on their track record, we sure as hell don’t need the UN trying to solve them for us.