"Frank" wrote in message ...
Doug Carter wrote:

Martin Hotze wrote:

Norway tops UN list over best places to live (...)

http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=955 (Sweden: Poorer Than You
Think )


A UN list showing the U.S. in an unfavorable light? GASP!!

Better check your meds dude; this is the same U.N. that
appointed Lybia as the chair of the human rights commission.

"January 2003, The Libyan candidate, diplomat and former
journalist Najat al-Hajjaji, won 33 votes in a secret
ballot of the 53-country Commission, with 17 states
abstaining and three voting no -- apparently including the
United States."

So what's the problem? The US got to vote. If it didn't come out the way
we
wanted, we have the opportunity to change it next time around. That's the
way it's supposed to work.

That's why the US does _NOT_ have direct democracy.

What doesn't work is only going along with the
UN when one agrees with it. Rule of law and all that.


Outsourcing Foreign Policy and "The International Community"
by Thomas Sowell (March 23, 2004)

http://capmag.com/articlePrint.asp?ID=3574

And besides, by putting someone like this in charge of the commission
could
conceivably do more to foster human rights because of the extra scrutiny.

You're not serious, are you?


Diplomat, former journalist? I've never heard of him, does he have some
record of human rights abuse? Or does he have a history of speaking out
against oppression?

From Libya? You're not serious, are you?