Did you get that America? After being repeatedly attacked by the extremely violent Islamic jihadists that culminated in the 3,000 dead on 9/11 WE Americans are to blame for the current state of affairs around the world today! Our crime? We fought back against the worldwide spread of the Islamic terrorism! Near the end of the article Robinson was quoted as saying, “There is a necessity now for leadership at the United Nations.” The implication being that the rogue United States has been allowed to run amuck in international politics, stirring up all this violence we currently see around the world today, and of course the implication that the U.N. is capable of doing anything positive about it.  

   Now, here is a bit of the sort of balancing that the Reuters news agency might try when reporting this sort of one-sided BS. Let’s start with the esteemed Ms. Robinson. According to DiscoverTheNetworks.com, Robinson was
“Architect of the 2001 anti-U.S. anti-Israel, U.N. World Conference Against Racism” and that after leaving the U.N. Robinson went on to become a Professor at Columbia University, which the same site claims, “Other prominent antagonists of Israel on the Columbia faculty include Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad, who has declared Israel illegitimate as a Jewish state. Columbia has "become a hotbed of Israel haters," notes the president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein.”

   Finally, the same source claims, “As the United Nations' high commissioner for human rights (a position she held from 1997-2002), Ms. Robinson rejected many American demands to remove anti-Israel language from final conference documents.”Under Mary Robinson's leadership, the Human Rights Commission as one-sided and extremist," said James Tisch, the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "In her tenure at the HRC, she lacked fairness in her approach to the Israeli/Palestinian issue.” Ok, so enough about the wicked witch of the West.

   What about the organization she served? An organization started by the United States shortly after WWII, which has its headquarters situated on prime real estate in Manhattan, New York, at no charge and which allows it dignitaries enormous release from prosecution for crimes which they may commit on U.S. soil against U.S. citizens. American taxpayers have also provided more than $300 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars (1980 through 2006) to this seriously dysfunctional world body, which seems to believe that its sole purpose in life is to vote against the very country that has essentially funded it from its inception and despite the fact that most of these U.N. member nations who are recipients of U.S. generosity still vote against the U.S. more often than not. I know that many Americans have a hard time understanding why our government tolerates this greedy, self-aggrandizing, dysfunctional den of rattlers. An organization that only has one proven track record, that of taking America’s hard earned dollars every chance they get. An organization that also just happens to comprise the Organization of Islamic Council, or OIC, a 57 nation Muslim block within the U.N. itself!

   But, what about the U.N. HRC itself? Well the current 2009 council is made up of such human rights stalwarts such as China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, the Russian Federation, Jordan, Malaysia, and Uruguay, among a handful of others. The current president of the HRC is listed as Mr. Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi of Nigeria. So countries such as Russia, Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia are the people to speak about human rights abuses to the U.S.A? Well, I for one will sleep better tonight knowing that these fine folks are at the helm. And there is no reason for us to worry about the near future as such luminary nations as Nicaragua, Egypt, Angola, Bolivia, Bosnia, and Qatar will be on the HRC council for 2010.

   It sure makes me proud that our hard earned tax-payer dollars are hard at work around the world, helping to make us all a little more civilized and hopefully safer. On the other hand I keep remembering the last words of Theo Van Gough, the liberal Danish artist who was murdered by a Muslim fanatic. As he lay seriously wounded and his assailant stood over him with a glistening knife with which his assailant would finish him off in broad daylight on a busy street in Amsterdam, Theo looked up at his unprovoked assailant and said, “Can’t we talk about this?” The answer should have been pretty clear by then don’t you think?