elfs | Un-Fucking Believable

I'm not usually shocked by the behavior of politicians and reporters, but this is simply beyond the pale. First, the organization Reporters Sans Frontières protested the rise of Libya [!] to the chairman's seat for the United Nation's Commission on Human Rights. Then, RSF published a document titled Wheeling and Dealing, in which they listed out the UNCHR's "incompetence and ineffectiveness," and called the ascent of Col. Qaddafi's regime to the chair "a disgrace."

The UNCHR's response has been to ban RSF from any consultative or informative role in the UNCHR's debates for one year. So much for freedom of the press, or speech, or association, in this unelected collection of bureacrats supposedly overseeing our human rights.

But look at the list of countries (27 out of 54) that voted for the ban: Azerbaijan, Benin, Bhutan, Brazil, Burundi, China, Congo, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Iran, Jamaica, Kenya, Libya, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

Azerbaijan? Bhutan? Burundi? Congo? Cuba? Libya? Iran? Saudi Arabia? These are the nations that have a voting interest in the UNCHR? These are all one-power-center ploys with no people power whatsoever, and not one of them has a free press anywhere. The idea that these countries have any notion whatsoever of "human rights" or a free press is ridiculous.

Apparently, one person in Ohio, knows why a terrible flood ravaged the city of Hudson: It was God's punishment for the city's willigness to host a Harry Potter festival. The writer ends their letter with the classic threat: join my tribe or my God will reach behind himself and sling napalm atcha'.