The obvious appointment
A new chapter in uncovering the true nature of the UN Human Right Mockery Council. This time its new appointee to special rapporteur on the “situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.”:
Falk’s conception of human rights—remember, this is what he is tasked to monitor for the UN—is also colored by his warm feelings toward Tehran. Ann Elizabeth Mayer, an associate professor of legal studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics, noted in 2000 that “The international law scholar Richard Falk, who sympathizes with the Islamic Republic and who opines that ‘Islam’ is entitled to have its own ‘civilizational approach’ to human rights, embodies the tendency to imagine that Iranians need more Islamic culture, not the human rights protections valued by people in the West.”
But this is small beer compared to Falk’s latest intellectual pursuit. In 2004, Falk wrote the introduction to The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin, a book arguing that the American government was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001. Of the vast trove of 9/11 “truth” material available in print and online, it was Griffin, Falk wrote in his foreword, who “has had the patience, the fortitude, the courage, and the intelligence to put the pieces together in a single coherent account.” For Griffin’s latest book, Debunking the 9/11 Debunkers, Falk provided a dust jacket endorsement: “David Ray Griffin has established himself—alongside Seymour Hersh—as America’s number one bearer of unpleasant, yet necessary, public truths.”
This appointment is a good step in the right direction - recognizing the UN for what it is - an haven for dictatorships and a cover up for their actions. While I don’t agree with McCain on many things, the idea that the US - and any other self respecting democracies - should abandon this shameful farce of organization is not a bad idea.
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Rogel @ April 11, 2008