The Failure Of The United Nations

"This is why our government has lost faith in the Durban process ... We will not support an agenda that exculpates undemocratic and oppressive regimes or glosses over violence against Jews and Israel." Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, Government of Canada

Clear-sighted and conscience in full display, the Government of Canada has stated its stance, unpleasing to many, but without prevaricating, demonstrating that it fully understands the perverse double standard that exists within the United Nations and its creature committees.

When countries like Lebanon, where the terrorist militia Hezbollah holds the country to ransom and has become an effective government, or Libya and Iran, which have demonstrated their credentials as sponsors of terrorism, and repressive Cuba can all hold meaningful seats of authority and from their perches point a collective finger of denunciation toward one single country that offends much of the world because it is Jewish it becomes abundantly clear that something is dreadfully awry.

The United Nations is dominated by these country-cliques that have made their own pernicious pact with setting one ethnic, religious group aside for ongoing, deliberate and vicious persecution. Mr. Kenney simply pointed out the obvious, the odious fact that the "world's most notorious human rights violators" have gained the podium within the United Nations and they are intent on attacking primarily the United States and Israel.

The nations of the world that were once, centuries earlier, colonized by more socially and economically advanced countries that held them as outposts signifying their power and status in the world of that time, while draining those countries of their wealth in natural resources, have turned the United Nations into a modern-day forum of scalding disdain for their historic oppressors and continue to launch ongoing demands for reparations.

Reparations, for the most part, have been ongoing for the past century, with the wealthy countries of the world extending their influence, their practical assistance, and their treasury in a concerted effort to bring developing countries into a state of self-actualization advancing toward good self-governance and budding economies. Where once, however, the colonizing countries raped the undeveloped countries of their wealth, it is now their rulers and their governments that have undertaken that invidious task.

Typically, such governments who violate their own peoples' human rights and shut off opportunities for their people to access education, medical treatment and full employment, highlight these problems as not emanating from their own corrupt practises, but as themselves as ongoing victims of the decadent, grasping Western nations who refuse to account for their past plundering of resources, and continue their predations to the present day; effectively making claims that bear no resemblance to reality.

That elusively treacherous unwillingness to face reality, to continue to grovel in the obnoxious stench of racism, while claiming to be defending the world against racism in all its forms, has become the true face of the United Nations. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has been busy tasking her investigators to inspect the human rights obligations of countries whose constitutions protect human rights, while ignoring those countries whose state institutions blatantly violate human rights.

She has expressed shock and disbelief that Canada and some other western democracies have chosen to boycott the infamous Human Rights Commission's various "Durban" inquests singling out Israel as a human-rights abusing, Apartheid state. "It's hard to imagine a better example of the upside-down world of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights", Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said on behalf of his country during his speech at the Perils of Global Intolerance conference, set up to oppose Durban III.

The unctuously sanctimonious attitude of the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights belies the reality of Durban II's triumvirate of Libya, Iran and Cuba chairing the event. While the Durban III conference celebrated the original Durban's 2001 statement titled Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, which called for reparations and compensation, but failed to address the corrupt regimes that supported the call, and slandered Israel as a racist Zionist entity, the alternate conference became an antidote to the failure of the UN.