Syria to Join UN Human Rights Council, Despite Unleashing Death and Brutality on its Citizens
- Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:18pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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As international leaders mull sanctions on Syria, the United Nations seems to have missed the memo that Syrian President Bashar Assad is orchestrating a brutal crackdown on his own civilians, which has so far left hundreds dead.
Fox News reports that Syria is set to become the newest member of the UN Human Rights Council:
The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders — but apparently not enough to stop Syria from becoming the newest member of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
And despite calling for an independent investigation into the crackdown, which has left hundreds dead, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apparently won’t do much about blocking Syria’s path to the human rights group.
“That’s not really for the secretary general to suggest to a member state,” said Martin Nesirky, a spokesman for the secretary-general, when asked if the U.N. chief would ask Syria to drop out of the running for the post. When asked if Ban had brought up the point during his telephone conversation April 9 with Assad, Nesirsky told Fox News, “that’s not really something the secretary general would raise specifically, because it’s for other member states to decide on the membership of the Human Rights Council.”
In this video report from Fox, you can see raw footage of the chaos and violence coming out of Syria this week:
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Comments (89)
Coralchristie
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:12pmWe need to get out of the UN. It’s just a home for tyrannical regimes who hate America and love to be funded by us…whom they hate.
Report Post »dgboy
Posted on April 27, 2011 at 8:48amWe will never leave the UN. Because of gutless politicians who don’t see the writing on the wall.
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:10pmWe have a lot of work to do yet! We not only need to get the UN out of our country, but also the EPA! Before you know it, we won’t even be able to squat without them thinking we are taking a dump! We need to reduce big government and create a free market again! We need to make the Chinese and other countries buy our goods to balance what they have shoved onto us! We need to tell France and the other rogue countries what they can do with it! We need to stop buying Arab oil and produce our own for only our country and tell them where to go! Finally, we need Jesus (GOD) in our daily lives, because without we will only fall as a nation for generations to come!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:06pmWhen the hell are we going to get out of the STINKIN’, ROTTEN UN? It is a corrupt fascist entity. Let’s see if a new President has the courage to PULL THE PLUG!
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:07pmAnd furthermore…….If we do leave the UN, they will sink like a stone because we pay the major part of the freight to keep the damn thing afloat.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:02pmThis is why the U.N. is sad joke and has zero merit or creditability
Report Post »papapatriot
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:52pmWhy do we continue to support and belong to this organization. Its time the US leave the UN and the UN leave the US. Like all political ideas it has failed and we are still supporting it with the expectation that it will succeed. We do not need the UN and to continue to support it ridiculous. Send them all back to their native countries and let them bash the US from there
Report Post »4Winds
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:01pmhmmmmmm…… UNHUMAN rights council
Report Post »VENTVSBEATVS
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:56pmI-ro-nyyyyyyy!!!
Report Post »Dougral
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:56pmThis is yet another reason why the US should turn its back on the UN and never look back. Any organization that could place a nation like Syria on a human rights council is morally bankrupt.
Report Post »The Divided States of America
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:53pmIt’s all good, Jesus haz hiz eye on the prize.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 9:41pmNot the same prize as Mohamed. Mohamed’s prize is little naked boys buttered up and waiting bent over in a line.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:52pmall these international groups are putting on the road to one world order. If we allow our nation to continue to be pulled down that road
Report Post »TRILO
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:52pmSometimes the absurdity of the U.N. leaves me speechless.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:48pmIf they can be on the human rights council then there is no justice nor human rights!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:45pmThe Syrian replaces the Libyian that was suspended on March 1.2011 from the 47 member council.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:44pmKilling your own citizens when they protest is not acceptable.
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:43pmThat is like letting a Democrat sit in on an anti-child abuse committe.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:41pmIt is now official the UN sucks. Look at the names on the council and it says it all.
Report Post »Volsense
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:40pmJust reinforces the fact that the UN is dominated by corrupt, murdering thugs who represent no one’s interest, but their own. Obama fits the role perfectly. Evil on this level may be too much to overcome. While we are still free, we have no choice, but to resist.
Report Post »Netsurfer2
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:18pmAnyone with the name “Moon” just give’s me the creeps! (Bon Ki Moon) Nothing good will ever come out of globalization that man runs, the UN and EPA included!
Report Post »UpstateNYConservative
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:34pmGuaranteed the trolls here will say Fox is lying and fear mongering. They will stick to that, even after Syria becomes part of the Council. Then they‘ll say we’re anti-Islamic bigots.
I wonder if this sort of thing is what Wilson had in mind with the League of Nations, which, the Senate at the time had the good sense not to have us join.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:34pmThe UN?
The UN is a joke. They are still trying to figure out what if anything to do about the genocides occurring in Africa.
Report Post »They are burdened with so many differing interests and so much political correctness that by the time they come to an agreement it is so neutered and ineffective it looks like some kind of cruel joke. Like sending soldiers into battle with orders not to shoot anyone until they shoot at you.
let us prey
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:42pmExactly
Report Post »WINNEBAGOMAN
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 9:16pmIt’s worse than that. A good friend of mine served in Bosnia in the mid to late 90′s. It’s not enough that combatants shoot at you, they have to “come articulably close to hitting you.” For example: if you’re standing in the first floor of a 10 story building, and there are guys shooting from three blocks away, they better be shooting between the second and fourth floors if you’re going to return fire. This is the U.N. in a nutshell. It was the same in Somalia.
If a leader is going to put his youth (soldiers) in harms way, they better have been given every benefit of the doubt. You want to put restrictions? How about this: if someone not wearing your uniform is carrying a weapon, you may engage them.
Let your boys wrap this up, come home, safely, and victoriously!
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on April 27, 2011 at 2:43amAnd yet, in spite of their gross incompetence, we continue to listen to them. I don’t know who is the bigger fool, the UN or the US for tolerating and even listening to their ridiculous ramblings.
Report Post »psst
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:32pmThe UN is trying to get Pol Pot declared a Saint.
Report Post »Turkey neck Bashar Assad said he prayed to Ol Pot and got the answer (Pot appeared to Turkey in a vision)to his prayers.
Turkey neck said the Pot told him to do Killing Fields 3.
I think ol‘ Ghadafi’s Libya (he did Killing Fields 2)is on that commision too.Wonder if ol Pot appeared to him in a vision also
calebgs83
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:30pmYou can’t make this stuff up…remember when Iran was appointed to the UN council on womens’ rights.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:30pmINSANITY knows no bounds especially when it comes from the United Nations and its pathetic UN council members.
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on April 27, 2011 at 12:06pmThis story should tell EVERYONE where the UN is coming from. Gotta love those blue helmets!!!
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:30pmThe U.N. needs to be expelled out of our nation and our membership anulled. I look at our tenure with the U.N. as a blight on America’s history.
Report Post »psst
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:46pmAin’t gonna happen. The UN is the John the Baptist for the NWO/OWG.
Report Post »It were created to pave (preach/spread the Gospel so to speak) the way for the coming NWO./ OWG.
papapatriot
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:42pmThe US must leave the UN and the UN must leave the US. ASAP. Think we have any political leaders with the courage to suggest this? It is time we put the pressure on. Thomas Paine stated ” It is the duty of every Patriot to protect his country from it’s government” The UN with their NWO and our current socialist/progressive/communist administration is cause for us to demand our removal from the UN. We can look at it as a budget cut. God Bless America
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:28pmThat’s because the HRC is the Islamist-Communist branch of the UN. Obama joined that cesspool of radicalism soon after he took office.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 11:57pmAm so glad to know that Al-Assad meets Hillary’s definition of a “Reformer”!!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 27, 2011 at 2:59amYep according to Obama’s administration Assad is a reformist & the Talibans are moderates .
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 27, 2011 at 3:18amWell, my jaw dropped when Glenn said a few days ago that Hillary was not a commie. True, Bill was able to rein her in during his administration, but since Obama hired her she’s devoted herself to kissing his radical butt, much to Bill’s distress.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:26pmWe need to pull out of the U.N .. now! Of course we won’t because Obama plans on being the first World Dictator and they are how he will accomplish that.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:08pmAny chance we can repossess the UN building and turn it into a prison for all of them; along with the administraton? Weld the doors shut and let them have nothing go in or out til all movement stops on the inside in a few decades?
Report Post »mill
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:44pmProbably truer than we realize…
Syria…what a joke.
Report Post »mza9
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 5:00amDoubt Obama will be first world dictator, think we are a ways off of a world dictator, the machinery is most definitely in place though. IMF and World Bank still have to gain power over quite a few countries. Globalists still have a lot of loose ends to tie up around the world…
Report Post »dovesong
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:23pmI’ll be glad when we take our country back and tell the rest of the world to go to hell.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:25pmAgreed, and let us be sure to get the UN out of our country as well. Any group dedicated to the end of the US and changing the world into mans image, instead of the ways of the Almighty will wind up destroyed as well…this law they want to make where the earth has the same rights as any human being, will be a direct challenge to the sovreignty of all nations of the planet.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:33pmDoes anybody besides me see the momentum building towards unprecedented catastrophic destruction over the entire planet on many, many levels?
When will it come to critical mass?
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:42pmSigh….you just can’t make this stuff up can you?!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:46pmIs there anyone, ANYONE, who has any faith/confidence/belief in the United Nations at this point?????? Any thinking human (& some orangutans) must see the hypocrisy in this ridiculous organization! For Pete’s sake Cuba has a better record than Syria. This can only be described as insanity. The United Nations may have served a good purpose at one time. That time is long gone. Hell – at one time the Pony Express was vital! Now not so much.
The U.N. building has to be prime real estate – Let Trump develop it and use the profits to pay down the national debt. (Maybe that will keep him busy enough to stop the running for president madness)
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:47pmYea right!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:48pm@ TSUNAMI-22
“When will it come to critical mass?” —–Three weeks ago Monday.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 7:50pmWell that’s the UN for you, run by dictators for dictators, anti israel, anti American, anti everything good.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:04pm@Tsunami 22
Yes I do see it coming, there will be major uphevals aplenty across faith, economic, social, national, and political ties; many groups within and without the nation (of America), and other nations see the weakness of us here at home as their window to strike; to make the preparations for the next generation of advancement.
Their window is short, and players such as assang and Soros have failed to understand, just like those of the UN, that unexpected consequenses will happen from their actions.
God will not be denied justice. And it is now at hand.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:07pm@82ndAirborne:
I still believe and have faith in the nation and the PEOPLE of AMERICA, with the aid of the Almighty.
WE will make it through the night, and the storm. America has changed, and will change again, such is the way of all things. We must continue to stand against the darkness of DC and all else; for the time of judging is now at hand, where all will be revealed in the night and the light of the earth from above.
Note, I do not mean the return of Jesus; though this could be the sequense leading to it. All nations are being shaken by God, to show HIS light, HIS power, HIS judgment, and he will not be denied.
Report Post »dave928
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 8:48pmAnd kick the UN out of our country. I say they move to Damascus..
Report Post »Casca
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 9:03pmOf course the inept America-hating UN will allow Syria to be on the ‘human rights’ council. I pray and hope that we have a president with guts who will tell the UN to go straight to hell. The UN was our lapdog for years until P-Boma legitimized it.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 9:24pmUS out of the UN. UN out of the US. Then they can do whatever the heck the want.
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 11:50pmI‘m afraid it’s too late….. The United States is being overwhelmed by evil leftist progressives who are intent on our downfall. Too many well meaning and good Americans are content to hide their head in the sand and pretend that everything is fine…. They still have their house and SUV,,, for the time being.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 27, 2011 at 12:25amIf we were to with hold all money given to the UN and all the countries that belong to the UN…How much would this country save???
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on April 27, 2011 at 1:38amthe UN is a JOKE..a BAD DUMB JOKE.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on April 27, 2011 at 10:19amThe U.N. is worthless organization!
They created the Isreali – Palestine problem!
Remember what they did in the Congo???
Its time for the U.N. to leave the USA might I suggest Haiti LOL
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »mza9
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 4:56amTrue! I love how all these indoctrinated folk can easily justify dropping bombs on people in other countries in order to protect “human rights”. What a rude awakening all these brainwashed masses have coming to them. Amazes me how how often history repeats itself, yet only a minority ever hear its message. Good luck all, I can only hope that you and I make it through.
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