Just what we need: The Dictators’ Club nosing around in American affairs.
UN rights chief Navi Pillay on Thursday called for an “immediate investigation” into the circumstances surrounding the February death of an unarmed black US teen, shot by a neighborhood watchman.
Pillay made the comments about the controversial Trayvon Martin case at a press conference in Barbados, as she wrapped up a three-day visit to the Caribbean island nation.
“As High Commissioner for Human Rights, I call for an immediate investigation,” Pillay told reporters.
“Justice must be done for the victim. It’s not just this individual case. It calls into question the delivery of justice in all situations like this.”
Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, a white Hispanic, fatally shot 17-year-old Martin inside a gated community in the Florida town of Sanford on February 26.
I included that last line…just because. The New York Times’ “white Hispanic” meme seems to be catching on. It will go away just as soon as it is no longer useful, of course.
The UN’s Commission on Human Rights, which Pillay has headed since July 2008, includes such paragons of human freedom as Cuba, Libya, Russia, and China, just to name a few. Surely Pillay has larger and more pressing human rights issues to concern herself with.
Update: Just in case Ms. Pillay has a Google alert on anything that mentions her name, here’s some news she could use: There is an investigation ongoing. Now, please go meddle in someone else’s country.
How about an investigation into Oil for Food, child rape by UN “peacekeepers”, etc.
Please, please, send in some Cuban investigators to get to the bottom of this. Then watch with glee as the investigators all demand political asylum.
Brass knuckles it is.
As an add-on–Ms. Pillay, in the United States of America, we do not do witch hunts and political show trials. I understand that many other parts of the world do, and would delight in being able to call us “unjust”, as it would remove the moral taint they possess, but be that as it may–and as an aside I have no doubt you will find more than enough folks willing to hang us high, not because any injustice has been done, but because we are both powerful and ethical, which is always an obstacle to be overcome for those who wish to just be powerful, and cannot see why others cannot go along in mutual benefit–at any rate, be that as it may, in this nation a man is innocent until *proven* guilty, and we do not try people in this nation unless there is an *evidential* readon to, not a political reason to.
I understand that may not be the case in many of the nations that constitute your commission. But that is the case here . That means, if somehow, we are to be made into pariahs because we do not immediately sacrifice individuals just because an influential group (or nation, or group of nations) demands it, and others see a geolitical advantage to be gained out of it, well, so be it. This nation started out as a pariah among the nations because it said the common man could rule himself, and need not be ruled from on high by elites, as happens, even today, in many parts of the world–and if needs be will have *no* problems continuing to bask in our liberty–rooted in the fair, even, and orderly administration of the rule of law, and only the rule of law–alone.
Therefore, butt out. If this does not meet with your approval, I’m sure you may continue to go forward with your plan to necklace America. But I *strongly* suggest you succeed if you make the attempt, because a lot of us are going to take it mightily unkindly. As I already do.
Ms. Pillay, I wish to say something further, which you will not like, and many will not like. But I will say it anyway. I fully recognize that as the decades go on, the non-European, non-Western, non-Caucasian parts of the world will rise in importance and power. Your ancestral India is a wonderful example and a growing jewel of the world.
But–and there is always a but–I do not think I am alone when I say that there are those of us concerned about what a world would look like dominated by the nations heretofore non-powerful, because we would hate for the ideal of liberty rooted in the idea of governments actually constrained by law, the idea of the same law governing both governors and governed, the idea that the individual at times can tell the entire commonweal that it must lose and he must win, because he is within his proper rights, such idea being a large part of the heritage of England and America, our fruit to the world–well we would hate for that bright shining ideal to die. Not because other nations cannot understand it, not because other peoples can’t do it…
…But because too many just seem to have had little interest in doing so. To date, that is.
I wish you a good day.
Can’t we just bomb the UN to pieces with her in it?
It’s so long past time to throw the UN out of the country but I doubt I’ll see that happen in my lifetime. But who knows, maybe they’d be glad to have it in Cairo, given the decline in their main industry (tourism) that’s shaping up to be a permanent condition.
Given the fact that black on black murders in this country are nearing a rate seen in Sub Saharan countries with nary a squeak out of the Useless Nations Human Rights commission, I wonder why we should give this idiot or any one else calling for a lynch mob regarding this incident any credence whatsoever?
Hey chief Navi, when muslims quit killing their own daughters for committing the crime of being raped by their uncles, or having a picture of a movie star on their Iphone, I’ll listen to what you have to say about Human Rights.
If he’d been raped by blue-helmeted thugs, the UN would be busy covering it up.
I formally demand uplifted morons stop acting like this is South Africa, Pillay’s native evil-naughty place.
‘High’ Commissioner…? Apropo title, that.
In adddition to all the above, I would like to say that I appreciate that this story came out on Good Friday. And that it is because it is good to remember that the reason why the Romans first agreed to take Christ into custody, first scourged him, and finally agreed to crucify him was not because he had done anything wrong by Roman law, but to placate influential members of an ethnic group who implicitly threatened “no justice, no peace”. And the Romans knew they meant it. It is the same with the arrest of Paul in Acts (22:23-24).
What this has to do with the current affair is naturally beyond me, though I bet George Zimmerman is not quite delighted to be able to pay for the sins of white Southerners long dead. But then, there is always going to be someone who will say it is expedient if one man dies for the people, and there will always be those of law and order who will make it happen to keep the peace.
The peace of the mob.
UN: Pray to your false god over at Lucis trust I never get in charge. Your Mommie will not be able to help you as I ship all of you/your contents overseas. I just hope your ship does not sink on it’s way to the reborn Roman Empire.
Personally, I like the “white Hispanic” term because under the same rules Obama is no longer our first African American President…he is our first White African American President. You can’t have it both ways.
So much for all his “historicness”.
– to what’s coming in South Africa.
i think she just got her dates crossed. today, april 6, is Good Friday and Passover. a religious holiday for Christians and Jews. not being American she just didn’t understand that april 1st, april fool’s day, was last sunday, a religious holiday for… well… overpaid jokesters from the u.n. wanting justice for someone in the u.s., what with all the mayhem world wide to worry about.
you gotta admit, it would have been a good one for last sunday. maybe next year.
I pray for the day when the true patriotic Americans will rise up and retake what has been stolen from us. Let’s make obama truly historic by being the first American president thrown in prison, along with holder and several others for murder (Agent Terry) and treason (selling us out to the Russkies on missile defense) and kick the U.N. out on their “colledtive” asses. I hope we wake up in November before the chicoms and the resurgent russkies really get strong enough to keep us from dropping the hammer on iran. It is to our own peril should we fail.