Editorial: Is it U.N. or un?

After thousands of car crashes, a stop sign was installed at the dangerous intersection. The building burned down and then a fire alarm was placed on top of the ashes. Immediately after the patient died he was brought into the OR for surgery.

And a year after the United Nations elected Libya to serve on the UN Human Rights Council it ordered an inquiry into that country’s “alleged abuses” and recommended that its membership in the council be suspended. What is the UN Human Rights Council? It’s website suggests that it is a special body within the UN membership that is responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe with its main purpose to address situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them. How did Libya become a member of the UN Human Rights Council? There are a total of 192 countries that make up the UN and 97 votes are needed to place a country on the Human Rights Council.  Libya received 155 votes. 58 countries more than it needed showed their support for Libya. Over 80% of the members of the United Nations voted for Libya to be on the UN Human Rights Council.

The UN’s overwhelming support for Libya to actually serve as the judge and jury for global human rights is just one absurd drop in an ocean of a UN tsunami of outrageous, maddening, dangerous activity that transpires on the East Side of Manhattan. Although the NYPD has successfully decreased the violent crime rate in the five boroughs of New York, a cluster of murderers still congregate with life threatening activity along the East River. These co-conspirators to the proliferation of unjust in the world disguise themselves behind business suits, townhouses, diplomatic license plates, committees, dinners, emergency meetings, speeches, reports, press conferences, and votes. The intricate sophisticated expensive translating system that hangs over the ears of the members attending their meetings should be immediately ripped out and examined to find out what these people could possibly be listening to. Better yet, its tall waterside building can find better use as a low-income housing project with a perfectly good wall to play handball against. The shorter building, with its curved roof, would be appreciated by skate boarders.

The UN Human Rights Council is the very same body that condemned Israel for “grave violations” of human rights.

At some point the United Nations has to be accountable for its decisions. The US has to be accountable for its membership in such a dangerous global body. And New York has to be accountable for its real estate.