Tuesday, September 25, 2007

UN Human Rights

I'm not the biggest fan of George Bush. In fact, I, like most Americans, think he's somewhat of an idiot. However, he makes me laugh beyond belief. When I see him standing in front of the TV, he simply makes me giggle.

I don't agree with most of his policies. I don't agree with his conservative ideology. There is one thing I agree with him, and that's his continued support for Israel (obviously).

It feels good to finally hear him speak and be proud of the words that come out of his mouth. Here is Bush's statements regarding the UN Human Rights group:

US President George W. Bush blasted the United Nations Human Rights Council for singling out Israel while ignoring major human rights violators in his speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly Tuesday morning.


US President Bush addresses the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters.

Bush said that in order for the UN to be credible in standing up for human rights, "the UN must reform its own human rights council."

He called the UN "silent on repression" in places like Caracas and Teheran while it focuses its criticism "excessively on Israel."

Elsewhere he criticized "brutal regimes" including that in Iran, but otherwise avoided addressing the Islamic power, though the US is leading an international campaign to keep it from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Bush said, "Every civilized nation has a responsibility to stand up for the people suffering under dictatorship.

"In Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Iran, brutal regimes deny their people the fundamental rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of the United Nations," he said.


*Read full article here*

Bordering Insanity

The USA is a great nation not because of its fearless leader, but because of its character as a nation that respects basic human rights, mainly in the form of free speech. We have witnessed many controversial events - and many questionable events throughout the US and especially within the US' academia.

Berkeley has long served as the staple of absurdity, or the icon of "extreme liberal left" - in which many other academic institutions follow suit. Columbia is one of them. She is not as extreme as Berkely, but she has already had controversial guests speak.

What's fascinating to me is that there is so much evidence pointing to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his relentless agenda to stage war with the West. He is trying to rebuild a Muslim empire in his region, and at the same time instigating violent action in the region. He is a Holocaust denier (in Germany and other places that is against the law), he continuously funds terrorist groups, he has made Syria and Lebanon his puppets, and he has no regards for his own people, especially women and minorities. In other words, he is not only a cruel dictator, but he is also a human rights criminal.

And yet he is allowed to come into the nation of liberty, stand on a podium in front of so called intellects, and speak his mind - which we already know, is usually filled with garbage and propaganda.

In one light I respect Columbia University for being so bold and brave in challenging the opponents of this event, and at the same time, an institution like Columbia should be more reasonable when it comes to judgment. We don't need Ahmadinejad to convince us that he's not crazy - he's already proven himself guilty over and over again.

In any case, it's pathetic that people actually buy into his lies and ignore his local rhetoric. He is truly the Hitler of our era - and as long as people ignore this notion, the more power he will accumulate and the more realistic his goals will become.

Read more about his visit to Columbia here.






http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/24/us.iran/index.html