Taking a page from the corrupt UN, Obama and his administration committed manslaughter in Benghazi and used the IRS to harass conservatives and prevent "Patriot and Tea Party Organizations" from getting tax free status. That way those organizations were precluded from fund raising to help elect Republican, libertarian and conservative candidates from the "vast right-wing conspiracy." m/r
The Rosett Report » Richard Falk and the Crooked Ways of UN Rules
By Claudia Rosett On May 9, 2013
You remember Richard Falk — the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur who last month wrote an article blaming America for the terrorist bombings of the Boston Marathon. Falk suggested these horrific attacks were part of the post-colonial world’s natural “resistance” to “the American global domination project.” In response, more than two dozen [1] members of Congress called for [2] Falk — an American academic — to be fired from his UN post.
Now, according to a dispatch by Fox News [3] editor-at large George Russell, the U.S. State Department is saying that Falk cannot be fired — because the rules of the Human Rights Council contain no provision for firing any of the Council’s dozens of special rapporteurs. That’s quite plausible; the UN also lacks any provision for removing a secretary-general (as became evident during the Oil-for-Food scandal, on Kofi Annan’s watch). It is also absurd, and in practice not quite credible. When UN senior officials want to, they can be quite creative about sidelining or ousting inconvenient personnel — though such maneuvers seem more often reserved for whistleblowers [4] than for those peddling the anti-American or anti-Israel vitriol in which the UN specializes.
But in the case of Falk, it looks like both the State Department and the UN Human Rights Council will defer politely to the UN’s lack of rules for firing a special rapporteur.
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