Drone the United Nations

Flanders

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Sep 23, 2010
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Good God, do those people at the UN ever say anything nice about Americans?:

The US policy of using aerial drones to carry out targeted killings presents a major challenge to the system of international law that has endured since the second world war, a United Nations investigator has said.

Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, summary or arbitrary executions, told a conference in Geneva that President Obama's attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere, carried out by the CIA, would encourage other states to flout long-established human rights standards.

Again with “International law.” Most Americans get it, Mr. Heyns. International law is Socialist law is UN law.

I’d like to tattoo this on the foreheads of every UN hustler:


"International law is not law but politics, ... there is no such law, and the pretense that it exists is a harmful fantasy."

The quote comes Judge Robert Bork in his book Coercing Virtue.

America is fighting a war against Islamic fundamentalists; an enemy sworn to kill Americans or destroy the world trying. The United Nations will better serve human rights standards when it convinces Muslims to end the war they started instead of putting blood-soaked countries on the UN’s Human Rights Council:

U.N. Human Rights Council Takes Aim at New Target: United States | Fox News

Naturally, Justice Ginsburg’s old stomping ground had its anti-America hand in the affair. These four excerpts were taken from different parts of the UK Guardian article:

Addressing the conference, which was organised by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a second UN rapporteur, Ben Emmerson QC, who monitors counter-terrorism, announced he would be prioritising inquiries into drone strikes.

The US has defended drone attacks as self-defence against al-Qaida and has refused to allow judicial scrutiny of the UAV programme. On Wednesday, the Obama administration issued a fresh rebuff through the US courts to an ACLU request for information about targeting policies. Such details, it insisted, must remain "classified".

Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's national security project, said: "Something that is being debated in UN hallways and committee rooms cannot apparently be talked about in US courtrooms, according to the government. Whether the CIA is involved in targeted lethal operation is now classified. It's an absurd fiction."

The ACLU estimates that as many as 4,000 people have been killed in US drone strikes since 2002 in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Of those, a significant proportion were civilians. The numbers killed have escalated significantly since Obama became president.

Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur
Owen Bowcott in Geneva guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 June 2012 12.54 EDT

Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur | World news | guardian.co.uk

I have to give the Administration credit for denying “. . . an ACLU request for information about targeting policies.” There is one caveat. Let’s all pray that the information the ACLU wants to use against the American people is not leaked.
 
Someone should tell these UN fatheads that we wouldn't be using drones in Pakistan if they'd get off their asses and deal with the problem themselves.
 

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