The U.N. Teams Up With The ACLU Against America
Posted on October 19, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, October 18 (OneWorld) – In an unprecedented move, a UN committee has asked human and civil rights groups to submit reports and testify on U.S. breaches of international law, filling a gap left by the U.S. government’s failure to submit its own report.
The 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee, which reviews nations’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, began reviewing country reports Monday and will complete its session on October 24.
But for the third time since ratifying the treaty in 1992, the United States has failed to submit its five-year report to the committee on U.S. violations of the treaty.
The treaty, which entered into force in 1976 and has been signed by 155 countries, outlaws torture or degrading treatment, protects self-determination, and ensures that all people everywhere are treated within the law.
Without a U.S. report, the committee usually skips over discussions of U.S. compliance.
But anticipating an absent U.S. report, the Human Rights Committee took precautions this year.
Last August, the committee sent a letter to a number of U.S.-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the World Organization for Human Rights USA, requesting reports on U.S. transgressions of the treaty, to be used in case the U.S. itself failed to report.
Specifically, the committee’s letter requested documentation relating to, “the fight against terrorism following the events of 11 September 2001 and notably the implications of the Patriot Act on nationals as well as non-nationals; and problems relating to the legal status and treatment of persons detained in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Iraq, and other places of detention outside the USA.”
The move represents a new level of intensity by the United Nations to hold the United States accountable for what is widely seen by rights groups as an increasing disregard of human rights by the U.S. government at the highest level, and at the same time an elevation of the status of NGOs within the UN system.Source
One of the most dangerous and corrupt organizations in the world, with the blood of thousands on its hands, has the gall to ask for reports of our government that has liberated thousands! But what makes me even sicker is that the ACLU was chomping at the bit to provide them with their list of allegations.
The ACLU also submitted a 37-page report to the committee describing specific U.S. breaches of the political and civil rights covenant.
The report included sections on “Excessive Government Secrecy”; “Racial Profiling of the U.S. Arab, South Asian, and Muslim Communities”; “Criminalization of Political Protest”; “Increased Surveillance Powers”; and “Random Searches.”
Random searches are a violation of human rights? Give me a break. Other civil liberty groups joined in the chorus, but these two groups working together is quite scary to me. Are we to be held to the U.N.’s standards now, because frankly they have a few skeletons in their own closet that no one is being held accountable for. How bout those little girls in Africa that got raped, or the thousands in Iraq that starved while the U.N. rolled in filthy oil money? How about going after some of that ACLU?
In addition many of the things they are “concerned” about have already being investigated, tried, and punished through our own systems with much more transparency than any investigation into the UN messes. I wonder if that Nobel Peace Prize winner of theirs had something to do with this genius idea.
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Somebody please tell me again, why are we part of the U.N.? We did it their way in 91 and look where that got us. Forced to clean up a mess they didn’t want to back when they should have. Then we get attacked by some of the most ruthless people in the history of the planet and they want to tell us how to treat them? I’m sorry, but the U.N. can kiss my ass and get out of my country.
Oh, I’m sorry. Was that too harsh? Too freakin bad.
Maybe I’m just dumb, but how is it that the ACLU can get all worked up just b/c some of our soldiers flushed a couple Korans and made some suspected terrorists wear women’s underwear, yet, they say nothing about the beheading of our soldiers and forgein citizens?
The UN wants to tell us how to take care of terrorists after such a wonderful demonstration of their own integrity in just the past 5 years? These are the same people who want us to hand over the Internet, and think that “faced with international consensus, there is little we can do but acquiesce”. These people are becoming such a joke that it would be absolutely scary if they had any teeth.
Let me ask a question – did we agree to do this report when we joined the UN? If we did — why aren’t we doing what we’re suppose to then? Is it in protest? I’m not disagreeing with the post, I just want to know why we aren’t providing a report to prevent idiots like the Anti American League from jumping in and doing it.