Excuse me while I choke on the United Nations' call for the U.S. to close the facility at Guantanamo Bay.
GENEVA, May 19 -- A United Nations panel on torture called on the United States today to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and expressed concern over reports of secret detention centers and of a practice of sending terror suspects to countries with poor human rights records.
...In the report release in Geneva, the panel, the Committee on Torture, said that the United States should clearly ban interrogation techniques like "water boarding," in which an inmate is held under water to create the fear of drowning; sexual humiliation, and the use of dogs to induce fear. It said that detainees had died during interrogation involving improper techniques.
The panel said it was "concerned" that prisoners were held for indefinite periods without sufficient legal safeguards in the Guantánamo Bay detention center,
The United States "should cease to detain any person at Guantánamo Bay and close this detention facility, permit access by the detainees to the judicial process or release them as soon as possible," the report said.
...The United Nations panel reached no conclusion on the most explosive issue it considered, the charge that terror suspects had been held in a network of secret prisons in Eastern Europe that were not open to inspection by the International Red Cross.
The report criticized the refusal of American officials to comment on the charge, and said that the United States "should ensure that no one is detained in any secret detention facility under its de facto effective control."
The panel is composed of 10 special investigators, or rapporteurs, who make periodic reports on compliance with the international treaty banning terrorism, which the United States has signed.
...The panel also criticized practices in regular prisons in the United States, including the sexual abuse of inmates and the failure to separate all youthful offenders from adults.
Text of the report
First, Gitmo.
President Bush has said he'd like to shut down the prison.
My opinion is if we need the facility open, then we should keep it open and not bow to the pressure of so-called human rights groups that express their concern on a highly selective and political basis.
Second, the state of the United Nations.
What bugs me is that the UN, the steeped in corruption UN, is jumping all over the U.S. for its supposed human rights abuses.
The disgraceful UN has been responsible for untold human misery.
Read a little about some of the UN's recent abuses.
UN Peacekeepers Gun Down Congo Civilians
UN Sexual Predators
Oil-for-Food
Food-for-Sex
The instances above barely scratch the surface of the deep-seated scandals of the United Nations under the shameless Kofi Annan. And let's not forget Annan's son, Kojo. The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the infested tree.
All of this receives little media attention.
Do The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN dwell on the UN's corruption?
Of course not.
Are they drooling over the report that trashes the United States?
Absolutely.
The Old Media's bias makes me sick. They are politically-driven, propaganda peddlers.
The UN is in no position to be citing the U.S. for the "sexual abuse of inmates and the failure to separate all youthful offenders from adults" when it is a hotbed for institutionalized graft and human rights violations.
ITS PEACEKEEPERS RAPE EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRLS!
I can't tell you how much the UN's hypocrisy gets to me.
I've said it before. The UN is beyond redemption.
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