So We Have Called it Human Rights

As we watch and hear of the tyrant, funny how that word is so much more visible in the last week or so than it has been in the dispatches prior to the uprising. Threatening, or having his own ordered, raids from jet air crafts against his own citizens. Helicopter gunship being used for crowd control. It’s obvious to see rivers of blood from Gaddafi. And has been for years.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is not just any old UN human rights quango, the British term for those perpetual motion of bureaucratic machines, it’s so obvious to see how tyrants of the likes of Libya’s government have polluted the UN like flies on four day old fish left in the sun. This is, make no mistake here, the UN's top Human Rights organization. This is the one with influence. Yes this one had prestige.

Why the tyrant's chamber of Libya was ever, ever on a UN Human Rights council is the real question. A question that speaks to the moral ambiguity, even moral blindness, of the United Nations. Imagine Human Rights Council with such members as of the likes of Libya, a prison presided over by a decaying dictator, with Cuba, another prison presided over by another decaying dictator, and then pair these two with the grand example of China the last great communist tyranny.

One reason why tyrants have so long a lease in our brave new world is that temporizing, accommodating, trimming organizations like the UN give them, over the years, the bureaucratic have allowed them to present themselves as somewhat normal. These moral hellholes are seen or read to be in public concert with the better nations of the world yet over time it erases in the eyes of the world the great gulf that should separate evil or cruel states from the better, civilized ones. They earn a careless, lazy pass and then comes the time of crisis as we have seen over this past week and we understand what we always knew as horror.

And so it went with Libya, a kind of diplomatic glaze via the goodwill of the United Nations. It’s crazed if you ask me. Libya was on this committee or shall we say “that committee”, the UN Human Rights Council. It’s pathetic now to be hearing the debates from certain human rights advocates trying to "alert" the world community to the depth of Gaddafi's corruption, and the extinction of human rights under his regime.

How is either surprise or shock possible, except from the willful blindness of years past? And the plastic hypocritical games that kept the real truth subdued and out of sight at the world's greatest forum called the United Nations.

So often we still react rather than taking the necessary action that is obvious. So often we wait and we don't act and the resolve comes far after what is know is never acted upon. We count on our leaders not to be reactionary.

Thank god we live within free nations - yet I would hope that those that are within places of leadership would lead, and not waiver on human rights as we have with this one.

As crazed as the man is I am sure he would even think he could win an Oscar for that matter.