Posted on 10/14/2013 1:44:03 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 14, 2013
Nigel Rodley, a British expert who chairs the UN Human Rights Committee, lambasted the Republicans for allegedly ripping up their own history as they keep up their battle against President Barack Obama's signature health care law which aims to bridge the insurance gap for Americans.
"The political party of Abraham Lincoln that, in fire and blood ended slavery and gave freedom to millions of people of African descent, seemed now to have party members who thought that wealth did not just rhyme with health, but should also determine access to it," Rodley told the UN committee.
"To achieve its aim it had brought the government of the United States to a standstill and to the brink of defaulting on its national debt," he added.
Rodley lamented that his committee has had to postpone to March 2014 a review of the United States, which had been scheduled this month.
"It was clear that the delegation from the United States was not unwilling to come, but was seriously unable to do so, for reasons that had been widely covered in the media," he said.
Like all UN member countries, the United States is meant to submit to periodic reviews of its rights record.
Meetings with delegations from Bolivia, Uruguay, Djibouti, Mauritania and Mozambique to assess their countries' records will go ahead as scheduled during the committee's current session.
- AFP/ac
There is not a single member of the UN staff that is not ready, willing and demanding of the right to spend other people’s money while telling the same how to do it better. The one thing that the entire UN desperately wants is a tax scheme that enables them to not depend upon those ugly producers for their annual, UNAUDITED spending!
FU blue whores!
I am thinking that Benghazi, Libya would be the perfect place to relocate the league of nations... uhh sorry... the united nations.
We ain’t so small and we ain’t so ragtag.
LLS
Seems to me they’re just lickin’ their chops to hold authority over our representitives. IMF and all the UN agencies will demand they be given “oversight” over US budgeting proposals from OUR Congress. To protect “Human Rights” and all that crap.
That’s why they luv them some carbon taxes and want to tax the interwebs,too.
I was referring to those true conservatives in government. There are few and are beaten weary every day.
One more hate-filled miscreant from a Third World hellhole - the UK.
Oh these cretans would love to get thier hands in our sh##. Im for pushing the UN into the east river when its full of these criminals
I misunderstood... sorry. Cruz and Lee looked positively on top of their game Sunday. I think Sarah recharged them!
"The political party of Abraham Lincoln that, in fire and blood ended slavery and gave freedom to millions of people of African descent, seemed now to have party members who thought that wealth did not just rhyme with health, but should also determine access to it," Rodley told the UN committee... Meetings with delegations from Bolivia, Uruguay, Djibouti, Mauritania and Mozambique to assess their countries' records will go ahead as scheduled during the committee's current session.Of course, Djibouti will pass with flying colors.
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