Thread: UN wants Mexico Military to stop drug fight!

This is strange what I just heard on the Lou Dobbs ' Show about the UN. Louise Arbour UN High Commissioner for Human Rights wants Mexico to stop using the Mexican Military in its fight against the drug gangs. She said it is a violation of the gang members rights. Five thousand people have been killed in 2 years and this is her reaction.
We need that fence fast. Here is the transcript from tonight.
Well the United Nations is at it again. The United Nations Human Rights Commission is notorious for defending the world's most oppressive and disgusting regimes. But even by United Nations standards this next story that I am about to tell you is just pretty much unbelievable.

The United Nations now -- the United Nations now wants Mexico to stop using its military to fight vicious drug cartels on our southern border. And the reason -- the United Nations is concerned about the rights of the members of those drug gangs.

Kitty Pilgrim has our report.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Violent Mexican drug gangs are a scourge on the U.S./Mexican border. But the U.N. high commissioner of human rights is worried about protecting human rights in the area, objecting that Mexico uses its military to engage in law enforcement activities.

She goes on to worry about the legal oversight of the military, writing, "effective remedies must be available for human rights violations perpetrated by military personnel." After 5,000 deaths in the last two years, some think she has it backwards like this former U.S. diplomat.

JIM ROBERTS, HERITAGE FOUNDATION: I think it's very unfortunate that she would focus on something like that and not on the bigger picture, which is the human rights of Mexicans who are being violated every day by these well-armed extremely wealthy drug gangs who have corrupted the local police in northern Mexico to the extent that President Felipe Calderon has felt the need to use the Mexican army, at least in the short term to fight against these thugs.

WILLIAM NEWELL, ATF: Make no mistake it's a war in Mexico. It's a war between the drug cartels for power and for control of territory and it's a war between the government of Mexico and those drug cartels.

PILGRIM: It's not the first time the U.N. got it wrong. The U.N. track record on human rights has been described as so disgraceful the former commission on human rights had to be disbanded for ignoring human rights violations in Cuba, Myanmar, North Korea, and Sudan.

JOSH MURAVCHIK, AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: The U.N. has made a mockery of human rights. It's never said a word in criticism of China. It's never said a word in criticism of Saudi Arabia.

PILGRIM: The United States still refuses a seat on the so-called newly reformed Human Rights Council, saying the body has lost its credibility.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PILGRIM: A spokeswoman for Louise Arbor, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said from her office in Geneva today they had received calls questioning her position, but the commissioner, "stands by her statement on Mexico" -- Lou.

DOBBS: No one is more critical than I am of the government of Mexico on the issues of illegal immigration on border security and drug trafficking. But I have been as commending as I possible can be of Felipe Calderon in his efforts to fight the drug cartels within his own country, doing far more than Vicente Fox ever considered doing, don't even think about going back to Carlo Salinas (ph) and beyond that in Mexico.

He deserves great credit and great support. But the United Nations and Louise Arbor, they are frankly these are not only embarrassing and disgusting statements, but these are statements that are supportive of the drug cartels. And I think that she should be investigated for supporting them in her statements rather than condemning them and there is no question that that should take place immediately.

PILGRIM: You know you really have to question why she didn't stick up for the violation of the human rights of the people who are victims of the drug cartels. That would seem to be the role.

DOBBS: She is a corrupt and pitiful and apparently to some useful fool. She deserves investigation. We need to know why this is happening. And the United Nations frankly is an institution that has frankly outlived its own futility.

It is time for the United States to withdraw from it, to get rid of it. It is a nonsensical and ineffective organization and expensive one, too, expensive in that we have to carry responsibility for these kinds of embarrassments as well as the financial cost of course.

Thank you very much, Kitty Pilgrim.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... dt.01.html

I believe the CFR has big plans for the UN. They will never git rid of it. The UN should have never been built and paid for by the US. The UN will continue to say stupid things like this.

IS THE UN INVOLVED IN THE DRUG TRADE? THEY MUST BE TO SAY SOMETHING SO STUPID. THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY THIS MAKES ANY SENSE. WHAT ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE KIDS WHO END UP DEAD FROM DRUGS....NOT TO MENTION ALL THE PEOPLE THE CARTELS KILL EVERYDAY.

BUT ON SECOND THOUGHT, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT MEXICO DOES TO USA. THEY EXPECT US TO JUST LET OUR BORDERS AND TOWNS BE OVERRUN WITH LAWBREAKERS AND GANGS. IF WE WANT TO ENFORCE THE LAWS THEY SCREAM HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

The United Nations need to be abolished. It is one of the most corrupt institutions ever created. IT CERTAINLY HASN'T DONE ANYTHING GOOD FOR AMERICA.

Originally Posted by butterbean

The United Nations need to be abolished. It is one of the most corrupt institutions ever created. IT CERTAINLY HASN'T DONE ANYTHING GOOD FOR AMERICA.

You got it right there, butterbean! They haven't been effective in championing human rights violations in countries run by dictators either.

Let's legalize drugs all over the world, therefore hitting drug cartels where it hurts the most- in the pocket! Get rid of the UN, they're useless.

Somebody must be having a revenue pinch. This is a horrible statement to tell a country not to fight crime and drugs!