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    US Election 2016: Top UN official condemns Trump

    US Election 2016: Top UN official condemns Trump

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    The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the policies of US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, equating them to bigotry.

    Zeid Raad al-Hussein did not mention Mr Trump by name, but he singled out the businessman's support of torture and his policies towards Muslims.

    "Bigotry is not proof of strong leadership," Mr Hussein said.

    The commissioner also criticised a plan by rival candidate Ted Cruz to conduct surveillance on Muslim neighbourhoods.

    "Hate speech, incitement and marginalisation of the 'other' are not a tittering form of entertainment, or a respectable vehicle for political profit," Mr Hussein told an audience in Cleveland, Ohio.

    He added: "A front-running candidate to be president of this country declared, just a few months ago, his enthusiastic support for torture (...) inflicting intolerable pain on people, in order to force them to deliver or invent information that they may not have."

    During the campaign, Mr Trump has said that "torture works" and promised to bring back "a lot worse than waterboarding".

    Waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques previously used by US forces on terror suspects have been banned by the Obama administration.

    Mr Trump's controversial statements have been criticised by world leaders including UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Pope Francis.

    Mr Cameron called Mr Trump's plan to ban Muslims from travelling to the US "divisive, stupid and wrong".

    Both Pena Neito and the Pope have taken issue with Mr Trump's call for a border wall between the US and Mexico.

    Correspondents say Mr Hussein's tough talk is unlikely to sway Mr Trump. The New York billionaire has been a harsh critic of the UN on the campaign trail.

    "The United Nations is not a friend of democracy," Mr Trump told Israeli activists in March. "It's not a friend even to the United States of America, where as all know, it has its home. And it surely isn't a friend to Israel."

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Zeid_bin_Ra'ad

    Well, no offense Prince, but we're not a nation of Royalty. We're a nation of citizens. We're a nation of 94 million unemployed working age adults. We're a nation of $21 trillion in national debt taking care of countries that can afford to take care of themselves, supporting foreign nationals by the tens of millions because they apparently couldn't find their way in their own country among their own people.

    So please excuse me, and perhap 250 million other pissed off Americans if we poitely convey, "We don't give a damn what you think about one of our front-runner candidates for President of the United States. If you condemn him, then you condemn US. So we don't like your tone and hate-filled rhetoric."
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    I think the US TAXPAYERS condemn the entire UN...time to shut them down and get them out of our pockets. A bunch of corrupt people that have picked our pockets long enough with ZERO results. A monumental waste of billions and billions of dollars and no Comprehensive Plan for Reform to the corrupt countries OUR money flows to. No refugees, no asylum, no illegal migrants from anywhere. USA is 22 trillion in debt, 30 million undocumented illegal aliens to deport. The UN can go borrow it from the rich Middle East...go borrow it from China...set up a printing press...don't care anymore so buzz off! You have used and abused our people, our country for too long and the party is OVER!

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    Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the policies of US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, equating them to bigotry.
    Human rights and respect for other forms of religion are sadly lacking in zeid's country, religion, principles - especially the rights of women. It is almost comical to put he and his job title together and he probably is paid a lot of money to live his everyday as a hypocrite.

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