I must admit I don’t have much time for the UN. The United Nations! Sounds grand, sounds like some league of superheroes, brought together for Marvel Comics and a movie franchise. A group of men, AND WOMEN, joined in the pursuit of world peace and harmony and happiness. Except its not like that. And its based in America which pisses off about two thirds of the members anyway. I’m not sure exactly what the UN does. Its like an over-riding world police organisation but seldom acts like one. Unless anyone complains about Israel, then its in like a shot.

The UN has made about 10 times more resolutions about Israel than about the rest of the world put together. It has done nothing about Myanmar and the current mass genocide and expulsion/departure of half a million people. It did nothing about Syria as the country crumbled amid the worst killing of civilians since the Holocaust. It makes no moves against Russia ever, whatever they do. And in the Yemen, the worst humanitarian crisis of the moment, it holds its silence as the Saudis slaughter and starve the people there.

Yet when Israel builds a wall to prevent terrorist attacks by fundamentalist Islamics (which we’re all, tragically, a little more familiar with nowadays), and which in fact reduced those attacks by over 90%, the UN boldly steps in with proclamations, resolutions, toothless demands and calls for all sorts of impotent bollocks.

To sum up the uselessness, the stupidity, the sheer comedic value of the UN: Saudi Arabia have a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. And has been elected to the Commission on the status of Women. They don’t allow women to drive in Saudi. Nor leave their homes without permission from a man. Yet the nation ‘represents women’ in the UN. And as they sit on the Human Rights Council, a blogger has been condemned in that fine nation to receive 1000 lashes over his 5 year prison sentence. For, basically, ‘dissin’ the Prophet in a blog. Ok, they can impose their laws as they see fit, ‘its a free country’, phah! And the blogger knew he was acting against the law. And that those laws are not as we know laws to be. But instead repressive, restrictive and totalitarian in nature. But to give a seat on the Human Rights council to a nation which stones to death rape victims on the grounds of adultery?

In all this the UN is tacitly condoning Saudi terror and endorsing it with an international validity.

So that’s why: I fucking hate the United Nations.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx