Cheer Up, Israel. You’ve Got Company: Colombia

I got into a shouting match with a union thug today over Colombia. He ran a big famous labor union and screamed ‘murder’ to me as reason enough not to support the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, spouting one lie after another about Colombia’s human rights record. I didn’t want to be fed a load, so I called him out on every one of his lies and it got heated in public.
Turns out he and his pals have been doing a whole lot more than just screaming bloody murder. They’ve got pals in the so-called human rights organizations, who’ve in turn got pals in the United Nations and they’ve all decided that Israel shall not be the only object of UN revilement. Colombia will join them.
The UN is now demonizing Colombia alongside Israel as a nation whose human rights record must meet UN scrutiny and condemnation.
While Zimbabwe dies of cholera.
While Venezuela slides into a dictatorship.
While Darfur runs from genocide.
While Russia turn into a hell with no future.
While Burma goes ignored by the outside as monks are beaten and killed and aid is denied
While business as usual goes on in red China.
While Cuba continues to abuse truth tellers like Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and harass Yoani Sanchez. While Cuba artificially impoverishes 9 million people to keep them servile and controlled. While Cuba continues to imprison 1000 people, many up on no charges at all except ‘dangerousness.’ While Cuba gets away with destroying libraries and mob-lynching dissidents. While Cuba refuses to allow anyone at all to leave the vortex legally.
Never mind that: Israel and Colombia are the real problem you see.
The reality is, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and the only place where its Israeli citizen Arabs have zero desire to get involved with Islamofascist groups. It’s a standing beacon to the Arab satrapies around its borders and beyond, that democracy brings human rights and freedom brings success.
In Colombia, it is the same story. No bigger hellhole existed on the South American continent than Colombia once did ten years ago. It was ruled by drug lords, who controlled the Congress. Its capital literally was encircled by FARC barbarians at the gate, no longer even acting as guerrillas, hiding and running – they were in full frontal confrontation with the military and about to take the capital. Their rein of murder and mayhem, blowing up whole villages and skyscrapers, was the antithesis of human rights. In 2002, President Uribe was elected, and he changed everything. Murder rates tumbled 40%, kidnap rates plunged 87%. The country at long last knew what peace and human rights were.
That’s some moral authority the UN is cultivating with this farce, targeting Colombia and Israel on human rights. But there’s a logic to it … Cuba just happens to be a member of the Human Rights Council, making this decision to smear Colombia with the Big Lie as a human rights violator something it needs to do.
Here’s what’s really going on: Both Colombia and Israel are detested by the world’s real human rights violators because they fight terrorists, ally with the U.S. and give real human rights to their people. Cuban can’t countenance that. Where is the US’ UN ambassador standing up to this bogus lynching on democracies? The U.S. should take this for the assault on its allies it is and respond in a way that fills these maggots with fear.