OUTRAGEOUS AND UNACCEPTABLE – AT 9:13 A.M. ET:  What are the Obamans thinking, if anything?  From AFP:

The United States will come under the spotlight at the UN's top human rights assembly's for the first time over the coming week along with other countries that face scrutiny by the Human Rights Council.
The 12-day session of the 47 member council starting on Monday will include regular "universal periodic reviews" of 16 members of the United Nations, including the United States on November 5.

Several dozen non governmental organisation are expected to lobby the debate on the US human rights record, while Washington will also defend its record.

This is sickening.  The Human Rights Council is one of the most corrupt bodies in the UN, and is run by some of the world's worst dictators. 

Some 300 US civil liberties and community groups in the US Human Rights Network on Monday called on the Obama administration to bring "substandard human rights practices" in the United States into line with international standards.

These are the usual suspects, the old red groups and their allies.  They will stop at nothing to embarrass the United States. 

The United States only agreed to join the Council in May 2009, after the Bush administration had shunned the body which replaced its similar though discredited predecessor, the UN human rights commission, in 2006.

Bush was right, Obama was wrong.  We're used to that already, aren't we?  The Human Rights Council is at least as discredited as its predecessor. 

The Network produced a 400-page report criticising "glaring inadequacies in the United States? human rights record," including the "discriminatory impact" of foreclosures, "widespread" racial profiling and "draconian" immigration policies.

Huh?  Draconian immigration policies?  Like what?  We've allowed millions of illegal immigrants to flood across our border and receive benefits and jobs.  Boy, how draconian is that? 

This is the usual "everything is racist" crowd. 

I hope a new Republican administration in 2013 will pull us out of this evil body and restore our self-respect.

November 1, 2010