YOUR UN TAX DOLLARS AT WORK – AT 11:35 P.M. ET:  We are the largest single contributor to the United Nations.  Sometimes that makes me feel that we are the largest single contributor to the world's biggest house of ill repute.  What goes on in the UN is just sickening.  Consider this:

The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders -- but apparently not enough to stop Syria from becoming the newest member of the U.N. Human Rights Council.

And despite calling for an independent investigation into the crackdown, which has left hundreds dead, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apparently won’t do much about blocking Syria’s path to the human rights group.

"That's not really for the secretary general to suggest to a member state," said Martin Nesirky, a spokesman for the secretary-general, when asked if the U.N. chief would ask Syria to drop out of the running for the post. When asked if Ban had brought up the point during his telephone conversation April 9 with Assad, Nesirsky told Fox News, "that's not really something the secretary general would raise specifically, because it's for other member states to decide on the membership of the Human Rights Council."

Ammar Abdulhamid, a Syrian human rights activist based in Washington, called on the secretary-general "to have a greater sense of decency and courage, and to realize that his position gives him a certain moral authority and puts him exactly in the position to tell the Assads that their candidacy at this stage is unwelcome."

COMMENT:  Decency and courage are not exactly signature characteristics at the UN.  There are some UN agencies that do good work, but the organization, overall, is hopelessly corrupt and dishonest.  Time for a new guy on the block, like the League of Democracies that some conservatives have proposed.

April 26, 2011