U.N. To Investigate U.S. Human Rights Abuses

Just when you thought that the poor and downtrodden had been abandoned in America, I am happy to inform you that the United Nations Human Rights Council has graciously agreed to investigate the plethora of abuses of human dignity which are being being perpetrated on a daily basis nationwide. Ongoing rape, pillage, genocide, religious wars and the like will be addressed in due course. But since those are occurring elsewhere in the world, this investigation will be about housing.

The Council has appointed a Special Rapporteur to convict America of maltreating its poorest citizens by failing to provide adequate housing. I avoided using the word "investigate" since the result is a foregone conclusion. The Human Rights Council is the successor to the UN Commission on Human Rights (aka the Destroy Israel and Cripple America Commission). I'm not entirely sure, but I think that a Special Rapporteur is what the Spanish used to call a Grand Inquisitor.

Here is the charge given to the Rapporteur: "To investigate human rights violations by the United States because of a perception that there isn't enough affordable public housing in urban areas." So we're not only going to be investigated because we're not providing grand enough digs for the poor and unskilled who choose to live in ridiculously expensive urban centers, but we're going to be convicted on a "perception."

And whom did they choose to pursue this persecution? None other than Raquel Rolnik, who is a Brazilian urban planner. I assume that she has never seen the slums of Rio or Sao Paolo in her own nation, or we'd be cleared of any wrongdoing in the first five minutes. The issues of concern to the Council are public housing, homelessness and foreclosures. She will visit New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Washington DC, a South Dakota Indian reservation, and Wiles-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Now you may be wondering how an economic issue such as this has become worthy of a UN investigation. You must remember that the UN is even farther left than Obama's administration, and indulges in "moral equivalencies" at quantum speeds faster than the Carter administration. The United Nations is comprised largely of nations where the populaces live in caves, tents, and corrugated tin shacks, but it nevertheless considers housing to be a "human right." Thus it is perfect fodder for the Human Rights Council. Never mind that in nations where the UN has been sent to help, a large portion of the population has ended up residing in graves.

Here are a few pre-investigation comments made by Rolnik before leaving for the vast wastelands of urban America. "I am going to hear the voices of those who are suffering on the ground." "I am representing the right of adequate housing as a human right (that redundancy wasn't lost on me)." "Affordable housing in the United States is not that affordable." Livable housing in the Rio slums is nearly non-existent at any price. "I see this mission as an opportunity to open a dialogue, to open a movement, towards the achievement and implementation of the right to adequate housing." "We know very well that changes will come only if people organize." She and Obama must share policy speechwriters.

You know full well that the report will ultimately be somewhere between terrible and totally damning. She has already drawn her conclusions, all that is left is to determine the seriousness of the great American crime.

And now, for the frosting on the cake. A special rapporteur can only enter a sovereign nation to investigate abuses if invited to do so by the highest authority. Anybody want to guess who that somebody is? I'll give you a hint--he recently acted as chairman of the UN Security Council after being praised by housing experts Moammar Qaddafi, Hugo Chavez and various other tinpot dictators. He currently resides in a fine white mansion in Washington, DC.