Claudia Rosett assays the UN diplomatic & financial balance sheet and finds little to have celebrated on Saturday, Oct. 24, declared UN Day. CR sees Brownian motion at the UN. Such motion is seemingly random, but with an underlying complex set of motion mechanics. My vote is for the UN representing an alternate quantum universe. Only then can the diplomatic surrealism there be adequately described.
Try this latest UN news item, courtesy of the Washington Times--per humorist Dave Barry, I am NOT making this up. A new UN report identifies as a terrorist threat----discrimination against...transexuals. Consider these paragraphs from the WT editorial:
The 23-page document is the ultimate politically correct guide to combating terrorism. It is based on the work of U.N. special rapporteur Martin Scheinin, who notes that "immigration controls that focus attention on male bombers who may be dressing as females to avoid scrutiny make transgender persons susceptible to increased harassment and suspicion." The impact on transvestites (cross-dressers) and "intersex" individuals (those in the midst of a sex change) is even more dramatic....
The U.N. report explicitly argues for a return to the previous failed framework, recommending that states "abandon the use of a "war paradigm" when countering terrorism because of the "adverse impacts" it has on "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex individuals."
Bottom Line. The Turtle Bay Fun House continues to reach for new frontiers of fecklessness.
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