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August 29, 2008
Chairs don't abuse people
While his heart seems to be in the right place, David Matas should already know better having written on the UN Human Rights Commission as an abuser's caucus and a blind from which to attack Israel. More worryingly, Matas appears not to understand there are laws against incitement to violence independent of the drumhead courts he persists in defending.
David Matas argues that chairs don't abuse people. But, David, people abuse people... with chairs.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 29, 2008 08:47 AM
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I differ from many in the conservative camp by believing that HRCs as a device are not irredeemable. The failure lies in separating them from actual judicial norms and tests. If they had to have judges with legal training, observe chain-of-evidence handling norms, and fall in line with a few hundred years of common law precedent, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Likewise with the UN. The failure is in allowing non-democratic states any sort of vote or veto power. It ought to be a democrats club, exclusively. Instead it is the perfect forum for n00b totalitarians to grief veteran democrats. Not because they have any coherent agenda of their own, but just to stick something between the spokes of the others' wheels.
They need MMO game developers to sit in on diplomatic sessions creating new institutional bodies. Somebody who can slap the Wilsonians when they get silly and say "Your airy-fairy ideas of human nature are demented. Let me tell you how actual human beings are going to game the shinola out your system so as to render your procedures worthless."
Federal bureaucrats both present and former who shall remain nameless due to my limited legal defense fund. - Ed. (with apologies) and his ilk are griefers. Grief him enough in return and he'll quit. And change the game mechanics enough to make griefing unattractive and unprofitable.
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