BREAKING NEWS: THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL CONTAINS A NATION THAT VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS

According to A.P., the United Nations' Human Rights Chief has criticized the U.S.'s treatment of detainees under the so-called "Military Commissions Act," also known as the Death To Habeus Corpus Act. Louise Arbour, the human rights chief, has called upon the U.S. (through Congress and the Courts) to:

rise to its long-standing reputation as a guardian of fundamental human rights and civil liberties and provide the protection to all that are under the authority, control, and therefore in my view jurisdiction of the United States . . .

She continued:

I am very concerned that we continue to see detention without trial and with, in my opinion, insufficient judicial supervision. I thought there had been progress in that direction. There's been a legislative setback now recently in my view, a judicial decision [by a Federal Appeals Court, leaving detainees with] no credible mechanism to ascertain the validity of these [allegations]

Yep. It's come to this. The U.N. calls out a member nation for failing to meet internationally accepted levels of humane treatment. And that nation is ours. Jeez.

Now I'm the first to admit I never gave a rat's ass about what the UN said. Not because I feared my nation ceding control to the nefarious powers of godless internationalism(!), but because I found it hard to take seriously the "human rights" arguments of an organization counting Mainland China among its permanent Security Coucil members.

I guess China has a new friend in that veto-powered body.