The UN's claim to moral authority.(Insider Report)

Back in 2001, the United States was voted off the UN's Human Rights Commission for the first time since its inception in 1947. When that happened, a variety of reasons were given as to why such a vote occurred: the U.S. opposed the Kyoto treaty on climate change (a treaty based on highly flawed and disputed "science" that would have seriously damaged the American economy); the U.S. insisted upon creating a missile defense system (strictly defensive, it did not have offensive capabilities); the U.S. had the death penalty (we executed convicted murderers); the U.S. imposed trade sanctions on Iraq after the Gulf War (these sanctions, ironically, were the outgrowth of a UN-led effort).

The countries voting against the U.S. deemed these actions to be human rights violations. Supposedly, because the countries were morally indignant about our "violations," they censured the U.S. In reality, the censure of the U.S. was a petty political maneuver, reflecting the UN's anti-U.S. agenda.

A recent action at the UN again exemplifies the ...