More sheer brilliance from the Useless Nations

It would seem a good idea, a noble venture if the U.N. decided to fight hunger across the globe. It is certainly a terrible problem, plaguing too many in too many nations. I think we can all agree there right? OK, so the U.N. gets a hunger expert, and sends this expert to, CANADA?

“There is no food and no clean water, nothing,” Mahmoud, a 12-year-old boy from Homs, Syria, told Reuters Thursday. “There is no shop open and we only have one meal a day. How can we live like that and survive?”

According to the World Food Program, half a million people don’t have enough to eat in Syria. Fears are growing that the regime is using hunger as a weapon.

This is the kind of emergency which should attract the attention of the UN Human Rights Council’s hunger monitor, who has the ability to spotlight situations and place them on the world agenda. Yet Olivier de Schutter of Belgium, the “Special Rapporteur on the right to food,” is not going to Syria.

Instead, the UN’s food monitor is coming to investigate Canada.

That’s right. Despite dire food emergencies around the globe, De Schutter will be devoting the scarce time and resources of the international community on an 11-day tour of Canada—a country that ranks at the bottom of global hunger concerns.

A key co-ordinator and promoter of De Schutter’s mission is Food Secure Canada, a lobby group whose website accuses the Harper government of “failing Canadians…and [failing to] fulfill the right to food for all.” The group calls instead for a “People’s Food Policy.”

A “right to food”? A People’s Food Policy”? You see there is the problem right there. The buffoons at the U.N. are exploiting a real problem, to push, not for actual solutions to said problem, but to push Marxism onto  a free nation. Isn’t this always the case with Leftists and their “good intentions”? It certainly seems so to me.

I asked De Schutter if his time wouldn’t better be spent on calling attention to countries that actually have starving people.

“Globally, 1.3 billion people are overweight or obese,” he responded via his spokesperson, “and this causes a range of diseases such as certain types of cancers, cardio-vascular diseases or (especially) type-2 diabetes that are a huge burden.”

In other words, the hunger expert is not even that interested in hunger, but the opposite. Sure, we should all eat less fries, but do Canadians need a costly UN inquiry to tell us that?

Again, rather than working to elevate starving nations to a better state, the U.N. prefers to try to tear down successful nations. Odd isn’t it? The Left speaks of equality, and fairness. But it always seeks to tear down those people or nations that are doing well. What they seek, it would seem, is not a utopian equality, but rather an equality of misery.

Now, you might call me “extreme” for holding such a view. After all, how could I ever accuse the U.N. of being part of some Marxist plot to attack the West? This is how

First, consider the origins of the UN’s “right to food” mandate. In voluminous background information provided by De Schutter and his local promoters, there’s no mention that their sponsor was Cuba, a country where some women resort to prostitution for food. De Schutter does not want you to know that Havana’s Communist government created his post, nor that the co-sponsors included China, North Korea, Iran and Zimbabwe.

These and other repressive regimes are seeking a political weapon to attack the West. That is why the first person they chose to fill the post, when it started in 2000, was Jean Ziegler. The former Swiss Socialist politician was a man they could trust: In 1989, he announced to the world the creation of the Muammar Gaddafi Human Rights Prize.

The award spread propaganda for its namesake, and elevated his ideological allies. Recipients include Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. In 2002, the prize went to convicted French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy — and to Jean Ziegler himself.

From 2000 to 2008, Ziegler’s UN reports and probes turned a blind eye to the world’s hungry. Instead he attacked America, the West, capitalism and Israel. The human rights council applauded him, and repeatedly renewed his mandate. Only because of term limits did they replace him in 2008 with De Schutter, who praises and emulates his predecessor.

De Schutter’s consistent argument is that if there is hunger, Western countries are to blame. His attacks on international trade are so ideologically extreme that even Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organization and a member of the French Socialist party, criticized De Schutter’s approach for threatening to drive food prices higher and “exacerbating the negative impacts on poor consumers.”

This is a great piece, please go read it all. It lays out the ugly truth about Marxism. Marxists always attack the successful. They say it is to help the poor, the down trodden, the weak, but if they truly wanted to help those people, they would help their nations emulate the West. Instead, they seek to destroy those nations that actually have respect for human rights. Again, the reality is that Marxism is evil, and all the bastard “Ism” children of Marxism, Communism, Stalinism, ,Lenninism, Maoiusm, Socialism, are evil as well. They are the enemies of mankind, never forget that!