As the Media Research Center calls on Congress to launch an investigation into Comcast/NBC News’ journalistic fraud over its reporting in the Trayvon Martin case — 911 call audio was edited to suggest a racial element that the unaltered audio did not, eg., — the UN has decided it is appropriate to weigh in as well, only it has evidently given itself leave to speak as if the facts aren’t what they are, and so further politicize what is not, and never has been, a political issue, save for attempts by the media and the usual race pimps to turn it into one:
A Florida advocacy group spearheading protests over the racially-charged Trayvon Martin shooting has welcomed the intervention of the United Nations’ human rights chief, who has called for the shooter to be put on trial and “reparations for the victims concerned.”
“We believe that the United Nations involvement can help prevent another Trayvon Martin situation in other counties across the world,” J. Willie David, president of the Florida Civil Rights Association, said in a statement provided to CNSNews.com on Monday.
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay commented on the Martin shooting during a visit to Barbados on Thursday.
The unarmed 17-year-old was shot dead in Sanford, Florida, on February 26 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who says he acted in self-defense after being attacked by the black teenager. Florida’s “stand-your-ground” law provides immunity from prosecution for “justifiable use of force” in cases where a person reasonably believes there to be a threat of imminent death or serious bodily harm.
The incident triggered a massive outcry, and prompted investigations by the Sanford Police Department, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement – at the behest of Gov. Rick Scott – as well as the Department of Justice. A special prosecutor appointed by Scott on March 22, Angela Corey, said on Monday her investigation was continuing, although she ruled out using a grand jury.
Although local, state and federal inquiries have been underway for weeks, Pillay called for “an immediate investigation” into the shooting.
“Justice must be done for the victim,” she told a media briefing in Hastings, on the southern end of the Caribbean island. “It’s not just this individual case, it calls into question the delivery of justice in all situations like this.”
“In this particular case it was the family itself, their distress that became known to the general public – once again people pressure that has drawn attention to this case. It shouldn’t be so,” Pillay continued. “The law should operate equally in respect of all violations. So, like every other situation such as this, we will be urging an investigation, and prosecution and trial – and of course reparation for the victims concerned.”
— I’d like to pause here to note that the High Commissioner for Human Rights put the prosecution ahead of the trial, but really, why bother any more? What real recourse do we have to beat back the idea that the truth belongs to those who control the narrative — to that interpretive community that uses its power to insist upon a manufactured consent — especially when we’ve routinely surrendered the only reals linguistic means for illustrating how these narratives form, why they are especially pernicious, and to what hermeneutic sophistry they owe their power?
Answer: none.
These kinds of public show trials are the future in an social setting that’s come unmoored. Anti-foundationalism — coupled with a manufactured consent driven by an ideologically interested media — will fill the vacuum left behind by the jettisoning of Enlightenment ideals about individual autonomy, and the replacement of the locus of meaning from the individual willing his intent into being, to the collective determined to claim ownership over that meaning.
And unlike previous countries that have lapsed into tyranny, we even had a blue print for how to prevent it. Which makes us perhaps the saddest of all serfs.
And, racists.
Indiscriminate stupidity is a simple function of socialism over time, and hence is precisely what we should expect to fill the voids in rationality created by the dismantling of limited government (best in part because it limits ordinary stupidity abroad in every walk of life, no less than in government itself). We now have such stupidity in spades embodied in ObamaCare, as well as in the acts and failure to act at the DoJ, the absurd “stimulus” spending, the choking of energy production coupled with the vast waste of capital poured down uneconomic drains across the country. Tyranny, which can often appear to be clever in its establishment, is always stupid at the root.
A denizen of a third world shithole where Muslims openly war with Hindus and visa versa and has a class of citizens so low as to be called “untouchables” really should keep her cakehole shut about racism in the USA.
That would be the High Commisioner for the Commission that’s stacked with representatives of oppressive regimes like Libya and Sudan, (the only two that come immediately to mind) right?
How are they coming on making sure Ayaan Hirsi Ali can walk down the street without fear of ending up like (those Dutch guys whose names I can’t think of, but you know who I’t talking about)?
I’d like to pause here to note that the High Commissioner for Human Rights put the prosecution ahead of the trial
Come on now, be serious. A trial might upset the verdict.
Well, it’s certainly much more important that the howling mob be placated, at the price of some * injustice to the individual. All reasonable people can agree upon that – it’s democratic!
And who doesn’t like democracy?
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* Well, okay, rather a lot in fact.
Oh my lord.
I wonder if the Practical Republicans are watching this, because the Left is, and will be tailoring the lessons learned for use this fall.
I notice she made her statement while visiting the town of Hastings in Barbados on her 3 day visit to the country.
Sounds like the kind of hellhole of “Human Rights Abuse” that must be looked into. We should send a delegation of Congressional Democrats to inspect it in person for a future trip by FLOTUS and entourage.
No Justice. No Peace.
We don’t want EITHER of them nasty things, capiche?
That. From which any Religion of State, to return to JG’s piece, is a quite literal madness, a state Nietzsche found rare in the individual but common in the collective sense.
But of course we humans know all this. Right up until it’s time to learn it all over again.
We now have such stupidity in spades embodied in ObamaCare
I can hear it! I can hear the dog whistle!
UN bureaucrats can’t abide private gun ownership. Never could, never will.
What real recourse do we have to beat back the idea that the truth belongs to those who control the narrative…?
Very soon, you’ll be able to put one hand on the hilt of your rapier, and politely ask, “Are you calling me a liar, sir?”
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The cool thing will be when we apply the rules they’re pushing in this case to other cases.
Yep, folks getting killed by the hundreds if not thousands in Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, etc. and the UN wants to investigate a single media sensationalized shooting in Florida. Makes sense to me. I think the poles are about to shift and its causing the earth to spin faster and some peoples brains are leaking out of their orifices….
I’m still waiting for someone to point out to the U.N. that they have no authority here, that they tell us nothing, and to fuck off.
Oh and that funding you receive from us? Squeeze a stone, baby.
For a long time I’ve looked at the UN as if they were rebellious teenagers taking cracks at their parents, the U.S.
I think it’s time we eliminated their allowance and told them to get jobs.
yeah, yeah. Another county heard from. Go back to Oyster Bay and shut the hell up. AND PAY YOUR DAMN PARKING FINES!
” Very soon, you’ll be able to put one hand on the hilt of your rapier, and politely ask, “Are you calling me a liar, sir?”
Nope. But my Taurus .357 with 8 shots is. He’s s real fucking prick that guy, but what can you do? EH sir?