The United Nations weighs in on Zimmerman

[CatWoman]

George Zimmerman’s Very Bad Week – Speeding Ticket, Divorce And Now The U.N.?

“We call upon the US Government to examine its laws that could have discriminatory impact on African Americans, and to ensure that such laws are in full compliance with the country’s international legal obligations and relevant standards,” said human rights expert Verene Shepherd, who currently heads the UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent.

“The Trayvon Martin case has highlighted the importance of the need to review those existing laws and policies that can have a discriminatory effect on the basis of race, as African Americans become more vulnerable to such discrimination,” Ms. Shepherd said, recalling that the US has been party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights since 1992, the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination since 1994, and many other international human rights law treaties.

“States are required to take effective measures to review governmental, national and local policies, and to amend, rescind or nullify any laws and regulations which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever it exists,” said the Special Rapporteur on racism, Mutuma Ruteere.

Source: UN News

http://samuel-warde.com/2013/09/george-zimmermans-bad-week-speeding-ticket-divorce-now-u-n/

[Robb]

1. Well, of COURSE the UN.

They intend to take our guns and enslave us all. It's microchipped into Obama's birthmark.

[awoke_in_2003]

46. His birthmark is the sign of the beast...

[alp227]

50. And and and...BLACK HELICOPTERS!

Uhh...LOSS OF SOVEREIGNTY! DERP

[gopiscrap]

2. Good for the UN

you can bet you'll here a bunch of redneck crackers calling the US to get out of the UN

[Fridays Child]

6. Wait. Did I miss something?

Did the redneck crackers stop calling for the U.S. to get iut of the UN?

[Tigress DEM]

30. Spit-take!

[Enthusiast]

36. Pfft!

[Stargazer09]

56. !

Good one!

[calimary]

63. Yeah, no kidding.

WHEN did they ever stop calling for the U.S. to get out of the U.N.?

[Hoyt]

3. Shame it takes the UN to point out the NRA types here are a problem.

[gopiscrap]

7. those fucking gun nuts won't listen to anyone!

[CoffeeCat]

23. Did you hear blind people in Iowa can carry guns in public??

You're right--the gun nuts won't give up anything.

In my state of Iowa, there is a new law that allows blind people to carry guns in public.

Here's a link so you won't think that I've been snorting drain cleaner.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/10/221131211/in-iowa-blind-people-can-carry-guns-in-public-not-everyones-a-fan

[gopiscrap]

24. Yeah that makes me feel really safe.

[Thor_MN]

45. People who snort drain cleaner would probably have the sense not to pemit blind people to carry...

You have to pass a vision test every time you renew your driver's license, but a gun? Here's you go, just point it where your think the danger might be.

[Fla Dem]

51. Seeing impaired people in Iowa should now sue for the right to drive. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

47. Most of the rest of the world knows...

WE have a serious gun problem.

[Hoyt]

48. I agree. Yet, we sit on our rears and won't address it for fear of bunch of right wing gun lovers.

[awoke_in_2003]

49. I agree, as long as you mean the collective "we". nt

[cui bono]

4. Good. Hopefully some good will come of it.

[billh58]

5. The NRA and its apologists

will say that this is the very reason the Founders wrote the Second Amendment: to keep these meddlesome furineers out'n our bidness.

Next thing you know, they'll be asking us to be responsible for the guns that make the United States the most dangerous gun nation in the Western World. It's our right to be number one I tell ya! Because Second Amendment, and Freedom, and My Rights!

[bvar22]

8. I STILL belive there is enough here to make a Federal Case...

..of Zimmermen depriving Travon of his Civil Rights to walk in America while black.

Attorney General Holder?
Please pick up on Line 1.

[Tigress DEM]

31. Yep

[Monster_Mash]

38. Based on what?

[CatWoman]

42. you first

[Monster_Mash]

44. Me first what?

We didn't see any racial evidence at the trial...

I just don't see what would be used to make the case... Short of the cost of Zimmerman defending himself I don't think anything would come of it.

[Skittles]

52. LOLOL

you folk are so entertaining

[Skittles]

60. ADULT DIALOGUE WITH ZIMMERMAN DEFENDERS

OMG you guys

[Skittles]

64. you defend a paranoid, racist gun humping KILLER

what does that say about YOU?

[Cha]

9. Thank you UN! thanks Cat~

[indepat]

19. What a shame that an international body sees fit to point out that in parts of the U.S.,

an unarmed child can be gunned down and killed by an adult packing heat and it is virtually impossible to convict the killer of a crime under existing state law. Sadly, this concept and verdict seem hunky-dory with tens of millions of god-fearing 'Merikans.

[CatWoman]

25. Hi Cha

[Starry Messenger]

10. k&r

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Why don't we sign the Land Mine Treaty and the Small Arms Treaty so we can break them too?

[niyad]

16. and CEDAW-

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. We can't even get the ERA....

Mainly because most people think it already passed.

[Uncle Joe]

12. Well between this and the medical examiner's suit, there should be some movement

by the federal government.

Thanks for the thread, CatWoman.

[CatWoman]

26. no prob, Unc

[Uncle Joe]

27. I hope you're doing well.

Peace to you, CatWoman.

[heaven05]

13. this is excellent

hopefully the world will really see where we are sliding back to voting prohibition when it comes to the poor and disadvantaged and our racist culture is and continues to be perpetuated in the halls of power of this country and on our college campuses effectively building a new generation of racist 'leaders'. We need to check ourselves in the mirror. Zimmerman your name is synonymous with racist ameriKKKan hate now. I hope you are proud. I know a lot are proud of you.

[barbtries]

37. what is so sad

is how many really are proud of him. i guess racism and hate are easier than love and empathy, because our country at this point is seriously sick with the former and lacking in the latter.

[heaven05]

40. +1000

[Boomerproud]

57. Best post of the thread.

[world wide wally]

14. I wonder if this is humiliating enough for us or if we still need more embarrassment

in the eyes of the "civilized" world

[malaise]

15. This is really great news

[TBF]

17. Long after everyone forgets Zimmerman's name

there are bound to still be lasting effects from this case. This just brought racism front and center, and scared the hell out of a generation of non-white kids. That doesn't fade easily.

[Ohio Joe]

18. oh noes!!!!!

Th UN is coming for our guns... And freedoms... And... Stuff...

[NightWatcher]

20. Have the Security Council put together a coalition of forces

and come to Central Florida to deal with him. Think Libya, but a hell of a lot easier and cheaper.

[heaven05]

41. that would be a hoot

But the rethugs, supremacists, gun nuts and most floridians of zimPIGS ilk would demand war with every country whose troops represented that force. We would have to go to war with the whole world. The MIC would be in 7th heaven behind that one.

[zentrum]

21. First Putin and now the UN

...schooling America on how to be a modern civilization that presumes to be the model for the world.

So glad the UN did this.

[99th_Monkey]

22. This is an incredibly awesome development. Imagine that. Int'l human rights standards.

oh and for Zimmerman's very bad week, you forgot to include the Medical Examiner
outing himself, for presenting false testimony, further exposing what a sham trial it was.

[barbtries]

39. good point.

[Rebellious Republican]

28. I thought this was an Onion piece.

[Niceguy1]

29. they can't do much

If the jury lets him off................

[Ernesto]

32. Good work Cat!........nt

[CatWoman]

43. ....

[Cal Carpenter]

33. The UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent should get veto power n/t

[Iwillnevergiveup]

34. It occurred to me last week

with the incident involving Shelly Z. that Zimmerman is less free than when he was in jail. His life is unmanageable and I don't think he's destined to live a long one.

[AAO]

53. GUILTY!

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[Steviehh]

54. Have you seen what just happened in Charlotte?

This is crazy!

[CatWoman]

55. YES

I read about that

[WillyT]

58. Hey Cat... Did You Catch This ???

DULink: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023668375





& Rec !!!

[fadedrose]

61. UN - You finally are becoming a real contender......

We've needed you so many times in the past but your voice is so quiet no one can hear you.