Re: ASCII Art Fart for Thu, 2004 Nov 25

In <41a9422b$1...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, ABCGi wrote:

>> Did I tell you what a male chauvinist pig Kofi Annan is?
>
>No, not yet, pray do tell?

Ok, you asked for it...

Kofi Annan�s New Sex Scandal 

- Center for Individual Freedom 

You would think that with managing the Oil for Food scandal, working to
undermine U.S. foreign policy, pushing for global taxes and advocating a
sweeping restructuring of the Security Council, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
Annan would be going out of his way to avoid creating more problems for
himself and the world body. 

Not so much.

On October 28, a report from the U.N.�s in-house watchdog revealed that
Annan personally dismissed sexual harassment charges made by an American
female U.N. staffer against the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees,
overruling the independent U.N. investigative panel that had backed the
woman�s claims.

According to spokesman Fred Eckhard, the Secretary General "found the
allegations unsustainable on a legal basis." An Agence France-Presse wire
story reports that when "pressed to explain what that meant, a visibly
irritated Eckhard replied: �Legal basis, legal basis, legal basis.�" 

(Is it just us, or does this sound an awful lot like "no controlling legal
authority?" Maybe Eckhard attended the Al Gore school of public relations.)

In response, Edward Patrick Flaherty, the attorney representing the
accuser, told The New York Times, "This demonstrates that there are two
sets of rules at the U.N., one for the protected class and one for the
rest. [The High Commissioner] is part of that class. My client is not."

That sounds about right. The first class, of which the High Commissioner is
a distinguished member, includes those U.N. employees and officials who
engage in nepotism, corrupt activities and abusive behavior. The second,
apparently shrinking class, includes those U.N. employees who work hard
trying to pursue the world body�s ideals and objectives.

It�s increasingly clear that, like his allegedly lecherous colleague, Kofi
Annan is part of the corrupt class. In this case, Annan went to a great
deal of trouble to pardon a senior U.N. official who, at least according to
the U.N.�s investigative panel for such matters, was guilty of sexual
harassment and was quite possibly a repeat offender. 

Previously, the senior U.N. official in charge of the U.N.-Iraq Oil for
Food program allegedly took bribes from Saddam Hussein�s regime. Meanwhile,
Annan�s son helped an outside contractor win a lucrative Oil for Food
contract from the world body.

The stories out of the United Nations are sounding like a broken record,
with one report of corruption following another. The U.N. leadership
increasingly appears to be little better than a multinational kleptocracy.
And it�s clear that no matter how Herculean the efforts of the committed,
hard-working U.N. employees, the world body is doomed to fail in anything �
and everything � it pursues.

http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/in_our_opinion/annan_sex_scandal.htm


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