UN Human Rights Council "expert" Richard Falk has published a statement (in foreignpolicyjournal.com) saying Bostonians got what they deserved. He quotes W.H. Auden to make his point: "to whom evil is done/do evil in return."
Richard Falk is the UN's "Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967." He has held the post since 2008, despite exposure as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. In his latest rant, Falk repeats the libel that pre 9/11 President Bush was seeking a "pretext" for war. And then he attacks Bostonians head-on. The police action in Boston was a "hysterical dragnet." Boston's dead were "canaries" that "have to die" because of America's "fantasy of global domination." Falk explains the attacks as justifiable "resistance." In his words: "The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world." He minimizes the crime and predicts worse if America doesn't change its ways to better accommodate the demands of "the Islamic world." Falk has been encouraged and protected in his UN perch by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, who hold the balance of power at the Human Rights Council. The Obama administration has been a major champion of the UN's top "human rights" body, with Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer even calling it "esteemed" at the most recent session in March. There is nothing about a "human rights" body that countenances the likes of Richard Falk which is "esteemed" and the United States should resign effective immediately.