THE UN SPEAKS AGAIN – AT 8:49 A.M. ET:  With mass murder going on in Syria and several African states,  the UN has dispatched an investigator who has found a major human rights crisis...in the United States.  Why do we send these people are checks?  From Britain's decidely left-wing Guardian:

A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a step toward combatting continuing and systemic racial discrimination.

James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, said no member of the US Congress would meet him as he investigated the part played by the government in the considerable difficulties faced by Indian tribes.

Anaya said that in nearly two weeks of visiting Indian reservations, indigenous communities in Alaska and Hawaii, and Native Americans now living in cities, he encountered people who suffered a history of dispossession of their lands and resources, the breakdown of their societies and "numerous instances of outright brutality, all grounded on racial discrimination".

"It's a racial discrimination that they feel is both systemic and also specific instances of ongoing discrimination that is felt at the individual level," he said.

Anaya said racism extended from the broad relationship between federal or state governments and tribes down to local issues such as education.

COMMENT:  S. James Anaya teaches human rights law and policy at the University of Arizona.  Like most of the "special rapporteurs" appointed by the UN's vastly corrupt Human Rights Council, he already had a record of advocacy before taking on his assignment.  So, these chaps find what they've already found.

I suspect the left will make some noise about this, but I don't think the Human Rights Council, which houses an embarrassing number of dictatorships, will have much impact.

May 5,  2012