Demanding human rights in Western countries …

… while saying, “Oh, that’s just the way they are” to the countries from which people flee.

“‘These people who are fleeing terrible conditions in their home countries… are being treated as if they are thieves and robbers, trying to take something from the Dutch people, rather than being given their human rights.’” – Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on human rights.

http://worldaffairsjournal.org/content/un-human-rights-expert-condemns-dutch-refugee-deal

So why are the UN and the US not pressuring the (mostly Muslim) countries “these people” fled? Why do bureaucrats find Europe guilty because 1,500 hopeful refugees have drowned this year trying to cross a few miles of the Mediterranean Sea?

Pressuring the oppressive countries does not work. Rulers of those countries want continued control of their own people. Control is power is money, and neither the UN nor the US can cut off enough money to make the oppressive give up power.

If we know who the bad guys are, we need to take them out. If we do not know, we need to find out.