In a statement that is bound to result if cries of “why do they hate us are they picking on us” the U.N. Human Rights Committee charged with interpreting the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights said that governments

“… are responsible for human rights violations committed wherever they have “effective control.”

“The Human Rights Committee has sent a strong message that states cannot avoid their international human rights obligations by outsourcing their detention centers,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “The Bush administration’s trick of detaining people at Guantanamo won’t work under international law.”

Effectively this really doesn’t amount to much… George Bush and the current administration could probably give a rats @$$ what the U.N. says, and the U.N. doesn’t have the gonads to censor the U.S. let alone call for or take any concrete action. The upside is that because of this Guantanamo Bay has a better chance of ending up in at least somebodies history books as what it is, as opposed to what the U.S. would like the average American voter, and the world, to believe it is.

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