[PhillipHer]

You can't make this stuff up.

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/...hzimbabwe.html

Now, however, it seems that we have our poster-boy to advertise the grotesque charade that the UN has become. Step forward Professor Yves Cabannes, the UN’s Adviser for Forced Evictions.

You might think that Prof Cabannes would have his work out running round the world from tyranny to tyranny investigating the plight of people forced from their homes in an arbitrary and illegal manner through ethnic cleansing, for example, wars or religious persecution. The Third World is chock-full full of refugees. In Zimbabwe, for example, as a result of the mass forced evictions programme carried out in June and July 2005 in which more than 700,000 people lost their homes or their livelihoods, thousands of people are even now living in inadequate conditions.

So where would you expect to find Prof Cabannes raising the UN standard in defence of those evicted from their homes by the monstrous tyrannies of this earth? Africa? Azerbaijan? China? Egypt? Turkey?

No. Basildon.

Basildon?

Yup, it turns out that Basildon council in Essex should be considered a flagrant human rights abuser, on a par with the most evil regimes in the world. So what did Basildon do to deserve this damning designation? It had the brazen gall to uphold English law and enforce it against those who were breaking it.

Yes, you read that right. Indeed, in the eyes of Prof Cabannes Basildon should be effectively twinned with Zimbabwe for evicting some 400 travellers who had been illegally occupying plots on Dale Farm, Essex.

You see, according to the UN’s Forced Evictions Adviser it was not the travellers who had acted illegally but Basildon council which had broken international law in no fewer than three different ways -- and which therefore deserved to be in the dock alongside not just Zimbabwe but Nigeria and China.

Rub your eyes – Basildon council was upholding the law of the land. But in the Orwellian universe of the UN, it had acted illegally because had failed to provide the pitches it should make available to travellers.

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