HERE'S WHY THE UNITED NATIONS ...

... is a bad idea, a very bad idea!

Britain and the United Nations seem headed for confrontation over Britain's plan to deport alleged terrorist sympathisers in the wake of the July 7 London bombings.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke said on Wednesday that the first deportations would happen in the "next few days" as he published a list of "unacceptable behaviour" that would allow him to deport foreign citizens accused of glorifying or encouraging terrorism. ...

Manfred Novak, special investigator on torture for the UN Human Rights Commission, told The Guardian the plan could violate international law by circumventing the obligation "not to deport anybody if there is a serious risk that he or she might be subjected to torture".

Well, you know what? That's just tough! So is ripping off the Oil-for-Food Program. So is raping and abusing African children and women because they're hungry. So is trying to milk the USA in graft filled deal to build a new UN headquarters.

Mr Novak, who wants to meet Mr Clarke, said he could cite Britain for the alleged violation when he reports to the UN General Assembly in October. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees also said the deportation proposals would breach the 1951 Geneva Convention on refugees.

But Mr Clarke said "the human rights of those people who were blown up on July 7 are, to be quite frank, more important than the human rights of those people who committed the acts".

Kudos for Clarke and the Brits!

The Times reported that those on a list of high-profile Islamic militants drawn up by Mr Clarke include a Pakistani cleric and Dr Muhammed al-Massari, a Saudi-born dissident whose London radio station praises suicide attacks on British soldiers in Iraq.

Mr Clarke diluted an original suggestion from Prime Minister Tony Blair to empower the Home Office to act against people expressing "extreme views that are in conflict with the UK's culture of tolerance".

But the Muslim Council of Britain expressed concern over the plans, arguing that alleged extremists should be prosecuted, not deported.

In the liberal PC House of Lords I suppose? Hogwash and send them back to where they fled and let them see what kind of reception they get. It will be nothing like the open doors of England, I can tell you that.

We have our own problems with terrorists here in the data based USA.

Websites in China are being used as a staging ground for attacks on computer networks in the US Defence Department and other agencies.

Maybe we should get the UN's permission before we set our clandestine hackers loose on China's digital infrastructure?