The U.N.'s idea of 'human rights'

The U.N. "Human Rights Council" regularly ignores brutal violations of human rights by some U.N. member nations that ridiculously are given seats year after year on the panel.

But the same council has now launched an investigation to determine whether housing in New York City and other places in the United States is so expensive that it constitutes a "human rights" violation.

The council has appointed a professor from Brazil to rummage around the Big Apple, Chicago, an Indian reservation in South Dakota, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Washington, D.C., and determine whether those locations have enough of what the U.N. considers affordable housing.

This "special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing" does not seem terribly objective, either. She told The New York Times she wants to "hear the voices of those who are suffering on the ground."

Here is a suggestion: She should "hear the voices" of American taxpayers -- who are "suffering" by having to pay the biggest single share of funding for operations by the U.N. -- a corrupt organization that routinely condemns the United States and that obviously has warped priorities.