UN-Sponsored Report Would Destroy Communities by Gutting Criminal Law
Commentary
If you like the chaos and criminality unleashed in some of our greatest cities by progressive district attorneys refusing to enforce the criminal law, you will love the “reforms” a new UN-sponsored report advocates for the entire world.
The “8 March Principles,” (pdf) as they are called, are a woke nightmare. Drafted by the International Commission of Jurists in conjunction with two UN agencies—the proposals would decriminalize socially dissipating activities such as prostitution, homeless squatter encampments, public defecation, and hard drug use. Not only that, but statutory rape laws would be hobbled, adult incest would have to be allowed, and all abortion—even at the end of gestation—would become sacrosanct….