The United Nations Human Rights Council

"The United Nations Human Rights Council, a conclave of 47 nations that includes such notorious human rights violators as China, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia, met in Geneva on Friday, to question the United States about its human rights failings. It heard, among other things, that the U.S. discriminates against Muslims, that its police are barbaric and that it has been holding political prisoners behind bars for years. Russia urged the U.S. to abolish the death penalty. Cuba and Iran called on Washington to close Guantanamo prison and investigate alleged torture by its troops abroad. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, told the U.S. it must better promote religious tolerance. Mexico complained that racial profiling had become a common practice in some U.S. states.  Some of these allegations, and many more, come from Americans themselves — especially from a stridently critical network of U.S. organizations whose input dominates the U.N. digest of submissions from 'civil society' that are part of the council’s background reading."  George Russell Published November 05, 2010 | FoxNews.com. 
Here is a little reported event or discussed event.  Anyone can (and does) criticize the US, about anything they wish.  And those of us who love this nation realize it has it flaws.  We should be constantly mindful of the faults of this nation and ever vigilant to correct them.   But going hat in hand before one of the most corrupt political organizations that ever existed and defending ourselves from insane, hypocritical charges is so grating that it is almost physically revolting.  Does it make any kind of sense to defend ourselves from charges of secret prisons or torture from the Cubans or the Iranians?  Do we want to take law and order tips from Mexico; or learn about religious tolerance from the government of Indonesia? 
The absurdity of this Kafkaesque world is simply too bizarre for rationalization.  But there is a reason.  But the State Department which is sending a high level delegation to participate in this US bashing feast has a reason.  But according to the U.S. State Department, which led a delegation of high-level American diplomats and government officials to Geneva, the Periodic Review is a major opportunity for Washington to lead the rest of the world by example.
“Our taking the process seriously contributes to the universality” of the human rights process, one State Department official told Fox News. “It’s an important opportunity for us to showcase our willingness to expose ourselves in a transparent way” to human rights criticism.
“For us, upholding the process is very important.”
The same official, however, declared that the “most important” part of the process is “the dialogue with our own citizens.” 
Why would the current administration sully the honor and prestige of this great nation in order to achieve a “dialogue with our own citizens”?    When is out government ever going to figure it out that participating in charades like this, does nothing to set an example for the many rogue nations around the world? I think the current US administration is trying to make some kind of point about how everyone is the same.  But apparently, they are unaware of  the vast differences between legitimacy of the US government and the legitimacy of most the other world governments.  "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" according to the Declaration of Independence.  This is a major premise of the US government and the Western democracies, not the rest of the world and certainly not the corrupt UN.