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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 

The UN smears LEGO as racist. The toy company should sue

The United Nazis continue to sink to new lows. Not content to just misuse the image of the Smurfs, as they did several months ago, they now turn to smearing Denmark's LEGO, one of my favorite toys from childhood, as racist, and certainly make an attempt to exploit it for the purpose of attacking Denmark even further. And to prove just how grimy they are, they even published an obscene advertisement in Arabic.

I can see now just how Denmark is becoming another Israel in its own way. If you ask me, they should pull out of the UN, just as America should be by now. Here's an article translated from Jyllands Posten:
LEGO on Racism Poster

UN's International Racism Day uses Lego block as focal point. Toy giant is extremely surprised.

The UN is now linking the Danish toy giant LEGO together with racism. It happened today- on the international day on racism- that the UN's High Commission for Human Rights used as a focal point for a wide global arrangement has launched a poster with the with slogan "Racism can take may forms". Right under the slogan, which is also produced in Arabic, is a picture of a LEGO block.

(Danish) Institute for Human Rights chairman professor Claus Haagen Jensen is shaken. "This is tactless and a stupidity. It's directed at when the cartoons were published, as the Jyllands-Posten pointed out. The UN human rights commission should therefore not misuse its mandate." He believes that there is reason to investigate this issue. "Is this supposed to be a little unfriendly greeting to Denmark? It is really extremely unfortunate", he said.

LEGO goes to the UN

LEGO is very surprised about the company's very recognizable product is being used in connection with racism. LEGO's communications chief Charlotte Simonsen explains that they will now get in touch with the UN. "This is problematic, to know that this poster should include LEGO connected with racism or as racists. We really have to wonder that the UN didn't let us know in advance when LEGO has previously worked together with the UN's Refugee Commisson on a campaign" said Ms Simonsen.

Danish Peoples Party leader, Pia Kjærsgaard, finds the UN poster unacceptable. "One would have to be more than usually naive to not see that this is an outrageous insult. It is my assumption that they have tried to symbolize the Mohammed-cartoon crisis as something very Danish". She feels that this is the latest example of how the UN has over time lost its founding values.
I should hope that the LEGO company will sue. What the UN did was violation of copyright, and without even asking permission to begin with, and worst of all, what they did was abuse a toy that's delighted many children everywhere. The UN then took the ad off their own website following complaints that were lodged, but it's too late; they should be told to pay the toy company billions in compensation.

Make sure you buy as much LEGO as possible for your children. Another Danish product that can certainly be bought.

Also available at bRight and Early, Is it Just Me, Point Five. Others rightfully angry at the UN for their latest attempt at obscenity include Agora, The American Thinker, Ace of Spades, Jesse Richardson, Rantings of a Sandmonkey, Euphoric Reality, Slapstick Politics, GZ Expat, Solomonia, Right Voices, Blogmeister USA, In the Bullpen, Secular Blasphemy, Vital Perspective, DPGI, Liberty Just in Case, Hashmonean.Com, Rhymes With Right, JunkYardBlog, Berkanalia, The Tech in Black, The Scratching Post, The Median Sib, Maggie's Farm.

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