The right of governments to abuse their own citizens was formally 
denied and made illegal with the adoption of the Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A document that was created at 
the behest and under the guidance of the United States of America. 
Since that time it has been a crime to commit or countenance such 
things as arbitrary arrest or execution, detention without trial, 
torture and a host of other things that pass for the foreign and 
domestic policies of the United States these days.  

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Or even the policies of the UN itself.

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Saddam, like a host of other brutal rulers in the last half of the 
20C, should have been removed by international legal action long 
ago.  Unfortunately, the means to do so without recourse to war 
have never been developed.  In large measure this is due to the 
intractable resistance of the rulers of the western democracies who 
do not savour the prospect of perhaps being placed in the dock for 
their own misdeeds and who therefore continue to play games on the 
international arena that if attempted domestically would 
immediately result in their prosecution.

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This speaks volumes about the ineffectiveness of the UN as an
international peacekeeping body.

Although I would not constrain the resistors only to western
democracies.  I claim a case can be made for every single country
as being in violation of a UN human rights violation of some kind.

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