Today, Saudi Arabia's UN Ambassador in Geneva, Faisal bin Hassad Trad, was selected by the United Nations to head an important Human Rights panel. If you don't know anything about international politics, you may be saying to yourself, "Great, the UN cares about human rights!", but the sad truth is, this appointment says quite the opposite.

While very few countries on Earth can boast having a near perfect human rights record, Saudi Arabia is notorious for having one of the worst. Here's a short list of offenses they've committed, sources included:

1. Suppression of free speech: Blogger Raif Badawi was imprisoned and given 1000 lashes for blogging about free speech and expression, as well as criticism of Islam. His wife is currently fighting to free him on the international stage.

2. Attempting to pass global blasphemy laws in international courts, such as the UN, as well as labeling Atheists as terrorists.

3. Literally, not figuratively, crucifying a 17 year old for anti-Government protests and firearm ownership.

4. A striking similarity in the ways that Saudi Arabia and ISIS punish their criminals:

I'm not trying to say that the U.S. should head this human rights panel; our human rights record is pretty terrible too. What I am saying is that the United Nations, especially the UN Human Rights Council, is broken and corrupt.

Do you know who else is or has recently been in the UNHRC? China. Russia. Venezuela. Qatar. This isn't about human rights, this is about material and human resources. Is it any surprise that Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar, and Venezuela, (countries on the UNHRC with poor human rights records) are major oil producing countries? Their human rights abuses get overlooked by the UN and they get appointed to lucrative UN councils and in turn, they supply us with oil.

Let's face it, the UN is an unbelievably corrupt organization, one that speaks of doing good. But for the massive amounts of money that the U.S. gives to it each year, the benefits we gain are far too small.