About Serpentine Sam

Co-founder of the League of Nations, key contributor to the UN Charter and the UDHR, and one-time husband of a former Miss World Venezuela, “Serpentine Sam” is a man of the ages and a man for all seasons.

 

Lost to history by his own design, from late 1948 Sam spent several decades cryogenically frozen until next needed by the international community. That call came late on the evening of 18 June 2007 when, at the nod of Human Rights Council President Ambassador L.A. de Alba, Sam was thawed out to stitch-up the Council’s “institution-building package”. Having sealed the deal, Sam high-fived the then-HC, was bestowed the venerable title “Don Sam” by de Alba, ate like a horse, changed safari suits, and spent the rest of the night partying (like it was 1949) with the Mariachis sent prematurely on their way after having belted out only one lonesome canción earlier that evening.[1]

 

En secret consultant and advisor to all of the Council’s groups and blocs, hotlined to the UN’s upper-echelons, and in bed with all of the major non-governmental human rights players, Sam has taken the selfless decision to channel his encyclopaedic knowledge and unrivalled insights into a single forum – this blog. Its purpose: to nurture discussion and debate outside the plenary – to tackle the hard, pressing issues – to turn a sharp, critical eye to the ridiculousness and absurdity that so often envelops and inhibits efforts to defend and advance human rights – and, foremost, to hear your views.

 

For reasons obvious, Sam’s full identity cannot be disclosed.

 

[1] The exact reason why the Mariachis played only one song and the identity of the person who instructed them to leave continues to be debated by historians.