A rich mine of hypocrisy -- RW rant against the UN

[TexasLawyer]

An address made by the president of the "Freedom Alliance" to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)last week.

This article opines that the UN is run by criminals, rapists, pedophiles, people always hating on America, and people who just want to put Americans in jail. Very high level of projecting, here (viewing others in terms of their own troubles and scandals).

http://www.freedomalliance.org/view_article.php?a_id=514

Investing in Failure

by Thomas Kilgannon


February 17, 2005

I want to thank you all for coming out to CPAC to defend our conservative values.

And of course, Value #1 of the Conservative Doctrine states that we will always and forever defend American sovereignty. We will not allow the Security Council to determine when or if we can defend ourselves;

We will not allow our oceans to be governed by the United Nations;

We will not send our military to be tried before an international tribunal;

And most of all, we will not take orders from a crooked wimp like Kofi Annan!

Poor Kofi is in a heap of trouble these days. His institution is riddled with corruption; he has been soft on terrorism; and he hates the Bush administration. I think Kofi could have given Howard Dean a run for his money.

Now, on almost a weekly basis, a new scandal emerges from the United Nations. In the Oil-for-Food fiasco, UN trustees skimmed millions of dollars from a humanitarian program intended to feed Iraqi women and children.

The program was supposed to punish Saddam while caring for the innocents he tortured. But under Kofi Annan, the United Nations flipped that equation and sought approval from the dictator nearly every step of the way while innocents suffered.

UN bureaucrats allowed Saddam Hussein to choose the bank where proceeds would be deposited. They permitted Saddam to select the individuals to whom oil would be sold. The UN employee who managed the program personally asked Saddam for oil contracts.

My friends, this is not about the United Nations being soft on crime. In the Oil-for-Food program, the United Nations was a partner in crime. And despite this abysmal record, Congress continues to invest heavily in the United Nations. It is an investment in failure.

In the Congo, over 10,000 UN Blue Helmets are on the ground to ostensibly keep the peace and protect the locals. Instead, many of them are acting as predators. Women and children – some as young as 12 or 13 years of age – are raped and violated by those who are supposed to protect them.

UN peacekeepers have fathered hundreds of children to young Congolese girls. In fact, at the UN base in the Congo, there is so much pedophilia and child pornography, that it looks less like a peacekeeping barracks and more like the Neverland Ranch.

And yet, we continue to invest in failure.

Americans have always cared about the plight of innocents around the world who are tortured and repressed. Our President has spoken eloquently on the need to eliminate tyranny. But at the United Nations, some of the world's worst tyrants are given a place of prominence.

In a recent cover story, Parade Magazine listed the 20 worst dictators in the world. These are leaders who sponsor murder, torture and oppression. And nearly half of them enjoy membership on the UN Human Rights Commission – a Commission whose meetings look like a casting call for "America’s Most Wanted."

And yet, Kofi Annan is providing a microphone to countries like Cuba, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe to lecture the rest of us about human rights.

And Congress allows our tax dollars to support this charade.

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In his State of the Union Address, President Bush said, “Taxpayer dollars must be spent wisely or not at all.” Yet, when it comes to the United Nations, Congress is investing in failure.

And not only are they investing our money, but many Democrats believe American troops should be subject to indictment and prosecution by the UN’s International Criminal Court.

And they may eventually get their wish. Last summer, the United Nations decided that U.S. troops who serve in UN peacekeeping missions can be tried by international judges in The Hague.

The United States is not even a party to the ICC. But Kofi Annan figures that if he can create the ICC with only one-third of the world’s nations, he can appoint himself Global Sheriff.

As a free and independent nation, we can not hand our citizens over to an international Judge Wapner.

We can not allow Kofi Annan to condemn the actions of a few U.S. troops – as he has done – while failing to condemn the slaughter in the Sudan for what it is – genocide.

The United States should not belong to any institution that grants membership to terrorists. And we must insist that the Congress stop investing in the colossal failure that is the United Nations.

Thank you and God Bless.


Thomas P. Kilgannon serves as the president of Freedom Alliance.

http://www.freedomalliance.org/view_article.php?a_id=514

[applegrove]

1. 'Please don't read about Bush's tour in Europe - please read this instead'

The RW hates the UN!! Big News Story!!

[meegbear]

Boobs like this and the Birchers have been saying this for years

I just ignore 'em.

[TexasLawyer]

3. But the Birchers never had this much money

behind them, nor such a close connection with the president and his cronies. These anti-UN rants are all over RightWing-ville-- a lot of obvious RNC-front organizations are pushing the US out of the UN thing VERY hard.

[TexasLawyer]

4. Molly Ivins-- $200 million disinformation campaign

re the big money financing the RW fronts, another DU thread in the editorial section.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x108213

[meegbear]

2. Boobs like this and the Birchers have been saying this for years

I just ignore 'em.