Posted on 02/24/2005 11:33:23 AM PST by Impeach98
Renewed call to oust U.N. 
in response to rape report
Alleged assault of Haitian by peacekeepers
spurs group to get world body out of U.S. --WND
Responding to new allegations of rape by United Nations peacekeepers, an activist group renewed its call to evict the world body from the U.S.
U.N. peacekeeper
Move America Forward, co-chaired by California campaigner Howard Kaloogian, has collected nearly 100,000 signatures on its petition to "Get the U.N. Out of the U.S." and stop American funding of the organization.
"It has become an almost daily occurrence to read about allegations of rape and molestation by U.N. officials," said Kaloogian. "The reputation of the U.N. is so badly tarnished that it cannot be trusted to investigate itself."
The U.N. acknowledges it is probing allegations that three peacekeepers were involved in the rape of a Haitian woman.
The U.N. workers, policemen from Pakistan, contend they were engaged in consensual sex with a prostitute, but the 23-year old woman told Haitian radio stations the men "grabbed and pulled my pants, had me lie on the ground and then raped me."
The investigation comes after the U.N. reported 50 U.N. peacekeepers and civilian officers in Congo have been accused of rape and molestation of Congolese girls, and a U.N. senior official from France has been charged with running an Internet pedophile ring.
According to an ABC News report, the U.N. personnel have fathered hundreds of babies born to Congolese women.
Human-rights groups charge U.N. officials have tolerated the abuse for many years.
Sex crimes by U.N. peacekeepers also have been reported in Kosovo, East Timor and Cambodia.
This week, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, resigned following allegations of sexual harassment.
Kaloogian asked, "How can we in good conscience continue to serve as host and largest financial backer of an organization that is clearly overrun with corruption and wrongdoing at every level from the peacekeeper to quite possibly the Secretariat's office?"
Move America Forward said it will present its petitions later this year to congressional leaders, the Bush administration and U.N. leadership.
"We've been overwhelmed with requests for 'Get the U.N. Out of the U.S.' petitions from Americans who are growing disgusted by the UN's conduct," said Siobhan Guiney, Move America Forward's executive director.
Guiney criticized U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Anna for an opinion piece published this week claimed the problems facing the U.N. were limited to "ethical lapses and lax management."
Said Guiney: "Tell that to the women and children who are being sexually abused by U.N. officials around the globe."
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One thought that drives fear into the deep, black pits that is a Democrat heart is the thought a candidate for a Republican House or Senate will on an anti-UN message and win. I would love to see this happen. Should several candidates run on this and they all win, it would not bode well for the UN would it.
I think you are on to something. Americans are sick and tired of these foreign bureaucrats who find nothing to do but criticize the United States. It is especially galling for the UN crowd, which lives luxuriously in New York while they criticize everything about us.
If some of our weak politicians would get a little backbone and tell it like it is, they just might find that Americans are ready to go.
Throw the bums out! That is a first step.
bump
You have no idea how right you are. The upper East Side of New York is lousey with the worst sort of UN riff-raff. You know the mouth pieces to all those dictators and tyrants that love the UN so much. They ignore traffic laws (diplomatic immunity remember?), expect and get special treatment in restaurants and theaters, and are downrigth insulting when you meet them on the streets.
The UN can't leave NYC soon enough.
As far as I'm concerned, we can't get them out of here soon enough. Tomorrow would be too late.
bflr
Where can I sign this list?
Maybe we should start raising money for first class air fare and a month of luxury accomodations in Paris. That will get them out of the country, and then the Bush Administration keeps them out. We can trick them out of here.
As someone previously suggested, we can turn the UN building over to Donald Trump. He will have it into a condo conversion project in no time.
Get the un out of the US NOW! ping
Note to the UN:
Take Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and most of the Hamptons with you on the way out.
Maybe Sudan would be better.
They would then have an incentive to save those people from genocide.
Now there's a happy thought.
American should stop getting into this one world government crap. We also need to stop giving all this money and weapons to other countries that usually uses it against us later on. BTW while we're kicking the UN out make them pay all of the thousands of unpaid parking tickets. Let's stop being the world's police.
Michael Moore ... Ted Kennedy ... do you have something against fat and disgusting anti-Americans?
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