Posted on 07/12/2002 11:20:45 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Tommy Thompson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, went to Barcelona earlier this week to speak to the U.N.'s 14th International Conference on AIDS.
He was booed and shouted down for 15 minutes by ActUp activist-idiots.
This could not have happened without U.N. approval. The U.N. carefully screens all applications for attendance, accredits those organizations it allows to participate and refuses to allow other organizations to enter. Moreover, security at these meetings is intense – inside the buildings as well as outside.
At the U.N. conference in Rome, at which the International Criminal Court was adopted in 1998, my organization, Sovereignty International, was not allow to participate as a non-government organization. We sent a representative as a reporter. We tried to distribute some of our literature which expressed opposition to the ICC. It was immediately removed from the tables, and we were instructed not to try to further distribute our "unapproved" material.
At virtually every U.N. climate change meeting, for which our organization is accredited, our literature is systematically removed from display tables and our written comments to the delegates are systematically withheld.
The U.N. controls these meetings with an iron fist.
Two years ago, U.S. Ambassador Frank Loy, got a pie in the face, thrown by idiot activists.
At Durban, South Africa, U.S. delegates were ridiculed at a U.N. Conference on Human Rights, and they walked out. They did the right thing.
Tommy Thompson should have walked out of the conference in Spain. The U.S. should walk out of the entire U.N. fiasco.
The U.N. allows, if not encourages, these events because it wants to use the media attention to embarrass the U.S. into submission. The U.N. is not satisfied with the amount of money the U.S. is contributing to AIDS, or to anything else on the U.N. agenda.
Much of the money we do contribute through the U.N. never gets to the intended recipients, but goes to administrative uses, including paying for most of the delegates to attend these international conferences so they can ridicule the U.S. in front of the world media.
Enough, already. The United States should simply stop sending money to the U.N. Period. Not another penny should be spent on any agency within this organization until a congressional committee reviews the work of the agency and certifies that its work is consistent with the policies, principles and goals of the U.S.
Most of the work of the U.N. is not consistent with the policies and principles of the U.S. In fact, the U.N. operates on a socialist philosophy. The U.N.'s Agenda 21, the bible of "sustainable development," preaches a doctrine completely opposite of America's vision of individual freedom, free enterprise and limited government empowered by the consent of the governed.
It is high time that U.S. citizens recognize this reality and tell the government to stop flushing U.S. dollars down the U.N. sewer. The United States should ignore the U.N., beginning with the World Summit on Sustainable Development scheduled to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August. U.S. delegates should not give these global-governance activists the opportunity to use the media to ridicule the U.S. again.
The president should not even consider attending this event.
For more than 50 years, the U.S. has propped up the U.N. only to be slapped in the face by its proponents at every opportunity. It will only get worse.
The United States should not withdraw from the world; we should lead the world. Instead of wasting our money on U.N. programs, we should help those nations that want to discover the principles of freedom – nations that want to let their people learn how to enjoy the God-given rights they have been denied.
All people should be free to acquire knowledge – unfiltered by the state. All people should be free to express their opinions – without fear of prosecution by the state. All people should be free to control their own government – instead of being controlled by it.
The Johannesburg conference proposes to impose Agenda 21 on the world. The United States should be about sharing Freedom 21 with the world – advancing the principles of freedom in the 21st century.
Anybody that had any regard for our sovereignty would have told them to shove it forever. This has happened time after time and is no accident. The socialist technique of incremental advances toward world government is being used to keep the restless natives subdued in their quest for freedom from a world dictatorship.
Resistance is futile.
You will be assimilated.
"Tommy Thompson should have walked out of the conference in Spain.
The U.S. should walk out of the entire U.N. fiasco."
That's the best idea, ever - PERIOD
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Bears repeating loudly and often. Henry Lamb and Ron Paul for President and vice-President (in any order)!!!
It is high time that U.S. citizens recognize this reality and tell the government to stop flushing U.S. dollars down the U.N. sewer. The United States should ignore the U.N., beginning with the World Summit on Sustainable Development scheduled to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August. U.S. delegates should not give these global-governance activists the opportunity to use the media to ridicule the U.S. again.The president should not even consider attending this event.
For more than 50 years, the U.S. has propped up the U.N. only to be slapped in the face by its proponents at every opportunity. It will only get worse.
Hogwash! The American dream is still alive and well! Anyone in this country can still grow up and be what they want to be! Don't get me wrong, there are still social status issues, but and I refer to Molly Brown...the Invincible Molly Brown.....this is the place to be free and grow and develop and be anything you can be! That is what America is all about! This is why we are so hated! There is no totaltalarianism in our country as others still lust after!
However, there are those in our own country spreading this kind of rhetoric and propaganda and I feel they should be viewed as traitors and considered treacherous and as such tried for their treason!
Free speech is one of our most sacred rights, however there is a line to be drawn when those that would infiltrate to destroy the sovereignty of a nation undermining the very concepts of what that nation was founded on abusing the First Admendment! That is the very definition of treason! If not what else is?
Yes we must get out of the UN, albeit,we still have to deal with the concept of the UN.... the UN can not be taken lightly, nor ignored, but one that we refuse to be a part of when we can and still do set a wonderful example of freedom and what it really means to be free!
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