Posted on 12/02/2001 9:31:00 AM PST by ElectricStrawberry
When the United Nations flag went up on Oct. 24 at Jamaica Pond, it was meant to be a significant statement about people living together in peace and a way to recognize the important role the United Nations is playing in the war on terrorism.
Now, just a few weeks later, the flag has been taken down because it made "some people" uncomfortable according to Gerry Wright, the president of the Jamaica Pond Project.
Although the Jamaica Pond Project received approval from city officials to fly the flag along with POW/MIA and city flags and below the American flag, calls were made to the Office of Justine Liff, Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, requesting that the flag be taken down.
"I thought [flying the UN flag] was a great idea, but it made some people uncomfortable, so we had to respect their wishes," said Mary Hines, spokesperson for the Parks department.
She said around a dozen people felt it was not appropriate to fly the United Nations flag with the American flag. Since the Parks Department only received messages, she said it was hard to speculate who the complainers were.
At present, the United Nations is playing a key role around the world and in Afghanistan.
President George W. Bush said in his first address to the United Nations on Nov. 10, "The United States will work closely with the United Nations and development banks to reconstruct Afghanistan after hostilities there have ceased and the Taliban are no longer in control. And the United States will work with the U.N. to support a post-Taliban government that represents all the Afghan people."
Although Wright was disappointed to take the flag down, he complied after reading the Preamble, Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
According to the charter, "the people of the United Nations are determined to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors."
Wright said, "To me, the Preamble, Purposes and Priciples were why we put the flag up and then took it down."
For Wright, seeing the flag at Jamaica Pond was significant to "the environment and the poor people throughout the world." He said he admires the United Nations' interest in human rights and actions as a peace keeping force.
Wright said he thought it was crucial to have the United Nations flag not only because of the September 11 tragedy, but also to shed more light on the everyday struggles of people around the world.
Hines, who said the citywide policy is only to fly the American, POW/MIA and city flags commented that Wright and Christine Cooper, Project Directer and Park Keeper, put a lot of thought into their idea. She said, "We could not run Jamaica Pond without Gerry and Christine."
Now the flag has found a new home inside the First Church Unitarian Universalist of Jamaica Plain. The Jamaica Pond Project donated the flag to the church, and the church accepted.
Reverend Terry Burke said, "We are pleased to accept the gift of the United Nations flag from the Pond Project. We are proud to be providing a sanctuary for the flag."
Enjoy
No repent to the unrepenting.
Well they are, aren't they? Let's see..........
.......they keep bringing our attention to the "poor" Taliban who are getting bombed...
.....In the interest of keeping "The Peace", they ignore atrocities conducted against those who aren't card carrying Reds like they are.........
.....they play a "key" role, they sure do.
Which would be exactly what? Recognizing the PLO? Sampling caviar while the Hutus and Tutsis were making chum of each other in Rwanda? Stumbling over themselves in the Balkans and now in Afghanistan? Aiding the Christians being slaughtered in Somalia and the Sudan? Protecting white farmers in Zimbabwe and South Africa?
Not only is the UN not playing an important role in combating terrorism, they are a front organization for their own brand of terrorism, and an insult to every American soldier who fought for this nation's sovereignty.
If their flag were accurate, it would be a single yellow stripe on a field of fecal brown.
YEP
To eat your lunch for starters!
WHAT A SHOCK TO THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT THAT AMERICANS AREN'T ALL SHEEPLE!
which is directly hooked up to the United Nations by way of treaties.
And they have to take some of the responsibility for this Terrorist Act on America.
So, you are asking yourself, how could this be?
The Human Rights commission is requiring that our government agencies, local police forces, fire departments, and local government agencies hire Moslims to make these agencies be diverse.
They,U.N all but have destroyed America, because of these requirements.
They make sure that it is enforced because they are in every state now,
just look in your local phone book.
Wow, you forgot to add a "barf alert" to the title. Maybe at our next Freep, the unwashed will let me carry the UN flag.
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