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Annan in historic meeting with Supreme Court, Congress WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan plans to have lunch with members of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday during a trip to Washington that includes meetings with key members of the U.S. Congress, congressional sources said.
The meeting between a U.N. secretary-general justices from the United States' highest court is believed to be unprecedented. Officials at the United Nations in New York confirmed his Washington trip but would not comment on his itinerary.
The purpose of his meeting with the court is not known but the United Nations is the depository of international treaties. Decisions by its 15- member U.N. Security Council provide a basis for international law.
On Capitol Hill, Annan plans to meet with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House of Representatives International Relations Committee and some individual lawmakers, including Rep. Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican who chairs the House panel.
Annan's agenda there is likely to be overloaded.
The House of Representatives, over objections from the White House, moved recently to cut back some of the U.S. debt owed to the United Nations in retaliation for the United States losing its membership on the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
Other topics are likely to include British-U.S. efforts to revise U.N. sanctions on Iraq, rising violence in the Middle East and U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Balkans and Africa, the congressional sources said.
A day after announcing he would seek re-election as the world's top diplomat, Annan went to Washington in March to see President George W. Bush but did not have time then to have meetings beyond the White House.
A 63-year-old Ghanaian, Annan completes his first five-year term on Dec. 31. His re-election is virtually certain after an endorsement from Bush and most other key U.N. members.
I don't like this one bit.
A 63-year-old Ghanaian, Annan completes his first five-year term on Dec. 31. His re-election is virtually certain after an endorsement from Bush and most other key U.N. members.
Now why the hell would Bush do something this stupid?
Me neither.
AMERICA MUST HARMONICE ALL YOUR LAWS
I shudder...
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All your government are belong to us.
President Bush should put the National Zoo on full alert. I hear that Annan likes the taste of Panda. Now that would start World War III with China, wouldn't it??
its coming
your FREEDOM is at risk
I can't believe the Justices would do that....
Sounds to me like it is official gov't business.
Therefore it is time for the federal "sunshine laws" to kick in - let's have public access to the transcripts!
I can honestly say that I don't know one person who thinks the UN is productive in any way. Of course, I don't hang around with liberals.
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Probably trying to hammer out pesky little details like how to implant chips in everyones foreheads to make them safer.
The meeting between a U.N. secretary-general justices from the United States' highest court is believed to be unprecedented
Nothing good can possibly come from this. I share your concerns as well. More power grabs no doubt.
Senate ratifies Desertification Treaty, 33 others without debate, without a vote
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Warning: Open your eyes, American citizens. Get ready for the coming one world government.
Our National Parks Now Belong to United Nations
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first they must get our guns
Each and every one of you should look at two reports: The Commission on Global Governance " Our Global Neighborhood", and their second piece since the Millenium summit. I have finished the first piece of trash, and found that the UN wants to have a convergence of law in each country beginning to uphold "International Law", What this will entail, will be people punished from now on along what the UN or ICC sees as proper punishment. This is just the short version of this, but let me tell you, every thing in there is bad. I am not making this up. I cannot stomach that trash, but want to find out for myself if all of this is true. I have now spent eight years studying this stuff, and I can assure you that if you take the time to read some of these treaties, you will find that all of the things you might tend to not believe are actually true. Read some of them. However, go to a protected site to do so.
re: Why Bush would do anything this stupid?
Good question!Speculating:Worst Case---Bush and the other world leaders are endorsing Annan "under orders". Best Case-- Bush really wants us out of UN,sees Annan as a nobody/irrelevant person.
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
U.N. Wants Global Gun Ban
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Blues hats make nice targets... even out to 500 yds.
so do blue hats (doofus)
U.N Tightening the screws
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right on will they fight for FREEDOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
'Tis an accepted international throughfare for spying, nothing more.
Some would argue that it is a mechanism to cool international tensions.
I would argue, 'none more than it fuels'.
Who created the United Nations? ====COMMUNIST AGENTS,
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I was watching C-SPAN to see Clarence Thomas' speech to the Savannah, GA bar, and after that, Rehnquist's speech to some legal organization, the name of which escapes me. Anyway, Rehnquist was followed by that b**ch from the ABA, who taled about "harmonizing" laws among nations. I couldn't believe it. I thank God that Bush dropped them from the exclusive role in previewing judicial nominations...
you are a PATRIOT and not a nut!!
The United States (or at least what's left of it) is a sovereign nation. We don't need any blue-hatted socialist wussies here.
You 100% are not a nut!! I would stake my reputation on it. Every person that I have shown the actual treaties to has literally freaked out. They cannot handle the truth. I have found putting two or three of the real things in front of them, plus loaning a couple of the UN meetings off of CSPAN to be very effective. I can assure you that eveyone of them are not doubters now! Spread the word. Use technology to your advantage. We can win this battle.
"harmonizing" laws among nations.
under the U.N
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That is what the International Beggar kofi wants them to do. That was actually set forth in 1994's Our Global Neighborhood. You can get a copy off of the internet. It is roughly around 140 pages, but you really should read it. The one thing that coursed through it each and every page, was Marxism. I am not kidding. I cross referenced Marx and Engels writings to see how close it is. It was scary. See it for your self. LONG LIVE AMERICA THE FREE AND BRAVE!
Thanks I feel better now, I get sick and tired of people not opening their eyes to the coming global or world government. WAKE UP AMERIKA
RIGHT FROM THE U.N----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TO AMERICA----------RIGHT FROM THE U.N----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TO AMERICA---------- WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A report released Monday by the National Safety Council graded U.S. seat belt laws and their enforcement and found the overall use of belts "unacceptable."
Although belt use has risen from 58 percent in 1997 to 71 percent, according to the report, the nation failed to achieve a Clinton administration goal of 85 percent.
In 1999, more than 32,000 drivers and passengers were killed in automobile crashes. Safety experts estimate 9,553 lives could have been saved had seat belts been used.
Approximately 60 million adults and children ride unbuckled every day, according to the report
You have to realize that most of the laws that take our FREEDOM away, comes from N.G.O. of the United Nations. But what the scary part is that you have police in every state enforcing these laws.
Next time there is a law pasted, research it. And you will find that the N.G.O. not only got the law pasted, but they wrote it. they wrote it.
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Yes DCE that's what it takes-show em the truth. The USA ain't what it used to be, but it is worth restoring.
Boy I'd like to be a fly on that wall.
Think cell groups.
Go to the UN CHRONICAL on the Un site. Look up the Global structure or framwork for their government. You will see that the NGO's are an actual powerbroker with a major role. According to the trash "Our Global Neighborhood' around chapter five or six, you will see that instead of a Congress, the people with have NGO's as their voice to the World Assembly. This is scary. No more Congress, but instead a Parliamentary body to make and pass laws that do not agree with 90% of us.
500 yards is tough with open sights but not so hard with a 7mm and a scope.
why would the take this story off of Breaking News went it a historic meeting
first they must get our guns
Not if they get our minds instead. How many people are now willing to sellout the 2nd Amendment? (Or the rest of the constitution for that matter?) People always say, "It will never happen here." But it is happening here and now. How many more years before all but a small minority will freely trade "peaceful" slavery for their God-given freedoms?
Just remember when they are dragging you away for re-education, that it's all for the the children's sake.
They don't want to wake the sheeple....shhhhhhh
Yes, one world government is coming....some day.
It doesn't mean that we should be pacifists about it.
I do really hope many Americans actually believe, "from my cold, dead hands." That's what it will come to if the evil of the one world government is to be restrained to any extent this side of eternity.
why would the take this story off of Breaking News went it a historic meeting
All your grammer are belong to UN.
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"You know the devil you've got. You never know the devil you're going to get.".......... Old Polish Proverb
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Harmonizing laws is fine - as long as those laws are grounded in the US Constitution. If the rest of the world wants to change to our system, fine. Otherwise...blue contrasts real well with black crosshairs.
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By God we must FIGHT!
they are not grounded in the US Constitution
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Thanks for your post!
"Birds of a feather flock together" is a proven adage.......
"Babylon the Great is fallen, fallen, and is become the habitation of demons, and a haunt for every foul spirit; and a cage for every filthy and detested bird" ! (Revelation 18:2) is a fulfilled prophecy!
Repent, America!
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Posit: Could it be that he's here to beg us not leave the UN? If not he's probably here to lecture us on how 'ungrateful we are for all the UN has done for us.' I'm sure that after a lot of thought, someone can think of something that would somehow prove him right, but I doubt it.
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state...."
Organization will be key....
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Thank you. We will kick Their a_ _!
Annan: You have disappointed us. Americans still own firearms.
Congress: (whining) Well, we're scared! Americans keep threatening to revolt! We passed the Brady Bill and Assault weapons ban, doesn't that count?
Supreme Court: (To congress) Shut up, you fool! (To Annan) Patience, my Liege. We are planning to hear a Second Amendment case soon, and will rule that the Second Amendment means nothing. Then you can proceed with the Global Governance you seek, since the Americans will be weak and disarmed.
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Because I understand that the person who was poised to take the leadership of the UN was far, far worse than Annan.
And so is yours. They can bring it on........
Annan is telling them how its gonna be. "You WILL implement the UN anti-gun agenda. You WILL adjust your laws to conform with UN law." (We have no choice. The financiers own the governments of the world, including our own. Our traitorous leadership will DO IT or else the dollar, stock market and economy will get crashed!)
Actually guys, this is a GREAT thing. I'll back Scalia, Thomas and Rhenquist against the UN any day! These three super patriots will let them know under no uncertain terms that US law is soverign and that NO world court can or will take precident over the US Constitution.
Ha. Ha.
A little too close to truth.
No. They just need time.
I'm 67 years old and I'll bet that the median age of the rest of the armed freepers is over 40. In another twenty years we'll be gone and instead of there being one new body for every old one, there'll be one new body for every three old ones. After a couple of generations of similar statistics, the few guns left in the hands of the people will be antiques with the actions welded closed.
There will be an armed revolution someday, but we won't see it. We- as a society- have already been castrated and rendered impotent. Sure, there are a few out there that will still stand up and fight, but they're so few the government can control them relatively easily. One day though, when our great-grandchildren have had enough, they'll find a way to reclaim what we have allowed to slip away.
I keep remembering the opening line from a segment on either 20/20 or 60 Minutes about police snipers. A sniper looks into the camera and says, "There are some people that need to be shot."
Annan is telling them how its gonna be. "You WILL implement the UN anti-gun agenda. You WILL adjust your laws to conform with UN law." (We have no choice. The financiers own the governments of the world, including our own. Our traitorous leadership will DO IT or else the dollar, stock market and economy will get crashed!)
Bull biscuits.
The resources available to the United States government make the situation quite unlike the way you describe it. They "financiers" (hey, howzabout you NAME NAMES, anyway?) do not own the US government. They enjoy the very breath of life in their lungs because the US government LETS them do so. Should these folks get too big for their britches, they will discover, as David Koresh did, that getting on Uncle's permanent s**t list makes your life rather short and exciting.
I mean, can the financiers deliver a nuclear bomb anywhere in the world within 30 minutes? Can the financiers deliver an airborne battalion onto the White House lawn within a day, as the US can deliver one onto one of their estates? Can they declare the Justice Department building to be a "compound" and send in tanks to pump in tear gas, as Mr. Ashcroft can do to one of their mansions?
When you owe the bank $600, they own you. When you owe them $6,000,000,000,000 and change, trust me, the bank does not own you, YOU own the bank. Crashing the dollar, the stock market, and the economy would have the effect of radicalizing Americans, giving the leadership in Washington carte blanche to write off the national debt, and convince Mrs. Soccer Mom to send her children off to the tender mercies of the kindly drill instructors at Parris Island, there to learn how to visit death upon those persons who made the mistake of tweaking the US one time too many.
YOU ARE NOT A NUT. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THIS GOVT.?
Thanks for the heads up!
Be ever vigilant!!
No Guns, No Rights!!
Molon Labe!!
You are wrong about all gun owners dying out soon. There are a lot of young Freepers here. Myself included. FMCDH!
Press Statement by James P. Rubin, Spokesman April 17, 2000
European Court of Justice Visit to the United States
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright welcomes the announcement by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of a visit to the United States by a delegation of its members from April 15-22. President of the Court of Justice Rodrigues Iglesias will lead a delegation of six Judges, three Advocates General and the registrar to meet with the Supreme Court of the United States and distinguished members of the United States judiciary and the American bar. The delegation will participate in working sessions concerning EU and United States constitutional issues in New York, Washington, D.C., and Texas.
This visit by the European Court of Justice will build and develop the important relationship between the Court of Justice and the U.S judiciary. It follows the official visit by a delegation of the Supreme Court of the United States, federal and state judges, attorneys, and law school faculty to the Court of Justice in 1998. The visit underlines the U.S. commitment to Europe, to transatlantic relations, and to the importance of encouraging the legal institutions of the United States and Europe to develop a fuller understanding of each other's role, decisions, and processes.
I didn't say that they were all going to die out, just that there will be fewer and fewer each generation until they're all gone. I too try to educate young folks about guns and freedom, but I can only have them for a few minutes a day, whereas the schools and the liberal television networks work on them for hours at a time. I'm pretty smart and fairly effective, but I can't work miracles. This tragedy will have to play itself out over the span of several generations.
Thanks- I don't like this one bit!
If our President and our Representatives don't get a spine, stick up for our sovereignty and tell Annan to switch to decaf and back the hell off...
...this meeting could rightfully be dubbed afterwards as Kofi and No-Nuts.
Here's a present for ya, Kofi...from ONE citizen of the United States of America...
Now start flyin'.
www.un.org/law ====== Establishment of an International Criminal Court
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These tyrants got too much time on their hands.
That is exactly what I was thinking. I hope we are both right.
The United States (or at least what's left of it) is a sovereign nation. We don't need any blue-hatted socialist wussies here.
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It sounds like he is NOT meeting with all the members of the court. I'd love to know which of the justices he is meeting with. Oh please let Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas be there.
No doubt by meeting with the Supreme Court the intent is to encourage Leglislation from the bench. Congress does by the Constitution have an intrest in talking to him as trade agreements and treaties are supposed to come from congress. The Supreme Court however has no need to see this man.
Do you suppose the US SC will become the world court?
I can't believe the Justices would do that....
I can't believe this is even legal!!
Thanks for the heads up, let's just fire off an email, that will get their attention. (smile)
I am quite shocked myself, it would seem to be influencing officals to pass legislation or do some such nonsense. Outrageous!!!! My bet is that Reuters wasn't supposed to write this report-I have not seen it anywhere else yet.
How long do you think it will be before OUR US Congress starts to get approval from the UN before they enact legislation for the US. It's coming!!!
This is NOT a 'good thing'...
the US Congress is doing now
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I don't like this one bit.
How do I count the ways? Money, more money, and more and more money going down the UN rathole, courtesy of American taxpayers -- plus a total gun grab from law abiding citizens to follow. Then he'll take a swipe at the Bill of Rights and demand we eliminate it, so America can become more like Zimbabwe. Next he'll demand that all conservatives and Christians be tried in the World Court next year, thus ridding the Republican party of all the pests. The Pub leadership will love it.
Kofi Annan. Lawn jockey for the New World Order. 'Nuff said.
Stumbles Galore in Walk-Up to U.N. Racism Conference Tuesday, May 22, 2001 GENEVA — Racism. Slave reparations. Intolerance. These would be hot-button words in any assembly, but they're even more so in the fractured forum that is the United Nations.
So months before it even starts, a scheduled U.N. global conference on "Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" set for late this summer in South Africa has devolved into a morass of finger-pointing, name-calling and hurt feelings.
Africans want the trans-Atlantic slave trade that ended nearly two centuries ago declared a "crime against humanity." They also want to be paid reparations, an issue the U.S. and Europe have said would lead them to boycott the meeting.
Arab countries want Zionism equated with racism, a position Israel and its allies are not keen on, and India wants to talk about discrimination everywhere, but not about its own caste system. Human-rights groups who had high hopes for the conference are already getting demoralized.
"Unfortunately, there are too many signs that this conference is being hijacked by states with a narrow particular agenda," said Michael Colson, executive director of UN Watch, a monitoring group based in Geneva. "Some of the issues that mention compensation for past crimes or turning it into a focus for the Middle East will be disastrous for this conference."
The two-week meeting, set for Aug. 31-Sept. 7 in Durban, South Africa, is supposed to produce a comprehensive action plan to help the U.N. fight racism, but the four regional meetings held in preparation turned into forums for Third World attacks on the developed world. Meeting in Dakar, Senegal in January, the African regional group demanded that the United States and European former colonial powers pay reparations for the 14 million black Africans forced into slavery during the 18th and 19th centuries. They want it declared a "crime against humanity." But legal experts say such a declaration would amount to an admission of guilt and lead to a flurry of legal demands. So the Bush administration has said it may not attend the meeting if slavery is the dominant issue on the agenda. The U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson of Ireland, has said Europe wants the reparations issue tabled altogether.
Dr. Vincent Magombe, director of Africa Inform International, said Western nations that want to discuss racial tolerance and human rights without discussing their slave histories are hypocrites. "They have done horrible things to us, and it is quite ironic that these very countries, these very people, are the ones that come around today trying to tell everyone about civilization and human rights," Magombe said. On the issue of the U.S. boycotting the conference, Magombe suggested the conference might be better off without the U.S. Magombe also accused the U.S. of condemning the currently documented slave trade in Sudan and western Africa as a ploy to divert attention from its own dark history.
"The truth is the U.S. has contributed to these regimes. Sudan at one time was a very great ally to the United States in the cold war and the U.S. propped up the regimes in Sudan," Magombe said. The U.S. is also upset by the anti-Israel sentiment that sprung out of the Asian regional conference, which includes the Far East and Mideast but not Israel. The Asian group, which met in Tehran in February, wants the U.N. to reclassify Zionism as racism, a position the U.N. abandoned in 1991. They also want previously colonial countries to compensate territories they once ruled, and declare that the globalization of the world economy is essentially a racist plot. The Asian group refused to allow Australia and New Zealand to join its conference, nudging them into the European group with the rest of the former colonial powers. And India has attempted to have its caste-based system of social and economic discrimination removed from the conference's discussion topics altogether.
Jose Diaz, a spokesman for the U.N. Human Rights Office, insists that the conference will have to include a "recognition of the effect of the wounds, the legacy of slavery." And he points to a precedent in the money paid to Holocaust survivors as impetus for the talk of slave reparations. But Diaz also said there were more pressing and urgent current discrimination issues that the global community needed to deal with, and that the American slave trade should not take attention away from today's problems.
"There are things that should be tackled now and one of the ways is through this conference," said Diaz, listing work place discrimination, racial profiling by police, ethnic conflict in Europe and Africa, and ongoing slave trade as topics that should be the conference's primary concerns. "These issues are so important we should not deflect attention away from them."
— Fox News Correspondent Amy Kellogg contributed to this report
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I am 53 not 83. I was over in Nam while the 83 year olds were voting to let America come apart at the seams. I came back to a country that hated its Vets. Why did you guys even let the war continue? American students have been educated with UN ideas for two generations and we are still a member. Why? Socialism didn't spring up all of a sudden , it has been out there for you to study and observe the detrimental effects on a country for almost 70 years.
The only correction to ALL of Americas problems is to get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN. I see just about all of Americas problems attached to the UN. Fix that membership and we will have a chance to fix the rest of our problems.
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"Actually guys, this is a GREAT thing. I'll back Scalia, Thomas and Rhenquist against the UN any day! These three super patriots will let them know under no uncertain terms that US law is sovereign and that NO world court can or will take precedent over the US Constitution."
I like your sentiment, but consider it unrealistic.
Or, perhaps you know something about Rhenquist and Scalia which is in stark contradistinction to their records ?
Personally, I wouldn' trust either one of them in an outhouse with a muzzle.
One thing is certain: Our undoing will be accomplished judicially...... and when I look at today's court, I tremble.
Perhaps Thomas will hang true, but so what ?!?
Hope you're right and I'm wrong!
"the US Congress is doing now." We've had it! I'll bet that less than 1% of the American people know this.
Thank you for the heads up. Very interesting indeed.
#77...... Hope you are right, I would like to see the SC tell Annan to take his business elsewhere.
thanks freedom........I cannot imagine worst news than this! What can be done?
"I'd love to know which of the justices he is meeting with."
If memory serves me, some Supreme Court Justices visited Europe a couple years ago to study using international law decisions as precedents. It so happens the three that went were all the Council on Foregn Relations members on the court.
there was six Supreme Court Justices that went
What is to like ? If freepers don't get a clue then how can we expect anyone else to ? I am glad to see that a lot of sane people showed up on this thread.
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The U.N.'s involvement in third world countries is just practice for the jewel of the civilized world.....the United States!
They already command our troops (ask Michael New).
Control our lands (biospheres, National Parks, etc.)
And come July.....the communist of the world will come together and brainstorm on how to take our guns.
Problem is not enough people give a rip about it. Just try talking to someone you work with, a family member (one not in your immediate household, yes, of course there are exceptions), or a neighbor and see if they don't look at you like they're wondering if you missed taking your medication.
I heard a comment on the radio today that really made me think. This man called a local talk radio show and said, "(the powers that be)..seemed to be working to destroy our desire to resist" (gas prices, anti-gun laws, power failures, etc).
I wonder....
Kofi was probably promising them some of the land out West that Klinton grabbed if they overturn the Bill of Rights.
Heck, the UN is meeting in NYC on July 9-20, 2001 to discuss how they will confiscate firearms from American citizens.
Anyone checked out www.infowars.com?
This stuff is getting scary- our government is spiraling out of touch.
Hope you're right and I'm wrong!
You will get your wish. There is no treaty regarding the law of the land that a president could sign and a congress could ratify that would stand up in the Supreme Court. Actually, 7 of the 9 would say it was unconstitutional and would require a constitutional amendment. Whatever you may believe, the USSC would NOT allow an international law to supercede the US Constitution.
If you have no faith in their ethics, at least have faith they would jealously guard their own power and position.
I got this straight off www.un.org/Overview/rights.html:
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 29
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 29(3) gives the UN a blank check to do anything it D@#$ well pleases...
The joke "constitutions" of everty brutal dictatorship throughout history haVE a simalar clause.
WAKE UP AMERICA, OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL NEVER FORGIVE US IF WE SUBMIT TO THE EVILS OF THIS ONE-WORLD DICTATORSHIP.
You forget the current prevailing wisdom. Current faulty but trendy reasoning says treaties can trump the constitution. Congress is supposed to regulate commerce, yet aren't decisions on trade made outside our borders at times without the SC getting involved? How do you deal with treaties that do not get ratified, yet are implemented anyway by executive agencies?
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Its gonna be a real shock when America wakes up and says "What in the world happened...?" I have my theories about what is happening and what should be done, but I feel nobody will stand with me when the crap really comes down. I hope I'm wrong.
The citizens who are affected take it to the USSC and have it overturned.
we will be there
One word, six letters. Israel.
I hope that Justice Thomas pokes him in the eye.
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Why don't we hear more about the last minute Internation Court, Clinton signed on to?!
I don't trust any of this!
Call me paranoid, but does this meeting address the SMALL ARMS summitt this July???
WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush endorsed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday for a second term as the world's top diplomat, giving him a strong hand in his re-election bid.
"My administration thinks he is doing an excellent job as secretary-general of the United Nations and therefore we heartily endorse his second term as the secretary-general," Bush told reporters as he stood with Annan outside the Oval Office.
Bush said he looked forward to "working not only to make sure you serve a second term, but once that's done, work closely with you to keep the peace, make the world more prosperous."
REAL AMERICANS DONT WEAR UN BLUE TAKE BACK AMERICA NOW DONT TREAD ON ME KA CAN KA
Who was in line that would have been better than Annan?
Wouldn't you like to know just what Annan and Henry Hyde discussed?
re: post 130. I'm not sure.... Gieriscm?
Somebody get me a shovel (for Congress and Annan, that is).
Huck farmonization.
I hope that Ron Paul pimp-slaps him with a copy of Frederic Bastiat's The Law.
Re: my #55 & your #58 - I was being sarcastic. I did, however, mean the part about blue contrasting well with black crosshairs.
Africans want the trans-Atlantic slave trade that ended nearly two centuries ago declared a "crime against humanity." They also want to be paid reparations, an issue the U.S. and Europe have said would lead them to boycott the meeting.
Arab countries want Zionism equated with racism, a position Israel and its allies are not keen on, and India wants to talk about discrimination everywhere, but not about its own caste system. Human-rights groups who had high hopes for the conference are already getting demoralized.
Reading that article was surreal, a parody.
What we have is a bunch of children playing an intellectualized version of "You're a DICK!" with the world as thier sandbox.
"AND YOU'RE A POO-POO HEAD!"
We all have our little fears an insecurities that live in the back of heads, coming to the forefront only in unguarded moments (like when you're falling asleep at night).
Will the cops ever come for my guns? Will I ever spout off in public and be imprisoned for my words? Will our chilldren grow up under the morally hollow blue banner of the U.N.?
One of my greatest fears is that the inevitable civil/racial/political war that looms on the American horizon will come only after I'm too old and decrepit to be an active participant. (gee, and I got all these cool guns, too.) I've slowly come to believe it's a given that it will happen, if only because all my police, sociologist, and laywer friends are so adamant that it will happen. The first 30 times some one tried to convince me, I labelled him/her a kook, but the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming.
P.S.: Don't tell anybody, but my second greatest fear is that I'll never meet a nice, conservative chick to marry and breed little NRA members.
Sigh.
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It may be coming and it may have already been implemented but they have to enforce it. This probably is not good but the American People haven't been told yet. And how is it going to be done without people knowing?
Welcome to the New World Order and the end of sovereignty/freedom.
America, be afraid. Be very afraid.
And that includes the WTO-the extortion arm of the NWO.
Another anti-U.N. nut here, checking in... :-)
Hey, Kofi: harmonize THIS!
W's making a big mistake supporting that bozo Annan. We need to be 100% OUT of the U.N.!
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Wake up people!! There is no constitution when 2000 people can be herded into a federal court room in groups of 30 and every right they have under the constitution is violated including harasment, gestopo tactics, threats, and human rights violations. Needless to say these tactics worked. When the smoke cleared out of these 2000 people only 12 of us fought for what was right. The rest backed down with excuses like "You can't fight city hall" Of course they were right but we did give it a Damn good try, but we lost.
The Supreme Court has basically ignored the Constitution any time it suited its purpose for at least the last 50 years. That's why we register guns in the first place. That's why we have roadblocks and random searches whenever some authority feels it. That's why we have UN "biospheres".
When these good judges are given an offer they can't refuse, I'm sure they will take it.
Kofi Annan Attempts to Mend Fences on Capitol Hill Thursday, May 24, 2001 WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill cordially welcomed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday as he tried to mend relations damaged when the United States was voted off two major U.N. panels. Annan began his day in Washington with a half-hour meeting with House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt. He then headed to a closed-door session with members of the House International Relations Committee.
"I'm so glad to see you. Don't forget -- I'm in your corner," Rep. Amo Houghton, R-N.Y., told Annan before they sat down with other committee members to coffee, fruit and pastries. The panel's chairman, Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., called the one-hour session successful. "It went very well," he said. "Every hot issue that could be brought up was brought up."
Hyde has been a steady critic of the United Nations. Earlier this month, he led a House vote to withhold $244 million in overdue U.N. payments after the United States was voted off the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
President Bush later voiced his opposition to the tactic, saying the United States made "an agreement that had been negotiated in good faith, and I think we ought to pay our dues." In addition to its ouster from the Human Rights Commission, a seat it has held since the panel's creation in 1947, the United States also recently lost its spot on another key panel, the International Narcotics Control Board. The issue of back dues did not come up during Thursday's meeting with committee members, although human rights did. Annan encouraged the United States to stay active in the panel by attending meetings frequently.
"The United States has been a leader in human rights, and he hopes that we will continue to be a leader," said Rep. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. Among the various issues that also arose was Annan's attempt to raise $7 billion to $10 billion for a global fund to fight AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases in developing countries. The United States has been criticized because it has pledged no more than $200 million. In Africa, Secretary of State Colin Powell has indicated more will be forthcoming.
In Thursday's meeting, lawmakers also spoke in general terms about U.N. peacekeepers, arms control and the accreditation process of nongovernmental agencies. They also received an update on U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, where Annan wants to cut the force by more than half by next summer.
The session concluded with applause as Annan left for his next private meeting -- a lunch with Supreme Court justices. Rep. Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y., called the session "a good discussion." "We should be meeting more with the U.N. people to share our thoughts with them, and they in turn can share their thoughts with us," he said.
Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., left the meeting saying that Annan's "demeanor and his approach impressed the members. I think we're all leaving with a very positive feel." Annan's meeting with lawmakers was scheduled before the United States was voted off the two U.N. panels, his spokesman said.
UN Chief Mends Fences With Congress By EUN-KYUNG KIM, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers on Capitol Hill cordially welcomed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) on Thursday as he tried to mend relations damaged when the United States was voted off two major U.N. panels.
Annan began his day in Washington with a half-hour meeting with House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and several minority members of the House Appropriations Committee. Annan then headed to a private session with members of the House International Relations Committee.
``I'm so glad to see you. Don't forget - I'm in your corner,'' Rep. Amo Houghton, R-N.Y., told Annan before they sat down with other committee members to coffee, fruit and pastries. The panel's chairman, Rep. Henry Hyde (news - bio - voting record), R-Ill., called the one-hour session successful. ``It went very well,'' he said. ``Every hot issue that could be brought up was brought up.'' Hyde has been a steady critic of the United Nations (news - web sites). Earlier this month, he led a House vote to withhold $244 million in overdue U.N. payments after the United States was voted off the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
President Bush (news - web sites) later voiced his opposition to the tactic, saying the agreement was negotiated in good faith. Paula Dobriansky, undersecretary for global affairs, reinforced the administration's position Thursday, telling members of the Senate Foreign Relations international operations subcommittee that any attempt to link U.N. payments to American membership in the commission would be counterproductive.
``Not only will withholding money or adding additional conditions on arrears payments provide ammunition to our adversaries, but it will also frustrate our efforts to further U.S. political interests and push for reform of the institution and its agencies,'' she said. ``In the words of the president, a deal's a deal.''
Along with its ouster from the Human Rights Commission, a seat it has held since the panel's creation in 1947, the United States also recently lost its spot on another key panel, the International Narcotics Control Board.
The issue of back dues did not come up during Thursday's meeting with committee members, although human rights did. Annan encouraged the United States to stay active in the panel by attending meetings frequently.
Dobriansky, during her testimony, said the United States could remain a vocal human rights advocate and continue to co-sponsor legislation despite its nonvoting status on the panel. Among the various issues that also arose was Annan's attempt to raise $7 billion to $10 billion for a global fund to fight AIDS (news - web sites), malaria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases in developing countries. The United States has been criticized because it has pledged no more than $200 million. In Africa, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) has indicated more will be forthcoming.
In Thursday's meeting, lawmakers also spoke in general terms about U.N. peacekeepers, arms control and the accreditation process of nongovernmental agencies. They also discussed political hotspots, including the Middle East and the Balkans, and received an update on the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Annan said he wants to cut the force by more than half by next summer.
The session concluded with applause as Annan left for his next private meeting - a lunch with Supreme Court justices.
Rep. Benjamin Gilman (news - bio - voting record), R-N.Y., called the session ``a good discussion.'' ``We should be meeting more with the U.N. people to share our thoughts with them, and they in turn can share their thoughts with us,'' he said.
Rep. William Delahunt (news - bio - voting record), D-Mass., left the meeting saying that Annan's ``demeanor and his approach impressed the members. I think we're all leaving with a very positive feel.''
Annan's meetings with lawmakers, including an afternoon session with Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle, were scheduled before the United States was voted off the two U.N. panels, his spokesman said.
- On the Net: House International Relations Committee: http://www.house.gov/international-relations/
Annan's U.N. biography: http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/pages/sg-biography.html
Oh, I'm so happy they're getting along.
WE GET OUT AND MARCH FOR ALL CAUSES, I SAY LET US HAVE A MARCH TO THE UN.,. I MEAN A really big march. I think some of these UN types need to be reminded of what happened to Benito. Also get on "W" this PC crap has got to go......NOW
WE GET OUT AND MARCH FOR ALL CAUSES, I SAY LET US HAVE A MARCH TO THE UN.,. I MEAN A really big march. I think some of these UN types need to be reminded of what happened to Benito. Also get on "W" this PC crap has got to go......NOW
WE GET OUT AND MARCH FOR ALL CAUSES, I SAY LET US HAVE A MARCH TO THE UN.,. I MEAN A really big march. I think some of these UN types need to be reminded of what happened to Benito. Also get on "W" this PC crap has got to go......NOW
The first 30 times some one tried to convince me, I labelled him/her a kook, but the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming.
The kooks have thier role. They inflate the impending doom, so that when it comes, everyone says 'See! Its not all that, its just this.'
Here's the question/demand by K. Annan.
The right to bear arms is not the right of the "private" citizen! ?
Thanks for the flag. This is disheartening, but not unexpected. It's interesting that the UN has been kicking the US off committees, and then this visit occurs. Like maybe there are warring factions in the UN.
Bump ....
FMCDH .... try it you powder blue pansies ....
President Bush should put the National Zoo on full alert. I hear that Annan likes the taste of Panda. Now that would start World War III with China, wouldn't it??
Not to mention peta and the greenies.
It's almost too late.
"Annan in historic meeting with Supreme Court &Congress/is believed to be unprecedented"
Where in the U.S. Constitution does it give the Supreme Court the authority to make any ruling in deference to the wishes of the head of a foreign government?
Annan just wants to see what's the best way to proceed on the merger of US Supreme Court and the UN World Court.
Harmless, I'm sure... /sarcasm>
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They better just read OUR constituition to him and tell him bye-bye.
Keep this bumped and start thread 2,3,4, and 5 !
Why is this only being reported overseas (in the United Kingdom) on REUTERS YAHOO and not being reported in the very place the story is happening-the United States Of America???
The media bias and blackout CAN'T be so bad off nowadays that 'no one' in our country reported this, can it?Is our media atleast looking into this?
Hell, the USSC has no problem with the cops stopping you to "check for seatbelt usage".
What's to prevent them from stopping you; checking for a "UN tax stamp*" or some such rot, *(that is once Congress passes it into law).
All in good time, all in good time.
head's up....... p i n g
BTTT
#106
BUMP
volley bump backatcha!
#173......... One would at least think the American people would have a right to know what is going on.
BUMP and someone start thread two and this for some reason is not on our (U.S.) reuters news list at all.WHY THE BLACKOUT????????
WHAT did our representatives say to Annan?They represent US we have a right to know!!!
Meanwhile, a UN spokesman announced today that the Secretary-General will return to Washington D.C. on 31 May to deliver the keynote speech to the Global Health Council
Cut n paste my long scrn nm :-) and please ping me for thread two.You can add the U.N. news and any other news if it ever makes U.S. news.
Waiting until the blue hats are here will be too late.
One must set their sights (so to speak...) on those who give the blue hats any influence over America, or what's left of it.
whoa! Thanks so much for the heads up!
Sheeze what are they up to now?
Waiting until the blue hats are here will be too late.
One must set their sights (so to speak...) on those who give the blue hats any influence over America, or what's left of it.
It looks like it's becoming more difficult to distinguish between the Dems and Pubbies, at least in regards to supporting the U.N.
"I had a very good discussion with members of both parties," the Secretary-General told reporters as he entered United Nations Headquarters in New York this morning.
Asked if he had come away from his visit more encouraged about UN relations with the United States, Mr. Annan answered, "Yes, you can say that."
"Obviously I had gone to Washington to see the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader; by the time I got there, roles had changed," Mr. Annan observed, referring to a shift in control of the Senate from the Republicans to the Democrats. "But both gentlemen received me very well and were very supportive."
It doesn't really matter which party is in control of the Senate....either way they will vote for World Government.
WHAT FREEDOM????FDR'S new deal,the Ilumaniti,the Bilderburges etc,etc,etc
Thanks for the heads up!
This STINKS!!!
… … :3( … peewwww!!!
Good Heavens girl...
Is that a KRISPY KREME DONUT ???
.....looks like an "original glazed"
… (((ROTFLOLWEAKKD)))
... that means... (ROTFLOL...While Eating A KRISPY KREME DONUT)
4TF - "KKD" ... *smiles* ... :^d ... yummy ... lol
I can't believe the Justices would do that....
It just goes to show you ...even more interesting is that there is no stated reason for the meeting.???
On Capitol Hill, Annan plans to meet with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House of Representatives International Relations Committee and some individual lawmakers, including Rep. Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican who chairs the House panel.
give em hell Henry.
Been nice knowing you boys(and girls)...I'll be on the line with you.
Hmmmm, this stinks to high heaven. The U.N. is already declaring war on firearms ownership...I'm sure they'd like the U.S. to follow suit, and I'm sure they'll try and blackmail us if the other countries sign on and we abstain... Through a boycott or tariffs. I think we can take it, but the high princes in Washington will cave...
From my Cold Dead Hands...Come Get Some!!!
However, go to a protected site to do so.
I recommend the "anonymizer"... www.anonymizer.com It works.
State Partnership Program (SPP)
US European Command's SPP background info paper
Information Paper
The National Guard State Partnership Program (SPP) links US states with partner countries’ defense ministries and other government agencies, primarily through the vehicle of the States’ National Guards, for the purpose of improving bilateral relations with the US. The program’s goals reflect an evolving international affairs mission for the National Guard, and are to promote regional stability and civil-military relationships in support of US policy objectives.
The SPP was established following the National Guard Bureau’s (NGB) proposal in the Spring of 1993 to pair State National Guards with the Baltic Countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The NGB proposal was prompted by CINCEUR’s Jan 93 decision to staff the Military Liaison Teams (MLTs) in the Baltics with Reserve Component personnel, in order avoid sending a provocative signal to the Russian Federation that might have been caused by assigning Active Duty soldiers. The SPP thus began as a bilateral military-to-military contact program with which to engage the countries of central and eastern Europe, and is a direct outgrowth of US European Command’s (USEUCOM) Joint Contact Team Program (JCTP): It since has grown far beyond JCTP and become a hybrid engagement tool, allowing interaction in social and economic—as well as military—spheres. The SPP actively supports the National Military Strategy’s mandate to shape the international security environment.
The value of the SPP is its ability to focus the attention of a small part of the Department of Defense (DoD)—a State National Guard—on a single country or region in support of US Government policies. This concentrated focus allows for the development of long term personal relationships and a mechanism to catalyze support from outside the DoD which otherwise would not occur but nevertheless complements US policy. The optimum SPP partnership is one in which: the Host Nation professes genuine interest in Partnership; US and Theater engagement objectives are satisfied; the Force Protection risk is low; a minimum of additional resources is required to execute engagement; and National Guard core engagement competencies, particularly military support to civil authority (MSCA), are heavily incorporated.
Today, a total of 30 US states and one territory are partnered with 29 countries around the world.
The 17 State Partnerships in the USEUCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR) are:
Alabama – Romania
California & Kansas – Ukraine
Colorado – Slovenia Georgia – Republic of Georgia
Illinois – Poland Indiana – Slovakia
Maryland – Estonia Michigan – Latvia Minnesota – Croatia North Carolina – Moldova
Ohio – Hungary Pennsylvania – Lithuania
South Carolina – Albania Tennessee – Bulgaria
Utah – Belarus Vermont – Macedonia
Texas & Nebraska – Czech Republic
The four State Partnerships in the US Central Command (USCENTCOM) AOR are:
Arizona – Kazakhstan Louisiana – Uzbekistan
Montana – Kyrgyzstan Nevada - Turkmenistan
The eight State Partnerships in the US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) AOR are:
Florida – Venezuela Kentucky – Ecuador
Mississippi - Bolivia Missouri – Panama
Puerto Rico – Honduras West Virginia – Peru
Louisiana & New Hampshire – Belize
Washington, D.C. - Jamaica
The one State Partnership in the US Pacific Command (USPACOM) AOR is Hawaii – Philippines.
The State Partners actively participate in a host of engagement activities, ranging from bilateral training and familiarization events, to exercises, to fellowship-style internships, to civic leader visits. All activities are coordinated through the Theater Commanders-in-Chief and the US Ambassadors’ country teams, and other agencies as appropriate, to ensure that National Guard support is tailored optimally to US and country requirements.
KKD, YUUMMMMMMMM!!!
Doesn't get any better than that!
I hear that Annan likes the taste of Panda
What a great idea...panda farming. Panda burgers, panda chili and jerky. Panda...the other red meat! Why not? The Chinese like to eat St Bernards. I'll have the panda filet, medium well. Hold the bamboo. Makes a great political statement too.
P, You are correct, anytime the un gets involved with something it's trouble.
We can smell the stench all the way up here in South Dakota....
Need feedback on the possibility of staging a protest rally at Independence Hall on July 4th when the United Nations' General - Secretary Kofi Annan receives the annual Liberty Medal and its $100K cash award. The award honors "an individual or organization from anywhere in the world that has demonstrated leadership and vision in the pursuit of liberty of conscience or freedom from oppression, ignorance or deprivation." Who the picked this man, who has time and again helped to sabotage America's interests? This is an abomination! And to top it off, the Liberty Medal is presented on our most sacred day of remembrance in our fight for freedom. I think a rally at this event is necessary to show the world that the UN is no friend of the United States'. It may also help the groundswell of public opinion for FINALLY dropping our membership in the UN. (And I think it would receive great press coverage.)
World Heritage Sites Independence Hall is one
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"Each and every one of you should look at two reports: The Commission on Global
Governance " Our Global Neighborhood",
and their second piece since the Millenium summit. I have finished the first piece of
trash, and found that the UN wants to
have a convergence of
law"
The only "convergence law" those UN @$$h()!es are gonna get are the ones based in physics regarding the 500 yard "convergences" of a well tuned Quad .50.
I hope that's what it's about, anyway.
201 Posted on 10/10/2001 19:11:50 PDT by cdwright
202 Posted on 10/10/2001 19:43:43 PDT by gore3000
203 Posted on 12/09/2001 20:56:05 PST by expose
"WHAT IS A PATRIOT?"
PATRIOTS are not "Revolutionaries" trying to overthrow the government of the United States.
PATRIOTS are "Counter-Revolutionaries" trying to prevent the government of the United States from overthrowing the Constitution of the United States. - Unknown Author
What brings the PATRIOTS out of the woodwork?
When the constitutional process, the system of checks and balances set up by the Founders, has not just been thrown out of kilter, it has been thrown out the window. These socialist maneuvers are what attracts PATRIOTS to the streets of America.
204 Posted on 12/09/2001 21:50:28 PST by B4Ranch
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