Posted on 08/13/2013 4:34:21 AM PDT by IbJensen
(A casually-attired U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power present hers credentials to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at U.N. headquarters on August 5, 2013.)
(CNSNews.com) – Samantha Power, the youngest-ever U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, chose as an audience for her inaugural speech an organization of young activists who gave her a rock star welcome after she was introduced as “one of the most amazing women on earth.”
“OMG,” the 42 year-old began in response to the enthusiastic applause given to her at the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit at UCLA on Saturday. “Right back at ya.”
Power, a former war reporter in the Balkans and foreign policy advisor to President Obama, was sworn in early this month, succeeding Susan Rice who moved from the New York post to become national security advisor.
The gathering she addressed on Saturday night was organized by the advocacy group Invisible Children, which was established to document and expose atrocities carried out by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), an East Africa-based group notorious for mutilating and murdering civilians and forcing tens of thousands of abducted children to serve as soldiers or sex slaves.
Power, who won a Pulitzer Prize for a 2002 book examining the way the U.S. has responded to 20th century genocides, is an advocate for humanitarian intervention and the U.N.-backed concept known as “responsibility to protect.”
Her nomination as ambassador drew criticism from a number of conservatives who were troubled by some of her past writing and statements.
In her weekend speech at UCLA, Power recalled another conference in California, the April 1945 gathering in San Francisco that gave birth to the U.N.
“That was 68 years ago,” she said. “Memories fade, bureaucracies are built. Positions become entrenched. And while the U.N. has done tremendous good in the world, there are times when the organization has lost its way, when politics and ideology get in the way of impact. Sometimes that sense of urgency and determination that existed at the start goes missing.”
Power encouraged her audience to “demand more of it [the U.N.], to make it work better, to build the world that we envision.”
“Today, ordinary citizens don’t just advocate for change and action, they force change and take action themselves,” she said, pointing to the organization’s campaign against the LRA.
The armed group and its leader, Joseph Kony, have been waging an bloody insurgency for more than two decades supposedly aimed at overthrowing the Ugandan government. The International Criminal Court wants Kony and other LRA commanders to face war crimes and crimes against humanity charges.
President George W. Bush in 2001 placed the LRA on the Terrorist Exclusion List, thereby presenting anyone associated with the group – which his administration described as “a barbaric rebel cult” – from visiting the U.S. In 2008, Kony was named a “specially designated global terrorist” under an executive order designed to disrupt funding to terrorists.
In October 2011 Obama sent 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to advise regional armies in the fight against the LRA.
Last year Kony received unsolicited international publicity after Invisible Children produced a 30-minute online video that went viral, with the YouTube clip alone receiving more than 98 million views. The Kony2012 video, which also drew criticism from some quarters, was cited in bilateral congressional initiatives condemning the fugitive warlord and directing more funding to support efforts to capture or kill him.
Invisible Children has also designed and air-dropped hundreds of thousands of flyers in LRA-affected areas – mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic – urging fighters to defect, while similar “come home” messages featuring former LRA members and family members are beamed over radio stations.
Power in her speech praised the campaigners, and said “this new generation understands that the video is not what matters, the number of Twitter followers is not what matters.”
“What matters is the real world scoreboard. And the scoreboard doesn’t measure hits or tweets any more than it measures the number of times the Security Council meets on an issue. The scoreboard measures whether more LRA soldiers are defecting and whether fewer people are dying,” she said.
Invisible Children recently reported that LRA killings decreased by 67 percent in 2012 while more LRA fighters had defected during 2012 than in the previous two years combined. It cites data sourced from an early-warning radio network, the U.N. and local non-governmental organizations.
The end of the world can't be far off; however, one must admit that these two ninny hammers are indicative of the evil Obama regime. Yet another of a litany of reasons to take back this nation by any means possible.
Powers would have Israel wiped off the map and Iran and N. Korea would both become permanent members of the UN Security Council.
In case some of us forgot, this is the same walking bag of salt water that claimed Iran's nuclear program was to "fend off Bush". These idiots must be eliminated from our government at all cost.
Scumbag Powers calls Libya a success and says America needs to give up a “pinch” of sovereignty.
Those who didn’t have her on their radar are in for a real treat. She may very well be the most radical administration official we’ve seen yet.
Sheesh. Shut up already with this meaningless "change" crapola. Just say admint that you're a commie, and be done with it.
This woman helped give MANPADs to al Qaeda in Libya
and calls the imminent use of these weapons,
against the West, “a success”.
She’s known as smart because idiots think she’s smart because she supports idiotic ideas.
Another Obama appointment keeping it classy, as always.
Man's Justice doesn't reach many.
But G-d's does.
Little Ms. Mini Reinhard Heydrich won't like it when those "Damn Jews" stand up to her.
Yale — Harvard Law — married to Cass Sunstein.
Just another Ophonybama LIEberal accolyte.
What else is there to say?
All I know is that we really need some educated senators who won’t vote on radicals like this just because they want to get along with the Democrats. After all, these democrats we’re trying to get along with are the same people who refused to confirm John Bolton and couldn’t give a real reason aside from “He’s a meanie”.
I think it's a massive tie for that honor. They're all like her.
Not many Americans realize what this idiot is doing. There is not a single appointment that doesn’t present dire trouble for America. Each selection unveils another enemy for our lives, our economy and our nation.
Forty more months?
Every day he and his minions toss another shovelful of earth from this nation’s grave.
Just another in a series of ‘in your face’ moves by Obumble.
I developed a theory yesterday, Communists like Mao and Stalin are like Al-Qaeda and Progressives like Mrs. Cass Sunstine and the Devil, I mean Van Jones, are like the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Qaeda wages Jihad with Bombs and Scimitars and people like Mao and Stalin don't like all this Pussy Footing around with the Enemy when you should just line them up against a wall and stick a freaking Gun in the Mouth, Problem Solved.
While the M.B. and Mrs. Cass Sunstine go the Legal route, get elected, make friends, go to Cocktail Parties, their enemies are like "oh they aren't so bad, they brought Baklava to my house party the other day", then they Shank You on the way to your office.
The Republicans have chosen to ally with the "Muslim Brotherhood" while the Dems have chosen the "Al-Qaeda" version of leftists.
All roads lead to the same place.
That is why we shouldn't follow.
It’s the Untied League of Nations which repeatedly puts Islamist theocratic abusers of civil rights to run civil rights abuse panels.
What difference could it possibly make at this time anyway?
Power, another commie globalist mole.
That’s what jumped out at me too. She is dressed too informally.
I hope and pray that every hour of every day, more people are becoming aware of the clear and present danger Ophonybama and his LIEberal acolytes represent to our beloved country.
Ophonybama and his LIEberal acolytes are waging WAH (James Carville’s term) on America.
We must respond in such a way that they are politically, socially and economically defeated, and remanded to the ash heap of history.
Hopefully, as more Americans are made aware of the danger the Ophonybamas represent to our Republic, the tide of public opinion WILL turn against them?
Once tried and convicted in the court of public opinion, perhaps we can then move forward in restoring our Republic.
I am reminded that EVERY REPUBLICAN president in since WWII has had the entire press corps crawling up their ass looking to poke fun at, embarrass, make to “look stupid, “humiliate, denigrate, impeach, convict, etc. etc. him.
The Lamestream press bullshit detectors have always been aimed at Republicans, and NEVER at Democrats. Democrat Presidents have, therefore, skated through multiple and repeated insults to Law and Order and the U.S. Constitution.
We conservatives need to find more people willing to call out the LIEberal bullshitters.
Best we get on with it!
One of the most amazing women in the world.
Sounds like she’s creeping up on THE MOST AMAZING WOMAN IN THE WORLD! herself, and Hillary won’t like that at all.
I wonder what she thinks of Hillary’s “Responsibility To Protect” Ambassadors at embassies in hostile territory on 9/11?
Her left wing behind will be in Estados Unidos.
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