Posted on 09/24/2003 5:19:05 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
CITIZENS OF NATION STATES MUST BE WORLD CITIZENS IN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION – ANNAN
DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE REPLACES DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
UN News Service: New York, Sep 12 2003 6:00PM With the forces of globalization on the rise and the interdependence of the world's peoples growing, citizens of the nation states must also act as global citizens with a major role accruing to the United Nations in the effort to reach truly multilateral decisions, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
"The challenge for us is to manage our interdependence in ways that bring people in rather than shutting them out," Mr. Annan told a ceremony marking the First Annual Interdependence Day held in Philadelphia, site of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776.
"Citizens need to think and act globally so as to influence global decisions. And that means that the United Nations, in order to play its part, must live up to the first words of its Charter, 'We The Peoples'," he said in a message delivered on his behalf by the UN Director of Communications, Edward Mortimer.
The event brought together public, civic and corporate leaders, distinguished academics and diplomats, and interested citizens and students, to reflect together on the world's interdependent reality.
"In the era of independence, peoples have achieved and practiced self-government within the framework of nation states," Mr. Annan said. "That framework is still very important, and will remain so even in the new era of interdependence. But the more interdependent we become, the more decisions have to be taken, not by one nation state alone, but by many acting together."
Declaration of InterdependenceWe the people of the world do herewith declare our interdependence as individuals and members of distinct communities and nations. We do pledge ourselves citizens of one CivWorld, civic, civil and civilized. Without prejudice to the goods and interests of our national and regional identities, we recognize our responsibilities to the common goods and liberties of humankind as a whole.
We do therefore pledge to work both directly and through the nations and communities of which we are also citizens: To guarantee justice and equality for all by establishing on a firm basis the human rights of every person on the planet, ensuring that the least among us may enjoy the same liberties as the prominent and the powerful;
To forge a safe and sustainable global environment for all - which is the condition of human survival -- at a cost to peoples based on their current share in the world's wealth;
To offer children, our common human future, special attention and protection in distributing our common goods, above all those upon which health and education depend;
To establish democratic forms of global civil and legal governance through which our common rights can be secured and our common ends realized;
and
To foster democratic policies and institutions expressing and protecting our human commonality;
and at the same time,
To nurture free spaces in which our distinctive religious, ethnic and cultural identities may flourish and our equally worthy lives may be lived in dignity, protected from political, economic and cultural hegemony of every kind.
http://www.id2003.org/declaration.html
Response: More statements along the lines of: "The Big Tent," "Room at the Table." Translation: Pay me! We are seeing the aforementioned doctrine being applied in California.
We do pledge ourselves citizens of one CivWorld, civic, civil and civilized. Without prejudice to the goods and interests of our national and regional identities, we recognize our responsibilities to the common goods and liberties of humankind as a whole.In other words...we renounce our own national soveriegnty.
To forge a safe and sustainable global environment for all - which is the condition of human survival -- at a cost to peoples based on their current share in the world's wealth;Meaning we will all get grouped together in their nice, sustainable and controlable communities and that everything that you have worked for will be taken and given to those who have not worked or sacrificed for it.
To offer children, our common human future, special attention and protection in distributing our common goods, above all those upon which health and education depend;More take from the haves and give to the have nots...for the good of the children.
To establish democratic forms of global civil and legal governance through which our common rights can be secured and our common ends realized;Which common rights? I don't see anything enumerated here.
Who decides what those rights are? The annointed ones like Kofi?
Nope...I'll stick to the unalienable rights that are endowed by God thank you very much...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the others enumerated in the Bill of Rights...the original ten Bill of Rights.
To foster democratic policies and institutions expressing and protecting our human commonality;I don't want a democracy...never have, never will. A constitutional republic is the answer...what America is...and what, if have the fortitide and will to keep it...and are worthy of the Grace of God...what we always shall be!
So, Kofi and the UN and all adherants to this perverted and ultimately tyranical declaration. The answer is NO...HELL NO!
Something about...from my cold dead fingers.
Remember, It's all for the children.
This issue was settled at Yorktown.
But if you bastards want to go at again, feel free. After all, there's nothing wrong with a horde of turd-world UN invaders that can't be fixed by millions of American Patriots from a couple hundred yards away.
You know what this is?
It's hell on earth wrapped up in pretty paper.
Under no circumstances. Never. I will die first.
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