Bush Sends Turner Ally to U.N.

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Ally of Ted Turner Represents U.S. at U.N.

Cliff Kincaid, CNSNews.com
Saturday, April 20, 2002

A board member from a pro-U.N. lobby group and former associate of controversial CNN founder Ted Turner has won a coveted post as a Bush administration representative to the United Nations.

Richard S. Williamson, who once served with Turner on the board of directors of the United Nations Association (UNA), an officially "nonpartisan" group dominated by liberal Democrats, is now the alternate U.S. representative to the U.N. for special political affairs. The post carries with it the title of "ambassador" in the Bush administration.

Turner, who called the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11 "brave" and compared President Bush to Roman dictator Julius Caesar, was praised by the UNA as the U.N.'s "billion-dollar man" for his $1 billion contribution to the world body. Turner won the UNA's "global leadership" award in 1997.

Pushing Global Taxes

Although perhaps best known for staging "Model U.N." programs at public schools, the UNA plays a major role in Washington and New York in lobbying for more money, authority and influence for the U.N. The group published a 1995 study, "National Taxpayers, International Organizations," suggesting global taxes as a solution to the U.N. "revenue problem."

The UNA claims 23,000 members and 100 affiliated organizations, including the AFL-CIO, American Humanist Association, Planned Parenthood, and the pro-world-government World Federalist Association.

The International Criminal Court (ICC), which theoretically could prosecute and imprison American service members on foreign soil for perceived war crimes, is the brainchild of the U.N. and supported by the UNA.

The ICC treaty has been ratified by enough countries around the world to take effect, despite the Bush administration's opposition to the pact. Shortly before leaving office, former President Bill Clinton signed the ICC treaty, after being urged by then-UNA Chairman and President William H. Luers "to affirm America's support for the most important institutional advance for world peace and security in the past half-century."

David Scheffer, who served as the Clinton administration's ambassador for war crimes issues and was America's chief negotiator in ICC discussions, was recently named UNA senior vice president. He wrote an April 6 New York Times op-ed arguing that Bush should not "unsign" the ICC treaty. However, the Bush administration is said to be considering ways to nullify Clinton's actions anyway.

The UNA opposes an anti-ICC congressional bill called the American Servicemembers Protection Act, and urges ratification of two treaties anathema to conservatives: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Those two treaties authorize U.N. and government involvement in the lives of women, children and families.

UNA is lobbying Bush to distribute $34 million to the U.N. Population Fund, money appropriated by Congress but thus far frozen by the president. Some conservative groups say the U.N. Population Fund helps promote abortion and forced sterilization in China.

Glossing Over

Williamson, a Republican lawyer who ran for the Senate from Illinois and served as state party chief, tries to downplay his UNA connection, although an Oct. 4, 2001 White House press release announcing his nomination did mention it in passing. The Williamson biography posted on the Web site of the U.S. Mission to the U.N., however, omits his UNA affiliation.

To stress Williamson's conservative credentials, the biography highlights his experience during the Reagan administration, when he served as assistant secretary of state for international organizations.

But the UNA's Republicans tend to be political moderates favoring a greater U.N. role in global affairs. They include John C. Whitehead, who served as deputy secretary of state for President Ronald Reagan, and former Republican President Gerald Ford, who serves in a figurehead role as a co-chairman of the UNA's National Council, along with Democrat former President Jimmy Carter.

With the support of a federal grant from the U.S. Institute for Peace, Williamson and former Carter official Charles Maynes edited a 1995 book, "U.S. Foreign Policy and the United Nations System." The book focused on ways to strengthen the U.S.-U.N. relationship and was published to coincide with the U.N.'s 50th anniversary.

Williamson and Maynes also co-chaired a UNA "Global Policy Project on U.N. Financing," which advocated the discussion of "alternative financing mechanisms" for the world body.

Williamson Won't Talk

Williamson refused to respond to a written inquiry asking for comment on his UNA affiliation and support for its controversial positions. A public affairs officer for the U.S. Mission to the U.N. replied on his behalf, saying Williamson's "past connections" with the UNA would not affect his new role as he now "represents the views of the president and the secretary of state ..."

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when it was thought that the U.S. needed to beef up its representation at the U.N., Williamson's nomination was put on a fast track. It was sent to the Senate on Nov. 1, he was confirmed on Nov. 9, and sworn in to the post in January. His association with UNA made him attractive to liberals in the Senate.

In his new position, Williamson issued an April 4 statement to the U.N. Security Council praising the work of the U.N. World Food Program, which has been accused by a German medical doctor, Norbert Vollertsen, of ignoring the diversion of its humanitarian aid to the communist North Korean regime.

Vollertsen was in North Korea for 18 months and witnessed the diversion of the aid from the starving people who needed it. The U.S. contributes 41 percent of the WPF budget and has donated more than $6 billion since 1992. "A job well done" was the way Williamson described the WPF's efforts, in the statement he issued earlier this month.

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Can you imagine? On April 11 an International Criminal Court (ICC), which would claim moral and legal authority over the United States and the entire planet, was born. Among the several nations ratifying the treaty that day were "such supposed havens of tolerance and due process as Cambodia, Romania, Jordan, and the so-called Democratic Republic of the Congo." (1)

We cannot let this pass. Here's the truth. The real purpose of this court is to grant every communist, tyrant, thug and radical activist a day in court to prosecute the United States.

Think about it. This epitomizes everything U.N. - to bring "law and order" to a community via the empowerment of the mob as peace officer, judge, jury, legislator and mayor.

It's lunacy.

But there's more. The process that created the ICC proves that U.N. claims to a democratic vision are false. Sixty signatures out of a total of 180 member states legitimized this court.

What have we, then? A U.N. that believes in democracy? No. A U.N. Charter modeled after our constitutional republic? Certainly not! A budding communist/fascist dictatorship posturing as the world's freedom fighter? Perhaps.

Consider:

Minority Rule

Minority rule is a principle of "democracy" under communism. Regarding the International Criminal Court, the strategy was to permit member nations to vote (via signature), demonstrating how "democratic" the U.N. is. Next, spit on "democratic" principle by letting 1/3 rule. Finally, insure the leftists in the U.S. media ignore the truth – and poof! "Democracy," U.N. style.

Anti-American Legal Principles

As pro-communist and anti-representative the creation of the ICC was, its legal principles are equally un-American. Consider:

• There is no right to trial by jury.

• There is no right to a speedy trial.

• Judges, prosecutors and counsel are drawn from murderous totalitarian and authoritarian regimes with juridical views completely at odds with Western concepts of law and justice and specifically hateful toward America and Americans.

• There is no appeal of an ICC decision, except to the same ICC court.

• A person convicted under the ICC may be sentenced to prison anywhere in the world the ICC chooses.

• An ICC prosecutor may decide to bring charges against an individual based on NGOs such as the ACLU, the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, etc. (2)

U.N. Founders and Their Agenda

In government nothing occurs by accident. A dark cloud of suspicion has ever hung over the U.N., for good reason.

Of the 17 individuals identified by the U.S. State Department as having helped shape U.S. policy leading to the creation of the United Nations, all but one were later identified as secret members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

Joining them at the U.N.'s founding conference were 43 members of the ultra pro-socialist, globalist Council on Foreign Relations, (six of them also CPUSA members).

The U.N.'s first secretary-general and orchestrator of the San Francisco conference, Alger Hiss, was later convicted as a Soviet agent.

No wonder former top Communist Party member Joseph Z. Kornfeder warned:

"I need not be a member of the United Nations Secretariat to know that the U.N. 'blueprint' is a communist one. ... [The U.N.] and the Kremlin masterminds behind [it] never intended the U.N. as a peacekeeping organization. What they had in mind was a colossal Trojan horse; ... a pattern for sociological conquest; a pattern designed to serve the purpose of Communist penetration of the West. It is ingenious and deceptive."

The ploy? Cry peace! Create a world coalition dominated by nations unfriendly to the United States. Legislate and litigate the U.S. to death.

ICC on the Same Track

From the start, the U.N. has hated America, capitalism and Christianity. Nothing has changed. At any given conference, the U.N. delegates give communist dictator Fidel Castro standing ovations.

Question: Why?

Answer: Castro is the U.N.'s anti-U.S. attack dog, the U.N.'s mentor on employing international law against America.

The ICC thinks like Castro.

The theme of the 1998 ICC founding conference in Rome was gang up on the United States as the sole evildoer in the world. Using vaguely defined crimes of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and aggression - which the ICC asserts jurisdiction over - official ICC delegates and NGO spokesmen condemned the U.S. for war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia and Yugoslavia; for death squads in Guatemala; for unfair application of the death penalty; for economic discrimination; and for excessive deference to victims' rights.

And yet they want more ways to get at the U.S. Thus delegates assured the claimants that the court's future jurisdiction might include ecological crimes, terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, piracy, child pornography, kidnapping, political assassination, religious persecution, discrimination based on sexual orientation, etc.

You see the problem.

The ICC is a bad idea. Coming forth by non-democratic means, with totalitarian legal principles and a sock-it-to-the-U.S. agenda, presents one more layer of evidence that the United Nations is a Trojan horse that ought not to be reformed, but abolished.

Contact Steve at cyours76@yahoo.com.

Action Corner

E-mail your president, senators and representatives and tell them to oppose U.S. acceptance, in any form, of the ICC, and to co-sponsor Ron Paul's H.C.R 23.

Continue to voice your support for H.R. 1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act. Join in the fight and join with the folks at getusout.org. Send a NewsMax.com PriorityGram and have your message hand delivered.

Footnotes

1. Grigg, William Norman. "The Trap is Set," Review of the News Online, April 07, 2002. Visit jbs.org Return

2. Jasper, William F. "The United Nations Exposed," (Appleton WI, The John Birch Society, 2001) pp 146-147 Return

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Thanks for posting this info. Where is this Williamson guy located ? His office location, that is.

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I suppose he is tied to this!

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BTW: I got ill looking at the link in post 10.They best not put this bull$hit in our kids classrooms.

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I want to say Thank You for listing the articles. This is what makes it so much easier for anti UN freaks like myself to pass them along.

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The links don't work in here, so go to post 5.

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I just checked out that which made you sick.

They really are digging in for a stab at it, aye ? And they offer all the answers to all the problems too.

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This is a rather thin article. First, they call Williamson a 'Turner ally', since he was once on the board of the UNA. By the logic in the article, it would be more appropriate to call Williamson a 'Reagan ally', since he was part of the administration, and had a number of other GOP and Reagan connections. But this also would be weak, since Williamson became known politically as a former employee of Congressman Phil Crane of Illinois in the 1970's. He ran Crane's 1980 campaign for President, on the grounds that Reagan was not conservative enough.

The UNA board membership appears to have been a bit of resume padding to increase his credentials as not being too extreme for the Illinois GOP. There is mention of the ICC and other UN horrors without any evidence whatsoever that Williamson supports them. What members of FR may not know is that Kincaid has also been a political activist and moved in much the same circles as Williamson did nearly 25 years ago. The evidence is that this is some sort of personal vendetta by Kincaid against Williamson based on their past association. The fact that this can be used for a little pointless bush-bashing on the part of the NewsMax crowd, to show that they are 'independent' is probably just a bonus to them.

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As seen in the postings some on this thread join your notions and are left wondering who this Richard S. Williamson exactly is. I agree that the article leaves out any bio of this individual but somehow I highly doubt that Mr. Williamson has any conservative leanings politically. After viewing the link in post 10 my GUESS is not too many if any conservatives head for this board of directors of this pro global government,pro educating in our schools (the U.N.'s ideals) propaganda machine.

As far as the ICC references,I do not view it as misleading, it is a breathe of fresh air that any news organization is talking/printing things about the U.N. that are pertinent to our country.

Alamo-Girl, any bio/info on Richard S. Williamson in your DSL?

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LOL! Go here

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I am still checking on his exact political views.

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Ambassador Richard S. Williamson was sworn in as United States Alternate Representative to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs in January 2002.

Prior to assuming this position, Ambassador Williamson was a member of the Chicago-based international law firm of Mayer, Brown and Platt.

Ambassador Williamson's previous government experience includes serving as a member of President Ronald Reagan's senior White House staff in the position of Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations offices in Vienna, Austria; Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations and as a member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control. Ambassador Williamson is the author of four books, editor of three books and the author of over 100 articles on a wide range of pubic policy issues.

Ambassador Williamson received his B.A. degree from Princeton University and his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia. He and his wife Jane have three children. January 2002

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USUN PRESS RELEASE # 3 (02)
January 15, 2002

RICHARD S. WILLIAMSON SWORN IN AS AMBASSADOR FOR SPECIAL POLITICAL AFFAIRS


Ambassador John D. Negroponte, United States Representative to the United Nations, this week swore in  Richard S. Williamson as the new Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs to the United Nations.

Williamson, formerly a partner with the Chicago-based international law firm of Mayer, Brown and Platt, has served as co-chairman of Enterprise Works Worldwide, has been a board member of the United Nations Association - USA, the International Republican Institute and the Foreign Policy Research Institute.  He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

His foreign policy experience includes service as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations from 1988 to 1989, U.S. Ambassador representing the U.S. at the United Nations Office in Vienna, Austria, from 1983 to 1985, and delegate to the U.N. Human Rights Commission in 1987, 1988 and 1989.

Williamson currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the United Nations Association. He has authored five books and over 100 articles for a variety of periodicals. Williamson is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School.

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