UN Security Council’s Futile Talkfest on the Venezuela Crisis

Canada Free Press ^ | 01/27/19 | Joseph Klein

[Sean_Anthony]

The Venezuelan people would have appreciated such moral support

The United Nations Security Council met on Saturday to discuss the crisis in Venezuela, after overcoming a procedural vote demanded by Russia. The Putin regime claimed that the economic, political and humanitarian crisis wrought by the catastrophic actions of the Maduro regime was not a proper agenda item for the Security Council to consider. The Security Council, by a procedural vote of 9 in favor (Belgium, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Kuwait, Peru, Poland, United Kingdom, United States) to 4 against (China, Equatorial Guinea, Russian Federation, South Africa), with 2 abstentions (Côte d’Ivoire, Indonesia), adopted the agenda item on Venezuela.

[Jim W N]

The U.N is an exercise in futility for all except one purpose: destroy America and make Global Totalitarian Government happen.

[Larry Lucido]

Less talk, less spam, more donations to FR, Sean.

https://freerepublic.com/donate/

And maybe a full article on occasion, since y’all do own the content and you are taking advantage of FR donors’ generosity.

[NorseViking]

I might be wrong but how is anything happening in Venezuela related to global security?

[reformedliberal]

I might be wrong but how is anything happening in Venezuela related to global security?
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It seems Russia has leased an island slightly NE of Venezuela for missile launches.

I don’t recall precisely how or when, but Maduro has an alliance with Iran.

Seems like a situation that could spark global military emergencies.

[Dick Bachert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rVfWCBaFp4&t=339s
If the video at the link above doesn’t have you alternating between FURIOUS & REASSURED, watch in again until FURIOUS wins.
WHY? Because the centuries old struggle between freedom and slavery, liberty and domination...GOOD vs EVIL has VISIBLY surfaced right here in America in our lifetimes. And that BATTLE will require that EVERY citizen who cares about those things burn with a FURY deep and strong enough to see the battle through to victory. 
Let that fury move you to join the battle by, at the very least, spreading this information to as many others as you can.  Yes, it’s frustrating as you will meet far too many who are either clearly on the other side, can’t be bothered or simply don’t care.  I’ve met hundreds in my 40+ years of doing what little I can to preserve for MY progeny the freedoms I knew in my early life.
Let me close with the wise words of Judge Learned Hand:
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.”  Judge Learned Hand, 1944
(While not a household name, Judge Hand is the jurist most often cited by OTHER judges. You don’t know that because very powerful people don’t WANT YOU TO!)
(If you’re short on time, put the audio on in the background while doing other stuff.  But know that if you do that, you’ll miss some very interesting & informative graphics in his presentation.)
Mr. Jefferson wrote a few words on the topic as well: 
“We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long
as we remain honest — which will be as long as we can keep the
attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to
public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and
governors would all become wolves.”
Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:58
(We have met the enemy and he is US! Now you know HOW WE GOT HERE!)

[shanover]

The UN has never done anything worth its charter. The USA needs to get out of the UN.

[Jim W N]

“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.” Judge Learned Hand, 1944

Wonderful quote.

As I understand it, the oft-quoted phrase, "We have met the enemy and he is us" actually originated somewhere long ago as, "We have met the enemy and he is WITH us", much closer to our current situation.

What we face is what Cicero said about the enemy within, only today's version is the Left:

A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city.

But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero, from a speech given to the Roman Senate, recorded in approximately 42 B.C. by Sallust.

I'm glad to hear from someone who has not been lulled to sleep by so much apathy and carelessness around us.

May God help us to win this battle for souls and for the restoration of our Free Constitutional Republic. As in 1776, we will need the God of miracles to win but as he did for America then, I believe he will do again now - and Trump is the first sign of that happening.

God bless.