Anyway, just how much tourism, big business conferences, etc do they have in NK?
Posted on 09/23/2008 4:04:13 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) introduced legislation today that would effectively move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States. The legislation is being introduced amid incessant anti-American and anti-Jewish political grandstanding from the podium of the General Assembly.
“The U.N. has coddled brutal dictators, anti-Semites, state sponsors of terrorism, and nuclear proliferators – while excluding democratic countries from membership and turning a blind eye to humanitarian tragedies and gross violations of human rights around the globe,” Tancredo said. “The U.N.’s continued presence in the United States is an embarrassment to our nation, and the time has come for this ineffective organization to pack its bags and hit the road.”
The United Nations is hosting dictators from around the world this week, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s brutal dictator. His speech has drawn thousands of protestors in New York City.
Tancredo’s bill, dubbed the U.N. Eviction Act, would direct Attorney General Michael Mukasey to initiate condemnation proceedings against all United Nations properties within the United States, and sell the property to the highest bidder on the open market. The proceeds will be given to the Treasury Department to pay down the national debt. The bill would also bar the future purchase of property in the United States or U.S. territories by the U.N. or any of its agencies, and revokes the diplomatic privileges and immunities that U.N. officials and representatives currently enjoy.
“I refuse to sit idly by while Americans are forced to host Islamofascist dictators, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, so they can spew anti-American rhetoric just blocks from Ground Zero,” Tancredo continued. The United Nations, an organization known for its bureaucracy and conciliatory actions, has become a showcase for anti-American dictators like Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro and, of course, Ahmadinejad. The organization has also become little more than a rubber stamp for Chinese and Russian foreign policy initiatives – blocking membership by the democratic nation of Taiwan in the world body, and failing to take any meaningful steps to halt the ongoing genocide in Sudan or the illicit nuclear programs in North Korea and Iran.
“If the U.N. is so keen to accommodate the foreign policy demands of rogue nations and dictatorships, perhaps the world body might be more comfortable relocating to one,” concluded Tancredo. “I’m sure Ban Ki-Moon will have no trouble securing a new location in downtown Pyongyang or Tehran.”
Yes, kick the UN out.
Who was our deputy ambassador to the U.N. around 1981, who endorsed to their utter shock the Soviet ambassador’s sudden proposal to move the United Nations headquarters to Moscow?
Anatoly Dobrynin stuttered and stammered that, uh, well, the Soviet capital uh, just didn’t have the physical resources to host that huge of an international bureaucracy, and, well, New York will do just fine for now.
Anyway, I say move the U.N. to...... Tehran? Cairo? Islamabad?
Or some other Third World Islamic s***hole.
Screw that nonsense.Just get out there with a Hundred D-9 cats and some battleship chain and pull the SOB of its foundation.They will leave on there own accord. I am only half kidding.
BTTT
Myanmar is my top choice.
That would be a Prayer answered, wouldn’t it?
That’s one of the few things I liked about Giuliani, he harassed them to no end.
Tanc should run for the Senate, his voiced is drowned out in the House. Or, McCain can appoint him as Ambassador to the U.N. LOL
I know but it’s nice to have a big ol’ beautiful dream at least for today.
Absolutely! And use the office space (after fumigation) to replace office space lost on 9/11.
Anyway, just how much tourism, big business conferences, etc do they have in NK?
The question you ask raises even more of a WTF than the hideousness of the structure itself. Maybe the Ronery Reader was planning to invite every Elvis impersonator in the world to his birthday bash and he needed somewhere to house them? Makes as much sense as a 3000 room hotel in Pyongyang.
Makes too much sense to ever go anywhere. I fully agree with Representative Tancredo.
For the U.N. to really move to another country, there need to be intermediate steps leading up to that action. You don't take up jogging by running a marathon, but by running a mile, then a couple, etc.
A few intermediate steps:
- Refuse to allow Ahmadinejad to come to the U.S.
- Cut U.S. funding of the U.N. by a significant amount.
- Tie U.S. funding to the meeting of goals for fiscal transparency (fight corruption), effectiveness (fight failure), etc.
- Get serious about vetting foreign diplomats for espionage ties, make the vetting process cumbersome (and effective)
- Have NYC get serious about rampant parking violations by diplomats who supposedly run up millions in parking fines that go unpaid, and generally park like they're king
We need to push on a number of issues, and get some cracks in the big wall, before we can think of knocking the wall down.
The most important of these ideas, by far, is to push for a serious cut in American funding of this despicable organization.
The downside is that there’s no other congresscritter who would even consider offering such a bill and Mr Tancredo is retiring.
I imagine he threw this in the ring as a farewell. He’s been fighting long and hard against illegal immigration so why not go out with a swat an the UN too.
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