Outstanding idea!
Posted on 09/22/2004 5:05:47 AM PDT by beaureguard
John Kerry and his keepers are making a big deal out of the cool reception President Bush received at the United Nations yesterday. Even some members of the media are joining in. I listened to a CNN newscast where it was reported that Bush's speech was not interrupted once by applause, and that there was only polite applause at the finish. This is supposed to give you the idea that Bush's speech was in contrast with other foreign leaders who are apparently met with with multiple interruptions of raucous applause and a balloon drop at the end.
Compare the approach of CNN with that of Fox News. Fox reported that the custom at the UN is that speeches are not to be interrupted with applause, and that applause at the end of the speech is to be merely polite. You are, however, allowed to hammer your shoe on the table if that floats your particular boat. This report by Brit Hume is, of course, further proof that Fox News is merely a sounding board for right wing kooks.
But what about the speech itself? The speech was a home run .. the crowd just doesn't understand baseball. Bush's speech was filled with the kind of thing that the UN diplomats, dictatorships didn't want to hear. Bush talked of all sorts of crazy stuff about liberty, democracy, human rights, freedom and dignity. Those are the kinds of things that the United Nations is supposed to stand for, but clearly does not. Never really has.
President Bush told the UN diplomats that "Both the American Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaim the equal value and dignity of every human life. That dignity is honored by the rule of law, limits on the power of the state, respect for women, protection of private property, free speech, equal justice, and religious tolerance." Limits on the power of the state? Just how many of the people in that audience wanted to hear any nonsense on limiting the power of the state? And what's this about protection of private property? Doesn't Bush understand that all property really belongs to the state? Free speech? Religious tolerance? Who is this cowboy trying to kid?
Do you know what these delegates really wanted to hear? They wanted the type of speech that John Kerry would deliver. They wanted to hear of appeasement. They wanted to hear that the United States was fully prepared to cripple it's own manufacturing economy for the sake of strengthening the economies of Euro-weenies and third-world dictators. They wanted to hear that American would, from this point on, only send its troops overseas when the United Nations approved. They wanted a speech ringing with the surrender of American sovereignty. Elect The Poodle this year and they may get exactly what they want next year ... but for now they deal with George Bush.
The fact is that the United Nations does not share the values of the United States. Try as he might, President Bush cannot say or do anything that will put the miserable and blatantly anti-American United Nations in a positive light. They have been a failure. It may no longer be in the best interests of the United States to continue participating. After all, we're paying the majority of the bill for this pathetic waste of avaluable New York real estate. Anyway, back to the speech.
Bush then started off six paragraphs with the phrase "Because we believe in human dignity..." and went on to talk about things that the United States has done to make the world a better place. Fighting AIDS, poverty, human trafficking, debt relief and so on. But you see, that doesn't matter. No matter what America does, it is never enough. There was nothing Bush could have said to that inept body yesterday that would have made them view America in a positive light. Nothing.
They hate the United States for the same reason terrorists do. They hate our freedom, they hate our way of life, they hate our economic and military strength. It's time to go.
Just one idea to leave you with. Can you imagine what would happen if the United States announced that at some time certain it was going to withdraw from the United Nations and cease all further funding. At that time the United States would form a new international organization loosely modeled after the UN .. but with one huge difference. Only states who's leaders are popularly elected in open and free elections, and who place civilians in charge of the military, will be allowed to join.
The one thing that stands out in the UDOHR is the lack of limits on government.
Like all Socialist "Constitutions" the document tells people what they may, or may not, do, but doesn't give them a limited government as our Constitution does.
A constitution based on limited government would never appear in a socialist state because Socialists cannot think in terms of a government that is limited in any way.
If this sounds like the Democrats then you can understand why Democrats are merely Socialists under a different name.
President Bush did exactly as he needed to do in the speech. He kept to his word of 3 years ago when he said, ""We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail." The anti-Americans in the room don't matter in the long run.
Its reported that the UN needs a new building...
Love that last paragraph!
Bush talked about freedom and honorable actions so of course, he didn't get an ecstatic reception. These UN goons have presided over millions of deaths without lifting a hand and in some cases exacerbating the situation.
I saw a photo that Reuters is running today of Kofi Annan and Bush toasting with a glass of wine.
No doubt the DUmmies will be all over it this morning calling Bush a drunk!
The one obstacle to this is that it seems almost inconceivable to most people that the United Nations might be disbanded. It's an entrenched institution.
However, the League of Nations, which preceeded the UN, was justifiably disbanded and so too can the UN be disbanded.
Maybe it's a shocking thought now, but people will get used to it.
Outstanding idea!
Very good idea.
It is my understanding that it is customary at the UN to NOT applaud during a speech.
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