Posted on 12/01/2004 5:22:01 AM PST by Quilla
| To: | U.S. President George W. Bush Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay House Majority Whip, Roy Blunt House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi House Minority Whip, Steny Hoyer UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan H.E. Mr. Jean Ping, President, UN General Assembly |
During the past several years, the threat facing the United States of America and much of the world from violent terrorist organizations has grown exponentially. While the United Nations is chartered to promote peace, it's actions recently have made it an accessory to terrorist crimes.
This calls for straightforward action by the people of the United States to protect our national interest. Americans must demand our government remove the United Nations from our borders and cease serving as the major financial supporter of an organization that has veered from its original purpose.
The United Nations was originally founded according to its charter "to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security." However, it has become apparent that leading voices in the United Nations have positioned the organization so that it is increasingly a body that sides with those who find the use of terrorism against unarmed and innocent civilians tolerable.
Instead of serving as a rallying point for free nations and free people to unite to combat terrorism, the United Nations has become a safe harbor, apologist and defender of terrorist organizations and their agents.
Recently it has become clear that none other than the UN General Secretary himself, Kofi Annan, has been implicated in covering up the troubling "Oil for Food" scandal, and stonewalling investigators. The so-called "independent audit" of the alleged misdeeds of the UN's "Oil for Food" program is looking more and more like a whitewash.
Why? Evidence suggests that Mr. Annan and his son, Kojo, may themselves have been involved in wrongdoing in partnership with Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. High-ranking officials throughout the UN are now suspected of financially benefiting from maintaining Saddam Hussein in power, despite his despotic rule and ties to worldwide terrorism and refusal to accept UN resolutions.
Saddam Hussein served as one of the greatest advocates for international terrorism, yet the United Nations is wrought with individuals who became the greatest obstacles for putting an end to his promotion of international terror.
In the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Kofi Annan has added insult to injury by calling the military operation enforcing UN resolutions "illegal." This is despite a series of resolutions, including Resolution 1441, which stated, "the Council has repeatedly warned Iraq that it will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations."
That resolution included a dissenting opinion by three nations. Those nations were France, Russia and China. Evidence has now emerged which implicates those same three nations as being the most actively involved in the UN-Iraq "Oil for Food" corruption scandal.
Money from the "Oil for Food" scheme not only went to pay the families of Palestinian terrorists, and journalists and officials in countries opposing the Iraqi action, but it looks like it also went to purchase the weapons that so called "insurgents" are now using in Iraq to kill coalition forces, Iraqi security forces, and innocent Iraqi civilians.
No longer should the United States of America serve as the host to an institution that serves as a forum for opposition to our national interests. Further, the United States should reexamine the extent of its financial support of such an agency.
The U.S. pays a membership fee to the United Nations of $360 million per year (and billions more in payments to other UN organizations). These are payments made to an organization that is serving as an obstacle in the war against terrorism. That makes no sense, and we must take action to reduce or cancel payment of these fees. [Currently the U.S. pays approximately 22% of the UN's general budget and 27% of peacekeeping budgets.]
We, the undersigned, do therefore call for the following to take place immediately:
Click Here to Sign the Petition
If you think it is time for the UN to get out of the US, please read and consider signing the petition linked above. Thank you.
Sig: DoughtyOne
I am starting a "Get the US out of the UN" ping list. Please let me know if you would like to be notified about the corruption of the UN and efforts to remove their offices from the US.
"Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!"
Perhaps you'll feel the same when nothing but slights come from your petition.
Signed the petition, and I hope we actually will get out of the UN and kick that useless organization out of the US.
We can change things if we all pull together. Good idea.
Yes. And if you are a member of a church, see whether your church has NGO affiliation with the U.N. The United Methodist Church, for example, has close ties with the U.N., and works closely in practice and sympathy with U.N. programs.
Some of these efforts are helpful at the ground level of human suffering but can be and are accomplished more effectively by other means (such as the U.S. military), and without the outright corruption, raping & pillage, support of thugs and hatred of the United States and Israel that so saturates the U.N.
So get the U.S. out of the U.N. And get your church out too.
Mike B.
BOING TO THE TOP!
Good work!
I'll be back a little later.
Please, please, please, ping your lists to sign this petition.
Quilla came up with an excellent idea last night:
Keeping the UN on FR's front page! Way too many
folks still support the UN. They need "eddycatin" as backhoe calls it. :)
Happily signed. If the US doesn't 'deal' with terrorists, then we definitely should not be supporting the United Nations.
Please sign the petition.And let Quilla know if you'd like to be on the
"Get the US out of the UN" ping list.Please put me on, Quilla.
Get the United States out of the United Nations
[Please sign petition]Here is the LINK to the petition.
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.
bumping for self later... thanks, Meekie. Hurricane Season's over yay! Now El Uenno
Thanks for the great big bump Meek! You're on the ping list.
This is an effort by Move America Forward. Although I support their goals, I am not affiliated with their group other than as a signatory.
bump! bump! bump!
Glad to see this thread - and was pleased to watch Howard Kaloogian this morning on Fox News Channel.
The efforts by Norm Coleman, Christopher Shays, Henry Hyde, Scott Garrett (New Jersey) and many others in Congress are quite encouraging. The polls finally show the American public taking a fresh look at the United Nations. It's about time!
Thanks for the ping.
I saw Howard Kaloogian debate some ambassador on Fox News this morning too.
They both agreed that the UN was a disaster, but the Ambassador didn't know what to do about it.
At least Kaloogian has a plan to do something. Because if we don't, you can bet the bad behavior will be repeated.
"If you support terrorists, then you are a terrorist"
The UN supports terrorists and even makes money off them!!
bttt.
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