Posted on 12/29/2004 7:21:40 PM PST by CHARLITE
My wife would like to see us kick the United Nations out of the United States. I, for one, think it’s a swell idea. What’s more, I’m certain that most New Yorkers feel the same. After all, for the past 58 years, the gang of scofflaws have taken advantage of their diplomatic immunity to be the worst kind of guests.
Double-parking is the least of it.
Probably the only people who would miss these expense account spongers are the waiters and maître d's at the more expensive Manhattan eateries.
My own reason for wanting the U.N. padlocked is because I object to corruption and hypocrisy being passed off as high mindedness. I understand that Kofi Annan, whose name sounds like a 12-step program for caffeine addicts, collected a nice piece of change from Iraq’s phony oil-for-food program. But my problem with the organization is more basic than that, although it does explain how it is that Mr. Annan seems to have a more extensive, more expensive wardrobe than Donald Trump.
People such as John Kerry are always eager to get the U.N.’s good housekeeping seal of approval before America makes a foreign policy decision. Or at least Kerry and company do when there’s a Republican in the White House. I don’t seem to recall its having been quite so imperative when Clinton and Lewinsky were holding down the Oval Office.
Be that as it may, what nation in its right mind would surrender even a scintilla of its sovereignty to a group as loathsome as the member states of the U.N.? I would sooner trust the Mafia to call the shots. You think I’m indulging in hyperbole? At least I have no reason to think that, for all their faults, the Costa Nostra hates America. I mean, consider that among the regimes having votes in the U.N. include the likes of Cuba, China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea to you), Laos, Cambodia, Rwanda, Myanmar, Sudan, Uganda, and two dozen Muslim-dominated dictatorships running the gamut from Bahrain to Yemen. And that’s not even counting France.
Understand, the U.N., while going ballistic over America’s rescuing Iraq from Saddam Hussein’s iron grip, did nothing about genocide in Rwanda and the Sudan. The U.N., while taking every opportunity to chastise Israel, treats Yasir Arafat as if he were another Mother Teresa and his gang of suicide bombers were just so many good Samaritans going about their business.
But even aside from all that, I counted 33 member nations with populations under 1,000,000. In fact, there are a baker’s dozen with populations under 100,000! Around here, we don’t call places that size countries, we call them counties or neighborhoods. The total population of those 33 countries, ranging alphabetically from Andorra (67,509) to San Marino (24,521), is slightly in excess of 10 million, the same as Seoul, Korea, for crying-out-loud! If you can believe it, there are only 16,952 people in Palau. Palau has a seat in the United Nations, and, what’s more, their ambassador can park anywhere he damn well pleases!
You really want Palau having a say in matters of American foreign policy? On top of all that, the U.S. not only pays most of the freight for the U.N., but we don’t even charge them rent. Can you imagine what someone like Trump would pay for that piece of real estate?
So, give me one good reason why these good-for-nothing freeloaders shouldn’t be sent packing. Let them set up camp in The Hague or Geneva or Fallujah, for that matter.
If anyone feels the absolute need for America to belong to a fraternal organization, I would suggest something smaller and a tad more selective, something like the Elks or a summer bowling league.
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Apparently the only way to bring this about is if we all get very rich and vow to contribute to a political party if they boot out the UN.
Amen! The UN should go to Paris.
Well.... actually Geneva, Switzerland is the second city of the UN network. So what about movin' the HQ to good ol' Switzerland?
Get US Out Of The UN.
We should withdraw, then have the marines deliver the eviction notice.
The UN should be disbanded!
I'd write a check for $1,000 if I saw this happen. Who is the addressee, and what is the guarantee?
I'm not sure there's any need to actually kick 'em out. All we have to do is start withholding money again, and the UN would get in financial trouble real fast.
Hopefully the Volcker report will give us a reason to withhold money. If the Volcker report uncovers anything, it'll give people a chance to be anti-UN without being a "kook." We'll be able to say "We won't give another dime until you reform, because we're not going to give money just to have it line the pockets of the bureaucrats and their families."
The camel humpers seem to like to blow up buildings.
We have known about their scum ways for years and yet our representatives won't act. I doubt the report will make much difference, sadly.
Agreed! Lets get rid of'em.
No! I disagree. The UN should have been evicted yesterday....
BTW...the writer of this article sure knows how to write. Says it just the way it ought to be said.
New Yorkers have a game they play with the diplos that double park....it's called "Key the Diplomat"
If they spot a diplo car double parked for any large amount of time, or if they spot a diplo car blocking a driveway not theirs--the car gets keyed.
One local---really fed up with the local diplotrash--went as far as to have the offender towed from his block and taken to the Cross Bronx Expressway where it was left to the mercy of the auto strippers.
The car lasted 20 minutes.
The UN should spend several years in Medina or Mecca. We can than see how all those delegates LOVE to be treated in the sand.
Than move the UN to Nanking China.
As the UN does this the US should leave the UN and the UN should leave the US.
Hmm how come no one in the UN condems the actions in the SUDAN? But if the USA sneezes or Israel kills the terrorists that blow up children the world screams at the UN. SCREW THE UN!!!
...We should withdraw, then have the marines deliver the eviction notice.
I believe that would be Marines.
Semper Fi
New Yorker #1. "Waaaah! Why are we paying the highest local taxes in the country?"
New Yorker #2. "Well someone has to pay for the UN"
New Yorker #1. "But it`s not faaair!! All these diplomats live in the most expensive condos on Park Avenue, demand 24 hour round the clock police protection, shut off entire blocks to traffic and yet they STILL don`t do ANYTHING for us!!"
New Yorker #2. "True true. So lets vote Republican next time so something finally gets done about this"
New Yorker #1. "What are you kidding? What will Hitlery say? Break our record of voting for Democrats in all 52 districts year after year after year? Nooo....WAAAY!"
NEW YORK! YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE!
New York...The France of the East Coast. There`s a good reason Hitlery picked New York. Maybe some New Yorker can tell me what`s she done since being elected besides marching in gay parades and promoting her book.
Your NYC city council...99% `Rats only to be re-elected again even after they were found ripping off the city, and what did that douche metrosexual Gifford do about it? Absolutely nothing. All he does is spend loot. So what if `Rat council members spend half a mill to re-decorate their offices, lets vote for them over and over and over because I`m a moron New Yorker.
http://www.nyccouncil.info/constituent/member_list.cfm
MoveAmericaForward.com is actively lobbying to have the UN evicted.
http://moveamericaforward.com/
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