The vote is meaningless, of course. The U.N. overwhelmingly supports Iran and hates Israel, but it's still a good message to send to the world.
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His complete agreement with leftist moonbat Dennis Kucinich on this is purely a coincidence.
I guess Ron Paul read something in the Constitution about genocide that the rest of us missed.
In past threads... I and other FReepers have noticed the similarities. More proof...
This resolution was directed at the UN security council. Kucinich's statement is implicitly acknowledging that the council is useless and will not act to aid Israel. Why else would there be an "unprovoked war" if the council was going to act against Iran? Even a nut like Kucinich can read the writing on the wall with these useless sacks.
Ron Paul always votes against any US involvement with the UN in any capacity. His opposition to inclusion of the UN in the making of US foreign policy -- and, for that matter, having anything whatsoever to do with the UN -- is nothing new.
Nonsense. Kucinich probably opposed it because he in some twisted way supports Amadinejad, but I'm certain Ron Paul opposed it simply because the US Constitution doesn't recognize the authority and legitimacy of the UN.
paul doesnt want to charge him he rather have him as a guest when he takes over for fat rosie on the view
Birds of a feather.
Bookends of the political spectrum
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I think it's a good idea irrespective of Ron Paul's opinion. I'd speculate that Ronald Reagan didn't implement the Genocide Convention hoping it wouldn't be used. Wonder if he asked Ron's opinion before signing?
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Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 - Ronald Reagan address - transcript
US Department of State Bulletin, Jan, 1989
President Reagan's remarks at the signing ceremony of the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987 in Chicago on November 4, 1988, and the text of a White House fact sheet.
PRESIDENT'S REMARKS'
We gather today to bear witness to the past and learn from its awful example to make sure we are not condemned to relive its crimes. I am today signing the Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987, which will permit the United States to become party to the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide that was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1948.
During the Second World War, mankind witnessed the most heinous of crimes-the Holocaust. After the war, the nations of the world came together and drafted the genocide convention as a howl of anguish and an effort to prevent and punish future acts of genocide. The United States signed the convention and in 1949, President Truman requested the Senate's advice and consent to ratification.
In 1986, the Senate gave its consent conditioned upon enactment of implementing legislation. We finally close the circle today by signing the implementing legislation that will permit the United States to ratify the convention and formally join 97 nations of the world in condemning genocide and treating it as a crime.
I am delighted to fulfill the promise made by Harry TI-uman to all the peoples of the world-and especially the Jewish people. I remember what the Holocaust meant to me as I watched the films of the death camps after the Nazi defeat in World War Two. Slavs, Gypsies, and others died in the fires as well. And we've seen other horrors this century-in the Ukraine, in Cambodia, in Ethiopia. They only renew our rage and righteous fury and make this moment all the more significant for me and all Americans.
Under this legislation, any U.S. national or any person in the United States who kills members of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group with the specific intent of destroying that group in whole or in substantial part, may spend his or her life in prison. Lesser acts of violence are punishable by as much as 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million. While I would have preferred that Congress had adopted the Administration's proposal to permit the death penalty for those convicted of committing genocidal murders, this legislation still represents a strong and clear statement by the United States that it will punish acts of genocide with the force of law and the righteousness of justice.
Timing of the enactment is particularly fitting, for we are commemorating a Week of Remembrance of the Kristallnacht, the infamous "night of broken glass," which occurred 50 years ago on November 9, 1938. That night, Nazis in Germany and Austria conducted a nationwide pogrom against the Jewish people. By the morning of November 10th, scores of Jews were dead, hundreds bleeding, shops and homes in ruins, and synagogues defiled and debased. That was the night that began the Holocaust, the night that should have alerted the world to the gruesome design of the final solution.
This legislation resulted from the cooperation of our Administration and many in Congress-such as Congressmen Henry Hyde, Jack Davis, and John Porter, and Senator Bill Proxmire-to ensure that the United States redoubles its efforts to gain universal observance of human rights.
We pay tribute to those who suffered that night and all the nights that followed upon it with our action today.
Show of hands. Who’s going to vote for Ron Paul? Raise your hand now, so I’ll know whose posts not to bother reading, unless I need a good laugh.
Good for Paul and Kucinich. We shouldn’t be in favor of the UN conducting international tribunals.
Oh, that makes it okay then. So long as Israel is destroyed through "democratic means." /sarcasm.
For those defending Bubble Boy it is worth reading what he said about the vote. Get out your puke bucket because I could swear this is Chamberlain speaking:
This resolution is an exercise in propaganda that serves one purpose: to move us closer to initiating a war against Iran. ...
I hope my colleagues understand that a vote for this bill is a vote to move us closer to war with Iran.
Clearly, language threatening to wipe a nation or a group of people off the map is to be condemned by all civilized people. And I do condemn any such language. But why does threatening Iran with a pre-emptive nuclear strike, as many here have done, not also deserve the same kind of condemnation? ...
Restoring cooperation between Washington and Tehran is the single most important step that could be taken to rescue the US from its predicament in Iraq.” General Odom makes good sense. We need to engage the rest of the world, including Iran and Syria, through diplomacy, trade, and travel rather than pass threatening legislation like this that paves the way to war.
Just maybe some in congress are beginning to realize the futility of meaningless and easily ignored symbolic measures and motions. Kucinich and Paul are the smart ones in this. If the useless congress wants to do something to actually help out, they could mount a serious drive to get us the hell out of the U.N. or force those international thugs to move out of our territory.
Ron Paul say a lot of good things...but Ive made up my mind he is a flake. Did he vote no because of the UN??? Or perhaps he has other motives...I surely don’t know or care.