Clinton: Prepare for globalism - a future when America no longer "the biggest dog on the street"

The Villager ^ | January 19, 2002 | Elizabeth O'Brien

[HAL9000]

Clinton talks on the global economy at N.Y.U.

Former President Bill Clinton called on an audience of students to prepare for a future when America will no longer be "the biggest dog on the street" at the keynote address Tuesday of a New York University forum on globalization.

The current globalized world is not sustainable economically, politically or from a security vantage point, Clinton said at the second annual conference co-sponsored by New York University and the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation. Clinton spoke to an audience of about 450 students and guests.

"On Sept. 11, 2001, members of Al Quaeda used the forces of globalization - open borders, easy immigration, easy travel, easy access to information technology - to kill 3,100 people from 70 countries in three cities in the U.S.," Clinton said.

There are ways to improve our security without sacrificing civil liberties, Clinton stressed. For starters, our government needs to start using the same kinds of tracking systems employed by direct marketers and credit card companies, he said.

With such technology the government in a short period of time can track people who have multiple addresses on file, such as Sept. 11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, who had 12 addresses registered in the U.S, Clinton said. The government could also monitor people who have accrued a lot of credit card debt, he added, giving the example of the Sept. 11 terrorist who racked up $260,000 of debt on 30 credit cards.

Profiling people according to their movements or debt is much preferable than "profiling people because of their religion or ethnic heritage or whatever else," Clinton said, adding that people with such extreme habits were "either rich or up to no good."

The former president also touched on topics including the nuclear crisis in North Korea, economic initiatives in Africa, the Kyoto protocol on global warming and primary education in Mexico and Brazil. He said that the U.S. must help create a global society with "shared benefits, shared responsibility and shared values."

Clinton acknowledged that, "this is not the sexiest subject on the block." But he tried his best to add some flair with the analogy, "If none of us ever joined anything unless we got our way all the time, nobody would get married."

Students had high marks for the former chief executive.

"He throws out a lot of different tidbits of information about different countries," said Hiss an Baja, a 22-year-old first-year law student from California, adding, "The reason I came to N.Y.U. Law is because it's known as the global law school."

The day featured three panels on important topics in the globalization debate. Panelists included Robert Rubin, former secretary of the Treasury; Sandy Berger, former National Security Advisor to President Clinton; and George Soros, the investor and philanthropist. Moderators included Bernard Shaw, C.N.N.'s former anchor; and Karen DeYoung, associate editor at the Washington Post.

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[bmwcyle]

Clinton thought that giving China military secrets would equalize world power. The Rosenbergs thought the same thing. They fried for their actions.

[dirtboy]

There are ways to improve our security without sacrificing civil liberties, Clinton stressed. For starters, our government needs to start using the same kinds of tracking systems employed by direct marketers and credit card companies, he said.

Considering that direct marketers do cartwheels if they get a one percent response rate for their mailings, I would hardly believe it a worthwhile investment to spend billions of dollars developing a computer system that would create a list of potential terrorists where one percent may actually be terrorists. And the rate would probably be much lower - the average consumer is not trying to mask his or her buying habits, but a terrorist who is aware that such a system is in place will take steps to cover his purchases.

[dirtboy]

Former President Bill Clinton called on an audience of students to prepare for a future when America will no longer be "the biggest dog on the street" at the keynote address Tuesday of a New York University forum on globalization.

Yeah, and Slick spent eight years doing his level best to start us on that journey. Too bad for his vision of American decline that he has been so soundly repudiated.

[Quix]

PLEASE CONSIDER printing and giving out in your daily life the SHRILLERY HILLARY/ REAL HILLARY FREEPCARDS available in doug from upland's REAL HILLARY Episodes 3 & 5. There's another one available but I forget which thread. Thread 5 has 11 cards double-sided.

We must prayerfully prevent the witch-b*tch from getting close to the White House again.

[Travis McGee]

I'm not sure about drug through the streets, but they were hung upside down naked and pelted with garbage.

[Quix]

WELL SAID.

QUITE TRUE.

[Paulus Invictus]

And son't forget Mad Maddie, Bill Richardson, Ron Brown (RIP), Her Heinous, the leftist media and several US companies that sold their secret goods to China. Traitors all!

[Quix]

ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON.

[Quix]

WELL SAID. I AGREE. I think he'd lick any popcicle offered.

[Quix]

WITH HIM AS MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS among the top of the heap.

[Eva]

Yes, and Clinton worked hard to insure that the US would not be the biggest dog on the street. This was a major part of the Clinton agenda, as described by Sidney Blumenthal. Clinton's world view centered around the "Third Way", which differed from Bush's (I) New World Order in that Clinton saw the world as a flat organizational chart, whereas the New World Order included a pyramidal organization with the US at the top, helping to lift the others as the need presented itself.

[Quix]

Ah yes.

You know, we've had the traveling White House exhibit.

It seems to me they could be so positioned on a big flatbed lowboy with baskets of rotten eggs and garbage placed handily there-around.

Trouble is, Ever Xth person would be too delighted to flay them alive.

[Quix]

For sure.

How do we boycott so many household word companies?

[sunshine state]

Probably someone else has responded by now, but if not... I believe Veritas means 'truth' (I'm surprised the podium didn't burst into flames).

[nightdriver]

"Students had high marks for the former chief executive.

This is the part that saddens me. High susceptibility to B.S.

[Paul Ross]

That is the saddest web site. The alleged Werner Von Braun stuff is just plain 'out there'. There were no terrorists (other than the IRA) back when he was alive in the 60s. The Cooper quote is fiction. The other stuff about UFOs are a pastiche of real and unreal conspiracy factoids. US replicas of UFOs are a fantasy. The energy stuff is just pure '100 mpg carburator' stuff. And btw, Asteroids ARE, and always have been, a real threat to homo sapiens. Remember what happened to the dinosaurs? Mankind has been around this planet, in some form, only at best, several million years. We are and have been living on an unprotected planet which is just a punching bag for stray asteroids. It is only a matter of time, statistically before the planetary Russian Roulette wheel spins adversely against us. Simple prudence dictates a reasonable insurance policy.

[friendly]

I agree. I do not need manipulative pontificating from a traitor and his evil crew, along with that vile "wife" monster that infests Congress.

[Pagey]

But he tried his best to add some flair with the analogy, "If none of us ever joined anything unless we got our way all the time, nobody would get married."

This guy Represented the USA to the world for 8 years and speaks gobbledy-gook like this to Law Students? Will it ever end?

[timestax]

bill clintoon is one SICK dog!

[timestax]

This is the part that saddens me. High susceptibility to B.S. 195 posted on 01/20/2003 8:29 AM PST by nightdriver [

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