U.S. Fumes Over Cuba's Re-Election to U.N. Rights Panel

FNC ^ | 04/30/03 | Jim Angle

[Mo1]

The White House on Tuesday expressed outrage that Cuba has been re-elected to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, only three weeks after rounding up dozens of dissidents and sending them to prison.

And this is one of the reasons that the UN is a complete and total joke

[Redleg Duke]

Any doubt of the irrelevance of the UN can now be safely discarded!

[pianomikey]

Absolutely, completely and in all ways unacceptable. Why don't we just vote in France for the international humility commission? Colombia to the U.N. compassion comission? Why stop there? Let's vote in Amsterdam for morality and decency police, China for the pro-life commission, France for the abstinence commission (can they be on two?), and Switzerland as commander in chief of the UN "peacekeeping forces". And what panel would be complete without raising Stalin from the dead, ressurrecting USSR, and slapping him right on that free speech commission? Hitler for on the International Diversity League? Where does this end?

[pianomikey]

Absolutely, completely and in all ways unacceptable. Why don't we just vote in France for the international humility commission? Colombia to the U.N. compassion comission? Why stop there? Let's vote in Amsterdam for morality and decency police, China for the pro-life commission, France for the abstinence commission (can they be on two?), and Switzerland as commander in chief of the UN "peacekeeping forces". And what panel would be complete without raising Stalin from the dead, ressurrecting USSR, and slapping him right on that free speech commission? Hitler for on the International Diversity League? Where does this end?

[chantal7]

Ok, how much did Castro and Chavez pay Kofi and the U.N.?

[Warren]

RIGHT! This is just the excuse we need to get out of the damn place.

[m1-lightning]

It ends with HR 1146

[JustPiper]

Thanx for the Ping! This is so not right. The UN is a horrific plight against mankind!!!

[pianomikey]

True, but HR 1146 only ends it for the US. The UN is, unfortunately, appearing pretty popular outside the US because it makes all the little 3rd-rate powers with LOUD VOICES (France, Switzerland, to a lesser extent Poland) feel like "Big Men." They need to read Mailer for a white male ego boost!

Alas, I think we're stuck with the UN tumor for a while, even after the US withdraws. Maybe sometime down the road, America will start working on the chemotherapy of dismantling the UN before it goes malignant, if it's not too late. In any case, HR-1146 is the first step.

[Ugly Truth]

Stick in the fork, the UN is....wait a minute. Forget the fork, there's not any meat left in the UN. Let's leave the table before others realize it and beat us to it.

[unixfox]

Here is the link for in-Human Rights

[ohmage]

Getting out of the UN is going to be like backing out of a maze.

Have a look at some of our congressional handiwork. It's called GLOBE USA.

It's stated concern is the environment and though they appear to be playing down their coziness with the UN, in the past they were upfront with their UN affiliation.

And Al Gore really was a founder.

No better place to start exploring than their Members page

http://www.globeusa.org/globeusa/members/members108.html

Don't try to read it all at once, it may affect your health. But do try to read as much as you can

[ohmage]

Here's another site. They have issues already defined, and congressional voting strategies lined up. Step right up and contact your congressman. Let him know you support a UN civilian police force.

I'm not kidding.

http://www.cunr.org

[ohmage]

How could I forget?

http://www.cunr.org has a handy congressional voting guide to see just how global your favorite congress person's outlook is.

It's down the left center portion of the page.

[Jorge]

The UN couldn't be more of a joke if it tried.
These idiots need to have their butts kicked for this fiasco.