US 'must close Guantanamo camp'

The US should close the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba and any secret "war on terror" detention facilities abroad, a United Nations report has said.

The UN Committee against Torture said that detaining persons in such conditions was a violation of the UN Convention against Torture.

It also urged the US to put in place "immediate measures" to eradicate torture of detainees by its troops.

"The state party should cease to detain any person at Guantanamo Bay and close the detention facility," the 11-page report said.

Sorry my FRiend, but the U.N. is as useless as it's predecessor the League of Nations, it is an international cesspool which breeds nothing but anti-Americanism. The U.N. is in fact, a national security risk just being permitted to reside on U.S. soil. They should have been evicted yesterday.

If the U.S. were to pull out of the U.N., it would collapse for two basic reasons:

a.) Our allies would withdraw, rather than to continue to participate in the scam perpetrated upon the world by the con men who run the U.N.,

b.) Russia and China are quite frankly too cheap to pick up the slack for the billions of dollars that would suddenly be missing from the U.N.'s bloated budget, after the U.S. withdrawal.

And if those two reasons are not enough, there is a third reason which is that the United States would very likely form a new alliance of civilized nations, which would exclude the rag tag (and rag headed) tyrannies of the Middle East, the dwindling Communist outposts, and other malcontents.

The criteria for the members of such a new organization should be:

1.) Fair and free elections must be held on a regular basis.

2.) Freedom of expression for all citizens.

3.) Freedom of (not FROM) religion must be permitted.

4.) Fair trade policies (not 'FREE', but FAIR) must be established.

5.) Any previous advocacy of genocide against any other nation must be disavowed and condemned (i.e., member nations will have cordial diplomatic relations with Israel or else they don't get in.)

A new organization like that would help preserve Western civilization, uphold the rights of the individual (as opposed to the Communistic/Fascist approach of the U.N.), and would be a force for truly keeping the peace because the U.S. would be footing the bill, and the Golden Rule would apply:

"He who has the gold, makes the rules."

In other words:

"The only problems arise when we elect a foreign policy push over like Clinton or Carter. A simple fact that we're going to have to prevent in the future by supporting the next closest conservative candidate regardless of how much we disagree with him or her."

And there lies the problem. Conservatives will not hold the White House forever as well as the Congress. The next Klinton/Karter that is in the White House will use the UN and their treaties to subvert and eliminate the Bill of Rights (e.g. the UN position on a global gun ban, or another insane Kyoto treaty). The UN without the US is nothing more than a country club of dictators and an organization without any teeth.

Britain, Austrailia, and someother Democracies/Republics will also leave the UN if the US leaves.

Global trade organizations will be the new UN type organization and without the UN in the US, our enemies will have one less method to insert their spies in the US.

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