Posted on 10/30/2002 3:59:17 AM PST by madfly
At a time when President Bush is pleading with the United Nations for permission to wage war on Iraq, he has assigned U.S. troops to wear U.N. uniforms and report to a foreign U.N. commander.
The pro-U.N. policy represents a violation of a Bush campaign promise and the 2000 Republican Party platform. It also represents a continuation of a policy that began under former President Clinton, who ordered the prosecution of a U.S. Army soldier who refused to join the U.N. Army.
The United States Military Observer Group in the Pentagon confirms that U.S. soldiers wear U.N. blue berets and U.N. shoulder patches as members of UNOMIG – the United Nations Observer Mission in the country of Georgia. Soldiers ordered assigned to this mission wear this U.N. uniform. What´s more, they receive a United Nations physical examination before deployment to the mission and the U.N. pays some expenses associated with it. The purpose is to supervise the cease-fire between Georgia and Abkhazia. The U.S. troops take orders in the mission from a foreign commander named Major-General Kazi Ashfaq Ahmed of Bangladesh. After their service, members of UNOMIG may receive a ribbon described as "Central stripe of UN blue, flanked by white and green stripes, with dark blue edges."
President Clinton´s order to U.S. troops to wear a U.N. uniform was extremely controversial, unpopular, and alleged to be illegal and unconstitutional. House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Delay sponsored a bill to prohibit the wearing of a U.N. uniform by U.S. service personnel. This bill was a reaction to the case of U.S. Army soldier Michael New, who had refused to wear a U.N. uniform and was court-martialed and discharged for bad conduct by Clinton.
Such a bill was considered unnecessary under President Bush because he – and the Republican Party – had made it absolutely clear that he would never order U.S. troops to serve under U.N. command. "I will never place U.S. troops under UN command," candidate Bush said in his speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, November 19, 1999. The 2000 Republican Party Platform declared that "…American troops must never serve under United Nations command."
My 15 year-old son wrote a report on this matter. He said:
"What is a hero? What acts do they do? They do many things: championing a good cause, going beyond the call of duty, and acting wisely under pressure to name just a few of the good things that heroes do. My paper is on Michael New; a soldier who refused to comply with unconstitutional orders from a higher command and then was discharged from the army because of it.
"In July of 1995, Army specialist Mike New was informed that his infantry would be going to Macedonia as part of a ‘peacekeeping´ operation. In August, he was told that his unit would be required to wear a U.N. beret and patch. He was told the order to wear the U.N. uniform was lawful because ‘the president said so therefore it is.´ But nobody ever provided a legal rational for this. Eventually, a battalion briefing offered the justification that ‘We wear the U.N. uniform because it looks fabulous.´ He refused to wear the uniform. In his oath, he said he would fight for the U.S., not the U.N. or some other foreign power. But Bill Clinton had ordered this without even Congress´ approval and he knew it was unlawful. This, he knew, violated his oath as a soldier. He didn´t wear the uniform like everybody else was doing. Instead Michael New did what was right and what was just, and by not wearing that uniform, risked everything.
"In terms of going beyond the call of duty, I believe Michael New went far beyond the call of duty. Now only was he willing to fight, he was also willing to put everything on the line to do what was right. And if he had to do it all over again, he would.
"Michael New definitely risked his life, future, and reputation by saying no to this illegal order. He knew that he would be court-martialed for doing what was right. His case is still in the courts. He was discharged from the army for ‘Bad Conduct.´ He knew that he could have gone to jail and that he´d have that mark on his record. But those were sacrifices he was willing to make for the good of the country. Michael New faced scrutiny from military officers. Yet he still stands strong in his belief that when you sign up for the U.S. military, you aren´t fighting for the U.N. of for some foreign regime; you´re fighting for America.
"He serves as a calling to my higher self because he acts wisely under pressure. He also does the right thing even though he knows the consequences. Michael New is willing to stand up for what is right. I admire these traits a lot and how he, with a promising military career ahead of him, decided he´d do the right thing and end up having to give it up. "In conclusion, I believe that Michael New is a great person. He shows leadership, champions a good cause, and fights for what is right. He acts wisely under pressure and risked his future for the country."
My son recognized a basic truth that has been lost on President Bush. The President must reverse course, order our troops out of their U.N. uniforms, and reaffirm their commitment as U.S. soldiers dedicated to protecting the U.S. Constitution.
To comment on this article or express your opinion directly to the author, you are invited to e-mail Cliff at antiun@earthlink.net .
FYI: The UN is NOT our friend. This is but a small part of what they have instore for the US and the rest of the world with their New World Order.
UN ATTACKS FREEDOM'S FOUNDATIONS
By Tom DeWeese
August 26, 2002
NewsWithViews.com
Name any aspect of your life that you believe is your right as an American citizen to determine and it will be taken away from you in the name of "Sustainable Development." "Sustainable Development" is the phrase that those who seek to control the world use to hide their totalitarian ambitions. Sustainable Development is a horror that hardly anyone in this nation understands or even cares to oppose. It can be ignored only at the peril of everything you hold dear including individual liberty, private property, free enterprise, freedom to travel, freedom of association, and life itself.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development, beginning August 26th in Johannesburg, South Africa, is the United Nations' plan to impose this Orwellian agenda on this nation and the world.
Here is the definition of a sustainable community from the Report of the President's Council: "Sustainable Communities encourage people to work together to create healthy communities where natural resources and historic resources are preserved, jobs are available, sprawl is contained, neighborhoods are secure, education is lifelong, transportation and health care are accessible, and all citizens have opportunities to improve the quality of their lives."
These noble sounding goals hide an agenda that would transfer power from elected representatives to a local committee or council that will set "a vision" for the city. They will put a plan together for the future development of the community. The plan, however, will not be written by the committee. The blue print will come out of Washington, DC.
Individual landowners and businessmen will have little or no real input. Instead, they will be stripped of their property rights in order to "protect" open space and historic buildings. The committee will control the use of all private property. This right is so precious, it is protected by the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. To insure the success of Sustainable Development, the committee will insure that everyone have the right attitudes, values and beliefs. These attitudes are already being taught in our nation's schools. This is why our educational system, so far as teaching the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic, are in a total meltdown. It is no longer education; it is indoctrination.
Utilizing a United Nations program as its guide, neighborhood by neighborhood, people will be taught how important it is to protect the environment, how evil sprawl can be to the Sustainable Development plans. Sustainable Development will also set up government-sponsored clinics with tax-paid healthcare.
Sustainable Development believes that people must be weaned from the use of their own automobiles, so public transportation will be emphasized. It will emphasize building light rail trains and bus lines to get us around to our jobs. It will emphasize designing housing developments around the rail and bus lines so they are within walking distance for everyone. In time, cars will be banned from streets during certain hours of the day, then banned entirely. In his book, "Earth in the Balance", former Vice President Al Gore advocates "eliminating the internal combustion engine."
There are other things that the committee will find necessary to ban. Single family homes that "waste" precious land will be deemed unnecessary. Any further suburban housing will be banned.
The committee will also look after public health. People will be required to eat properly. That's why they will determine that precious farmland cannot be "wasted" on raising cattle for beef consumption. Beef is harmful to your health, so it will be banned. Wheat and soy will be grown on that land instead. With our new healthy diet, as outlined by the committee, we will no longer need things like 7-11's and McDonald's and their unhealthy fast foods and snacks. They will be banned.
Sustainable Development fears overpopulation. The committee will decide the proper number of people who can live in community limits. Some strict guidelines will be imposed for the sake of the community's well being and for the protection of the environment. Limits on the number of children a family can have will be imposed.
This is not about "preserving the environment of future generations." This is about totalitarianism. It's about controlling every aspect of our lives with decisions made by committees that will grow more powerful and more oppressive with every passing day and with each new regulation proposed by empowered special interest groups. There will be no satisfying their lust for power. There will be no part of our lives that is overlooked or uncontrolled.
© 2002 Tom DeWeese - All Rights Reserved
Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report and president of the American Policy Center, a grassroots, activist think
"...the one I'm familiar with is silent on the subject. Which clause is it that forbids service with the United Nations..."
Which clause permits it ??
So...the Army guys can 'pick-n-chose' what "Parts" of the Constitution to Defend and which parts not to ??
...how utterly laughable....
If they swore to "Defend" it....they swore to all of it. Not just the parts that they agree with.
...no...wait.....
I guess if they were democraps they can do such as that, can't they ?
Okay Speedy Gonzalez....
Why should he tell our guys to die for some bastard in some other country? ....when they swore to defend the U.S. of A.
Let's face it, other than you loathing for the United Nations, which I won't say I disagree with totally, you have no grounds for saying that New violated his oath. New doesn't have any, either. So deal with it. He took his shot, made his stand, stood up for what be believed in, and paid the price when others determined he was wrong. He doesn't have to accept the decision but he might as well grow up and live with it because, well, because he was wrong.
sounds plausible to me ;)
They're all the rage with our Republican administration, don't you know ...
That's funny. Could it be that DEMOs are in our face and the REPOs are up our collective arses. Kinky!!
But remember it is for the return of our government to Cornstitutional Prinziples. The same??????? prinziples that have mutated to where the relatives of dead POLs lay claim to offices they were never elected to or even publicly aspired to before the the morphing.
What mischief will Bush cause after this election?? A serious question.
CATO
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