UN resolution to eject the United States from the United Nations

ArabicNews ^ | 3/15/2003 | abbadabba

[Bernard Marx]

To quote Hamlet, "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished." Wonder what those twits will do when they have to pay their own bills?

[Porterville]

Oh no, this has got to be from the Onion. The dictators in the UN are pissed cause the didn't get their way, bring it on!!

[vaudine]

When did it go down to 20%? I thought it had always been 25% or more.

vaudine

[Kay Soze]

This from a culture that believes if you kill someone for religious purposes you go to heaven… and get 72 virgins.

A culture that still sleeps in the dirt and in caves

[xm177e2]

I have been saying we need a united democracies too.

Other nations could be gallery countries that watch, but are not allowed to vote.

This would create incentives for countries to become certified democracies.

What we should have a is a United Democracies where votes are counted on the formula of "population size" * "human rights" where human rights is on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being just barely free enough to participate in the UD and 10 being almost perfectly free. The "human rights" category should be only the most basic and most important rights, like those found in the Constitution (except maybe the 2nd Amendment, I don't think we would penalize other countries for deciding differently on that matter). This way, we wouldn't have to suck up to tiny countries like Guinea for no good reason, and we wouldn't have to suck up to dictatorships like China. We wouldn't have to worry about France because they would be too sophisticated to join a coalition if their good friend Mugabe wasn't invited. Countries not meeting human rights standards would automatically have zero votes, because of their human rights score.

We would have to divide the number of votes by some huge number like 10M or 100M or America could conceivably have 3 billion votes in the UD (which would take a hell of a long time to hand count if Gore got snippy).

This would create a direct incentive for countries to democractize and grant basic rights to the citizens, even if they are relatively free countries (like the UK, for example, which would lose some votes over free speech issues). It would not have any affect on dictators like Mugabe, because he knows he's not even going to make the floor value to get into the UD, so there's no point in his trying to democractize. But I really can't see any other international system that would encourage him to make his country freer short of threatening to do to him what Bush is doing to Hussein right now.

[aruanan]

It is time to kick the USA out of the UN Security Council for starters, or out of the United Nations if need be.

Oh, please don't throw us in that briar patch!

[aruanan]

Please, oh please, don't throw me into the briar-patch.

That was the first thing that came to my mind too. Yes, let the UN move to Paris. Let the French look on their hoarded treasures of artistically far more creative ages than the present, think about the planned Muslim takeover of Europe, and reflect on what happened to the ancient Buddhist statues of Afghanistan.

[ECM]

Talk about a dream come true :)

[altair]

Works for me.

[demosthenes the elder]

oh, please, please, brer fox, don' throw me in thet thar briar patch!

[demosthenes the elder]

drat, you beat me to it!

[demosthenes the elder]

as opposed to what they do now?

[demosthenes the elder]

I don't know where THAT came from, but you owe me a new keyboard, dude.

[wayne_shrugged]

We've been fired from the UN?

Where do we collect unemployment?

[Mihalis]

...The tactics the US is using are those of despots, and dictatorships...

LOL......This is so much fun !

Can the Arabic world show anything other than despots and dictators?

[America's Resolve]

Pyongyang, North Korea

Let em see the kind of places they support up close!

[jwh_Denver]

Alright, tons of laughs and all that but what Freeper wrote this?

[ApesForEvolution]

Hmm. An opportunity to end our part of a hegemonic world 'democratic' government (held hostage by tyrannical/communist despots)...what a *GREAT* day it will be when the UN folds and is no longer acting against American sovereignty and security. This notion will be a great day.

However, the Word of God makes it clear that an international body will take control and dominate all of the world's people. If not the UN, something more advanced and dangerous.

Funny...those shouting in the desert about world government don't sound so 'kooky' anymore...

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmmm?? I don't think these people want to give up our $900 million we pay each year so they can have their lunches and live like kings while people in their countries live in filth and poverty.

[ApesForEvolution]

Democracy itself is not what America was founded upon and democracy itself does not make a nation great.

Remember: A PURE democracy is akin to 3 wolves and 1 sheep setting down to vote what's for dinner.

A pure international one world government democracy is *NOT* in the sovereign interests of America OR the world.