Please can't we defund the UN?
Heather Higgins ·
Dec 10, 2010 at 10:13am
Pat Caddell sent this video around Friday, and while we all know US-bashing goes on, it's the sources, the sanctimony, and the setting that make this so special.
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Nov '10
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Brilliant. I wonder whether the translators are pausing and stuttering because they're trying to keep up with the speaker or because they're floored by the whole farce. I especially enjoyed the lecture by the DPRK official on corruption in government and the one by the Chinese official on free speech, open internet access, and violence against women (from a country that engages in non-consensual abortions to enforce the one child policy).
Edited on Dec 10, 2010 at 10:53amRe: Please can't we defund the UN?
This is positively maddening.
Aug '10
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The UN is a flaming sack of crap on our nation's front porch.
It embarrasing how long we have tolerated it, and shameful how much money we spend to keep it there.
Sep '10
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I e-mailed my Representative Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) and one of my Senators Pat Roberts (R-KS) a couple years back about just this, that is, getting the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. I mentioned that the US could still use the old UN building for global meetings with our allies if need be.
Rep. Tiahrt e-mailed back a thoughtful, many-bullet-points response basically agreeing with my view and saying that he was aware of the problem and this is what he's been suggesting, etc." Sen. Roberts e-mailed me back a shallow, dismissive form letter.
Why the US continues to abide this corrupt and US hating and abusing organization while funding 22 percent of the regular UN budget and 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget is beyond me.
Jul '10
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Let's pitch the Omnibus Kiss-My-Grits bill to Boehner.
Jul '10
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Shouldn't we encourage the UN to move to Dubai?
Stated Reasons:
1. Lots of cheap real estate in really cool buildings!
2. Closer to the center of the world's population!
3. Makes a bold statement against Eurocentricity!
4. Honors the Islamic world!
5. Free villas for all UN ambassadors on that cool island development that looks like a map of the world! (Nothing says UN like obvious and insincere symbolism.)
Real Reason:
1. Get that flaming bag of crap off the front porch.
Edited on Dec 10, 2010 at 11:00amMay '10
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Ahh, the radical uselessness of the UN Human Rights Council further manifests itself. Withdrawal of our participation and our money is the only rational option remaining.
And notice that the Obama administration presented the healthcare reform bill as evidence that its human rights record is improving. Say that again!?! The bill that treats healthcare as something to which Americans have a right, that forces individuals to purchase health insurance at gun point, and that prevents insurers from denying insurance on the basis of pre-existing conditions, i.e., from applying standard insurance methods - such a bill is treated as an advancement of human rights.
Its the twilight zone.
May '10
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I guess we have to stay in, for the veto power alone. And if we moved it offshore, to Rwanda, say, it wouldn't be as easy for Hillary to spy on them. Ideally, we could move it to Gitmo, where the parking's always free.
It would be amusing to put off paying dues for a month each time they pass an insulting resolution. We could make up some really bizarre excuse each time and then spy on their reactions.
Jul '10
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What is striking is the chirpy pride in self-abasement the American shows in presenting the report for UN approval. Obama's bow from the waist has evidently traveled through every agency of government. The left's self-loathing is widening to include the rest of the country. That's why you see the stupid-voter meme on the rise these days.
Jul '10
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What's disgusting here isn't listening to delegates from Cuba or Iran instruct us on human rights. One's accustomed to that.
What's disgusting is that we're paying over a dozen Obama administration weasels to smilingly validate the entire charade.
Edited on Dec 10, 2010 at 12:05pmNov '10
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I think it was Jeane Kirkpatrick who, when asked why the US doesn't quit the United Nations, replied, "It's not worth the trouble.".
That's true, whoever said it. The UN is an irritant, nothing else. The monetary cost is negligible, and we can take the insults. In my view, the UN isn't important enough to spend time debating.
I think we should constantly agitate for a restructuring, were there are no permanent members or anything like that. The place is such a hive of scum and villainy anyway (use the Force, Luke), I say let the worst of the worst take over the whole thing. It'd be fun to watch.
I'll tell you one thing: the day I become mayor of New York City I'm going to have every illegally parked car with diplomatic plates impounded, and make the ambassadors come and get them themselves.
Jul '10
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Don't defund it and don't leave it; just move it to downtown Detroit. Lot's of available real estate, as I understand. Or maybe northwest South Dakota (mathematically most distant point from a McDonald's). Just get them out of New York, where being a UN ambassador is a perk. That way, instead of getting all the yes men and toadies from these obnoxious regimes, we might get the dictators' dissidents and irritants. Our kind of people.
It should also ease the NYC parking situation. And remember how the press was always griping about having to hang out in Crawford, TX under GW Bush? The UN would never get another column inch if journalists had to camp out in the heartland to cover it.
May '10
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Eliminating the U.N. is a grand idea, but it ranks somewhere between eliminating the national income tax and reforming Social Security in regard to political likelihood.
Jul '10
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It would even be easy to move them against their will, if we employ the process demonstrated here (5:39 in).
Jul '10
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OK, Starve.
But only to make Jeane happy. I hope Mr. Bolton will accept the job in a couple of years.
May '10
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"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." - Robert Frost.
From Adlai Stevenson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeanne Kirkpatrick to Esther Brummer and Michael Posner. How the mighty have fallen.
Jun '10
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I don't care if the U.N. is shut down but I don't really know why it has to continue to be headquartered in the United States. I am more than happy to incur more debt to the Chinese government (if we must buy back the property in New York) so it can be moved to another more appropriate country...like North Korea or Iran. That is one program that I will gladly pay more taxes for. Heck, I'd look forward to working the wrecking ball or driving the bull dozer that plows over this hornets' nest. But if we don't dismantle it perhaps we can turn it into a museum that displays the human rights atrocities of all those reprehensible regimes.
To Aaron's point...I know it's unlikely...but what the heck, I can dream can't I?
And I'm completely in sync with Kenneth's comment about the sniveling apologists that comprised that committee. This is what happens when you get a President that hates America -- but loves the trappings of being the American President.
May '10
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I believe it was Stalin who insisted the the major powers have the veto in the security council, otherwise the major powers would be constantly being nipped at by the little dogs.
Marxists understand politics. This whole exercise should have been vetoed.
May '10
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Whilst in Iran today, a sentence to drip acid into a man's eyes as been passed as punishment (literally an eye for an eye here). . It isn't the first time either for this type of punishment. The soon to be blind victim is not innocent himself, but such savagery must not go unremarked.
I await the lack of uproar in the UNHRC with disdain. However liberals and others fear the world outrage over waterboarding KSM.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/man-sentenced-to-be-blinded-with-acid-by-iranian-court/story-e6freuyi-1225969492642
Let's keep extending the hand of friendship to Islamic fundamentalists regimes, as surely this will cause them to repent of such wickedness.
Edited on Dec 11, 2010 at 6:28amMay '10
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I think that if the UN wasn't headquartered in the US, especially a playground like New York, it would have collapsed under its own weight decades ago.
Prof. Hanson suggested a few months back that the UN be invited to re-locate to where it might actually do some good, say, the Congo or someplace where the action really is. I couldn't agree more.
We'll never see the UN leave the US, and it will live on forever, I'm afraid.