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Coverage of the Rally at New London's City Hall (w/ pics)
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
UN Is A Lost Cause
The very structure of the UN makes it inevitable. Dictatorships and amoral European countries get the same vote the US gets. Read this piece and then tell me that we should be involved in the UN, let alone footing the sucker's share of the bill:
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But one feature of the atmosphere should be noteworthy to the American taxpayer, who is footing 22 percent of the bill. It is the common belief of all and sundry that the world's biggest problem is the United States. As one delegate stated so succinctly, at the U.N. the United States is radioactive. The statements of U.S. representatives and their calls for a vote are met with groans, and the outcomes are often met with laughter. Almost one-third of the votes cast this year found the U.S. voting alone or with a single other state.
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The composition of the U.N. Commission makes such results possible. Its members include some of the countries with the poorest human-rights records in the world: Bhutan, China, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, and Zimbabwe. 58 percent of Commission members are less than fully democratic, according to Freedom House.
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