JamesT
10-26-2004, 08:19 AM
This editorial is from the NAU Lumberjack paper. It is amazing that this college student gets the scope of this election and some of us "adults" don't. We don't get a second chance too many times, we better do it right the first time.
From http://www.lumberjackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/22/41795336b836c
UN threatens US sovereignty
Josh Haines
October 22, 2004
An out of control United Nations is at it again, testing the bounds of sovereignty and freedom and aiming towards a power grab the likes of which the modern world has never seen. In late September, French despot Jacques Chirac delivered a proposal to the United Nations asking for a legally binding resolution establishing a U.N. tax on individuals residing within “wealthy nations” (read the U.S., Japan, and Great Britain). The stated purpose of his proposal is to eliminate third world monetary problems by imposing new responsibilities on first and second world economies.
Farfetched? The day of the proposal 168 nations, mostly third world ones signed onto this idea, making it much more than farfetched. But this isn't the first attempt at a power grab made by U.N. thugs. In the last decade the International Commission on Small Arms Control has made several attempts to overthrow our Second Amendment rights by seeking treaties banning the individual right to keep and bear arms in America.
And in the past decade the United Nitwits, in an attempt to extort the U.S. into submission, removed the U.S. from the International Commission on Human Rights (no comma) because of a disagreement on the death penalty. I forget if this was before, during, or after they allowed Syria to chair this very same Commission. But that's small potatoes. What is important to know is that they let Syria chair a Commission on Human Rights and still had the gall to criticize the record of the United States. And if you think that's bad, it gets worse.
In the run up to the current Iraq war the U.N. selected Iraq to chair the International Commission on Disarmament! This was of course after the Iraqis had expelled weapons inspectors from their own country in the mid-nineties, and while Iraq was in direct violation of 16 U.N. Security Council resolutions, including then-current efforts to get Saddam Hussein to comply with Hans Blix's weapons inspectors. Need another jaw-dropping fact to toss out at the blind, pro-U.N. lefties? Iran was selected to co-chair this committee under Iraq! The irony in these decisions is nearly comical. As a parody I like to imagine the U.S. appointing cheeseburger aficionado Rosie O'Donnell to head the Department of Health, or shock jock Howard Stern to chair the FCC with pornographer Larry Flint serving as his co-chair.
Notice I said nearly comical. Knowing that Kofi Annan's U.N. would trust my freedom and security to Iraq, Syria, and France isn't all that funny. In fact, it's terrifying. But let's get back to the newest threat. To highlight the severity, let's imagine your next pay stub. For simplicity's sake let's say you've earned $100.
But before you get to spend it Uncle Sam takes his 30%. Then here comes the State of Arizona grabbing another 15%. And finally the United Notheads seeking their fair share, let's say 10%. You come away with a cool 45 bucks! Yep, that's right, 45% of whatever you earn you'll get to keep. That is after paying for food, rent, utilities, tuition, insurance, sales tax and other living expenses…it sure is a good thing you're a rich American!
The threat posed by the United Nations is phenomenal. In past years they have threatened the way of life in all free nations by seeking to influence policy outside of their granted authority, slowly expanding their power past its legal limits. The United States has born the brunt of most of these attacks, and has thus far survived them all. But that could all change with a close presidential race here in the U.S. where one of the candidates is a socialist U.N. fanatic looking to make his name on the international stage. Kerry has already expressed support for the international gun ban; he has been less than critical of the U.N.'s appointment of Iran, Syria, and a pre-war Iraq into key diplomatic positions; and with his record on taxes…well, his record speaks for itself.
No matter what your political views on gun control, taxes, homeland security or the death penalty you should be very skeptical of the power-grabbing United Nations, and extremely cautious around any political candidate who curries favor with the U.N. leadership.
Personally, I have just one message for those at the United Nations, and for those who would put control of America's day-to-day affairs into the hands of Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin. You can have my guns, you can have my taxes, and you can have my country, when you come and pry them “from my cold, dead hands!”
From http://www.lumberjackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/22/41795336b836c
UN threatens US sovereignty
Josh Haines
October 22, 2004
An out of control United Nations is at it again, testing the bounds of sovereignty and freedom and aiming towards a power grab the likes of which the modern world has never seen. In late September, French despot Jacques Chirac delivered a proposal to the United Nations asking for a legally binding resolution establishing a U.N. tax on individuals residing within “wealthy nations” (read the U.S., Japan, and Great Britain). The stated purpose of his proposal is to eliminate third world monetary problems by imposing new responsibilities on first and second world economies.
Farfetched? The day of the proposal 168 nations, mostly third world ones signed onto this idea, making it much more than farfetched. But this isn't the first attempt at a power grab made by U.N. thugs. In the last decade the International Commission on Small Arms Control has made several attempts to overthrow our Second Amendment rights by seeking treaties banning the individual right to keep and bear arms in America.
And in the past decade the United Nitwits, in an attempt to extort the U.S. into submission, removed the U.S. from the International Commission on Human Rights (no comma) because of a disagreement on the death penalty. I forget if this was before, during, or after they allowed Syria to chair this very same Commission. But that's small potatoes. What is important to know is that they let Syria chair a Commission on Human Rights and still had the gall to criticize the record of the United States. And if you think that's bad, it gets worse.
In the run up to the current Iraq war the U.N. selected Iraq to chair the International Commission on Disarmament! This was of course after the Iraqis had expelled weapons inspectors from their own country in the mid-nineties, and while Iraq was in direct violation of 16 U.N. Security Council resolutions, including then-current efforts to get Saddam Hussein to comply with Hans Blix's weapons inspectors. Need another jaw-dropping fact to toss out at the blind, pro-U.N. lefties? Iran was selected to co-chair this committee under Iraq! The irony in these decisions is nearly comical. As a parody I like to imagine the U.S. appointing cheeseburger aficionado Rosie O'Donnell to head the Department of Health, or shock jock Howard Stern to chair the FCC with pornographer Larry Flint serving as his co-chair.
Notice I said nearly comical. Knowing that Kofi Annan's U.N. would trust my freedom and security to Iraq, Syria, and France isn't all that funny. In fact, it's terrifying. But let's get back to the newest threat. To highlight the severity, let's imagine your next pay stub. For simplicity's sake let's say you've earned $100.
But before you get to spend it Uncle Sam takes his 30%. Then here comes the State of Arizona grabbing another 15%. And finally the United Notheads seeking their fair share, let's say 10%. You come away with a cool 45 bucks! Yep, that's right, 45% of whatever you earn you'll get to keep. That is after paying for food, rent, utilities, tuition, insurance, sales tax and other living expenses…it sure is a good thing you're a rich American!
The threat posed by the United Nations is phenomenal. In past years they have threatened the way of life in all free nations by seeking to influence policy outside of their granted authority, slowly expanding their power past its legal limits. The United States has born the brunt of most of these attacks, and has thus far survived them all. But that could all change with a close presidential race here in the U.S. where one of the candidates is a socialist U.N. fanatic looking to make his name on the international stage. Kerry has already expressed support for the international gun ban; he has been less than critical of the U.N.'s appointment of Iran, Syria, and a pre-war Iraq into key diplomatic positions; and with his record on taxes…well, his record speaks for itself.
No matter what your political views on gun control, taxes, homeland security or the death penalty you should be very skeptical of the power-grabbing United Nations, and extremely cautious around any political candidate who curries favor with the U.N. leadership.
Personally, I have just one message for those at the United Nations, and for those who would put control of America's day-to-day affairs into the hands of Gerhard Schroeder and Vladimir Putin. You can have my guns, you can have my taxes, and you can have my country, when you come and pry them “from my cold, dead hands!”