U.N. Assembly Theater For Buffoons, Tyrants
By: Lindsey Williams
U.N. Assembly Theater For Buffoons, Tyrants
After the recent United Nations General Assembly session, one is tempted to dismiss it as a theater for buffoons, tyrants and lunatics.
Latest acts by fascist rulers - exploiting the tolerance of representatives - were those of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ranted Chavez: "Yesterday, the devil came right here… the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil. The stink of sulfur is still hanging around the table in front of which I stand." Then Chavez blessed his outrageous statement with a Cross gesture, rosary kiss, prayerful handclasp and tilted gaze toward heaven. It will take more than three "Hail Marys" to wash away those blasphemes.
Ahmadinejad weighed in with: "Some seek to rule the world, relying on threats, while others live in perpetual insecurity and danger." That is a Freudian confession of guilt from someone who repeatedly calls for the "annihilation" of Israel - another United Nations member.
Paramount disgrace of the United Nations is that of providing a platform from which despots can rave.
Wu Xinquan, representing China, in 1950 berated President Truman for supporting Taiwan: "This is a preposterous farce unworthy of refutation, in which Truman makes a mockery of himself."
Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua president, in 1985 denounced President Regan’s support of "Contras" (Freedom Fighters) against Cuban-type communists: "Rambo exists only in the movies."
Robert Robaina, Cuban foreign minister in 1996, castigated President Clinton: "We are facing a King Kong escaped from its cage, destroying and smashing without orientation or control."
And who can forget the 1960 General Assembly speech in which Cuban President Fidel Castro delivered an anti-American tirade of 4 hours and 29 minutes - the longest speech in U.N. history. He appeared in military uniform with pistol holster, but he was persuaded at the last minute to check his firearm at the door.
In that sensational visit, Castro and entourage engaged the whole floor of a posh New York hotel - along with crates of live chickens and other meats for cooking on portable stoves for themselves and a horde of enterprising prostitutes. When the hotel management asked for a $10,000 damage guarantee and garbage removal, Castro stormed out to a Harlem hotel where left-wing admirers swarmed to cheer him.
Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary (boss) of the Soviet Union Communist Party, banged his shoe on his desk repeatedly in applause for Castro.
Che Guevara, the roving terrorist leader of South America, was given the courtesy of a General Assembly platform that same year to declare John F. Kennedy: "A millionaire, illiterate and ignorant." Guevara lumped in President Nixon: " As far as we’re concerned, the two of them lack, should I say, political brains."
American delegations to the U.N., walked out on these juvenile tirades - leaving Third World and other anti-American governments to clap enthusiastically.
Through all the bombast, United States presidents and Congress have soldiered on - paying the bills and extending parking permits in no-parking spaces for foreign backbiters.
Presidents - and Congress until recently - countered with hard-shell ambassadors to the United Nations. Among them were Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Thomas Pickering and John Bolton.
Ambassador Bolton, a tough conservative who keeps the inept and corrupt Kofi Annan exposed, was denied permanent appointment by a congressional "hold." That was imposed by Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island Republican - a liberal tree-hugger posing as a Republican. However, it won’t hold much longer now that the latest round of anti-American nuts in the U.N. has spouted off.
A Hudson Institute poll last week reveals that 75 percent of Americans believe the U.N. is no longer effective and needs to be held more accountable.
Bolton was right when he jested a few years ago: "Removing the top ten floors (executive offices) of U.N. headquarters would have no effect whatsoever!"
He could have added that the U.N. main purpose seems to be that of enabling Third World bureaucrats to pick the pockets of First World taxpayers while insulting them outrageously.
Bulldozing the whole thing would make room for a nice park.
October 1, 2006
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