U.N. declares Castro a “World Hero of Solidarity”
Yes, it’s true.
The United Nations has declared misery-inducing, freedom-strangling Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “World Hero of Solidarity.”
Via David Kopel at Volokh Conspiracy, h/t Hans Bader at OpenMarket.org, who writes:
The award was presented to Castro by the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann. Brockmann also successfully lobbied the Obama Administration to demand that Honduras allow the return to power of its ex-president and would-be dictator, Manuel Zelaya. (Two months ago, soldiers acting on orders of Honduras’s Supreme Court arrested Zelaya after he systematically abused his powers. After the Court quite legally declared that Zelaya was no longer president, he was duly replaced by Honduras’s Congress with a civilian, the Congressional Speaker). The Obama Administration recently decided to impose sanctions on Honduras, and indicated it will not recognize future democratic elections in Honduras unless Honduras first lets ex-president Zelaya return to power.
Marxism seems to be back in fashion in Washington these days.
Rep. Diane Watson, the New York Times book review section, and Van Jones and Valerie Jarrett approve!
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Ok, it’s time to show the rest of the Communists the door.
Van Jones was the tip of the iceberg.
On September 5th, 2009 at 6:36 pm, Roland said:
Keep that anti-capitalist, freedom hating agenda of the Collectivist/Islamic Alliance in mind as you read the following:
Why were the World Trade Centers targeted? Could it be because they were the biggest symbols of capitalism in this country?
Someone needs to look very carefully into whether people like Van Jones and Bill Ayers played a role in the 9/11 attacks.
I tend to think the thousands and thousands of people Fidel had murdered might disagree with the UN on this one.
What!?! lgm is not here to defend Fidel and the UN? I’m shocked….shocked I tell ya.
another example in a long list of examples why the un should be removed from new york, and the u.s. should remove itself from this stinking cesspool of corruption, cronyism, and communism. the once gloriously intentioned liberal cause for peace has become a wrong headed perveyor of war, famine and injustice. with liberal causes, this is usually the result.
OT. Van Jones has announced his resignation as “green jobs Czar”. Boofreakinyah!!!
Just woke up to the news about the Jolly Green Jones. One down, many to go.
Can the US withdraw from the UN now, finally?
Can the US finally kick the UN out of the US and let them take up quarters in some better place, such as Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, the West Ban, Tehran, Kabul, or maybe in Somalia or Saudi Arabia?
Can the US finally place the UN on the list of terrorist supporting organizations?
If Fidel Castro is so wonderful, and if Cuba is so wonderful, why doesn’t the UN move its headquarters to Havana?
Why don’t the Hollywood celebrities and Main Stream News Media sycophants who LOVE Fidel and his Cuba move there and live there?
Malicious, violent, sadistic thugs are in power and they are praised, while good people and good nations are demonized and marginalized. Am I dreaming this, or is this really happening?
How about Zimbabwe? The U.N. seems to think they know a thing or two about sustainable development, so that seems like a good long term solution.
You expect any less from the Little Dictator’s Club?
Birds of a Feather..
Interesting hypothesis…I wonder what our satellites picked up.
LGM is, no doubt, celebrating with his comrades.
The UN is useless. And not just an embarrassment as a den of assorted crooks from around the world but a malignant cancer that celebrates enslavement and hates freedom. Shame on our politicians for tolerating its presence on American soil and for funding it. The UN needs to go!
I would chip in on cost of their boat ticket.
I’d suspect my mother’s older sister and her entire family that had to fly into the US in 1959 with ZERO possessions (other than their clothes) would disagree with that assessment of Fidel.
Let the UN move into Guantanamo. It’s gonna be empty real soon … isn’t it? I mean Nobama said so. And he doesn’t lie, does he?
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Well, is there anybody out there who is still the least bit confused about the priorities and values of the UN?
Remind me again why we are giving money and land to these sewage sucking parasites and predators?
I have to admit though, I found a bit of obscure humor in the otherwise offensive naming of Castro’s prize “World Hero of Solidarity”.
Clearly this is commie code talk, as the wording is otherwise meaningless.
The word “solidarity” here is being hijacked to mean communism. This is particularly impudent, insulting and offensive when you rememember that “Solidarity”, i.e. Solidarność, was the name of Poland’s anti-communist revolution.
But it sounds as if he is being praised for having particularly regular bowels.
Our President must be sooo jealous.
There’s only one of me, but why didn’t you tell us?!?
Hate to sound like a John Birch kook, but “Get us out of the United Nations!” And get them the hell out of our country. The quicker the better.
Reason 3,459,624,718 to get the US out of the UN.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
As if we weren’t already, thanks to that very same UN.
I’ll gladly kick the UN out, withdraw from its ranks, and keep my freedom and have my countrymen keep theirs.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
You really need to leave the USA for any length of time. I assure you, we are the most isolated country on Earth. Socialist propaganda and pure, old fashioned jealousy have turned the world against us.
In Europe, the countries we have counted on as allies since 1945 and earlier are now the ones that deride us the most. As Eastern European Countries are sucked in to the EU, they take on the same attitudes.
We can only fix this by reminding them why they have it so good today. DemoCommies want to kiss the butts of every nation that hates us. Wanting these countries to “like” us will never see fruition. However, we can make them respect us. But that means we would have to hold them by the nose and kick them in the butts – which doesn’t play well on TV.
That’s just the truth.
Getting a mental picture, thanks
I’m not so sure we broke it.
Hey, I’m not taking all the blame!
But I did introduce a chihuahua into the dialogue. Was it Mickey Rooney who said never be in a movie with a kid or an animal?
Joy does the spider photos.
You or anyone here can have mine:
prairiegrass@mindspring.com
Kingfish wants to get a ring going also.
I didn’t realize Obama was posting here.
Marco Polo:
Sorry for excessive crankiness.
It’s just frustrating when the truth has been out there for so long and not that hard to find out about.
So I do mean idiots (plural).
They are not kooks. Totally the opposite. One of the most lucid groups of people you’ll ever encounter.
I have mentioned the Birch Society here and there through the blog but no one ever seems to pay much attention.
Aren’t the Birchers conspiracy theory types? I always get a bit put off by people who can’t see when a thing can just as easily be explained by a correlation of interests as by a conspiracy, the correct interpretation is that it is not a conspiracy.
A seeming conspiracy can be just a lot of people each pursuing the enhancement of their own power. Sort of the natural ‘hidden hand’ of politics and government performing in the opposite moral direction from the hidden hand of free markets. Which is why limited government naturally always works best.
Roland:
JUST GO TO:
http://www.jbs.org
as good or better is their magazine, online at
http://www.thenewamerican.com
considered by many to be the best magazine anywhere
The motto of the John Birch Society is
“Less government, more responsibility, and — with God’s help — a better world.”
A. Birchers opposed the 60’s civil rights movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Perhaps you are too young to remember that, but I do, and no matter how much the Society has morphed since then, I wouldn’t support them.
B. As for the thread topic, Castro (and Chavez, for that matter) imprison, torture and kill opponents, enrich themselves off their countries’ resources, they prohibit a free press, and way more people try to get out of their countries than try to get in.
Both A & B illustrate my point that people need to get a sense of history before they jump on current fads.
I was too young at the time to understand but I know that was the case.
I believe they objected because of possible communist connections of the movers and shakers for that and they were probably correct. They are definitely in favor of civil rights and have many blacks and various ethnicities as members.
The Society has stuck to the core principles it started with.
Just because a person or group doesn’t support every piece of legislatoin relating to a particular issue, doesn’t mean they are not in favor of the cause.
I used to have the same opinion about the Civil Rights Act, but after several decades of institutional racism against working and middle class whites and asians (which any reasonable person now recognizes is a permanent corrosive cancer on America’s dream of a color blind society) based on the wording of the Civil Rights Act, it appears the Birchers may have been right.
At the very least it is obvious it shouldn’t have been passed without specific provisions prohibiting the never ending racism that has followed in its name. Since the liberals would not add that language, it should have been killed.
Roland:
Thank you.
from the Black Republican’s website:
Nixon’s Southern Strategy Was Not A Racist Appeal
In the arsenal of the Democrats is a condemnation of Republican President Richard Nixon for his so-called “Southern Strategy.” These same Democrats expressed no concern when the racially segregated South voted solidly for Democrats for over 100 years, yet unfairly deride Republicans because of the thirty-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party that began in the 1970’s. Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” was an effort on his part to get fair-minded people in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were discriminating against blacks. Georgia did not switch until 2004, and Louisiana was controlled by Democrats until the election of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal in 2007.
As the co-architect of Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, Pat Buchanan provided a first-hand account of the origin and intent of that strategy in a 2002 article that can be found on the Internet at: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30233
In that article, Buchanan wrote that when Nixon kicked off his historic comeback in 1966 with a column about the South (written by Buchanan), Nixon declared that the Republican Party would be built on a foundation of states rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense, and leave it to the “party of Maddox, Mahoney and Wallace to squeeze the last ounce of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice”.
During the 1966 campaign, Nixon was personally thanked by Dr. King for his help in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Nixon also endorsed all Republicans, except the members of the John Birch Society.
Notably, the enforcement of affirmative action began with Richard Nixon‘s 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher who became know as “the father of affirmative action enforcement”) that set the nation‘s first goals and timetables. Nixon was also responsible for the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1970’s, including the Equal Employment Act of 1972.
Fletcher, as president of the United Negro College Fund, coined the phrase “the mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Fletcher was also one of the original nine plaintiffs in the famous “Brown v. Topeka Board of Education” decision. Fletcher briefly pursued a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1995.
Nixon began his merit-based affirmative action program to overcome the harm caused by Democrat President Woodrow Wilson who, after he was elected in 1912, kicked blacks out of federal government jobs and prevented blacks from obtaining federal contracts. Also, while Wilson was president and Congress was controlled by the Democrats, more discriminatory bills were introduced in Congress than ever before in our nation’s history. Today, Democrats have turned affirmative action into an unfair quota system that even most blacks do not support
I know Wikipedia is not a good source to quote, but for what it’s worth…
If you are a fan of the 10th amendment, do you agree with the JBS stand on the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
As I said before, I am not a member of the John Birch Society, but from what I have seen from their web site, (http://www.jbs.org), they seem on track.
Just for my saying that, I’ve had a guy named “Ernie” come attack me on my blog, saying things against me like “brain-dead” “absurd reasoning”, “SHAME ON YOU!”, “Are you so gullible…”, etc.
I think the man doth protest too much.
2nd link didn’t work in the last comment… this should be better…
Somebody attacked you on your own blog because here you said JBS seems on track?
Seems odd. Why are they reading your comments here? Does this person follow you everywhere?
Red Pill:
I couldn’t find that comment on your blog but from what you write about yourself, I would think JBS would be right up your alley.
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur56.htm
This is a good article about the smears against the society.
It’s nice to be young, I wish I were still.
Although I was in elementary school during the 60’s civil rights movement, I distinctly remember the Bircher Society as having a very racist reputation. My parents supported Goldwater, but decided not to join the Society where they had many friends, because it was too racist, even for them.
Perhaps you buy their explanations for not supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it’s your choice. But given an historical and personal perspective, I could never do it. There must be other organizations to can support that have a less tainted reputation.
Since this is a major conflict of interest between the free world and the UN. I hereby nominate that the USA resign from the UN.
purealchemy,
Start here and read down.
If you’re a JBS member, you’re probably familiar with this guy. It appears that his life mission is to try to discredit the JBS.
RedPill, you’re a member? Bummer. I supported your arguments several times on this site, I’m sorry to hear you buy the whitewash.
happy2behere,
As I said both above and on my blog,
No, I’m not a member.
But, is your only beef against them that they had a racist reputation in the 60’s?
If your parents encountered racists within the group, I accept that 2nd-hand observation.
But it’s also possible that others labelled them as “racist” simply because they opposed the Civil Rights Act. The JBS claims that they opposed the CRA because it violated the 10th Amendment. It’s possible that the CRA supporters didn’t want to debate the act on constitutional grounds, and found it easier to just label the JBS as “racist”.
Even to this day, anyone who opposes the “progressive” (Socialist) agenda is labeled a “racist” (see today’s HotAir piece on the comments of Obama’s former pastor of 20 years).
The “racist” smear has been thrown around so much by the true racists (people like “Rev” Jeremiah Wright) that I really don’t pay attention to it anymore.
Thanks for sharing that. I never really knew names of such people who tried to discredit the Society. If my mother was still here, she would probably know.
I will read it in full.
All I know is there has been nothing at all in my exposure to the Society, reading materials, communications, events I’ve attended, etc. that would indicate racism in any way. This goes back to when I was growing up. I am virtually the same age as the organization.
As they say, if A equals B and B equals C then A must equal C.
Anyone who feels at home on this blog would definitely feel at home in the Birch Society. But you have to give them a chance. Once you do, it won’t take long for you to realize you’ve been duped.
happy2behere, are you saying your parents actually went to the meetings and determined for themselves that it was a racist organization or your parents just believed the rumors and so wouldn’t even consider stepping in the door?