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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Thanks very much for the laugh of the day Michelle. castro? I guess the little iran slug or the nk worm couldn’t make the grade!
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“World Hero of Solidarity”
… whatever that means.
As for Julius Nyerere, good for him. A useless title from an almost completely useless organization.
This administration is an embarrassment to freedom and liberty.
Isn’t it time to tell the UN to find another home? To think about the money the taxpayers of the US have paid to the UN, only to have it go to Sexual Molestations of the downtrodden around the globe.
Enough! I’ve been to Cuba and spent 5 weeks there in 1991. Those people want freedom but they can’t express themselves. if they do, they are sent to prison. I guess Obama is about to ignore our constitution and try the same thing here. Actions speak louder than words and Obama’s action against the Honduran Constitution and Supreme Court scares the hell out of me. Seems to me with the radicals he has surrounded himself with he’s trying to do the sae thing here. Banks, autos, health and home and the media is next!
U.N. out of the U.S., U.S. out of the U.N..
“Social Justice” is code for Socialism.
Call it “Social[ist] Justice“.
Conservatives see “fairness” as equality of opportunity.
Socialists/Communists see “fairness” as equality of results.
Conservatives seek a level playing field and then say if you work harder and serve more people, you deserve to have better results.
Socialists/Communists see conservatives who have more material results than other people in the world, self-righteously declare that this is “unfair”, and then believe it is their “moral imperative” to take (steal) from those conservatives and give to “less fortunate”.
They like to play Robin Hood… Robbin’ Hood’… Robbing Hoodlum.
Next up?
UN gives Joseph Stalin an award for Economics?
Pol Pot for Humanitarian Excellence?
Hitler for Race Relations?
How appropriate that this award be granted while we celebrate the “Cheap Labor” Day weekend.
Or maybe we should rename it “Unemployment Day”?
Another day another atrocity perpetrated by the Useless Nations!
Just like the “Social Gospel” is really the “Social[ist] Gospel“
I say: “US out of the UN.
NOW!”
I have been for closing the UN down for some time.
Castro great for solidarity? I guess in the same way the plague was also great for solidarity.
The UN-starting off utterly useless and losing ground ever since. Move the UN headquarters to Havana-some of the Cubans haven’t seen a new car in their lifetime.Perhaps the UN satraps, fat cats and leftovers will allow the Cuban people to wash the limousines.
As my mother said famously on 9-11, “They flew the planes into the wrong buildings.”
You mother and my mother would have gotten along wonderfully.
been saying that for about 10 years now…we need to take the building down to the ground….
what Zelaya attempted was a blueprint for Obama’s absolute fantasy: To deconstruct the capitalist democracy in Amercia and replace it with a communist statist regime, with him being the permanent community organizer in chief.
Defend the constitution of Honduras. We might need the practice.
I suggest that the UN building is moved to Antarctica, so that these delegates can focus all their effort on the greatest danger mankind currently faces-global warming.
Yet another reason to not like the Useless Nitwits.
On September 5th, 2009 at 2:49 pm, vinny said:
ROFLMAO
Did Fidel die?
sorry, sitting pool side watching a competitive water volleyball game…what a way to spend a saturday!
Have a great weekend everybody!!
How comes there’s no Saturday open thread?
I was a moderate on the UN for a long time. No real opinion one way or the other. Then I started doing medical relief work in East Africa. Spent time at thier facility and airport in Northern Kenya. Watched the results of and the work of their efforts in Southern Sudan. If a person thinks the UN is worth anything then that person has not been “out there” to see the UN in action.
The UN is more than ineffective, they are part of the problem in the world. The UN is not part of the solution. Getting rid of them would actually help matters. It is totally corrupt and devoid of any integrity. I watched first hand from seeing air planes loaded with supplies and how that went to watching the UN World Feeding Program supply the Islamic militia in Southern Sudan by dropping food to “approved” locations instead of to people who were starving to death.
I was with the people starving to death and watched the UN fly over time and time again and drop food into the hands of the People’s Defense Force. You know, those folks that are currently killing internally displaced people in Dafur.
The UN needs to be put on trial and the US needs to get the blazes out!
The John Birch Society has been saying that about 50 years.
But everybody thinks they are kooks.
I’ll second that. All in favor?
AYE!
AYE!
I would guess that around these parts the question should be: Is it unanimous, or is there anyone here who is willing to try to make an opposing argument?
I would really like to see someone try, at least if they can field an argument that isn’t idiotic on its face. Seriously. Or do all of the bashers of us ‘right wing extremists’ agree with us on this one?
Senator Joseph McCarthy was not wrong.
Relocate this worthless group.
These UN people do not have a logical path of thought.
Question: can we float the UN on a garbage barge and set her out to sea? Then use it as a target?
Play right here…we won’t mind.
Oh why not? Chapoutier would approve.
Every where ya go, corruption.
I suppose it’s our 24/7 news cycle that makes it appear it’s worse now … or is it worse now??
I’ve got to get away from this keyboard.
Gotta go see some
faces.
Have a nice evening all.
It seems the whole world is going socialist/totalitarian, even though, to the average citizen, it is a failure. The elitists see a way to grab power and get “approval” from the world. The U.S. is a last hold-out and is under attack, itself. To get out of the U.N., would be a mistake. We, at least, have a veto vote in the security council. That gives us some voice in the world. To withdraw would isolate us against the world. It won’t work. But, I do agree that the U.N. needs to relocate somewhere out of NYC. The organization has been nothing but trouble to us.
and here I just always considered him a Supreme Pudwacker….. leave it to the U.N. to prove me wrong.
Geez, I’m an independent and really didn;t like the Bush Admin. at least they were able to take time off so all of us could sit back and enjoy a weekend. now the UN goes with this headline today. Chavez, Castro, Obama and the rest are having a good laugh at the Honduran’s expense. I can’t believe our State Dept. What idiots!
Odumbo’s administration is down right scary! The fact that Van Jones has not been thrown under the bus is very telling. Our President cancels the National prayer Breakfast but holds the Ramadan Dinner. Could it be this guy is a Muslim hiding under his agnostic Hope and Change Poster? Maybe this guy is the messiah..he at least thinks he is…Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Anyway I am headed to fire up the grill, shish-ki-bobs, Brats, Hot Dogs Italian Sausage. We’ll pray to God before we eat too!
Happy Labor day Weekend everyone!
hard to tell which of the two is more of an embarrassment, the truly pathetic parasitic un or zero and his group of lackeys.
100% agreement!!!!!!!
One of the main reasons its so hard to get information about the UN out of the UN is IF the American people knew what the UN is about, what it cost, what it wastes, etc., you would not need any “movement” to get us out of the UN. It would be the natural outcome from the truth being revealed.
The UN knows it. The fight tooth and toe nail to keep their matters secret.
Look how hard it has been to confirm the fraud and mismanagement that continues to this day at the UN.
Well, apparently for the UN the statement “Misery loves company” isn’t just a cliche…it’s a way of life.
Michelle Malkin #1 Five weeks running !
Yeah, blah blah blah,
Castro is a world hero,
blah blah blah.
The UN, overrated, largely useless bunch of diplomats in love with themselves. Move it to North Korea.
Ok so how does this sound.
Throw the UN out. Find a country that will take them. Whatever country it is that will take them, all of the folks in the US who want to keep the UN, they can then move to that country.
That seems like a good plan to me…..
Yes ! Let’s see how many diplomats want to relocate to Dear Leaders paradise. I’m sure they all want to give up those capitalist comforts to be with ` the people’
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Our “democRAT” / liberal / socialist / statist / marxist / communist President Obama (PBUH) and his congressional / government minions will always support a socialist or communist regime. They will always try to trash / penalize a constitutional regime like Honduras.
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This is no accident–that is where they “went to school”. They want to convert the U.S.A. into the new United Socialist States of America. This is Hillary Clinton’s dream also.
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As far as the failed (not!) United Nations–we should saw off the piece of land their building sits on and tow both to a suitable socialist / statist paradise where the “diplomats” (aka thieves and perverts) can enjoy life. I think Sudan or Somalia would be good choices for their new location.
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John Bibb
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union our veto has been the only decent argument for keeping us in the UN.
That argument misunderstands the purpose of us leaving the UN. It is not to leave us isolated in the world, with the rest of the nations of the world united against us. It is to destroy the function of the UN, which is the advancement of a globalist dogma.
Staying in the UN is a form of appeasement. We PAY. That payment is jizya. It gives a stamp of ‘global approval’ to the anti-capitalist, freedom hating agenda of the Collectivist/Islamic Alliance that actually controls the UN’s policies.
Without America, the UN is clearly not a ‘global’ organization. It is an organization dominated by dictators and leftist nutjobs and assorted other thugs and thugocracies.
We need entirely different organizations to advance freedom.
We should not belong to and support organizations that advance ideas directly contrary to America’s interests and ideals. It is really that simple.
What he said…Agree wholeheartedly.
“It is an organization dominated by dictators and leftist nutjobs and assorted other thugs and thugocracies.”
And without the US balancing them folks out, they’d turn on each other in a heart beat and self destruct over night.
There is no compelling reason to stay in the UN. None, nada, zippo.
Without the US funding they have little to no ability to do anything despite their many meetings and proclamations.
100% agreement.
Ditto.
The cockroaches at Turtle Bay should be served with eviction notices – and they should be made to pay up all their parking fines (that alone should take a huge chunk out of the deficit)
I always liked the suggestion they move to Haiti.
LOL. Just when you thought you had heard everything! Boot the U.N. from our soil. PLEASE!
Fidel Castro is great! …for me to poop on.
Tanks, you are swell!
Our monster thread sandbox was bulldozed.
Triumph? The insult comic dog????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugk37TvIR8E
For me to poop on!!!!!
Exactly!
This declaration is nothing less than a brazen slap in the face to the USA, which since 1959 has been the only serious opposition to Castro’s attempts to spread communism to all of Latin America.
Agree 100%. This is why the US must be neutered economically, politically and militarily by Obama’s Socialism. Once we lose our superpower status the last barrier to global totalitarianism will be gone, and the “Collectivist/Islamic Alliance” (absolutely accurate term, BTW) will be free to advance their agenda unopposed.
Wake up America!
New York City needs the building for the storage of Mayor Bloomberg’s really stupid ideas. His one good idea, to step down, has not be offered yet.
ArizonaNeanderthal’s suggestion to move the UN to Havana is great. Good for Cuba’s economy and good for ours (less drain). Wonder if Roland is sensing that time is about to move on (The Black Tower).
Only if the UN body is in need of a top notch proctologist. Otherwise, I doubt they’d actually show Fidel the love on a permanent basis. It’s all show, just to see who they can piss off.
Kinda like a liberal Democrat.
On September 5th, 2009 at 3:33 pm, purealchemy said:
I’m not a member of the John Birch Society, but from what I’ve looked into on their web site, they seem to be on track.
On September 5th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, Reg.conservative said:
Indeed.
Because you and others like you (that would include me) would abuse the open thread concept by perverting it into some sort of monster thread, which apparently breaks WordPress.
On September 5th, 2009 at 5:54 pm, Atlanta Media Guy said:
By the confession of his own mouth, Obama is a Muslim,
and not a Christian.
And no, I’m not just talking about him saying “my Muslim faith” during a TV interview. I’m talking about him saying with his own mouth the following words:
We need to get out of the UN. We should act like a strong proud sovereign nation, and not subject ourselves or our soldiers to the whims of these little third-world, self-important dictators who would happily plunge us into the devastation of national bankruptcy so they could personally profit.
On September 5th, 2009 at 6:36 pm, Roland said:
The “57 states” of the OIC. Russia is an observer nation.
Other recent evidence of the Collectivist/Islamic Alliance is
That recording is like a veritable “Rosetta Stone” of the radical revolutionary left. It provides evidence that the forces of the Communist Party have joined with the forces of the Nation of Islam and the “57 states” of the OIC.
It also shows how our dependence on foreign oil, (a condition created by the Democratic Socialists in our own government preventing us from accessing oil reserves in our own country that have been proven to be at least three times the size of the oil reserves of the world’s #1 oil exporter: Saudi Arabia), is used by the radical revolutionary left as a weapon against our own country.
It’s a fairly shocking audio to listen to, but it is the raw, naked truth of what these domestic enemies think and promote to young people. I find it to be nothing short of TREASON, and think it should be dealt with as such.
And stop the government obstruction which is preventing access to our own oil in ANWR, oil shale, and offshore. Get the U.S. 100% energy independent ASAP. This is a national security issue.
How about just canceling diplomatic immunity… That would straighten out of bunch of stuff….
Probably straighten out some of our people too that are being jerks in other countries.
I never doubted it from day one, as far back as his first bid at US Senate. Grease the wheels, whip up the community (as muslims tend to do), blackball your opponent, and ride into glory.
I had always heard, and assumed as true, and even started to type, that they were racists.
But I honestly just got weak-kneed at the sudden thought that maybe that’s just another lie I’ve been told all my life.
So I Googled it, and the first impressions I get led me to believe that that reputation is straight out of Ayers’ playbook: repeat the rumors enough and they become true.
Wow. I had no idea that those “Get us out of the UN” signs I see occasionally are a product of that organization.
Where are you????
HALP!
Need an anchor. Adrift.
You f’ing idiots!!!!!
Ironically, it was our appreciation of our gracious hostess which led to this.
Jeff? Do I remember you from times gone by?
Name that tune…
Those spider photos were first-rate.
I do try to link thread specific stories.
It is interesting how both the original John Birch and Larry McDonald, chairman of the John Birch Society, were murdered by communists.
I remember KAL007 all too well. I was flying to South Korea and missed a connection so I was not on that flight.
Jeff2161,
Are you saying that if you had not missed a connection, you would have been on that flight (KAL007)?
I’m just hanging out waiting for Monster Thread to come back to life. Apparently the e-mail ring suggestion didn’t catch on. Of course, it could be because our e–mail addresses are on Monster Thread and we can’t get there. That or the Sandinistas. Or maybe the leprechauns, but that really isn’t their modus operandi (they hate Latin).
Jeff is our topic compass.
Oh, heartily. Except for Stalin. At least Soviet Communism sustained itself for 60 years or so. The actual award for Excellence in Economics goes to…[opening envelope]…Robert Mugabe!
Also, I nominate me for Awesomest Poster Ever.
Can I get an “Amen” from the congregation?
There’s that inflated sense of self esteem I look for in an alcoholic drink.
Hmmmm….I generally just look for alcohol in an alcoholic drink. I get my inflated sense of self esteem from my inherent Awesomeness. And crack cocaine.
Yes but, I don’t believe in Final Destination.
Good night, all…
Jeff2161,
Wow. That is sobering.
As this almost directly affected your life, I’m keenly interested to know your thoughts about this.
From reading the comments of this thread it would seem that the UN was absolutely correct in their selection.
Like ‘bama creates solidarity with his words. You’re either solidly in with the pro-bama’s because your skin is black or you’re a communist, or you’re solidly in with the anti-bama’s because you are able to think for yourself, want to live in reality, make your own way through life and don’t want to succor at our government’s teats.
Both men are hewn from the same gnarled scrap of wood.
Of course ‘bama would probably take that as a compliment–which in itself is quite a commentary.
Jeff2161,
I’ll check back here tomorrow to see if you responded to my prior comment.
Thanks,
Red Pill
The UN has proven itself worthless for many years. Look to Saddam. They would not deal with a dictator who was very publicly know to have killed the Kurds and their toothless Nuke watchdog arm.
The United Nations out of the US, and the US out of the United Nations. It’s time.
Not to change the subject, but Van Jones has suddenly found himself under the bus. Didn’t take long.
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.