Arizona vs. the U.N. human rights police

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 1, 2010 09:07 AM

Arizona vs. the U.N. human rights police
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010

An indignant President Obama complained last week, “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.” Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead? The kowtowing commander-in-chief is in dire need of a daily reminder that his job is to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” — not international law or global diktats.

Case in point: Last week, Obama’s State Department handed in America’s first-ever report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights in conjunction with something called the “Universal Periodic Review.” In short, the 29-page document (pdf) is a self-aggrandizing report card touting the administration’s far-left domestic and foreign policy initiatives for the world’s approval. The report boasts of racial- and gender-bean-counting in the executive branch; Justice Department outreach to Muslim grievance groups opposed to post-9/11 security measures; teachers’ union payoffs in the federal stimulus law; continuing commitment to closing the Gitmo detention facility for enemy combatants; and the illusory lifesaving effects of Obamacare on minorities through “expanding community health centers” (which have yet to be built, but not that it matters in our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president’s age of post-achievement).

The report also includes a section on “values and immigration,” which essentially singles out Arizona’s immigration enforcement law as a human rights deficiency “that is being addressed in a court action.”

In response, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer rightly blasted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for succumbing to “internationalism run amok.” Brewer pointed out in a letter to Clinton, “Human rights as guaranteed by the United States and Arizona Constitutions are expressly protected in S.B. 1070 and defended vigorously by my Administration. In fact, the Department of Justice has correctly not included these so-called ‘human rights’ issues in the current litigation against the State of Arizona.” Somehow, that inconvenient detail escaped the Foggy Bottom bureaucrats’ notice.

No one should be surprised, of course, that the Department of Blame America First is prostrating itself before the likes of repressive U.N. Human Rights Council members Libya, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China. No one should be surprised that Obama’s globalist panderers couldn’t simply keep their mouths shut and refrain from trashing Americans with whom they disagree. In May, you’ll recall, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner preemptively trashed our country’s human rights record to Chinese government officials and humiliated Arizonans — and all Americans — who support states’ rights to protect their borders and enhance their security through strict immigration enforcement. An obsequious Posner called S.B. 1070 “a troubling trend in our society” in his bow-and-scrape conversations with the ChiComs.

The inclusion of Arizona in a politically correct catalogue of human rights and wrongs is more than “downright offensive,” as Brewer put it. It’s a national travesty. In the very same Obama administration document, the State Department praises the administration for its “robust protections for freedom of expression.” The report notes sanctimoniously: “As a general matter, the government does not punish or penalize those who peacefully express their views in the public sphere, even when those views are critical of the government. Indeed, dissent is a valuable and valued part of our politics.”

Yeah? Tell that to the Democratic members of Congress leading the punitive economic boycott and political demonization of Arizona. Or to Attorney General Eric Holder, who rushed to attack S.B. 1070 before he had even read it. Fresh off this U.N. mess, Holder’s Social Justice Department has launched yet another vendetta against Arizona. On Monday, DOJ filed suit against Phoenix-area community colleges because they imposed strict citizenship screening of potential employees.

As Obama throws America under the bus for the cause of open borders, the shady U.N. human rights police must be laughing their jackboots off.

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Related via The Foundry:

Unfortunately, the Administration fell victim to the temptation to aggrandize its record and disparage its opponents in several parts of the report. For instance, President Obama is referred to over 20 times in the 25-page report (minus appendices), and his health care reform is credited with vast achievements that have yet to be realized, if they ever will. The Administration deserves to be criticized for using politically what is supposed to be an objective report on the U.S. human rights record.

But, as discussed in a recent Heritage paper, the larger problem isn’t what is in the report; it is why we are participating in this farce in the first place. The Bush Administration rightly distanced the U.S. from the HRC and withheld the U.S. share of funding from it. When President Obama decided to support and engage the council, he extended America’s credibility to a fatally flawed body. He also made it inevitable that the U.S. would participate in the dog-and-pony UPR show that it has proven to be—a process little more than a “mutual praise society” for repressive regimes.

The Obama Administration was mistaken to believe it could improve the HRC from within as a member of the council. This is the inevitable result of its naïve faith—in defiance of record and reality—in multilateral institutions.

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  1. #1
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:16 am, cicerokid said:

    Brewer needs to give O the finger, form a militia, and mobilize them on the border. When she does this, I will pack and deploy.

  2. #2
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:16 am, stillontheroad said:

    And what chance does PIAPS stand as a candidate for POTUS that the Press is twittering about? Doeas anyone believe for an instant she would have been any better than the present Sock Puppet? November cannot get here fast enough.

  3. #3
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:17 am, sambo said:

    the illusory lifesaving effects of Obamacare on minorities through “expanding community health centers”

    In reality it seems that they are closing them…

  4. #4
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:17 am, xler8bmw said:

    He should be impeached immediately for treason against the US!!!!!!!!!!

  5. #5
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:21 am, aero said:

    As Obama throws America under the bus

    Wow! Who could have predicted BHO doing something like that?

    /sarc

  6. #6
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:26 am, dan708 said:

    Yech – this is the same UN that acts as a perpetual apologist for human rights violators the world over, but we’re supposed to kiss their fannies with regard to illegal aliens?

    DOUBLE Yech – Obama’s actions have echos of Bush Senior’s “New World order”! Not a good example for President Soetoro to follow.

  7. #7
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:32 am, Savage24 said:

    Isn’t it amazing that this administration can file law suit after law suit against Arizone, but cannot find a common ground for trying terrorist that we have incarcerated. How can anybody in this country have trust in the Obama justice department or in him for that matter.

  8. #8
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:35 am, Sabiankinslow said:

    My question to this UN council would be this:

    What are the immigration laws in other countries such as China (can say a Japanese person move there and expect them to speak japanese to accomodate him?), Saudi Arabia (same question but this time an Israli), Libia (again an Israli) and Mexico (anyone from south of THIER border) and how do they compare to the laws of The United States?

    I imagine that they will find that OUR laws are the most accepting and accomodating than almost any other country on the planet.

  9. #9
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:35 am, McCloud9 said:

    If and When this So Called Federal Govt. of ours, asks The United Nations to send “Peace Keeper Troops” to the Arizona Border… AS AN AMERICAN, I WILL pack my supplys and Go to Arizona, and Stand WITH my fellow AMERICANS!

  10. #10
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:36 am, sambo said:

    Those damb white Christian male human rights violators! Those low down scum buckets not only oppress all minorities they oppress and discriminate against their own daughters!
    According to that document is all we need to do is get rid of white males…I’m assuming the liberal white males are included in the ‘oppressed woman” category.
    What page was honor killings mentioned on?

  11. #11
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:37 am, 123upnorth said:

    Obama is the most dangerous threat to America’s future, period.

  12. #12
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:42 am, monad888 said:

    I imagine that they will find that OUR laws are the most accepting and accomodating than almost any other country on the planet.

    That’s exactly what they will find. The world standard is harsher than ours. That’s a human rights problem?

    Maybe it’ll do some good because anyone who uses it to complain about the US will look stupid. But that’s if you believe it to be a savvy move to cajole the rest of the world, and not some playground childish maneuver to manipulate domestic politics. It smacks of naivete the likes of which we’ve never seen.

  13. #13
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:44 am, xler8bmw said:

    This is a complete and utter violation of the constitution. It not only violates the preamble to “Provide For The Common Defense” We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

    It also, violates Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution
    “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”

    It is the RESPONSIBILITY of EVERY citizen, public or elected to defend the constitution! This is an outright violation of this administration against the principles, constitutional and US Code laws and rights to EVERY citizen. This president and his ENTIRE administration has been and continues to be in violation of the very laws that are to protect and serve the AMERICAN CITIZENS not ILLEGAL ALIENS! November is coming quickly if and when the republicans take the house back, I will be one of those citizens that will do everything in my power along with others to IMPEACH this president and members of his administration for violations of treason and high crimes and misdemeanors against the United States and its citizens.

    We are citizens not subjects and object to being treated as such. This administration is doing everything it can to cause divisiveness and turmoil in this country. We will not be used as swords to divide this GREAT nation and cause strife amongst the people to be pitted against each other. The American people will eventually rise up!

  14. #14
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:59 am, cabrerski said:

    If the blue helmets are deployed, remember this.

    Not one will step foot in Arizona. We have our women and children to protect.

  15. #15
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:05 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    The Governors of all the States need to realize this Federal Government is not their friend, and reassert their Sovereignity!

  16. #16
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:08 am, Flyoverman said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:59 am, cabrerski said:

    If the blue helmets are deployed, remember this.

    You mean the heroic defenders of Srbrenicia? If they show up, I am moving there and going into the tactical firearms business.

    For Sale – Genuine U.N. Peacekeeping Weapons

    Like new condition, never fired, dropped once.

  17. #17
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:09 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    What is infuriating is that the report positions the UN as a “higher authority” to our government. Our Constitution is the high water mark as a guarantor of human rights and freedom and should not be subordinated to ANYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE!

  18. #18
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:11 am, Flyoverman said:

    If the GOP ever wins the White House back, every single appointed member of State Department needs to be summariliy fired and all other employees be subject to a security and competance review.

    The State Department needs to be purged.

  19. #19
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:16 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    123upnorth said:

    Obama is the most dangerous threat to America’s future, period.

    That’s likely very true. He want’s to kill OUR America and turn it into his Amerika. The plan is rolling along pretty much according to their schedule.

  20. #20
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:18 am, Flyoverman said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:32 am, Savage24 said:

    Isn’t it amazing that this administration can file law suit after law suit against Arizone, but cannot find a common ground for trying terrorist that we have incarcerated.

    That is a clear indicator who the Obama Administration considers to be their number one enemy and the biggest threat to their strategic plan.

    It is not the terrorists, it is us.

  21. #21
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:19 am, jlhudg23 said:

    I suspect the blue helmets will be raping Arizonan women and children any day now, while standing aside and watching drug lords run rampant across the border.

  22. #22
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:21 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    Flyoverman said:

    If the GOP ever wins the White House back, every single appointed member of State Department needs to be summarily fired and all other employees be subject to a security and competence review.

    I would say they all need to be interrogated then fired en masse. At least anyone that serves at the pleasure of the president.

    Appoint John Bolton Sec of State. And let him build a new State Dept.

  23. #23
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:24 am, Flyoverman said:

    Appoint John Bolton Sec of State. And let him build a new State Dept.


    SWEEEEEEET!!!!

    That would bo so awesome!

  24. #24
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:26 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    That’s one scary document. Read between the lines and imagine what Obama and Ayers envision.

    We present our first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report in the context of our commitment to help to build a world in which universal rights give strength and direction to the nations, partnerships, and institutions that can usher us toward a more perfect world, a world characterized by, as President Obama has said, “a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual.”

  25. #25
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:28 am, Flyoverman said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:19 am, jlhudg23 said:

    I suspect the blue helmets will be raping Arizonan women and children any day now

    Too funny!!……. Remember Admiral Yammaoto’s comments about what would greet the UN.

    “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”

  26. #26
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:30 am, sambo said:

    Flyoverman said:

    That is a clear indicator who the Obama Administration considers to be their number one enemy and the biggest threat to their strategic plan.

    It is not the terrorists, it is us.

    Yes…and I’m pissed!

  27. #27
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:31 am, babiesgrandma said:

    sambo said:

    I’m assuming the liberal white males are included in the ‘oppressed woman” category.

    Tru, dat!

  28. #28
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:33 am, sambo said:

    I wonder what an American president would put in such a document.

  29. #29
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:38 am, Christian Soldier said:

    and the UN forces are right up there on the RAPIST-THIEVERY-World Empire building list…
    hypocrisy runs strong in the Dark Side’s (Lucifer’s goons) ranks…
    let’s stop using tax $$$ to support the debauched UN and ‘nationalize’ that prime property in NY…
    C-CS

  30. #30
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:40 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Meanwhile, the WaTimes is reporting that an AZ sheriff has declared that Mexican drug cartels control parts of Arizona, as far north as 80 miles of the border (Phoenix aka McCainville).

  31. #31
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:46 am, xler8bmw said:

    http://tinyurl.com/27e7nan
    Sheriff: ‘Mexican drug cartels control parts of Arizona’…

  32. #32
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:46 am, theoldpath said:

    The irony of these actions are just stunning. This current Federal Administration claims that Arizona is overstepping its bounds by attempting to enforce federal laws. Now, this federal administration wants to throw out the entire constitution and take this issue to the world. Talk about mixed up, messed up, torn up priorities.

  33. #33
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:47 am, Southpaw said:

    Signs warning U.S. citizens, IINSIDE the U.S.:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbeyHmWbQjs

  34. #34
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:47 am, vickisoup said:

    This is no laughing matter. For the US Government to take a position against one of its own states must violate some constitutional principle. Jan Brewer was apoplectic and we have to figure out how to stand with her beyond the blogosphere. What’s next???
    :shock:

  35. #35
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:49 am, Southpaw said:
  36. #36
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:51 am, stevevvs said:

    I feel for Arizona, they are in a tough situation. But I don’t think their law is Constitutional because of the Supremacy Clause. The states gave up the power, and the Feds refuse to enforce the laws.

  37. #37
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:52 am, Mister P said:

    I would like to see a move by the Republicans to demand the US gets out of the UN. Without our compliance, without our funding it quickly becomes a shell of an organization. We must accept it for what it is: A haven for thugs and dictators and nations jealous of the success of the US. They have one goal, and that is to bring us down to their low, and only Obama can stoop that low.

  38. #38
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:53 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    If you really want to make a big dent in the drug wars at the border, break up the “too big to fail” money laundering banksters.

    Laundering $378 billion for the drug cartels (one-third of the size of the Mexican economy) means that corruption is rampant among our politicians, bankers, regulators, big corporations and so on.

    Could we start being impolite and start asking the people who stand in the way of fixing this exactly how much drug money they are taking? Sanctuary city mayors? Amnesty senators? Bank presidents? It’s a long list.

    Let’s stop being polite about this.

  39. #39
    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:54 am, RedDog said:

    … (which have yet to be built, but not that it matters in our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president’s age of post-achievement).

    All hail the Potemkin Presidency. The National Socialists and Marxian Socialists have more in common every day.

  40. #40
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:01 am, orlandocajun said:

    No one should be surprised, of course, that the Department of Blame America First is prostrating itself before the likes of repressive U.N. Human Rights Council members Libya, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China. No one should be surprised that Obama’s globalist panderers couldn’t simply keep their mouths shut and refrain from trashing Americans with whom they disagree.

    Hopefully, there will be a silver lining to this madness. By demonstrating just how weak and stupid the far left really is, Obama continues to remind Americans of the danger of electing liberals. Maybe we’ll get our next Reagan out of this process.

  41. #41
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:02 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:51 am, stevevvs said:

    Not so. Every state has the right to defend itself from foreign invasion and civil disorder. The constitution is not a suicide pact. The limited federal powers vested in the Constitution were granted to address specific needs. The feds don’t have the option of ignoring their responsibilities. “Use it or lose it”.

  42. #42
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:06 am, xler8bmw said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 10:51 am, stevevvs said:
    I feel for Arizona, they are in a tough situation. But I don’t think their law is Constitutional because of the Supremacy Clause. The states gave up the power, and the Feds refuse to enforce the laws.

    You have a point the 17th amendment must be repealed. It minimized the power of the 10th amendment to the states and people.

  43. #43
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:07 am, xler8bmw said:

    This administration has shown it is a clear and present danger to the US and americans.

  44. #44
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:08 am, NHMagenta said:

    I’d love to see our esteemed hostess ask Gov. Brewer “under what circumstances would you call out the [Unorganized] Militia?

  45. #45
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:20 am, madshark said:

    There’s no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.
    – John Bolton

    That’s my kind of person.

  46. #46
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:29 am, sambo said:

    Can’t we just do like our schools and promote our problems (the potus) to the next level…like king of the universe or something

  47. #47
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:29 am, frostrt said:

    Apparently, Fidel Castro, hero to far-Leftists, has admitted that, since the Cuban revolution, gays in Cuba have been fired from their jobs, imprisoned, or sent to “reeducation camps”. He is also one of those paragons of human rights that the U.S., according to this document, should recognize as a “higher authority”.

    “Yes”, I can almost here the writers saying, “but gays in the U.S. are still not allowed to marry in every state!”

    Bovine Feces.

  48. #48
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:32 am, cicerokid said:

    The United States pays 22 percent of the organization’s nearly $5 billion operating budget but is perennially late paying its dues.

    Time to drop this membership along with the stinky-cheese-of-the-month club. Trim the budget.

  49. #49
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:44 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    Time to drop this membership along with the stinky-cheese-of-the-month club. Trim the budget.

    AND move their headquarters to Malta, or somewhere. Raze the buildings and put up a strip mall so some productive activity will be performed there.

  50. #50
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:44 am, Freddy said:

    As mentioned earlier in this thread, it is time for the US to withdraw ALL of it’s monitary DONATIONS from the UN! Talk should go back to being cheap!

    This human rights report, that references a law that does NOT CONTAIN ANY recognized human rights violation, is obviously a political attack on Arizona by the Obama administration.

    Somehow, NONE of the people talking about the Arizona law bother to mention that even IF the US were to profile its people in terms of boarding airlines or entering the country, or even walking down the street, to check for their identities, it would NOT BE A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION!

    Obama’s HATRED of the people of the US that did not VOTE for him is stunning! Those that do not SUPPORT his policies are vilified and attacked by the full force of the CLEARLY politically corrupt Obama administration.

    I wonder what Obama is going to do when he has 40 states, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate lined up in opposition to his policies?

  51. #51
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:47 am, madshark said:

    The Bush Administration rightly distanced the U.S. from the HRC and withheld the U.S. share of funding from it.

    I now realize that HRC stands for Human Rights Commission, but when I first read this, I thought HRC was Hillary Rodham Clinton. Works either way for me.

  52. #52
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:52 am, Regulus said:

    As Obama throws America under the bus for the cause of open borders, the shady U.N. human rights police must be laughing their jackboots off.

    Hope-a-Dope reminds me of the kid in elementary school who runs up to the bully and offers him his lunch money, instead of waiting for the bully to demand it — and then claims that by doing so, he’s the one in control.

    Dictators all around the world have already taken the measure of the man, and we are now squarely in the position of being neither feared by our enemies nor trusted by our former allies.

    We’ll be lucky not to be drawn into another war before November of 2012.

  53. #53
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:54 am, Dave Turson said:

    From the US report to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights:

    III.1
    Freedom of expression

    17. The United States maintains robust protections for freedom of expression. As a general matter, the government does not punish or penalize those who peacefully express their views in the public sphere, even when those views are critical of the government. Indeed, dissent is a valuable and valued part of our politics: democracy provides a marketplace for ideas, and in order to function as such, new ideas must be permitted, even if they are unpopular or potentially offensive. The United States has a free, thriving, and diverse independent press—a feature that existed before the advent of electronic and digital media and that continues today.
    [...]
    VI. Conclusion

    100. The United States views participation in this UPR process as an opportunity to discuss with our citizenry and with fellow members of the Human Rights Council our accomplishments, challenges, and vision for the future on human rights. We welcome observations and recommendations that can help us on that road to a more perfect union. Delivering on human rights has never been easy, but it is work we will continue to undertake with determination, for human rights will always undergird our national identity and define our national aspirations.

    I want to use this opportunity to discuss an abuse of our rights by The One: Why no mention of Obama’s War on Fox News in a footnote (end note)? Thank you.

  54. #54
    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:56 am, cabrerski said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 11:44 am, Dexter Alarius said:
    AND move their headquarters to Malta, or somewhere. Raze the buildings and put up a strip mall so some productive activity will be performed there.

    Jeez Dex,

    What did the people of Malta do to p*ss you off?
    Besides, I hear there is a proposed mosque in NYC looking for a new home.

  55. #55
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:03 pm, stoptheinvasion said:

    committed leftists like the ones who have hijacked our nation’s government are the worse people on earth and they never stop assaulting freedom and liberty.

    I am continually aghast every day at the outrages and assaults committed constantly against America that this national socialist usurper and this band of thugs. what utter vermin.

    can’t wait to see the stunned looks on their faces as they smear the 70% of Americans who vote their thugs and cowards out on 11/2 as bigots and racists.

    how did our country get this upside down? well, I’ll tell you, it’s because we have let leftists run the show and frame the debate with their lies and smears.

    when will we take our country back from these poison national socialists and restore our constitution from the savaging it has undergone at their hands?

  56. #56
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:09 pm, cheapseat said:

    Phil I couldn’t agree more with everything you’ve said in this post. The news this morning said that a mosque in Tennessee being built was burned to the ground. The citizens are getting to the point of civil disobedience because the gubmint in D.C. keeps feeding us crap and expecting us to grow and prosper. The vigilanism of the late 1800′s was brought about because the central gubmint was totally unconcerned with anything west of St Louis, and the people were being murdered by Indians and banditas. History repeats itself!

  57. #57
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:16 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    AND move their headquarters to Malta, or somewhere.

    Nah, I wouldn’t force the UN HQ and let their sleezy delegates loose on any decent nation and its people.

    What with satellite, internet, and other electronic means of communication, I think Bikini Atoll would be the most appropriate site for the new UN HQ.

  58. #58
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:17 pm, cicerokid said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:09 pm, cheapseat said:
    Phil I couldn’t agree more with everything you’ve said in this post. The news this morning said that a mosque in Tennessee being built was burned to the ground.

    Equipment was burned. No structure was burned as they were still digging the foundation. Still, people are beginning to act where our government will not.

  59. #59
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:18 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Jeez Dex,
    What did the people of Malta do to p*ss you off?

    Hmm. Good point.
    How about McMurdo Base?

  60. #60
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:34 pm, rightisright said:

    This administration is doing everything it can to cause divisiveness and turmoil in this country.

    Agreed, the ironic part of all his unacceptable actions are uniting America as it has not been in decades. It’s rolling now and picking up steam, impeach this impostor, deport him and never allow him to set foot in America again.

    When investigating this depot I want to have the Election Committee investigated and punished for not vetting this Marxist clown.

  61. #61
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:35 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    The news this morning said that a mosque in Tennessee being built was burned to the ground. The citizens are getting to the point of civil disobedience because the gubmint in D.C. keeps feeding us crap and expecting us to grow and prosper

    I believe the state dept. often deliberately targets areas within the US it sees being in need of cultural “diversification” when it resettles third word immigrant refugees, often en masse, with special consideration for the currently preferred islamic immigrants.

    Istead of assimilating, the newly settled immigrants are dumped into an unsuspecting community, and usually end up creating a seperate immigrant community and a magnet point for attracting additional immigrants of the same culture, increasing friction between immigrants and long time residents of such areas.

  62. #62
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:51 pm, cabrerski said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:18 pm, Dexter Alarius said:
    How about McMurdo Base?

    I’m good. At this location, the IPCC can study upclose and personal for any changes to the ice cap.

  63. #63
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:52 pm, rightisright said:

    ooop…When investigating this depotdespot

  64. #64
    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:56 pm, poppop said:

    It’s all part of Dear Leader’s plan. The first black man elected U.S. President.He’ll serve his one term concerning himself with the world’s problems instead of American’s concerns. After his defeat in 2012,he’ll become the first former U.S. President to serve as U.N. President. His dream job where all you have to do is talk,look important, and bash the U.S.

  65. #65
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:10 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    His dream job where all you have to do is talk,look important, and bash the U.S.

    How would that be a change?

  66. #66
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:11 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his Regime rolls on with another APOLOGY TOUR action. The U.N. blue helmet troops are making $30K or more each–they come from countries where $100 a year is a princely salary. And they don’t have to fight–they stood by in Rwanda and Yugoslavia and let the innocent people be killed. And in Lebanon they support and act as human shields for Hizbollah.
    ***
    Their “diplomats” would be pulling turnips in their home countries without their “jobs”. The U.N. is corrupt–and American Taxpayers fund 50 percent of this failed organization.
    ***
    The League of Nations failed, and the U.N. has failed. Get the U.S. out and throw these clowns out of our country. Somalia would be a good place for their new building–lots of Sharia justice and underage boys and girls there for them to abuse.
    ***
    And maybe the Messiah can be their Secretary General when we vote Him out of office–He likes the U.N. more than He likes the U.S.A. And–please–take Hillary Clinton with you!
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  67. #67
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:14 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    After his defeatresignation in 2011, he’ll become the first former U.S. President to serve as U.N. PresidentRuler of the World

    The office of President of the United States is just to small for TEH WON. After the GOP regains majority of CONgess, he’ll see the USA and its citizesn are too ignorant and just don’t deserve him. The world awaits.

  68. #68
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:27 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah so when the jack booted Census Enumerator kicks down your door and threatens you with fines or immprisonment for not filling in the American Community Survey (ACS) where oh where will the government/state department get all its data to hand over to the UN??!!

  69. #69
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:28 pm, JonB said:

    Letting the UN make a decision as to whether or not a law passed by one of the US States is a “violation of human rights” is just the first step. The results could vary, but will be some shade of the UN condemning it, and the media reporting in 300pt font that Arizona and specifically Gov. Brewer are violators of human rights.

    After this, the next “human rights violations” that will be leveled against the US will be any law passed by a state which is designed to block Obamacare. Those too will be considered human rights violations.

    I suspect that once these proclamations come from the UN, that the federal government will use them as a foot in the door for taking over the state governments in question.

  70. #70
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:32 pm, pueblo1032 said:

    I have posted to this story many, many times… All I have to say now, c’mon November 2nd!!!

  71. #71
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:32 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah, wouldn’t the UN site a good location for a new mosque?

  72. #72
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:51 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Pasadena Phil said:
    What is infuriating is that the report positions the UN as a “higher authority” to our government. Our Constitution is the high water mark as a guarantor of human rights and freedom and should not be subordinated to ANYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE!

    True, but our Marxist-in-Chief bows to anyone to show the world he thinks we should be subservient.

    BTW, Obama would allow blue-helmets to deploy to Arizona but not the US Border Patrol. Thanks stupid Dem voters.

  73. #73
    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:53 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    It’s all part of Dear Leader’s plan. The first black man elected U.S. President.

    Second. Bill Clinton was first – even by the Dems own accounting. He’s the first Mom-Jean President though…

  74. #74
    On September 1st, 2010 at 2:20 pm, rambler said:

    Time to boot the UN! So a committee composed of human rights abusers is going to pass judgment on AZ wanting the federal immigration law to be enforced to protect its own citizens.
    Instead, we should get every sewage barge in NYC to pack up all the UN crap and dump it out in international waters. The UN is just as corrupt as its members.

  75. #75
    On September 1st, 2010 at 2:35 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 12:18 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Jeez Dex,
    What did the people of Malta do to p*ss you off?

    Hmm. Good point.
    How about McMurdo Base?

    I oppose that on ecological grounds. What did the penguins, seals, and whales ever do to you? I propose relocating the United Nations to Somalia. The Somali central government is apparently non-functional which would be a good match for the United Nations.

    ECS

  76. #76
    On September 1st, 2010 at 2:39 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 1:27 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:
    Errah so when the jack booted Census Enumerator kicks down your door and threatens you with fines or immprisonment for not filling in the American Community Survey (ACS) where oh where will the government/state department get all its data to hand over to the UN??!!

    “That guy was a Census Enumerator? Geez. I thought he was a home invader. I didn’t have time to wait for the police because I thought my family was in danger. Hey, listen to the 9-1-1 tape! I told the police someone was kicking in my front door! I know it’s hard to understand over the dog’s barking and the gunshots, but…”

    ECS

  77. #77
    On September 1st, 2010 at 3:06 pm, JonB said:

    Move the UN to France

  78. #78
    On September 1st, 2010 at 3:38 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Move the UN to France

    Yeech! I don’t know if I’d wish that on ANYONE.
    And I’m talking about the poor UN personnel.

  79. #79
    On September 1st, 2010 at 3:55 pm, Roland said:

    Yeech! I don’t know if I’d wish that on ANYONE.
    And I’m talking about the poor UN personnel.

    That was my first reaction, too, Dexter, but then I realized it could be a real teachable moment for them.

    France would be perfect.

  80. #80
    On September 1st, 2010 at 4:59 pm, 11B said:

    And why do conservatives support US membership in the UN? We should have left this organization years ago. And please no counter arguments about isolationism and other such nonsense.

  81. #81
    On September 1st, 2010 at 5:44 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    Off topic: GB has started a new web site…

    http://www.theblaze.com/

  82. #82
    On September 1st, 2010 at 6:41 pm, misterbee241 said:

    So, our CEO who has taken an oath to protect and defend the constitution (nice words) has dispatched his demon to report one of his states to an unaccountable and corrupt UN. Words fail me. Time to push back.

  83. #83
    On September 1st, 2010 at 6:42 pm, misterbee241 said:

    On September 1st, 2010 at 4:59 pm, 11B said:

    And why do conservatives support US membership in the UN? We should have left this organization years ago. And please no counter arguments about isolationism and other such nonsense.

    I’m with you – US out of UN, UN out of US. It’s time for us to be a sovereign nation again as our founders intended.

  84. #84
    On September 1st, 2010 at 7:04 pm, T-Bone said:

    This is all about Obama. His narcissism is extremely dangerous for those that fun afoul of him.

    Gov Brewer challenged him and made him look like the mental weakling he is. He got mad and went Alynsky on her. It wasn’t really working since he couldn’t bring the lawsuit for the reasons he wanted.

    She also didn’t back down and that made him mad too. Who dares to stand up to The One? He is in full attack mode. Damn the torpedoes.

    This is a good lesson for the dangers of having a powerful government. You make the one man mad and he will use his power to destroy you. He is on a mission to bring her down and out her in her place.

    Hopefully, he is overreaching and this will all blow up in his face. In the meantime, the damage is done. So sad for our country that he would damage us like that for his personal petty squabbles.

  85. #85
    On September 1st, 2010 at 7:35 pm, fred5676 said:

    From USCIS web site:

    If you are a permanent resident age 18 or older, you are required to have a valid green card in your possession at all times.

    From the story about the DoJ suit against the AZ community colleges:

    After filling out a federal form attesting to his immigration status and producing a driver’s license and Social Security card, he was told to complete another form with more immigration-related information, the lawsuit said.

    That form required other documents and his green card. When he couldn’t present his green card, the suit said, the college would not process his paperwork and would not let him work.

    Sounds like the colleges were only doing what the freakin’ government wants them to do!!!

    Eric Holder is a sick joke. Too bad he runs the DoJ.

  86. #86
    On September 1st, 2010 at 8:05 pm, Member-VRWC said:

    It is important to note that Rodham’s Dept. of State is going along willingly with this dog and pony show. Just in case anyone has forgotten: until Obama showed up, Rodham as POTUS was our worst nightmare. She’s still in a solid 2nd place. I have a feeling Obama might take a powder in 2012 and let Rodham run for POTUS. With Bill lurking nearby, the Clintons could easily add to the mess that we are in already. We must not only get rid of Obama; we must get rid of Rodham as a candidate in 2012. Four more years of either of these crapweasels will bury this country for decades.

  87. #87
    On September 1st, 2010 at 8:27 pm, happy2behere said:

    Relocate the State Department to a border town and see how long it survives. Maybe the Attorney General’s office too.

  88. #88
    On September 1st, 2010 at 8:29 pm, bluesoc said:

    The kowtowing commander-in-chief is in dire need of a daily reminder that his job is to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” — not international law or global diktats.

    Sorry to nitpick, but the US Constitution does state:

    all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land

    …and the UN is the creation of a treaty to which the US is a party.

  89. #89
    On September 1st, 2010 at 8:56 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Pop Quiz…
    Which 2008 Presidential candidate said the following?

    …as conservatives, we believe that it is right to protect the sovereignty of the United States and to make sure that we never, ever, for any circumstance, under any purpose, ever yield one ounce of our sovereignty over to some international tribunal. (Cheers, applause.)

    That’s why we have to fight — (continued applause) — that’s why we need to fight against the Law of the Sea Treaty and make sure that it gets a good burial at sea. That’s why we should say no to Kyoto, because it’s not giving over — (applause) — our sovereignty. And it’s why any time some United States judge who has taken an oath to the Constitution of the United States should invoke some international law as a basis upon which to make a decision, he should be summarily impeached for having done so. (Cheers, applause.)

    Let me also say that it is right for our country, in believing in our sovereignty, to demand that we have something that every nation on earth accepts and, in fact, assumes would be a part of its nation’s essentials — a secure border. How we can ever believe that we can be a sovereign nation or a free nation without securing our borders is beyond me.

    Answer

  90. #90
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:04 pm, T-Bone said:

    Huckster?

    OK, I cheated.

  91. #91
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:05 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    An indignant President Obama complained last week, “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.”

    1) Obama said that as a dodge in response to being asked what he thought about people thinking he’s a Muslim.

    2) The fact remains that Obama knows what it means to the Muslim world when a persons recites the Shahada in Arabic.

    3) The fact remains that Barack Hussein Obama “took Shahada”. You need to know what that means.

    4) Since Obama himself brought up the birth certificate issue, and he himself said:

    “The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide”

    It is perfectly acceptable to talk about “Just the Facts”.

  92. #92
    On September 1st, 2010 at 9:37 pm, sbw999 said:

    Ill take the most jingoistic patriot over these flucking liberal morons any day of the week. Do these imbeciles wake up each morning and curse the fact that they are Americans?? Probably. Did they even stop to think that the FEDERAL law is MORE strict in that federal agents can question anybody without that person first being involved in some police action, as is the case with the Zona law??? I guess that must make the federal govt guilty of human rights violations more than Zona!!! God save us from these patronizing brain dead scumbags.

  93. #93
    On September 2nd, 2010 at 9:05 am, Savage24 said:

    If the “blue helmets” move in it will be easier to spot the enemy.

  94. #94
    On September 2nd, 2010 at 9:52 am, fuseman said:

    talk is cheap. still no word about secession. liberals ignore talk but cringe when they see serious intent expressed by action. brewer decides time for secession then i move to arizona.

  95. #95
    On September 3rd, 2010 at 4:28 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    An indignant President Obama complained last week, “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.”

    How ’bout dat pesky ol’ Constitution, dawg? Mebbe you should read ‘er, too.

    ECS

  96. #96
    On September 3rd, 2010 at 4:36 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    On September 2nd, 2010 at 9:05 am, Savage24 said:
    If the “blue helmets” move in it will be easier to spot the enemy.

    Crosshairs show up nicely against a light-colored background. Not suggestin’; I’m just sayin’…

    ECS

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