UN Lowers Flags to Half Staff for Kim Jong Il Funeral
**Written by Doug Powers

Last week the UN General Assembly held a moment of silence for North Korea’s Kim Jong Il (it’s over, you can start talking again, Jimmy). On Wednesday, in spite of the dictator’s abhorrent human rights record, the UN went a step further:
(Reuters) – U.N. offices around the world lowered their flags to half-staff to mark the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday in a move the world body said was routine but which prompted objections from some human rights activists.
In New York, where the flag outside U.N. headquarters was lowered, spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the gesture had been requested by Pyongyang’s U.N. mission but was normal for the funeral of any head of state.
“It’s a matter of protocol,” he said.
North Korea is a full member of the 193-nation organization.
But UN Watch, a Geneva-based advocacy group, said the U.N. human rights message was “at serious risk of being blurred today” because of the honoring of Kim, who died on December 17.
“Today should be a time for the U.N. to show solidarity with the victims – the millions of North Koreans brutalized by Kim’s merciless policies of starvation, torture and oppression – and not with the perpetrator,” the group’s executive director, Hillel Neuer, said in a statement.
Maybe one of the things about Kim Jong Il’s tenure that appealed to the appease-o-crats and Goracle-worshipping carbon credit dealers at the UN was his refusal to go overboard on the use of planet-destroying electricity:

As for the funeral procession, the crowd lining the streets of Pyongyang was stricken with mandated grief, not unlike many at the protocol-rich, common sense-deprived United Nations:
**Written by Doug Powers
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this is why the un has to go. they fawn over dictators, and try to fleece the democratic countries. i do know the history with the league of nations, which lead to the un. but both of them have prooven to be useless to agreesion by dictators, or terrorism. lets just write it off, kick them out, and scrap the idea of having some kind of world body.
Wouldn’t flying half-mast make it only a semi member?
And here I thought the Popemobile was something.
And this is a surprise?
Hmmmm I see a slight resemblance in the picture of Kimmy and Barry. Maybe it’s the lighting or maybe the lack of light?
Exactly.
Hand picked mourners for sure or self appointed.
Notice the people in the back are not near as hysterical as those in front.
But then, maybe I’m just picky after viewing Reagan’s funeral on TV.
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Douglas MacArthur had the right plan during the Korean “Police Action” (aka WAR). When the Red Chinese Army was massing on the far side of the Yalu River and border–hit them with the nukes and finish off with a grand slam WW2 style victory.
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Too bad President Harry Truman (D) fired him–instead of smoking the enemy. The net result has been 60+ years of enslavement in the Gulags for the North Korean people. Eating bark and grass to stay (kindov!) alive. Kidnapping Japanese men, women, and children for some weird spy plans. Murdering our Army personnel with axes in the “Demilitarized” Zone. Sinking a South Korean ship. Shelling civilian cities. Sending raiding parties to kill civilians at will. Without any immediate payback–or any buckwheats at all.
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The worthless U.N. backing of these Hitler / Mao / Stalin / Pol Pot murderers. Get the U.N. out of the U.S. and stop funding it. Our second worst president–Jimmy Carter–cutting side deals with them. Bubba Clinton enabling the Nork nuclear program–what’s the problem in sending them some reactors? The U.S. forced to have tens of thousands of soldiers there to act as “speed bumps” when the final attack comes from the North.
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If Korean War II starts–nuke their military capabilities, communist elite, and infrastructure out of existence. Then do a WW2 Berlin type sweep of the survivors to finish removing the communist reminent still alive. No U.N. help needed.
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John Bibb
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For some time now, I’ve been planning to burn a UN flag. (We’re *still* under a burn ban.) Publically, if possible. Privately if not.
This just makes me want to even more.
A good plan that will only be executed if there is a Republican in the White House.
Respectful. But respecting what exactly?
From the Panhandle of Texas? Or close?
Instead of “half staff” why not a half a roll, and then flush twice to make sure he stays down.
I have to chuckle…….
Kim Jong Il’s last mile was in a Lincoln stretch limo.
Hey, that limo is from the late ’70s, during the Jimmy administration.
Did that bastard give the Commie Koreans a gift?
Another moment of glory from the Brave dDefenders of Srebrenica
Well, I guess the North Koreans never got the word regarding the Cash for Clunkers Program.
Were UN flags flown half-staff when Muammar Gaddafi or Sadaam Hussein died?
According to the UN, neither was considered a head of state at the time of their deaths. No half-staff.
I don’t recall any UN resolution removing Gaddafi from power. But who knows.
So the UN unrolls their quilted Charmin and flies it up a pole for their beloved genocide despot friend.
Seoul’s innocent millions remain hostage to Nork nukes and conventional missiles by the hundreds of thousands. Sounds like something the UN would get behind.
How Kim Jong Il starved his own people
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/12/how_kim_jong_il_starved_his_own_people.html#ixzz1hFHYjyPQ
Massive theft and corruption.
In honor of Kim Jong Il, Bill Clinton left his fly at half-mast. Joe Biden’s ideas remained half-baked. And Nancy Piglousi is still half-witted.
I guess it’s a case of the halves and the halves-not.
The U.N. sucks! U.N. out of U.S.A. NOW!
Some current events:
Satan to KJI: “Squeal! Squeal like a pig!!”
What would they have done for Adolf Hitler, Mao, or Joe Stalin?
The UN is way past its born-on date. Shut it down.
Remember the Serbs stripping the Dutch UN “soldiers” down to their skivvies and running them out of town? They never fired a shot. No honorable military man would have bent over like that. Of course the Dutch were among the first in Europe to gay-up.
This is the same military the Democrats are fashioning for us as we speak. The new president needs to clean house at the Pentagon to at least counter some of it.
What’s the big deal. This is what they do for all revered leaders. They had a moment of silence and lowered flags to half mast when the actual great leader and decent human being Vaclav Havel (who freed his people from Soviet oppression) died, so now they have to do it for the little sleeze monster, too, or vicious dictators around the world will be miffed.
What? They did not do those things when Havel died?
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Never mind.
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The UN is utterly despicable. The peace after WWII compared to the disintegration of the peace after WWI had absolutely nothing to do with there being a UN after WWII. It has been American power and American courage and American lives that have kept the peace, with some help from a few of our allies.
We have to remember that very very few politicians (of either party) understand that the purpose of a military is to impose OUR WILL on somebody else.
The UN’s purpose is to …. can somebody help me here? I’m not coming up with any purpose other than to sustain itself.
Amen to that.
…yet some morons in this country think the UN should be investigating the US on voting issues and illegal aliens.
Fracking stupid!
you are stirr useress Arec Bardwin!!
Not to mention the Obama administration was working with the UN to try to pass a “cliamte change” tax on foreign currency transactions. It never went through luckily.
Doug your picture of the free Souths ACTIVITY as shown by the lights on at night taken by a satelite and the one single dot of light that is Pyong Yang in the north speaks volumes as to whether communism or capitalism works best. The north may as well be the ocean, with an island that is the capital where all the Kim cronys are allowed to live. Any one who has ever been to Korea knows that by giving money, food, or aid to N Korea is simply enabling Kim to feed, pay, and aid his army and cronys. The only way to rid the planet of this parasytic dictator is to encourage a Korean spring by NOT feeding his army, not clothing his army, and not aiding his army. If the U.S. is planning on parachute drops of food and aid into all those dark regions of N Korea, then maybe that aid will help the people, but 60 years of negotiations and aid going to Pyong Yang should have convinced even the dumbest diplomats that that is a loser.
Gee, I wonder if they did thesame when Pope John Paul II died. He was the head of state of Vatican City, an independent state and UN member.
Oh wait, they hate Christians.
Why are we still in the PEEYOU-N? This organization stinks to the stratosphere.
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HI RED_DOG–#25. Yes–”blue helmet” U.N. soldiers are usually a joke. Far overpaid, and without any real supply lines, leaders, rational rules of engagement, or purpose.
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However, I don’t think that “gayness” has much to do with their failures. Many “gay” soldiers have served bravely and honorably in the U.S. Military. Far stronger and better organized fighting forces than U.N. “temporary help” troops. And my guess is that the 2 percent? “gay” or “lesbian” people exist in all walks of life. And that we usually don’t know who is who–or what.
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My guess is that 1000 U.S. Marines would have prevented the genocide in Rwanda–if they were given reasonable rules of engagement. And that 100,000 U.N. Soldiers couldn’t / wouldn’t have been able to do the job. They watched and fled instead of stopping / shooting the murderous mobs.
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John Bibb
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HI ROLAND–#26. Your comment gets an “A”. No U.S. Military = No freedom. Western Europe would be using German or Russian as the only language on the continent without 90+ years of the U.S.A. defending them. At a high cost in money and lives.
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John Bibb
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O/T…someone was asking the other day if there was a compiled list of ridiculous uses of tax payer monies. Sen Tom Coburn has this list. Though I am sure it is not complete it does give a good start.
Here is a great story of patriotism:
WOT but I’m up to my ears with Rose Parade/Rose Bowl Game duties at this time and this warms my heart. Makes me proud to be living in the right place and involved with the right organizations. Happiest place on earth during New Year’s.
I would expect nothing less from the U.N. What is the latest count of Democracy style governments and dictator style governments in the U.N.?
U.S. out of the UN, the UN out of the U.S., sell the land on Turtle Bay to Donald Trump. The UN has never prevented a war, stopped a war in its tracks, or protected anyone from genocide. It issues edicts against Israel like it’s handing out Kleenex but puts Cuba or Libya on its Human Rights panel with a straight face. It doesn’t differentiate between a free republic and a brutal dictatorship. All it does is suck up international taxpayer money and rack up unpaid parking tickets. It’s another failed progressive idea.
Why’d stop with just half way? Take the thing down all the way.
Cut it apart and use it for toilet paper. Or use it for your door mat. Or put it in your dogs bed. Or use it to wipe your hands when you work on your Acclaim.
Need more suggestions?
To honor a leader of Kim’s er, stature, shouldn’t the U.N. flags have been lowered to quarter-staff?
I saw that too and was glad to see that at least some traditions are still being left intact.
The Rules of Engagement were gay.
Shouldn’t you people be doing something productive?
I’d like to hear what the candidates running for the GOP nomination think of the UN and the US’ obligation to it. As for me, this country needs to not only detach itself totally, but it needs to sell the properties, return that money to the Treasury, deport all of these useless “diplomats” and their ridiculous staffs, and flatly refuse to join another such bogus outfit if it were to be created in some other country. The UN has a horrendous track record of failure.
The third world has controlled the UN for a long time, yet WE are still paying a HUGE chunk of their expenses. Why? I would like to hear the candidates for president say what they would do (not that they would actually do ANYTHING).
Tell me what you’re doing today or right now & I’ll take that into consideration…lemme know ‘k? allrighty then bye bye
ILMC Drinking Game!
When it says “you people” take a drink.
Feel free to add.
I think ILMC was the result of a drinking game. No point in making any more of them.
On December 29, 2011 at 10:11 am, Ilovemycountry said:
Why? You worried taxes won’t be paid to support your welfare?
Like what you’re doing? Sitting on your bewtocks on the tarp all day squeesing pimples?
It’s just mad that the OWS group was told they can’t march in the Rose Parade (hat tip Pasedena Phil).
On December 29, 2011 at 10:35 am, RyanInSanJose said:
I’d say take a drink when it says something that makes sense, but we would die of dehydration.
I wonder who got to break the news to the occupiers that it’s the Tournament of Roses, not the Tournament of Stinkweed.
Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate for the UN to shut off the electricity and close the cafeteria?
So many here feel the same way I do about the useless-impotent-do nothing-corrupt UN.
US out of the UN, UN out of the US!
NOW!
I’m all in for a ILoveMyIdiocy Drinking Game. In addition to “you people”, we could add:
Drink – everytime he posts.
Drink – everytime he uses “you racists”
Drink – everytime he slobbers on himself while typing how wonderful he thinks Obeyme is.
Drink – everytime he posts about how many states TheOne is going to win in 2012.
If we can’t say anything else about ILMI, we can at least say he boring……
I really don’t think they thought this through. They think they are going to get on global television. No chance, They’ll be lucky just to find a parking spot never mind finding each other once they get there.
It is more likely that they will be pleading for the police to protect from the many Oregon and Wisconsin fans who are there trying to celebrate with their friends and family. Just imagine those people being pushed around by a bunch of smelly and obnoxious hippies to make space for a dopey “human float”.
AlohaGuy said #56 “Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate for the UN to shut off the electricity and close the cafeteria?”
Permaently? I’D LOVE IT! LOLOL!!
Any word on how the “Occupy the Detroit Lions playoff game” is going?
You can add when it slams our faith to the list.
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That’s “Rincoln Continental”, you disrespectful Westerner you!
Why First Skirt, are you trying to get as all drunk? If so, poor me another
Now Flyoverman what ever do you think that Obama actually did with all those cars? I am starting to think that he gave them as gifts to heads of states. Makes you wonder what Hugo Chavez is now driving.
Apparently ILMC is bored with his blow up doll from Santa. He’s baaack.
I think the UN should just move to North Korea.
O/T….Obama admin sets up hotline for illegals to contact if they are caught by State or Local law enforcement agencies:
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Romney, Gingrich or the others to speak out. Republicans are above the fray. They are not Obama and that’s all that matters.
The real question is why is North Korea a full member of the UN? If they are a full member, then his death should be treated with respect. They respect the country enough to allow them in, you have to respect the leader. There are many other “bad” countries, dictatorships, thugocracies, mullahocracies, and monarchs allowed in. It’s like a den of thieves or that bar in Star Wars.
Except Romney has already spoken out against illegal immigration already (I guess you missed it). Of course Romeny could easily flip flop on this issue as well.
I first read that as Obama set up hotline for people to turn in illegals. I thought that was strange for him. Now I get it.
Romney supports a “comprehensive” (amnesty). They all speak in code.
Uuuuh…wouldn’t someone know if they’re a citizen of the U.S.?
Is this dumb….or what?
Not sure where you get your info Phil, but Numbers USA has him listed as just the opposite on Amnesty.
Look, I am not a big fan of Romney, but I also believe in setting the record straight when it is being missrepresented. Their are only two people who are listed as either ok (romney) or good (Bachman) on immigration. And I tend to trust numbers USA’s ratings as they have been pretty close to the mark from what I have seen.
Hi, Truesoldier @64: The only way I can understand anything posted by ILMC is to be drinkin’ or to have drunk some adult beverages….heh!
That must have been a very, very strong drink!
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
Spacey…is that absinthe legal?
You’re messin’with me…you meant absence.
I would have preferred this scumbag’s rotting corpse hung from a flagpole at half-mast.
In honor of this prick’s death, I am lashing a second flagpole onto mine so that my flag can fly at DOUBLE MAST!!!
Put that in your juice box and suck it, Pyongyang!
RWR
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