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GOOD FOR JESSE HELMS... !!!
He may have gotten no applause from the NWO, the U.N.
But I will applaud him for having the guts and gumption to stand for what he
believes in! And for the American people who believe that the US has no
business involved with UN strategies.
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Subject: [CTRL] Angry Helms slams U.N. for its 'lack of gratitude'
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> <A HREF="http://www.washtimes.com/world/news1-012100.htm">Angry Helms
slams
> U.N. for its 'lack of gratitude' -- The Washington Times</A>
> http://www.washtimes.com/world/news1-012100.htm
>
>
> Angry Helms slams U.N. for its 'lack of gratitude'
>
> By Betsy Pisik
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>
>
> NEW YORK - Sen. Jesse Helms Thursday blasted the United Nations for
its
> "lack of gratitude" to the United States, sternly warning that the
> international body risks U.S. withdrawal if it continues "to impose its
> presumed authority on the American people."
> "They see the U.N. aspiring to establish itself as the central
authority
> of a new international order of global laws and global governance. This is
an
> international order the American people will not countenance," said the
North
> Carolina Republican, perhaps the U.N.'s staunchest critic.
> Mr. Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the
> first member of Congress ever to address the 15-member Security Council,
was
> coolly received by the executive body. After his fiery 40-minute speech,
> there was no applause.
> While Mr. Helms said he was appearing before the body's Security
Council
> to extend a "hand of friendship," he added that "candor compels that I
> reiterate this warning: The American people will never accept the claims
of
> the United Nations to be the 'sole source of legitimacy on the use of
force'
> in the world.
> "A United Nations that seeks to impose its presumed authority on the
> American people without their consent begs for confrontation, and - I want
to
> be candid - eventual U.S. withdrawal."
> Mr. Helms - facing council members fully aware that he had come to
> denounce many aspects of the United Nations - did not mince words. He
opened
> by saying, "It may very well be that some of the things I feel obliged to
say
> will not meet with your immediate approval - if at all."
> He then lashed the body for charges that the United States is a
> "deadbeat nation" for not paying more than $1 billion in dues.
> Mr. Helms said that while the United States had agreed, under certain
> conditions, to pay $926 million toward U.N. arrears of well over $1
billion,
> it actually spent $8.8 billion last year to support "various U.N.
resolutions
> and peacekeeping operations around the world."
> "The money we spend on the U.N. is not charity. To the contrary, it
is
> an investment - an investment from which the American people rightly
expect a
> return.
> "They have grown increasingly frustrated with what they feel is a
lack
> of gratitude," he said.
> Mr. Helms said the United Nations must not only trim its spending,
but
> cease drawing the United States into "entangling alliances."
> On that topic, too, Mr. Helms left no room for misunderstanding.
> Mr. Helms told the Security Council it had a "mixed record" in recent
> conflicts.
> While it "performed admirably" in ending Iraqi aggression against
Kuwait
> in 1990 and 1991, "In the more recent case of Kosovo, it was paralyzed,"
he
> said.
> "The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Bosnia was a disaster, and its
failure
> to protect the Bosnian people from Serb genocide is well documented," he
> added.
> Mr. Helms also took issue with Secretary-General Kofi Annan's calls
for
> increased "global engagement." The United Nations "must respect national
> sovereignty" and not seek "to impose its utopian vision of international
law
> on Americans."
> "What the secretary-general calls 'rights beyond borders' we in
America
> call 'inalienable rights,' " the senator said. Quoting the U.S.
Constitution,
> he said those rights were endowed "not by kings or despots, but by our
> Creator."
> The American people, he said, have a "long history of coming to the
aid
> of those struggling for freedom." It is a "fanciful notion that free
peoples
> need to seek the approval of an international body to lend support to
nations
> struggling to break the chains of tyranny and claim their inalienable,
> God-given rights."
> He also lambasted a proposed treaty for an International Criminal
Court,
> which would claim jurisdiction over American soldiers even without
> ratification from Washington.
> Mr. Helms said Americans have drawn their own conclusion about the
> motives of the world body.
> "As matters now stand, many Americans sense that the U.N. has greater
> ambitions than simply being an efficient deliverer of humanitarian aid, a
> more effective peacekeeper, a better weapons inspector, and a more
effective
> tool of great power diplomacy.
> "If the United Nations is to survive into the 21st century, it must
> recognize its limitations," he said.
> After Mr. Helms' speech, ambassadors from Russia, France and other
> countries responded by denouncing U.S. failure to pay all its dues.
> "All the other members of the United Nations expected the United
States
> to keep its word," said Sergey Lavrov, Russia's representative.
> Chinese ambassador Qin Huasun told the staunchly anti-communist
senator,
> in a masterpiece of understatement, that "our views may not be completely
> identical," adding that the United Nations could be effective only if it
> respected sovereignty, equality among states and noninterference.
> While the day was the height of decorum and diplomacy, there were
some
> fireworks. After Mr. Helms castigated Cuban President Fidel Castro in his
> speech, the country's U.N. envoy, Bruno Rodriguez, who is not a council
> member, raced to the front of the hall and said the senator's remarks were
> "unacceptable and slanderous."
> U.S. Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, who had invited Mr. Helms to
> address the council, gaveled Mr. Rodriguez into silence.
> In another bit of understatement, Mr. Holbrooke delivered a simple
> post-speech assessment of the senator's performance during the speech, in
> which Mr. Helm's occasionally banged his hands on the table to emphasize a
> point:
> "It was something."
>
> This article is based in part on wire service reports.
>
>
>
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