Can We Get Rid Of The Un?

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Can we get Rid of the United Nations?

By

James Bredin

Are we all just indentured slaves to the United Nations?

With chains around our necks as we obey their expectations,

Can we even influence their International Criminal Court?

And send these do-gooders home to their own sanctimonious sort.

It’s a simple demolition task – just tear their building down,

And push it into the Hudson and flatten all around,

And tell them it’s done – all their strutting self-righteous speeches,

They can go back where they came from and lie on the beaches.

Should we care if one group of religious fanatics far away?

Beat the crap out of another group because they want to play?

Armies have gone to Afghanistan for at least ten thousand years,

And nothing has ever changed there – bags of bodies and tears.

And now I hear this UN group want to control the Internet,

Information coming and going so they can interject,

Where we will have to ask permission just to put in a post,

With their propaganda and version of events uppermost?

Saturday, November 22, 2003

[Michael Hardner]

1. Yes or no to binding referendums for all Canadians?

2. Yes or no to set election dates?

3. Yes or no to term limits?

4. Yes or no to proportional representation?

5. Should Canadians, who have a right to the ballot, be denied to right to vote for their prime minister?

6. Should appointed judges be asked questions in public about their prejudices or hidden special interests -- minorities, homosexuals, prisoners’ rights, terrorist-refugee rights and the immigration industry?

7. Should Canadians have a triple E Senate – elected, equal and effective?

8. Should government budgets be balanced?

9. Should the vast travels of politicians and their bureaucrats be funded by the taxpayers?

10. Should the huge national debt be paid down?

11. Why didn’t you pay down this colossal debt during your years as Finance Minister – one third of all income taxes to pay the interest – nothing off the principal?

12. How long after your coronation as prime minister before you become a world traveler?

13. What motivates a man to give up his day job, at $16,000 a day, to become prime minister?

14. Is power the ultimate aphrodisiac?

15. Can you give a reason why bilinguals from Quebec run Canada from Ottawa?

16. Can you give a reason why it appears that Canadians accept this?

17. Can you give a reason why the Liberal policy of bilingualism is accepted everywhere in Canada except by the government of Quebec?

The 1990s are over. In the new era, former Reform party idealogues will have to absorb the fact that victory is impossible without compromise.

The New Truths:

Manning lived in Stornaway, Alliance MPs get a better pension than you, and nobody ever took Sheila Copps seriously...

And the if the new Alliance leader is bilingual, your chances of success will increase twofold.

[Craig Read]

The UNO should be scaled down. $10 billion spent through UNO agencies per annum. 50.000 bureaucrats with a minority only hiring schedule, offices flung across the world, and nary a focused strategy in sight. A security council that ignores the reality of the threats that face the modern world, staffed by lightweights such as France, and self absorbed Russia and China. Airhead theories on global warming, cooling and regulating the Internet abound all to push forward the central premise that government control and world government domination are key to mankind's future prosperity.

Significantly, 39 per cent of this amount ($4.09 billion, 0.74 per capita) was for emergency work in peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance. This underscores the failure to use the UN system to tackle the root causes of what usually become extremely costly problems.

Sources: R. Culpeper, McMaster Univ. Whitepaper on UN reform or Erskine Childers with Brian Urguhart, Renewing the United Nations System, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Uppsala, Sweden, 1994, p. 143,4

Canadian link on good ideas on reform:

http://www.ncrb.unac.org/unreform/selected...er/summary.html

It costs Canadian taxpayers 150 million per year to play in this club, which is funded of course by the US and to a lesser extent Japan.

Countries and % of the budget;

USA 22 %

Japan 19.628 %

Germany 9.493 %

France 6.283 %

United Kingdom 5.380 %

Italy 4.922 %

Canada 2.573 %

Spain 2.448 %

Brazil 1.702 %

Netherlands 1.688 %

Australia 1.604 %

Korea, Republic of 1.318 %

Russia 1.200 %

Belgium 1.098 %

Sweden 0.998 %