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Friday, September 16, 2005

Remove U.N. from the U.S.

First, a note about today’s quote - many of you may have received the quote in an email attributing it to Robin Williams; sorry, no.  According to http://www.snopes.com Robin Williams did not say that - go there and type Robin Williams in the search bar and read the full explanation.

Imagine my surprise this morning while sitting in a waiting room watching TV while the truck was being fixed and hearing on the news that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated that since the U.S. did not respect the world body (the U.N.) that the U.N. should be headquatered in another country that has more regard for the organization.

After I was done being surprised I said, “Yeah. Move it to another country!!“  People in the waiting room of course thought that I was nuts.  But think about it realistically; people from other countries who come to work in the U.N. have ‘diplomatic immunity’ which means basically that they can come here commit crimes and then leave the country because they have that ‘special’ privilege.  How many other countries are going to put with that?

Now how many spies and other criminals come here to supposedly work for the U.N. that get to travel about our country unchecked (diplomatic status)?? How many other countries would let that happen?

Of the 191 member States of the U.N. the U.S. leads the top ten in it’s capacity to pay money toward operating costs, etc associated with the U.N.  We pay 22% of the budget there (based on data from 2002 - all I could find on the internet).

So hey, we can stay a part of the U.N. - just move it to another country.  Why should we have it here choking up our land and adding to our pollution with all the cars of all the diplomats??  I think that we should move it to Venezuela since they want it moved; let them deal with all the diplomats.

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