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Libs: "We need to get approval from the UN"
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Labor Secretary Chao: U.N. a Threat to U.S.
Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Friday, Jan. 23, 2004
ARLINGTON, Va. – President Bush's labor secretary warned a gathering of conservatives that Americans must pay more attention to the United Nations and its related organizations, which she noted were chipping away at U.S. sovereignty and threatening freedoms.

Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, making her charges late Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, explained that powerful tax-exempt organizations were applying pressure through the U.N. to have the world body make decisions for Americans' lives without any input from U.S. citizens.

These efforts are being made without the knowledge of most Americans, she pointed out.

Chao cited a recent case where a labor union complained to the United Nations that the U.S. government was violating international law and international standards on the treatment of government employees.

The idea that tax-exempt U.N. and allied non-government organizations would presume to dictate to Americans how they live, work and conduct themselves on their internal business was a major theme late Thursday at CPAC, not only from Secretary Chao but also from panelists who preceded her.


Foreign Parasites

Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, charged that the goal of this unholy alliance was to "erase national boundaries," redistribute wealth on an international scale and steer decisions on American affairs from representative government to the "global village," with all of us as "global citizens."

He and another panelist, Jeff Gayner of Americans for Sovereignty, called for the U.S. to get out of the U.N. and to force the U.N. to get out of the U.S.

Secretary Chao cited not only labor organizations but also groups in other areas of concern, such as Environmental Policy Institute and self-described human rights groups that have used their tax-exempt status to try to bring the U.S. into line with their worldview, without a single American vote being cast or even an awareness on the part of most U.S citizens.

The long list of accredited left-of-center NGOs, she said, have become “key players in laying the groundwork for international law” and, she fears, “one day, the U.S. will be pressured to adopt” the globalist agenda without a single vote being cast.

Social Engineering

The internationalist-minded NGOs, the secretary observed, are encouraging the U.N. and its offshoot agencies to pressure the United States into policies mandating “gender neutrality” and “reallocating defense expenditures for other” left-favored causes.

“Conservatives who ignore the U.N. do so at their peril,” Chao declared.

DeWeese said the international tentacles of the NGOs reached down to local governments around the country. He said they were working with city and county governments to use familiar programs to forge ahead with such ideas as “sustainable development,” and “smart growth,” euphemisms, he said, for pressuring us out of the wide-open suburbs and into crowded cities. These policies also make housing more expensive, though liberal politicians constantly bemoan the lack of “affordable housing,” a shortage they have abetted.

“If you love liberty,” the American Policy Center president told CPAC, “sustainable development is your enemy.”

The job-killing, China-boosting Kyoto “global warming” treaty and the International Criminal Court, both rejected by President Bush, are just the tip of the iceberg, DeWeese warned.

“Few Americans are aware of what is going on,” he noted.

It goes to the philosophy of these particular NGOs that all living creatures are the same, perhaps crowing humans together in cities, with the animals looking in.

Gayner said Americans would have to use the same mantra with international planners and their NGOs that former first lady Nancy Reagan used with the drug culture: “Just say no.”

“The World Court and the International Criminal Court are building blocks to the control of the American people,” he said.


He praised President Bush for his State of the Union statement that the U.S. did not need a permission slip from foreigners to defend its own interests. Moreover, he cited polls showing near unanimity among the American people in agreement with that. Yet the pressure for world governance continues unabated.

Gayner urged support for a proposal by Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, to end U.S. membership in the United Nations.


The Enemy on U.S. Soil

Panelist Tom Kilgannon of Oliver North’s Freedom Alliance noted that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan lives “like a king” at the U.N., where “Castro is a hero and George W. Bush is reviled or barely tolerated.”

“Kofi Anan is no friend of the American people, and the U.N. is no ally of the Untied States,” he declared.

Secretary Chao said she was encouraged that such pro-American groups as the Heritage Foundation and the American Conservative Union had persisted in their efforts, against heavy resistance, to obtain accreditation as observers of the U.N. General Assembly.
 

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Gotta love the minority women in Bush's cabinet!

Chao and Condoleeza Rice are two of his best appointments.
 

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No way should an international organization (or foreign country) dictate how a country treats its citizens ... that said, I'd like to see the US take its own advice.

As an example: Canada recently de-criminalized marijuana, a move that had majority support among Canadians, and even greater support among the under-40 set. Yet, the US government has threatened "action" against us if we don't change this new law. (Aside from tighter border security, this new 'action' has been stated ambiguously.) PM Paul Martin is set to meet with Bush at Camp David and this is one item tabled on the agenda.

Globalisation of the economy is giving countless countries and international organisations the feeling that they have the right (and/or the need) to tell another country how to govern itself. On matters of foreign affairs such as peacekeeping, there is legitimacy to this, but on internal issues it is unfounded and arrogant -- protectionism is finally beginning to surface.
 

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XPanda - Can you point me to an article that explains Canada's new marijuana law? I thought it was still criminal (or is that England)?

And Canada's drug laws clearly have an impact on the US given the massive undefended border so the US Govt. has every right to be concerned about them.
 

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Floyd - Great point. If Canada legalized marijuana then we need to increase border security with them.

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Concerned... maybe.
But to try and dictate, manipulate, and/or change another countries democratically selected agenda, legislation, or law goes against everything we claim to be for.
 

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Floyd: I'll scrounge up an article for you. And, for the record, it's the decriminalization of simple possession, not traficking. To counter your point, and not that I necessarily disagree with you on the need for tighter border controls, it is very illegal here to possess many of the handguns that are legal in the US ... and, of course, it's always illegal to own an illegal handgun ... that in mind, it's estimated that over 80% of the handguns that end up in the hands of criminals here c****ed the border from the US, yet that would not give us the right to dictate your 'right to bear arms' legislation. And, I do think we need to tighten up the border.
 

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xpanda, if Canada believed that US guns were a threat to your society then Canada would be 100% justified in lobbying the US govt. to change the laws.
 

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Lobbying, perhaps. But the crux of the article posted sounds more like a coersive stance where reforms made be made behind the backs of Americans. Frankly, given our differences in gun laws, I would rather just see the border tighten up. If there's one thing I've learned from this website it's that Americans have a very deep, very old attachment to their gun laws. Trying to influence that would likely only cause further rifts.
 

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Are there not 7 to 10 million privately owned firearms in Canada?

That's 1 for every 3 or 4 people.

Not as many as the US, which has 2 guns for every 3 people, but Canada is still a heavily armed society.
 

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Yep ... this is true. However, the kinds of guns you are allowed to own here are different. My understanding is that semi-automatics and automatics are outlawed. I do know for a fact that you must keep your gun and ammo a certain distance apart, that your gun must be locked up, and that you can't just walk around in public with a gun ... we don't have permits for that. Guns here, in theory, are for hunting. Given the vastness of our country, perhaps that is what the guns are for? I'm speculating, because I don't know anyone with a gun, except my father and grandfather, who both have hunting rifles. They keep them at our cottage and I have never seen them before. And I don't want to.

Guns really aren't part of our culture.
 

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X - the gun laws in the US vary state by state quite a bit. There are federal laws (Brady Bill background check etc., no fully automatic weapons, restrictions on most semi-auto rifles, magazine capacity limitation to 10 rounds etc.) but the states all have their own versions as well, The Federal laws always supercede the state laws however.
 

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"Guns really aren't part of our culture."

Maybe not in Suburban Ontario, but I am sure they are in other places in the nothern and western parts of Canada.
 

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