http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_sc/bali_climate_conference
It seems that the UN has racked up another giant success that will rank right up there with their stopping Iran from getting a bomb and ending the killing in Sudan.
I'm sure that this will solve the whole problem. It just makes me warm all over and quivery with cum bayahness -- the peaceful feeling I get just knowing that an organization that sanctions dictatorships as "nations" is saving the earth ... again.
On the other hand, it can't be all bad. There is not a single human alive who will like this result. Half will hate it for doing nothing and half will hate it because it did something that didn't need doing.
Sigh. Oh well. I don't hate it for any reason. I see these kinds of summits as a good way to get really, really weird people busy doing stuff that doesn't mean a thing -- which inevitably diverts their (quite clueless) attention to innocuous pabulum rather than making life worse for real people with real jobs
Originally posted by StarValleyWyIt's forever amusing how you dislike this behaviour from the UN, but tolerate it whole-heartedly from the US...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_sc/bali_climate_conference
It seems that the UN has racked up another giant success that will rank right up there with their stopping Iran from getting a bomb and ending the killing in Sudan.
I'm sure that this will solve the whole problem. It just makes me warm all over and quivery with cum bayahness -- ...[text shortened]... tention to innocuous pabulum rather than making life worse for real people with real jobs
Originally posted by shavixmirUmmm.... innuendo isn't exactly a statement of your position. I THINK you are implying that "Bush is a Dictator". If so, rest easy. He is going out of office FOR GOOD AND FOREVER next year.
It's forever amusing how you dislike this behaviour from the UN, but tolerate it whole-heartedly from the US...
You are so clever. Did your mama ever tell you that? ... No. I guess not. Sorry. What was I thinking!?
Do you think that an organization like the UN that sanctifies and blesses Dictatorships as "Nations" is a good thing? If so, explain how we ever get rid of dictatorships while they are being protected by the UN. I would like to know how to do that.
Or do we just wink, blink and look away when they do their dictator-like thing -- stealing their "citizens" blind, running their secret police, killing the journalists and trampling all the rights of humanity under the protection of the UN?
Omar Hassan al-Bashir is getting away with murder. Right? Why? Do you really think that the world would hesitate to invade and kill the bugger and his kind if they were not protected by the UN?
I really am interested in your thoughts on why dictators are protected species.
What about a League of Democracies where some minumum standard of published freedoms are the minimum requirement for membership? Is that a good idea? Or is it just another capitalist trick to enlarge the "good ole' boys club"?
Originally posted by StarValleyWyThe US recognizes dictatorships as "nations" too.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_sc/bali_climate_conference
It seems that the UN has racked up another giant success that will rank right up there with their stopping Iran from getting a bomb and ending the killing in Sudan.
I'm sure that this will solve the whole problem. It just makes me warm all over and quivery with cum bayahness -- ...[text shortened]... tention to innocuous pabulum rather than making life worse for real people with real jobs
Originally posted by StarValleyWyand then there's Saudi Arabia, Pinochet in Chile, Iran (under the Shah), Iraq (as supported heavily by Reagan and Bush I), Pakistan, Suharto in Indonesia, Panama, Guatemala... on and on and on.
Yes. This the major contention between those of us who wanted Saddam gone and those "others". Sad. It can be changed, but not until we learn to love freedom a lot more than we do now.
You're right, it can be changed, when the US govt actually values Democracy in deeds as well as words... but we're a long long way from home on that one.
Originally posted by StarValleyWywell how'do my redneck cus from there hill-a-billy land....
.... If so, explain how we ever get rid of dictatorships while they are being protected by the UN. I would like to know how to do that.
you will find Cus, that the pre-ce-dents of the good 'ol U S of A hav been protecting, them, good old dictatorships for years..Cus... a fact you would have know if you knew how to read.
anyway Cus...read up on the Shah of Iran, Saddam in the 70s and 80s that guffy Gad-a-fy in that fine country of Lib-b-a who you are all friends with now.
and thats just 3 dic-ta-tor-ships that the good 'ol U S of A backed for years until it got its greedy, hands burned