Prepared Remarks of Cliff Kincaid, President, America's Survival, Inc.
At Capitol Hill "Stand Up For Sovereignty" Press Conference, September 7, 2000
Cuba's Stalinist dictator Fidel Castro is among friends at the United Nations, the main one being U.N. Boss Kofi "King Kofi" Annan, who has achieved notoriety for cutting sleazy deals with anti-American dictators such as Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi. Thanks to Annan, Saddam is once again a threat to world peace, having reconstituted his weapons of mass destruction, and Gadhafi has escaped punishment in the Pan Am 103 terrorism case. Annan, who likes to posture as a friend of humanity and enemy of war criminals, assured Gadhafi in a letter, recently unveiled after a year's cover-up, that the Pan Am trial would not "undermine" Gadhafi's regime.
This spy-infested, hate-America collection of tyrants, leftist groups, deadbeats, thieves and frauds doesn't deserve another dime from the American taxpayers, but King Kofi's "global governance" agenda amounts to trillions of dollars. Cloaked in euphemisms, his "We the Peoples" document includes calls for a standing Army, global taxes, anti-American treaties, Third World bailouts, disarming the American people, and an International Criminal Court to arrest and imprison Americans. This is the real "business" of the U.N. summit.
The U.N.has the Big Media on its side, including the Time-Warner conglomerate, whose tag-team duo of Gerald Levin and Ted Turner are working overtime to guarantee more favorable coverage for this anything but sacred cow. Levin, chairman of Time Warner, tells the Aspen Institute one day that he thinks the U.N. ought to increase its power and promote itself as the enforcer of world peace and, the following week, Time magazine has Kofi Annan on its cover, in a story saying his only sin is that he is too compassionate and that his "moral" vision for the world might be too bold.
As for Time Warner vice-chairman Ted Turner, the cozy alliance between this anti-Christian bigot and the U.N. and Annan personally is as sickening and disgusting as the idea that he could run a U.N. "peace summit" of religious leaders. But he seems right for the job, having insulted the Pope, having been close to Castro over the years, and having defended the butchers of Beijing for the massacre of freedom-loving students at Tiananmen Square. Perhaps Levin and Turner envision the U.N. as just another corporate subsidiary in their New World Order flow chart.
On the "right," Jack Kemp hosted Kofi Annan at a meeting of Empower America, where the U.N. chief with a straight face spoke on "Why conservatives should support the U.N." Former Republican chair turned big-time lobbyist Haley Barbour was hired by Turner to grease the skids for a financial bailout of the U.N., under the cover of paying a phony financial "debt," in return for phony "reforms" that will never take place. Big money also purchased the services of former Congressman-turned-lobbyist Vin Weber, now of the Aspen Institute, who surfaced as an agent of the Emergency Coalition for Financial Support of the U.N.
But the big money can't obscure the real truth, which is now becoming apparent even to a prominent liberal trial attorney like Richard Middleton of Atlanta, who is preparing an international lawsuit against the U.N. and Annan personally over their role in the Rwanda genocide of almost one million blacks. Try as he may, Annan can't wash the blood from his hands, when, as director of U.N. peacekeeping, he stood back and allowed his fellow blacks in Africa to be literally hacked to death by a killing machine using machetes. For this, however, Annan got a promotion, and now, as U.N. boss, his troops continue committing terrible atrocities in Sierra Leone.
The American people should also remember that we really have no way of knowing how much of our money is actually being wasted up there. American Linda Shenwick, a top budget analyst at the U.N., was evicted from her job by the Clinton-Gore Administration for telling Congress about U.N. corruption. She is now deeply in debt, having been forced to spend thousands of dollars on legal bills trying to get justice in her case.
Among other atrocities, Shenwick informs us that the U.N. has known for years that U.N. peacekeepers were spreading the deadly disease AIDS to foreign countries, and a new documentary on the matter says the U.N. literally brought AIDS to Cambodia. But it wasn't until this year that the world body acknowledged the problem and announced a laughable solution -- a "condom-a-day" for U.N. troops.
It is also strangely appropriate that while the U.N. delivers a death sentence to countless people around the world, Mary Robinson and the U.N. Commission on Human Rights wage a concerted campaign to overturn the death penalty here, so that convicted killers might remain alive, watching color TV and getting law degrees in prison, at American taxpayer expense.
To add insult to injury, former U.N. boss and Nazi war criminal Kurt Waldheim continues to get a U.N. pension, partly paid for by U.S. taxpayers. His portrait still hangs in the halls of U.N. headquarters in New York, where officials can cleanse their souls by having mystical experiences in the U.N. Meditation room, coming into contact with the Earth Spirit Gaia, and then lecturing us Americans about the need for separation of church and state. (30)
| OFFICIAL DELEGATION ACCOMPANYING THE PRESIDENT TO NEW YORK FOR THE UN MILLENNIUM SUMMIT September 5, 2000 |
Official Party
The President
Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State
Norman Mineta, Secretary of Commerce
Richard Holbrooke, Permanent Representative of the United States to the
United Nations
Charlene Barshefsky, United States Trade Representative
Steve Ricchetti, Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff
Samuel Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Gene Sperling, Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and
Director of the National Economic Council
Sidney Blumenthal, Assistant to the President
Bruce Lindsey, Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the
President
Joe Lockhart, Assistant to the President and Press Secretary
Connie Mariano, Physician to the President
Melanne Verveer, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the
First Lady
Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State
James Cunningham, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Thomas Pickering, Under Secretary of State
Wendy Sherman, Counselor of the Department of State
Elaine Shocas, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State
Stephen Sestanovich, Ambassador at Large and Special Advisor to the
Secretary of State for New Independent States, Department of State
Mary Mel French, Chief of Protocol
Stanley Roth, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
James Dobbins, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and
Canadian Affairs,
Dennis Ross, Special Middle East Coordinator
Department of State Betty King, Representative on the Economic and Social Council, United Nations
Reverend Jesse Jackson, Special Envoy for the President and the Secretary of State for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa
Al Moses, Special Presidential Emissary for Cyprus
Robert Bradtke, Executive Secretary, National Security Council
Eric Schwartz, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs, National Security Council
Traveling Party
Nanda Chitre, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press
Secretary
Richard (Jake) Siewert, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy
Press Secretary
Antony J. Blinken, Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for European Affairs, National Security Council
Philip J. Crowley, Special Assistant to the President,
Deputy Press Secretary and Senior Director for Public Affairs,
National Security Council
Kirk Hanlin, Special Assistant to the President and Trip Director
Kenneth Lieberthal, Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Asian Affairs, National Security Council
Rob Malley, Special Assistant to the President for Arab-Israeli Affairs
and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security
Council
Mark Medish, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
Russian Affairs, National Security Council
Bruce Riedel, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
Near East and South Asian Affairs, National Security Council
Gary Samore, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for
Nonproliferation and Export Controls, National Security Council
Gayle E. Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director
for African Affairs, National Security Council
Arturo Valenzuela, Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Inter-American Affairs, National Security Council
Christine Anderson, Director of Press Pool Operations
Douglas Band, The President's Aide
Stephen Boyd, Assistant Press Secretary
Jeannie Bull, Director, Office of Presidential Travel Support,
Department of State
Justin Coleman, Associate Staff Secretary
Valerie Owens, Assistant to the Press Secretary
Leah Pisar, Director for Communications, National Security Council
Dean Pittman, Director for Southeast European Affairs, National
Security Council
Charles (Jack) Pritchard, Director for Asian Affairs, National Security
Council
Thomas Rosshirt, Director for Speechwriting, National Security Council
Justin Siberell, Executive Assistant to the Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs
Richard Wilcox, Director for Multilateral Affairs, National Security
Council
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