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To the editor:
This is in response to the
letter concerning the United States membership in the U.N.
One needs to study the
political history of the U.N. to fully understand why it was formed.
This forum does not afford the space to fully explore those reasons
for its formation. Therefore, it is easier to explore a premise for
which it was not formed. This, simply stated, is at no time was a
nation to give up its sovereignty.
The U.N. has been expanded into
the sovereignty of nations under its disguise as being helpful and
all-knowing. It is neither one. Those people in the business world
known as the trilateral commission would have us all under the
dominance of a world government. The constitution of the United
States does not allow for this. Our politicians and business people
have in a subversive manner entered into agreements with the U.N. as
a treaty agreement. This agreement takes away our rights as citizens
for a democracy of our people first. It cast us all in one group.
Democracy does not exist in the U.N., because all the nations who
participate are not democracies.
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The U.N. costs us, the
taxpayers, more than any other countries in the world. At one time
we had more invested than all the other nations combined. I have not
seen the figures lately. It probably has not changed much.
In closing there are two points
I would make.
First: I urge all citizens to not support any political leader in
this country that gives any authority to the U.N. over the citizens
of this country. Secondly: I have been sending letters to our
political leaders for the United States to get out of the U.N. When
the U.N. encroaches on the sovereignty of the United States, it
becomes an unconstitutional alliance.
If you have not guessed by now,
I totally support the United States in the war on terrorism and the
ridding of the world of those people like Saddam Hussein. We had no
problem with going to Kosovo, did we.
W.R. Rogers
Elkhart
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To the editor:
Democracy is, theoretically, a system
where the people have the power. [Greek] δήμος (demos) = people,
κράτος (kratos) = power. If we apply this norm to the United
Nations, I would say that the democracy in the U.N. is to respect
and follow the majority voice.
With respect to the U.S.-U.K and Iraq
war, the majority voice said this war is "inappropriate." The U.S.
did not accept the majority voice of the U.N. Security Council even
though the U.S. is one of the members of the U.N. This U.S. action
made the U.N. meaningless...
I accept a simple fact that the
strategy of the U.S. and the other nations did not match at this
time. However, we cannot deny another simple fact that the U.S. and
U.K. did not respect the democracy of the U.N., and in so destroyed
it.
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My philosophy is that the U.S.
needs to listen to the majority voice of the U.N. regardless of
whether it agrees or disagrees as one of the members of the U.N. But
the U.S. did not respect the majority voice of the U.N.... The U.S.
should leave the U.N. if the U.S. is not happy to accept the U.N.'s
democracy.
The U.S. does not know how to
accommodate the political strategy and democracy, or does not know
how to accomplish her diplomatic goal in terms of democracy.
I would hate
to see the U.S. leave the U.N., but I would feel better than if the
U.S. remains in the U.N. being selfish. This is the very destiny of
the democracy that the U.S. promoted in the human history.
Kenichiro Kira
Lincoln
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