Where do the Presidential candidates stand on the United Nations?
Submitted by IWB, on March 19th, 2016
Where do the Presidential candidates stand on the United Nations?
This is a major issue for me in the 2016 Presidential Election.
The United Nations is moving in on the United States with land grabs all over our Country.
We are losing our rights to ownership of private properties under the guise of the Bureau of Land Management, which is ultimately a arm of the UN.
President Obama has given the UN free reign upon the US, and at this point it is futile to expect the US to free itself of that reign.
However, under a new President, we could begin to fight back, but where do the candidates stand on the UN?
On the Democrats’ side, there has mostly been silence on the campaign trail. But a look back at congressional voting and speaking records reveals something of a surprise. Over recent decades, Bernie Sanders has been a quietly steadfast defender of the UN in important votes, often running against special-interest lobbies and the tide of frequently ill-informed provincialism among both Republicans and some members of his own party. He was repeatedly in a lonely minority.Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, enforced and enhanced US spying on UN officials. In 2009, courtesy of WikiLeaks, it was revealed that the State Department under Clinton was asking American diplomats in New York to collect an astonishing amount of information on UN officials, including biometric data, credit card, and frequent-flier card numbers, as well as details about their Internet accounts. Spying has been part of UN life since the organization’s founding, and a lot of countries do it. But still, this directive, which strengthened an earlier one from the Bush administration, shocked people already accustomed to electronic eavesdropping.On to the Republicans in 2016.In a CNN debate, Cruz accused President Obama of wanting “to use the United Nations to bind the United States and take away our sovereignty.” In the Senate, he has blocked approval of diplomatic appointments and recently threatened to disrupt more nominations if Obama goes to the Security Council for approval of the Iran nuclear deal, which involves numerous other nations, not only the United States. He has repeatedly charged that Obama is using the UN to circumvent Congress and “the American people.”Trump has disgusted and frightened at least some Americans with his careless talk about “bombing the shit out of ISIS,” greatly empowering the US military without a hint of understanding how complex world crises are, and making proto-fascist pronouncements about taking charge of America, riding roughshod over laws and institutions. Globally, this kind of bravado alienates foreign nations and US allies more than it impresses them. His threats to build a wall along the Mexican border and to bar all Muslims from entering the United States have caused revulsion in the UN community.
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