Obama argues for global governance in last U.N. address - Jerome R. Corsi - http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/obama-argues-for-global-governance-in-last-u-n-address/
Urges working together 'under the mantle of international law'
In an apparent attempt to justify the retreat of the United States from international leadership, President Obama praised the United Nations Monday, arguing that global governance has helped spread democracy.
It was his last address to the world body.
"There are those who argue the ideals in the U.N. charter are out of date," Obama said, rejecting arguments that "strong states must impose their will" or that "might makes right" and "order must be imposed by forced."
"We can not look backwards," he insisted, emphasizing that global integration is an agenda that transcends the narrowly defined interests of nation states.
"If we cannot all work together, we will suffer the consequences," he said. "The United States cannot solve the world's problems alone, regardless how strong our military is."
He used Iraq to illustrate that U.S. military power is not sufficient to produce cohesion in a divided population.
"Unless we work with other nations under the mantle of international law, we will not succeed," he insisted.
He said tyranny around the world cannot succeed when technology opens the world to peoples in oppressed nations.
"It is not a conspiracy of U.S.-backed NGOs that produced democracy, it is technology," he said.
"I believe we must go forward in belief of our ideals. We must give expression to our hopes, not our fears."
Obama argued that the change in U.S. policy toward Iran and Cuba represented a fundamental shift toward working with previously sanctioned nations. The objective, he said, is to bring former enemies into a new world order characterized by respect for the principals of the United Nations charter.
"The United States will always do our part, but through international cooperation, as we did joining with other nations in Libya to depose a tyrant," he said. "In Libya, we continue to support efforts to form a unity government, but we must do more as the United Nations to build nations before they collapse."
He rejected the idea of U.S. unilateral action, insisting "we must work together."
Obama condemned Assad in Syria for not respecting human rights.
"We will not be outlasted by extremists," he insisted, referring both to Assad and to ISIS in Syria. "But after so much carnage, there cannot be a return to the pre-conflict status quo. This started with Assad reacting to peaceful protests by brutal repression of his own population. Compromise will be required to stamp out ISIL (ISIS) and end repression in chaos. But peace will not come to Syria until the Syrian people learn to live together peacefully."
Obama criticized Islamic terrorists as those who "distort the religion." He also rejected those who equate Islam with terrorism.
He pledged the United States will accept more refugees from Syria, citing Pope Francis's reminder that the world is at its best when it takes care of the least of those among us.
He urged the United Nations to galvanize collective action, pass new international trade agreements, fight climate change by harnessing clean energy and work together to eradicate extreme poverty worldwide.
"Finally, my belief in moving forward rather than backwards relies upon us supporting the fundamental principals of democracy and respect for the universal values this General Assembly is supposed to defend. I realize democracy will take different forms in different parts of the world, in respect for the differences in culture.
"No person wants to be imprisoned for expressing their belief in God," he said, reciting basic freedoms, including the right of assembly and the petition for the redress of government.
"History shows that governments that repress dissent do so out of fear, not power," he said. "Strong institutions, based on the consent of the government, endure long after their founders are gone.
"I understand democracy is frustrating and that democracy in the United States can sometimes even be dysfunctional. But it is democracy that has allowed the United States to be the most powerful country in the world," he said.
"I believe the fact you can walk the streets of this city right now and you can pass churches, synagogues and mosques is our greatest strength, that here you can see people from all parts of the world," he said. "We can be patriotic without demonizing someone else. We can be proud of our traditions without putting someone else down."
Echoing Nelson Mandela and Pope Francis, Obama concluded by arguing that human beings are basically morally good, capable of resolving differences in an interconnected world.
"Think of the Americans who lowered the flag in 1961, the year I was born, and returned this year to raise the flag again," he said. "Think of the Iranian shopkeeper who said because of the nuclear deal, I will be able to offer more goods at lower prices. The people of the United Nations can be taught to hate, but they can also respond to hope."
He ended his speech urging nations to work together to solve global problems.
"We are called upon to offer a different type of leadership, one that understands nations share a common interest and that there are universal rights," he said.
"President" ignores Christian component in politicizing Oregon shootings - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com
With hardly a heartbeat of time passing, the "president" blamed the shooting deaths of 10 people (including the gunman) on the lack of gun control in America. In his "news conference," which was a tirade against the Second Amendment, he said, "Well, this is something we should politicize...This is a political choice that we make to allow this to happen every few months in America...So the notion that gun violence is somehow different, that our freedom and our Constitution prohibits any modest regulation of how we use a deadly weapon, when there are law-abiding gun owners all across the country who could hunt and protect their families and do everything they do under such regulations doesn't make sense."
Let us be reminded that the majority of mass killings in the US have been perpetrated by Islamists or Nazi sympathizers--who were allies in World War II and have very similar beliefs against Christians and Jews. The shooter, Chris Harper-Mercer was a mixed-race 26 year old who identified with the Nazis, praising the mass shootings at Columbine and Sandy Hook--this according to the UK Daily Mail. Reports are that this mentally ill man specifically asked his victims one by one if they were Christian before saying "Good, you'll see God in a second." Then he gunned them down. The "president" should examine how gun laws don't work and how his own rhetoric against Christians has possibly encouraged such hate.
Oregon, along with 18 other states, requires universal background checks before firearm purchases. Like most liberal feel-good laws, the background check didn't work. In states and cities where gun control is the strictest, gun crimes are the highest. That's why the "president" wouldn't cite the statistics. Gun control allows the criminals to have guns and the law abiding to be the victims. The belief against guns at Umpqua Community College was so vigorous that it was a "gun free zone" with only one unarmed security officer. Now nine sons and daughters are the cold victims of another type of insanity--liberal belief that criminals and crazies won't get guns because of laws and good intentions.
Worse yet, is a "president" that uses every opportunity to politicize the deaths of Christian Americans by pitting people against one another. This was a crime against Christians--something the "president" didn't mention in his rant. He and his Administration released a report in 2009 demonizing conservative pro-life Christian gun owners as extremists. His silence is deafening as an estimated 500,000-plus Christians have been massacred by Muslims in the wake of the Arab Spring supported by the "president." And in his remarks in the aftermath of this mass killing, he ignores that Christians were asked their faith and killed because of it, and blames guns. This brings to mind the prophecy of Jesus in Matthew 24:9, "Ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." Sadly, even by our own "president."
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