U.S. Voted Against a U.N. Anti-Nazi Resolution!

http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20051219190332.shtml

Russia concerned about rise of Nazism

RBC, 19.12.2005, Moscow 19:03:32.The UN General Assembly has adopted an anti-Nazi resolution, initiated by Russia. Some 114 countries supported the document, with 4 states against and 57 abstentions. The resolution expresses a serious concern about the growing activity of extremist, racist and xenophobic organizations in the world. The Russian Foreign Ministry is concerned that some countries (i.e. the US and Japan) voted against the document, while many countries (all EU members) abstained. States such as Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia abstained as well, although these nations suffered a lot during World War II, the ministry's information and press department claimed.

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is the Bush administration supporting Nazis ??????

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The Bush crime family has resolved to stay the course and continue supporting the nazis since WWII. Why would they stop now? :hide:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5024413-110878,00.html

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UN passes Russia-initiated resolution against Nazism

19:31 2005-04-14

Members of the UN human rights commission passed Thursday a resolution against neo-Nazism and neo-fascism, moved forward by Russia in association with Belarus and Cuba. This document denouncing all forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and ensuing intolerance, was supported by 46 states of the commission's 53 member-countries, with abstention on the part of the USA, Australia, Japan and Canada.

The commission's session last year resulted in negative attitude toward this resolution by all countries of the European Union as well as the USA and Japan.

"We welcome the fact that the European Union's protracted polemics have ended with the conclusion in favor of support for the project we have submitted," said Russia's ambassador Leonid Skotnikov at the UN department in Geneva.

"This resolution indicates that problems facing member-countries, including certain EU states, should be tackled rather than played down," he added.

http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/04/14/59139.html
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it sounds like the text of the resolution was very polemic, since even the EU was against it in the beginning.
Besides Canada and Australia abstained too.

The US abstained in the name of "free speech" but to make even some parts of DU understand that there are limits to "free speech" in the eyes of other democracies (?) is very difficult.

What I read of the Pravda article is that the Russians are pissed off at certain monuments in Europe and to the fact that German veterans were invited at the celebrations of D-Day. But displaying certain Nazi artifacts for historical purposes is a very different approach (the rememberance of what must be avoided in the future) which obviously the Russians have difficulties to understand. And inviting German veterans to commemorations shows that pardon must be granted, a lot of the involved were there for historical reasons and not personally responsible. Because if that principle was not applied, a lot of monuments in the US and other countries should be torn down, because the wars in Vietnam, Algeria and Iraq were or are unjust.

So the original quoted post was VERY biased. It was very difficult to Google something about it and the story doesn't seem to be new either, dated from 14-04-05. Let's debate this when all facts are on the table.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com

December 19, 2005 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Proof of white supremacist and extreme right-wing penetration of Federal regulatory agencies emerges. WMR has obtained a copy of a July 1986 newsletter from the Conservative Network, which shows that there was attempt to use the Confederate Memorial Museum in Washington, DC to hold a honorary reception for "Freedom Fighter Groups" tied to the International Freedom Forum led by Jack Abramoff and funded by South Africa's apartheid government.

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According to those familiar with the Conservative Network, it was the template for the future "K Street Project," an attempt to purge the Federal government, including Federal regulatory agencies, as well as lobbying firms, law firms, and media of liberals and replace them with right-wing functionaries. This has resulted in the infiltration of the Federal government by individuals associated with white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations.

The Conservative Network was headed by retired Rear Admiral James Carey, who, at the same time he was a member of the Federal Maritime Commission, was asked by the Reagan White House Office of Presidential Personnel to "establish a professional forum for the Senate Confirmed Presidential Appointees to regularly meet, socialize, network and communicate with one another." Carey became Vice Chairman of the FMC in 1985 and was appointed by George H. W. Bush as chairman in 1989. Carey's appointment was handled by J. Michael Farrell, the Deputy Director of the Office of Presidential Personnel for Boards and Commissions. One of Farrell's other nominations was that of Kenneth Tomlinson as chairman of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, which Farrell also chaired under George H. W. Bush. Tomlinson recently resigned as the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after it was discovered he hired outside right-wing consultants to develop a black list of suspected "liberals," including Bill Moyers, Diane Rehm, and Tavis Smiley.

Carey is a big time player in extreme right-wing GOP politics. He has also been involved in some internecine warfare within Freemasonry. He also served on the board of Media Fusion, a Dallas-based wireless company, along with former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and former House Speaker Robert Livingston.

Carey is also the head of the Washington Scholars Fellowship Program, which was complemented by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. The Fellowship program is currently advertising positions with the right-wing Heritage Foundation, Departments of Commerce and Navy, House of Representatives Sergeant-at-Arms, and the National Transportation Safety Board.



Retired Rear Adm. James Carey: One of the godfathers of the right-wing attempt to purge the government of "leftists" and "liberals."

Carey placed importance on interns in his 1986 Conservative Network newsletter: "These young people are the future of the conservative cause. They are the leaders of the future."

In the early 1980s, one of those young people was Abramoff, the head of the College Republicans. In his 1983 annual report, Abramoff stated, "It is not our job to seek peaceful coexistence with the Left. Our job is to remove them from power permanently." This was to become the focus of the Conservative Network and the follow-on K Street Project.

In November 2003, Carey launched the National Defense Committee and an associated National Defense PAC with the following rhetorical statement, "The leftists and anarchists are mobilizing and they just don’t get it . . . They are undermining our President and Department of State, as well as a possible United Nations coalition and playing right into Sadaam Hussein’s hands. We are forming the National Defense Committee to support President Bush . . ."

In 1985, the Conservative Network found a sugar daddy in drug store magnate Lew Lehrman who helped Abramoff and his colleague Grover Norquist to set up Citizens for America, which put on a summit of "freedom fighters" in Jamba, deep in the Angolan bush. The meeting was attended by Angolan UNITA guerrillas, Nicaraguan contras, Laotian tribesmen, and Afghan mujaheddin, some having connections to Osama Bin Laden. The Conservative Network also included Abramoff Indian casino money laundering colleague, former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed.

WMR previously reported that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has been turned into a $3 trillion slush fund by the Bush administration to finance GOP politicians and Bush business associates. We can now report on similar slush fund activities with the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) -- activities that are permitting funds from Indian casinos to be laundered to support various right-wing causes and GOP political activities, including the maintenance of a 10,000-name Bush White House "enemies' list" by private entities -- a database to which key GOP operatives have access.

John Edward Hurley, the President of the Confederate Memorial Association, was the head of the Confederate Memorial Hall museum and who was retaliated against after he refused the International Freedom Fighters to use the museum for right-wing political gatherings, including the one advertised by Carey in the July 1986 Conservative Network newsletter.
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