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2005-02-06 International-UN-NGOs

Mark Steyn: Would you trust these men with $64bn of your cash? Of course not

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Posted by tipper 2005-02-06 9:04:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mark Steyn says he's in favour of destroying the UN. Good. Actually I wouldn't mind a General Assembly or pool of diplomats for discussion-purposes only, but things go awry as soon as the diplomats try to take action other than just reporting back to their governments.

Posted by Tom 2005-02-06 12:03:50 PM|| 2005-02-06 12:03:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "One of the reasons Iâm in favour of small government is because big government tends to be remote government, and remote government is unaccountable, and, as a wannabe world government, the UN is the remotest and most unaccountable of all. If the sentimental utopian blather ever came true and we wound up with one "world government", from an accounting department point of view, the model will be Nigeria rather than New Hampshire.

Man if that ain't the truth.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-02-06 6:30:39 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-02-06 6:30:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Thomas Paine, in Common Sense:

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one ....

Posted by rkb 2005-02-06 6:51:26 PM|| 2005-02-06 6:51:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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