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To: Alex who wrote (47712)	2/1/2000 9:23:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116811

OT(?) Helms warns U.N. Security Council By Henry Lamb web posted January 24, 2000 Senator Jesse Helms told the U.N. Security Council exactly what it needed to hear: (1) the United States "will not countenance" the U.N.'s "global governance" aspirations; (2) "the U.N. serves nation-states, not the other way around;" (3) "no treaty or law can ever supercede the Constitution of the United States of America;" and (4) Americans reject and resent the suggestion that we are a "deadbeat" nation when we provided $10.179 billion dollars to the U.N. in 1999. He told them a lot more. Kofi Anan, Jesse Helms and Richard Holbrooke The Ambassadors on the Security Council listened intently, as did the audience of Ambassadors from more than 100 other nations. With all the diplomacy of a southern gentleman, Helms apologized for not being conversant with the "elegant and rarefied language of the diplomatic trade," and expressed his hope that the translators could speak "Southern" in order to translate words like "y'all" and "I do declare." He asked forgiveness in advance, "if I come across as a bit more blunt" than the Ambassadors were accustomed to hearing. "I am an elected official with something of a reputation for saying what I mean and meaning what I say," he explained. Blunt he was. Don't believe the polls commissioned by U.N. supporters, he admonished, which claim that the U.N. enjoys the support of the American public. "I have never won a poll," he said, "or lost an election." He told the Ambassadors he had received "literally thousands of letters" expressing deep frustration with the U.N.(cont) enterstageright.com