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UN Warns Americans: Do Not Elect Mitt Romney
Breitbart Big Peace, by Joel B. Pollack
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 10/21/2012 1:30:49 PM
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| The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights has warned Americans not to elect Republican Mitt Romney in next month’s presidential election, saying that doing so would be “a democratic mandate for torture.” The UN’s Ben Emmerson was referring to Romney’s refusal to rule out the use of waterboarding in interrogating terror detainees, a practice that President Barack Obama has ended. Colin Perkel of The Canadian Press reported Emmerson’s remarks from a symposium in Toronto on the impact of 9/11 on human rights: "The re-introduction of torture under a Romney administration would significantly increase
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
nathan92083, 10/21/2012 1:34:46 PM (No. 8950353)
Romney wants to torture terrorists. Obama is the terrorist who wants to torture all of America.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
phx4546, 10/21/2012 1:34:57 PM (No. 8950355)
If I was undecided this would have sealed the deal as a vote for Romney.
Don't you agree?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
viking diver, 10/21/2012 1:35:32 PM (No. 8950357)
nothing like the world telling US what to do "NOT!" It's time the UN was cleared for a parking lot. everyone there should be given a days notice to clear out and go home. (even a day is way too long)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Susannah, 10/21/2012 1:37:31 PM (No. 8950363)
#2, the headline of the article alone would have sealed the deal for me.
But the article itself is eminently worth a read.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
beca, 10/21/2012 1:40:35 PM (No. 8950367)
dear UN..............drop dead
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
uno, 10/21/2012 1:42:19 PM (No. 8950371)
Funny, I musta missed that UN memo to the islamonizis not to mutilate, rape, torture, butcher, kill and drag their victims thru the streets of the Middle East in their sick, twisted ethos of a gruesome display of absolute terror!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/21/2012 1:42:55 PM (No. 8950372)
Another endorsement for Obama. Like those from Hugo Chavez, Putin and the Nobel Committee.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Moonspinner, 10/21/2012 1:44:43 PM (No. 8950377)
Awwwww NUTS
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Passion, 10/21/2012 1:48:14 PM (No. 8950384)
I'm Mitt Romney, and I approved this message....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
sternben, 10/21/2012 1:51:19 PM (No. 8950398)
Level the U.N. and bring back the slaughter houses.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Penney, 10/21/2012 1:52:33 PM (No. 8950400)
The UN is so corrupt. It's fallen down and can't get up. ...So, why are hard working American citizen's tax dollars still being used to fund this now apparently statist-dominated tool? ...What wasted potential!
Defund the outrageously off-track UN.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ishouldknowbetter, 10/21/2012 1:53:31 PM (No. 8950403)
Well crap. I wish they had warned me earlier. I jumped the gun with this early voting scheme and already voted for Romney. That's what I get for thinking I know better than the UN.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
KTWO, 10/21/2012 1:53:50 PM (No. 8950405)
Any decent government would immediate ban him from the US - UN passport or not - for such interference in elections.
Our State Department will do nothing.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
shurnuff, 10/21/2012 1:58:39 PM (No. 8950416)
If you ever wondered whether the UN is unbiased.... now you know!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
srhcb, 10/21/2012 2:00:11 PM (No. 8950420)
US out of UN
UN out of US
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
dipi, 10/21/2012 2:03:11 PM (No. 8950424)
If Romney wins, his second act should be to pull out of the UN. His first? Fire the current Army chief of staff.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
FunOne, 10/21/2012 2:06:38 PM (No. 8950433)
Time to look seriously at the cost-benefit of UN membership. We have been involved in the "redistribution" of our wealth to fund this anti-freedom, anti-American mob for far too many decades.
Maybe the liberals can donate toward building a new UN facility in Havana. Cuba could use the economic stimulus.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
get er done, 10/21/2012 2:13:08 PM (No. 8950444)
So now the UN is attempting to intefere in our national elections. The knuckle dragging monkeys at the UN need to clean up their own backyards of brutal terrorists before they shake their bony fingers at America. I do not know who is cheekier, the Obama administration or the cheeky monkeys at the UN.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hisself, 10/21/2012 2:15:42 PM (No. 8950447)
Hey UN: FU
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Photoonist, 10/21/2012 2:17:07 PM (No. 8950454)
Well that ''endorsement" has to bump Romney up a couple of points at least.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
gator, 10/21/2012 2:23:50 PM (No. 8950475)
Dittos to all!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Topic Thunder, 10/21/2012 2:25:40 PM (No. 8950481)
This UN creep "Ben Emmerson" obviously knows a lot about our enemies and their plans. I say torture Emmerson mercilessly until he coughs up everything he knows.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
AppleAnnie, 10/21/2012 2:27:30 PM (No. 8950485)
Talk about conflict of interest.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
philly_patriot, 10/21/2012 2:28:06 PM (No. 8950487)
Cancel the check ........... and have the post a eviction notice.
NOW!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
youngtexan, 10/21/2012 2:29:53 PM (No. 8950492)
OK, UN. We'll elect Romney.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DaddyO, 10/21/2012 2:34:19 PM (No. 8950505)
We don't waterboard anymore, it was too inhumane.
We just shoot missiles at suspected terrorists and let God sort them out.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
veritas4ever, 10/21/2012 2:48:51 PM (No. 8950532)
This from an organization that has approximately 80% of its member states controlled by despots or dictators, and who depends on AMERICAN dollars to keep them in the black. WHEN WILL WE LEAVE THE USA? I'm sure they will be happier in the Horn of Africa so that they can be in the midst of terrorists and dictators.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 10/21/2012 2:57:35 PM (No. 8950547)
Americans shoulda listened to the Birchers 60 years ago.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 10/21/2012 3:03:25 PM (No. 8950563)
This should push Romney to a landslide.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
snowcloud, 10/21/2012 3:09:55 PM (No. 8950581)
This is scary. The news broke last night that the UN will "oversee" our elections to stop conservative groups from preventing fraud. I hope everyone realizes that the UN does have a dog in this fight and it ain't Mitt.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 10/21/2012 3:16:49 PM (No. 8950594)
The UN will lose trillions if Romney elected. No more redistribution of America's assets to the world... no more funding & training of Muslim Brotherhood invasions.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
losgatos, 10/21/2012 3:19:43 PM (No. 8950603)
Kind of funny from an organization whose employees run around the world raping women and small children.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Sarila, 10/21/2012 3:34:13 PM (No. 8950633)
Unite Nations go.... (you know where)..
I am an american citizen and I can vote for whoever I d..... wish to vote.....
and MY VOTE WILL BE ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
GOP_U_BET, 10/21/2012 3:41:08 PM (No. 8950648)
I want the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. It is a boil on the backside of NYC.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Keekng, 10/21/2012 4:02:11 PM (No. 8950692)
Yup, ditto's to all! It is time to remove that festering boil from our country.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 10/21/2012 4:13:21 PM (No. 8950712)
Emmerson is a leading international human rights lawyer--like Tony Blair's wife, Cherie. I regret to say he is a Briton.
How dare this Useful Idiot tell me how to vote? Is there nothing in the UN charter which provides that this person can be deported for interfering in our election?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
country boy, 10/21/2012 5:30:04 PM (No. 8950851)
Candidate Rick Perry did say it was time to throw the U.N. out of the U.S. Don't know what Mitt thinks, but sure hope he agrees.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
greg1a, 10/21/2012 6:25:31 PM (No. 8950945)
Heh, the UN, an idea that went to hell. Tell all of them to pack their bags and then close the building.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
judy, 10/21/2012 6:28:18 PM (No. 8950947)
That's the best endorsement so far...if the UN is against Romney he must be great!!!
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
kate3513, 10/21/2012 7:21:43 PM (No. 8951035)
That sealed the deal for me. Always gonna vote for Mitt but were I undecided that would put me across. The audacity of the UN. First gonna send their monitors to make sure that we do everything right at our polling places and now warning us? Get that bunch of con men and women out of our country!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 10/21/2012 7:22:58 PM (No. 8951037)
My motto will always be: If the UN is for something, I'm AGAINST it.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
booneboy, 10/21/2012 7:25:33 PM (No. 8951043)
Number 6 said: "Funny, I musta missed that UN memo to the islamonizis not to mutilate, rape, torture, butcher, kill and drag their victims thru the streets of the Middle East in their sick, twisted ethos of a gruesome display of absolute terror!" I would prefer that the Islamonizis perform water boarding instead of all the above. How about it all you liberals, do I have an AMEN?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 10/21/2012 11:48:45 PM (No. 8951422)
UN...STUFF IT!
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 10/22/2012 5:17:31 AM (No. 8951565)
Up yours UN.
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