UN Elects New President

A Nicaraguan priest who has been a stern critic of the United States won election Wednesday as the next president of the U.N. General Assembly, beginning his post with a "sermon" that touched on love, politics and the Iraq war.

The presidency of the 192-nation assembly rotates by region and lasts for a year. The assembly elected 75-year-old Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a Roman Catholic priest who was born in Los Angeles. He succeeds Macedonian diplomat Srgjan Kerim.

He said,

"They elected a priest. And I hope no one is offended if I say that love is what is most needed in this world. And that selfishness is what has gotten us into the terrible quagmire in which the world is sinking, almost irreversibly, unless something big happens," d'Escoto said during a news conference. "This may sound like a sermon. Well, OK..."The behavior of some member states has caused the United Nations to lose credibility as an organization capable of putting an end to war and eradicating extreme poverty from our planet,"

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g19C-3oUlw0V6JPQCAYy_AhhTcEQD913HN1G0

Father D'Escoto was seen to be a harsh critic of the US in his opening speech and the States have voiced opposition to his election.

Your thoughts?

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
A Nicaraguan priest who has been a stern critic of the United States won election Wednesday as the next president of the U.N. General Assembly, beginning his post with a "sermon" that touched on love, politics and the Iraq war.

The presidency of the 192-nation assembly rotates by region and lasts for a year. The assembly elected 75-year-old Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a Roman Catholic priest who was born in Los Angeles. He succeeds Macedonian diplomat Srgjan Kerim.

He said,

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g19C-3oUlw0V6JPQCAYy_AhhTcEQD913HN1G0

Father D'Escoto was seen to be a harsh critic of the US in his opening speech and the States have voiced opposition to his election.

Your thoughts?

I think the bigger story is that he's vocally opposed to the dealings of the US, and less that he is a catholic priest.

You've got a real kind of hard-on over catholicism, don't you?

Originally posted by Devil King
I think the bigger story is that he's vocally opposed to the dealings of the US, and less that he is a catholic priest.

You've got a real kind of hard-on over catholicism, don't you?

Just thought I'd bring it up a bit. 🙂

Considering I like to follow world affairs and politics and didn't actually know who the former president of the General Assembly was - I don't think it really matters who they elect.

The not overtly religious Ban Ki-Moon is still the Secretary-General, and the US is still a permanent member of the Security Council, and holds Presidency of it this month.

The UN sux ballz. It's basically a big dumbass organization run by political correctness Nazis for the sole purpose of looking out for only countries who aren't white. I think it's pretty funny - and I don't mean "ha ha" funny - how the UN doesn't focus on *real* problems, like Europe being infested by millions and millions of persons of terrorist ancestry while transforming into the Soviet Union, or how the Netherlands is literally letting a bunch of pedophiles run for government. Or how in the UK the government is trying to take away men's basic human rights to appease feminazis and how the white British's freedom is being oppressed for the sake of PC. I don't mind one bit that America starts wars all the time and doesn't listen to the leftarded UN. The UN has never done a single good thing in its whole history. Fk you, UN.

What's that about men's basic human rights that get taken away in the UK?

You'll have to look it up. This self-hater named David Blunkett wants to remove men's rights to a fair trial because he thinks they're all wifebeaters and that men don't deserve a trial. Subhumanoids like Blunkett and the soulless she-Nazis who control them are doing everything they can to break up the traditional family unit in a deliberate attempt to take away men's masculinity - that's the feminist agenda. Those she-devils aren't to be trusted by any man. Feminism isn't the idea that women are people. It's the idea that men aren't.

In what capacity exactly does President of the UN serve?

Originally posted by UKR
You'll have to look it up. This self-hater named David Blunkett wants to remove men's rights to a fair trial because he thinks they're all wifebeaters and that men don't deserve a trial. Subhumanoids like Blunkett and the soulless she-Nazis who control them are doing everything they can to break up the traditional family unit in a deliberate attempt to take away men's masculinity - that's the feminist agenda. Those she-devils aren't to be trusted by any man. Feminism isn't the idea that women are people. It's the idea that men aren't.

There's a wonderful scene in The Venetian Twins you would appreciate.

Originally posted by UKR
You'll have to look it up. This self-hater named David Blunkett wants to remove men's rights to a fair trial because he thinks they're all wifebeaters and that men don't deserve a trial. Subhumanoids like Blunkett and the soulless she-Nazis who control them are doing everything they can to break up the traditional family unit in a deliberate attempt to take away men's masculinity - that's the feminist agenda. Those she-devils aren't to be trusted by any man. Feminism isn't the idea that women are people. It's the idea that men aren't.

I find it hard to understand that you support one removal of personal rights in one sentence while condemning them in the next. Someone ban this blatant sock-slug.