UN passes Russia-initiated resolution against Nazism

http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/04/14/59139.html

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.
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Interesting that USA abstained...

Just know whats written in the article!!!

this resolution might haver to do with banning certain forms of speech or certain groups that have not violated laws

this would restrict it!!!

First, it's a resolution, not binding in any way.

But more importantly, significant chunks of the U.S. power mechanisms haven't been against fascism -- well, ever! Many of our top families and corporations were VERY interested in and some of them involved with Hitler. Further, we important tons of Nazis at the close of WW2 and found nice homes for them in our intelligence community, our scientific institutions, etc.

Here are a few links JUST on the subject of the Nazis we brought to the U.S.:
Bush Family - Nazi Dealings - WWII to 1951
by John Buchanan and Stacey Michael
from The New Hampshire Gazette Vol. 248, No. 3, November 7, 2003
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Politicians/Bush_Nazi_Dealings.html
discussed here (with many more links): http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1584497

The Ghost of Adolph Hitler: Nazi Influence in America
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/STA310A.html


Mae Brussell: http://www.maebrussell.com/index.html
MAE BRUSSELL'S PICTURE OF THE PENTAGON - THE SPIDER AND THE ODESSA
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/mbspiderweb2,21,83.htm


Ratlines: The CIA and the Nazis (Tarpley)
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/ratlines.htm

CIA's Worst Kept Secret
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/051601a.html

Project Paperclip and Camp Evans (in N.J.)
http://www.infoage.org/paperclip.html

Opn Paperclip (Namebase)
http://www.namebase.org/main3/Operation-Paperclip.html


Project Paperclip: Nazi Scientists Who Performed Human Experimentation in the U. S. http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/paperclip.htm

Project Paperclip and Literal Nazi Connections
http://www.datafilter.com/mc/paperclip.html
Resources on Human Experimentation by Nazi Doctorszi Experimentation
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/paperclip.html
and Resources on Nonconsensual Human Experimentation
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment/paperclip.html

Operation Paperclip Revisited: Moral Schmoral By RICHARD THIEME, August 22, 2003
http://www.counterpunch.org/thieme08222003.html

MKULTRA
Mindfield (Globe Intel) http://www.gordonthomas.ie/mindfield.htm

actually I can think of two or three reasons.

I'm sure Bolton wishes a few less floors existed today.

I denounce any attempt to ban any form of speech, no matter how repugnant

I applaud the courage of the countries that voted against this mindless, feel good authoritarianism

I doubt it was Bush's reason.

one poster below posted the US statement on why they voted against it.

It is simply a feel-good piece of legislation that violates free speech rights. I despise neo- Naziism, but I despise governments who censor hate speech even more, because a free man is allowed to whatever believe whatever tripe and nonsense he wishes to believe

Somehow I knew that punch-line was coming.

Read the early history of the Bush neo-fascism in a failed coup plot against Franklin Roosevelt:
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/53-index.html

I have been trying to point this out to people for the last 3 years. No one wants to believe facts. Its right there in front of them and no one will see it.

"They steal the livery of great national ideals to serve discredited special interests…. This minority in business and industry... engage in vast propaganda to spread fear and discord among the people. They would gang up against the people’s liberties…. They seek the restoration of their selfish power.….
Our resplendent economic aristocracy does not want to return to that individualism of which they prate, even though the advantages under that system went to the ruthless and the strong. They realize that in 34 months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people’s government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic aristocracy, such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. Give them their way and they will take the course of every aristocracy of the past – power for themselves, enslavement for the public."

http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/all-both.html

The rest have governments who wouldn't mind a bit of jack-booted discipline on the heads of a few libruls.

From US Statement on the explanation of its vote

The United States shared the repugnance at attempts to glorify or promote Nazi ideology. However, freedom of expression must be protected, and the draft failed to distinguish between statements protected by freedom of expression, and those that incited violence.

Hard to argue with that. Pravda's headline is a bit misleading when it comes to our position.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Boy Georgie Pussy pants is Hitler's biggest fan.

it is FASCIST to ban unpopular forms of speech or non violent assembly, which is what this intends. I hate Nazis, but they have a right to their warped beliefs too

The US statement:
The United States shared the repugnance at attempts to glorify or promote Nazi ideology. However, freedom of expression must be protected, and the draft failed to distinguish between statements protected by freedom of expression, and those that incited violence.

The 1st Amendment protects Nazi speech too

that was my guess. banning certain forms of speech because you dislike them is worse than having nazis rant in public.

The discussion about free speech is misplaced.

The resolution was intended primarily as criticism of what Russia perceives as the rise of pro-Nazi historical revisionism in the Baltic states, primarily in Latvia. Parades of former SS troops and neo-Nazi sympathizers, glorification of the Baltic states' involvement on Germany's side in WWII, the banning of parades by Russian war veterans and so on are the surface issues that prompted the resolution. Underlying Russia's position is its displeasure of having NATO's frontline shifted right to its border and the resultant chokehold on its access to the Baltic sea.

The US abstention has nothing to do with free speech and much to do with expressing support for the country's allies in the Baltic region, including their commitment to NATO and neo-liberal market reforms.

Japan's abstention shouldn't surprise anyone, given the country's revisionist approach to the events of the 1930s and '40s.