Dino Lies about UN Resolution

Lying chickenshits can't get away with lying while I'm here.



Dino: "There is no UN resolution concerning immigrants entering our country illegally."



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Now for the truth:



Resolution 2198 (XXI) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly -Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees  - --



"The Convention further stipulates . . . refugees should not be penalized for their illegal entry or stay."



http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/protection/basic/3b66c2aa10/convention-protocol-relating-status-refugees.html

UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees

Text of the 1951 Convention

Relating to the Status of Refugees



Text of the 1967 Protocol

Relating to the Status of Refugees



Resolution 2198 (XXI) adopted by the

United Nations General Assembly



Office of the

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

"The Convention further stipulates that, subject to specific exceptions, refugees should not be penalized for their illegal entry or stay. This recognizes that the seeking of asylum can require refugees to breach immigration rules.prohibited penalties might include being charged with immigration or criminal offences relating to the seeking of asylum, or being arbitrarily detained purely on the basis of seeking asylum. Importantly, the Convention contains various safeguards against the expulsion of refugees. The principle of nonrefoulement is so fundamental that no reservations or derogations may be made to it. It provides that no one shall expel or return (“refouler”) a refugee against his or her will, in any manner whatsoever, to a territory where he or she fears threats to life or freedom." (pg 3)

"The Convention does not however apply to all persons who might otherwise satisfy the definition of a refugee in Article 1. In particular, the Convention does not apply to those for whom there are serious reasons for considering that they have committed war crimes or crimes against humanity, serious non-political crimes, or are guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." (pg 4)





http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/protection/basic/3b66c2aa10/convention-protocol-relating-status-refugees.html



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More from the National Archives Foundation:



https://www.archivesfoundation.org/documents/refugee-act-1980/

"Passed unanimously by the Senate in late 1979 and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in early 1980, the Refugee Act of 1980 amended the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act. It raised the annual ceiling for refugees from 17,400 to 50,000, created a process for reviewing and adjusting the refugee ceiling to meet emergencies, and required annual consultation between Congress and the President.



"The Act also changed the definition of “refugee” to a person with a “well-founded fear of persecution,” a standard established by United Nations conventions and protocols. It also funded a new Office of U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and an Office of Refugee Resettlement and built on already existing public-private partnerships that helped refugees settle and adjust to life in their new country."

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According to conventions, protocols, and resolutions adopted by the UN and embraced by the US, refugees should NOT be penalized for illegal entry. The UN and the US have agreed that refugees are often REQUIRED to breach immigration rules. The US is prohibited from imposing penalties on them.

You right wingers REALLY should stop listening to Alex Jones. 



http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/protection/basic/3b66c2aa10/convention-protocol-relating-status-refugees.html

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Decent people want the US to honor our UN agreements; then we have Trump supporters who don't give a damn about law, treaties, agreements, protocols, and conventions.

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Bush vs Bush

Jon Stewart did a great job earlier this week, splicing together a debate between 1st term Bush and 2nd term Bush.

First-term Bush: This business about more time - How much time do we need?

Second-term Bush: We have to be patient here.

Second-term Bush: I believe artificial time tables of withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake.

Stewart: Perhaps President Bush has a point. Maybe we DO need patience. First-term Bush? You were asked to have patience to give the inspections and diplomacy time to work in Iraq before war. Uh... how did YOU respond?

First-term Bush: Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours.

Stewart: Wow - deadlines - tough talk. Mr. Second-term Bush, how do you respond?

Second-term Bush: It doesn't make any sense to have a timetable.

Stewart: So, Second-term Bush, you don't think a hard and fast deadline -- uh....

Second-term Bush: We just need to give some breathing space . . .

[...]
Stewart: Look, we're not getting anywhere here; lets back up. First-term President Bush? Why did we invade Iraq in the first place?

First-term Bush: The terrorist threat to America and the world will be diminished the moment that Saddam Hussein is disarmed.

Stewart: I see - so you wanted to protect America from the terrorist threat. Okay, Second-term Bush? Why can't we leave Iraq?

Second-term Bush: Our enemies would have a safe haven from which to plan and launch attacks on the American people.

Stewart: So YOU, First-term President Bush, invaded Iraq to remove the threat of Saddam Hussein. And YOU Second-term Bush, are there to battle the threat created by the lack of Saddam Hussein. . . Basically Second-term President Bush has to undo the damage done by First-term President Bush. First-term Bush, any thoughts on how you see Second-term Bush prosecuting the second part of this war?

First-term Bush: This looks like a re-run of a bad movie, and I'm not interested in watching it.

Deadlines

Does Bush oppose deadlines on getting out of Iraq? Well, it depends. It seems he was FOR deadlines before he was against them. This is from an official White House press release.

"Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our choosing. For their own safety, all foreign nationals -- including journalists and inspectors -- should leave Iraq immediately."

And then there was this from the 2000 election campaign:

“I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”

Again - when Clinton was in office, Bush favored timetables; and when Bush was telling Saddam to leave, he also favored a timetable.



And what about this reference to "inspectors"? Some of you may recall that Bush later claimed Saddam wouldn't allow inspectors into Iraq. Do you wonder who these inspectors are Bush is telling to leave? Bush's warning above telling the UN insepctors to leave Iraq flies in the face of a later statement by Bush in which he claims Saddam wouldn't allow inspectors into Iraq.

"The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in."

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Iraq Improves Cooperation with UN Inspectors

We often hear complaints that Bush's war in Iraq was necessary because Saddam wouldn't allow inspectors into Iraq. The truth of the matter is that inspectors were in Iraq and as late as March 7, 2003 had praised Iraq's improved cooperation. In fact, inspectors noted that their work would be complete in merely a matter of months. According to Hans Blix:

"They are nevertheless welcome and UNMOVIC is responding to them in the hope of solving presently unresolved disarmament issues," he stressed, adding that with a proactive Iraqi stance it would take "not years, nor weeks, but months" to resolve the key remaining disarmament tasks, which he said he would present to the Council before the end of this month.''

Why the rush to war in the face of this encouraging news from the UN inspectors? One possibility is that Bush knew his lying about the WMDs would be exposed if he allowed the UN inspectors to complete their work.