Re: ASCII Art Fart for Thu, 2004 Nov 25

Sharky wrote:

> In <41a9422b$1...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, ABCGi wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Did I tell you what a male chauvinist pig Kofi Annan is?
>>
>>No, not yet, pray do tell?
> 
> 
> Ok, you asked for it...
> 
> Kofi Annan�s New Sex Scandal 
> 
> - Center for Individual Freedom 
> 
> You would think that with managing the Oil for Food scandal, working to
> undermine U.S. foreign policy, pushing for global taxes and advocating a
> sweeping restructuring of the Security Council, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi
> Annan would be going out of his way to avoid creating more problems for
> himself and the world body. 
> 
> Not so much.
> 
> On October 28, a report from the U.N.�s in-house watchdog revealed that
> Annan personally dismissed sexual harassment charges made by an American
> female U.N. staffer against the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees,
> overruling the independent U.N. investigative panel that had backed the
> woman�s claims.
> 
> According to spokesman Fred Eckhard, the Secretary General "found the
> allegations unsustainable on a legal basis." An Agence France-Presse wire
> story reports that when "pressed to explain what that meant, a visibly
> irritated Eckhard replied: �Legal basis, legal basis, legal basis.�" 
> 
> (Is it just us, or does this sound an awful lot like "no controlling legal
> authority?" Maybe Eckhard attended the Al Gore school of public relations.)
> 
> In response, Edward Patrick Flaherty, the attorney representing the
> accuser, told The New York Times, "This demonstrates that there are two
> sets of rules at the U.N., one for the protected class and one for the
> rest. [The High Commissioner] is part of that class. My client is not."
> 
> That sounds about right. The first class, of which the High Commissioner is
> a distinguished member, includes those U.N. employees and officials who
> engage in nepotism, corrupt activities and abusive behavior. The second,
> apparently shrinking class, includes those U.N. employees who work hard
> trying to pursue the world body�s ideals and objectives.
> 
> It�s increasingly clear that, like his allegedly lecherous colleague, Kofi
> Annan is part of the corrupt class. In this case, Annan went to a great
> deal of trouble to pardon a senior U.N. official who, at least according to
> the U.N.�s investigative panel for such matters, was guilty of sexual
> harassment and was quite possibly a repeat offender. 
> 
> Previously, the senior U.N. official in charge of the U.N.-Iraq Oil for
> Food program allegedly took bribes from Saddam Hussein�s regime. Meanwhile,
> Annan�s son helped an outside contractor win a lucrative Oil for Food
> contract from the world body.
> 
> The stories out of the United Nations are sounding like a broken record,
> with one report of corruption following another. The U.N. leadership
> increasingly appears to be little better than a multinational kleptocracy.
> And it�s clear that no matter how Herculean the efforts of the committed,
> hard-working U.N. employees, the world body is doomed to fail in anything �
> and everything � it pursues.
> 
> http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/in_our_opinion/annan_sex_scandal.htm
> 
> 
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> --
> Sharky

<in_our_opinion>
Well clearly the UN is a total sham and therefore I've been completely 
wrong about violence against women, clearly it's a good thing, and more 
of it.
</in_our_opinion>

<fact>
That Lemur is good.
</fact>

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