Rand Paul looks to ‘dissolve’ the United Nations

[Algernon Moncrieff]

By Steve Benen
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rand-paul-looks-dissolve-the-united-nations

“I dislike paying for something that two-bit Third World countries with no freedom attack us and complain about the United States,” Paul said, according to the Real Clear Politics report. “There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t like the U.N., and I think I’d be happy to dissolve it.”

To be sure, this doesn’t come as too big a surprise. The United Nations is a popular foil for conspiracy theorists, and Rand Paul in particular has made some truly bizarre allegations about the world body in recent years.

In 2013, for example, the GOP senator wrote a letter on behalf of a radical gun group in which Paul argued that the United Nations intends to “force” the United States to “CONFISCATE and DESTROY ALL ‘unauthorized’ civilian firearms,” while creating “an INTERNATIONAL gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun CONFISCATION.”

The capitalized words originally appeared in Paul’s 2013 ridiculous letter; I didn’t capitalize them for emphasis.

[JaneyVee]

1. Jesus Christ. Where do they find these people?!

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Fuck Rand Paul. Ron too.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. Even if elected, he doens't have the power to disolve the UN.

Could he lave the UN or force it to move elsewhere, quite possibly.

The guy is speaking to his tinfoil wrapped constituents.

[shenmue]

5. Yep

[pampango]

4. He says the same about the IMF, the WTO and the World Bank.

The Founding Fathers warned us that foreign alliances sacrifice our independence as a nation. In Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, he asserted that America should have “peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.” Yet today, America is often subservient to foreign bodies such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, World Trade Organization (WTO), and the United Nations (UN).

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/plagiarizing#.lqq5qZN0r

All of that is becoming somewhat mainstream in republican circles. Withdrawing from those international institutions in the name of 'national sovereignty' was in many GOP state platforms in 2008 and 2012.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Fascist politicians gunning for the gun vote are particularly fond of all-caps.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

7. This sentence doesn't even make sense:

“I dislike paying for something that two-bit Third World countries with no freedom attack us and complain about the United States,”

[lpbk2713]

8. Another item on his agenda ... abolish indoor plumbing.

The guy's a dipshit.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Good luck with that...

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[Paladin]

9. Yup, the U.N. is gonna take your guns. The black helicopters are coming.

That brain-dead bit of gun militant hysteria has been around for years and years. And Rand Paul was still pimping it in 2013? Unbelievable......

[The2ndWheel]

10. The UN isn't even as strong as people think/want it to be anyway

That's why the US government can bombs whatever country we want, and nothing happens. If any other country were to do that, sanctions and/or bombing commence. But since the US military is the only reason anyone listens to the UN, and even then it's iffy, we can do as we want.

The US taxpayer pays for the de facto global military(since the UN ain't going to do it, what with all the competing interests), while those in Europe pay for social programs. The US likes it that way, because the fewer potential military threats the better. Europe likes it that way, because they get all the good stuff for their taxes.

[Johonny]

12. Only Rand Paul would be dumb enough to leave the UN on which he has a seat with veto power

Thus leaving international leadership of the free world to who?

These are the same people that complain about Obama's leadership on the world stage.

[Thinkingabout]

13. It is the same cry which has come from tbe hills since the UN started. When you

Don't have something intelligent to say just yell about the UN. I thought this battle had been fought and won by now.

[hifiguy]

14. That toupee is finally starting to

eat the last of his brain, isn't it?