{"id":1153,"date":"2009-09-04T05:39:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T05:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2009-09-04T05:39:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T05:39:47","slug":"why_the_un_has_become_a_joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Why The UN Has Become A Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/2009\/09\/03\/2009-09-03_libya_leader_col_moammar_khadafy_to_united_nations_abolish_switzerland.html\">New York Daily News<\/a>, when Moammar Khadafy comes to New York later this month to visit the UN, he will ask the UN to dissolve the country of Switzerland.&nbsp; He wants to country split up between France, Italy, and Germany.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; A year ago, Khadafy&#8217;s son Hannibal was arrested in Geneva for beating two servants with a belt and a coat hangar.&nbsp; He had previously had run-ins with the French because of drunk driving.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article, there was some major fallout from the incident in Geneva:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Libya retaliated with fury, recalling some diplomats, withdrawing $5 billion from Swiss banks, shuttering the <\/em><a title=\"Tripoli\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Tripoli\" ywaonclickoverride=\"true\"><font color=\"#015fb6\"><em>Tripoli<\/em><\/font><\/a><em> office of <\/em><a title=\"Nestle SA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Nestle+SA\" ywaonclickoverride=\"true\"><font color=\"#015fb6\"><em>Nestle<\/em><\/font><\/a><em> and threatening to cut oil deliveries. Two Swiss businessmen were barred from leaving the country until Libya received an apology for Hannibal&#8217;s arrest. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For a year, the issue festered. Two weeks ago, <\/em><a title=\"Hans-Rudolf Merz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Hans-Rudolf+Merz\" ywaonclickoverride=\"true\"><font color=\"#015fb6\"><em>Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz<\/em><\/font><\/a><em> traveled to Tripoli to apologize for the arrest and Libya promised to let the hostages go by Sept. 1.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The UN charter specifically states that no member can threaten the sovereignty of another member.&nbsp; Although that rule is consistently overlooked in the case of Iran threatening Israel, there is a good chance it will be followed here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to yesterday&#8217;s New York Daily News, when Moammar Khadafy comes to New York later this month to visit the UN, he will ask the UN to dissolve the country of Switzerland.&nbsp; He wants to country split up between France, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}