Time: Sat Mar 08 19:44:50 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA04078; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 14:38:01 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:21:03 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Is this what we *really* want? Why? (fwd) >Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 16:04:58 -0500 (EST) >To: fiedor19@eos.net >From: Doug Fiedor <fiedor19@eos.net> >Subject: Is this what we *really* want? Why? > >Subject: Klinton's UN press conference question > >Here is the exact text of Klinton's response to the UN question posed on >Friday (3/7/97), I got it from the White House web page... > >--------------------- > > ...Let's take one from Sarah. And then I've got to take >one from Jill Dougherty because she's about to go to Moscow and she >needs to have her parting shot. Go ahead. > > > Q Sir, this is on another subject. We have a very >great problem in this country today, and I wonder if you would use >your leadership to counteract the rumor-mongers that are abroad in >the land who are spreading all these rumors that are scaring people >to death -- large segments of our citizens believe that the United >Nations is taking over whole blocks of counties in Kentucky and >Tennessee. > > THE PRESIDENT: Yes. > > Q And some of them, they believe that -- > > THE PRESIDENT: Now, you all are laughing, but -- > > Q -- you're going to put us in a concentration camp >and you're going to give our army to Russia and all that baloney. >Could you do something about this? Because it's hurting the unity of >the United States. > > THE PRESIDENT: I don't know, because the people who >believe that think I'm the problem. (Laughter.) We're all laughing >about it, but there is a not insubstantial number of people who >believe that there is a plan out there for world domination and I'm >trying to give American sovereignty over to the U.N. There was a --I >read in our local Arkansas newspaper, one of them the other day had a >letter to the editor saying that, there I go again, there's Clinton >out there trying to give American sovereignty over to the United >Nations. > > Let me just say this: For people that are worried about >it, I would say, there is a serious issue here that every American >has to come to grips with, including Americans that don't much think >about foreign policy until some great problem occurs, and that is, >how can we be an independent, sovereign nation leading the world in a >world that is increasingly interdependent, that requires us to >cooperate with other people and then to deal with very difficult >circumstances in trying to determine how best to cooperate. > > That's the issue that you will all be reporting on for >the next week in the Mexico certification issue. Did I do the right >thing to certify Mexico? Are the members of Congress who disagree >with me right when they say we should have decertified Mexico and >then give it a national interest waiver so we could continue to >cooperate economically and in others ways? > > I strongly believe I was right. But we don't -- if you >want to go into that, we can later, but the issue is, we live in an >interdependent world. We have to cooperate with people. We're >better off when we do. We're better off with NATO. We're better off >with the United Nations. We're better off when these countries can >work together. So I just think for folks that are worried about this >out in the country, they need to be thinking about how -- we're not >going to give up our freedom, our independence, but we're not going >to go it alone into the 21st century either. We're going to work >together and we have to. > > Jill? > > Q Thank you very much, Mr. President. Speaking of >Russia and NATO, yesterday we heard... > >------- > >Interesting. > >PFC Jeff S. >Central Michigan Regional Militia, >15th Brigade - Kent county > >Michigan Militia Corps Home Page: http://mmc.cns.net > >"...Stage III...would proceed to a point where no state would have the >military power to challenge the progressively stregthened U.N. peace force >...The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited...All other armaments >would be destroyed..." -Department of State publication number 7277 > > > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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