[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      THE UNCHECKED UNITED NATIONS

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor this morning to take 
issue with some of the comments by Mr. Mark Malloch Brown, the Deputy 
Secretary General of the U.N. Mr. Brown recently stated in a speech 
that there was ``too much unchecked U.N. bashing and stereotyping.''
  Well, at first I was a little offended by that, and then I got to 
realizing we haven't been doing enough bashing of the U.N. You look at 
what is going on.
  We have had some problems with criminality in this body. Those are 
being addressed. As bad as they are, that criminality shows rank 
amateurism compared to what is going on in the U.N.
  We have got families in the U.N. profiting from their other family 
member's positions. We have got some of the worst violators of human 
rights in charge of overseeing human rights violations. We even had 
Libya as chairman of that group back in 2003. Six of the worst, of the 
worst as designated last year, are on the human rights committee now.
  We have got problems with their diplomatic immunity, we have got 
people where they turn around and try to take credit for things like 
polio eradication that Rotary International did, when they cannot find 
anything else to take credit for.
  Mr. Speaker, I would just close by saying this, it is time we did 
some more bashing of the U.N.

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