Hi, Ken!
I think most Americans agree with you that Jesse Helms is an un-American
embarrassment to this country and all it stands for. Rarely has a more
disgusting individual occupied a seat in the United States Senate. One
hundred years from now, History will hardly remember him as a joke to be
forgotten.
-- Charlie Reid
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"Salus populi suprema est lex" (Cicero)
The welfare of the people is the highest law.
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"Genuine goodness is threatening to those
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> To the United Nations:
>
> As an American, a former NATO base commander, and a former United Nations
> military advisor, I would like to go on record as strongly opposed to the
> comments of Senator Jesse Helms with regard to the presence of U.N. human
> rights investigators in the United States.
>
> Many Americans are routinely embarrassed by the conduct of Senator Helms. We
> do not feel he represents the average citizen of the United States, nor do I
> believe his radical views and actions are consistent with the U.S.
> Constitution.
>
> Though the United States government is on record as strongly supporting human
> rights abroad, we are not without fault in our own country. The presence of
> an objective, third party observer should be welcomed and appreciated.
>
> With sincere respect,
> Kenneth R. Armstrong
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> London Times October 10 1997=20
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> Senator furious at inquiry on executions
> FROM JAMES BONE IN NEW YORK
>
> A UNITED NATIONS investigation into the death penalty in the United
> States has provoked a furious reaction from a Republican senator who
> controls the purse strings for paying off Washington's debt to the
> organisation.
> Jesse Helms, the powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
> Committee, denounced as "an absurd charade" and an "intentional insult" a
> visit to the United States by a Senegalese investigator for the UN Human
> Rights Commission.
> Waly Ndiaye, a former Amnesty International official now serving as the
> UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions,
> spent two weeks interviewing death row inmates and meeting state officials
> as part of an inquiry into capital punishment and deaths in police
> custody.
> He is only the second UN human rights investigator to visit the United
> States, a country which routinely pushes for vigorous human rights
> investigations elsewhere in the world.
> Mr Ndiaye's visit did not sit well with Senator Helms, who holds the
> key to any compromise on paying off Washington's $1.5 billion debt to the
> UN. In an irate letter to the American Ambassador
> at UN headquarters, he described Mr Ndiaye's inquiry as "a perfect
> example of why the United Nations is looked upon with such disdain by
> the American people".
> Mr Ndiaye expressed surprise at his frosty reception in America,
> particularly because he was part of an earlier American-backed UN team
> that sought to uncover human rights abuses in the former Zaire.
> Mr Ndiaye's investigation was prompted by the rise in the number of
> executions in America, reports of racism in use of the death penalty and
> the execution of mentally retarded prisoners and those convicted as
> minors.
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