Hi guys, I hate Helms too, with a passion, but occasionally he gets it right. A
few years ago, he made statements that "We, the US, had no business meddling in the
affairs of El Salvador and it was costing plenty, and that that country had to
right to their own sovereignty"! Of course, my quotes are not exact, but you get
the idea. I called his office to voice my support for his statement but then I got
on his 'hit list', that is, I started to get all his constituency propaganda mail
and immediately I was sorry that I had ever had a kind thought about him, but even
scoundrels get it right sometimes. trille
Charles J. Reid wrote:
> 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
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Salus populi suprema est lex" (Cicero)
> The welfare of the people is the highest law.
> ----------
> "Genuine goodness is threatening to those
> at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." (Charles Spencer)
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> 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
> > ---------------------
> > Forwarded message:
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MichaelP)
> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: 97-10-10 00:22:20 EDT
> >
> > @@
> > London Times October 10 1997=20
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
> >
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