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122 UN Security Council July 25, 2003 Liberia needs help. All of the mechanisms of international law are available to deliver that help. But once again the issue is diverted to a question of whether the United States should or should not send troops. Once again our narrow and nationalistic perspective creates an obstruction in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. Should we, as the unique super-power, interact with the United Nations , the problem could be addressed and solved in a global manner. But our government and our media insist on limiting the debate as if it were national rather than an international crisis. How can this kind of obstruction be eliminated? What is to be done? First, we need to acknowledge that we are consistently breaking a treaty known as the Charter of the United Nations. This treaty as all treaties becomes incarnate in the Constitution of the United States. To break this treaty is to break the Constitution of the United States. Second, as a member of the General Assembly of the United Nations, the United States must lead the charge to abolish the Security Council and its moribund veto power. Third, to foster the beginning of that UN restructuring by building a workable design; for example, proposing a structure whereby members of the General Assembly are selected by their nations according to population (possibly one member for every million inhabitants). Prior to serving on the General Assembly representatives would have to agree that they are not there to represent their country but to represent the people of the globe. This means that the General Assembly of the UN will now be an international legislative entity, designed in a federal model to serve exclusively on matters that directly pertain to its jurisdiction. And that jurisdiction of the United Nations includes the mandate to assure international peace. The International Criminal Court will have jurisdiction over individual international crimes. Aside from criminals in government, we currently 123 have some of the world’s ugliest retired dictators living comfortably in Miami while religious nuns are facing 30 years in prison for symbolic acts of non-violence in opposition to nuclear war. It is our task as citizens of the world’s only military super-power to promote these changes rather than allowing our country to continue as the major obstacle to a functional system of international law. Please support the non-governmental organizations that are designing and demanding a restructured United Nations as a functional peace system. You are invited to share in this necessary venture. ...

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