Durban III And Your Tax Dollars‏

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The
Washington Budget Train Wreck Has Nothing On the U.N.
Durban III And Your Tax Dollars

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This article by Anne Bayefsky appears today on
FoxNews.com.

The good folks at the U.N., the people with their
hands on the money spigot and the never-ending demand for more U.S. tax dollars
are hard at work in the hours leading up to the Christmas recess. Budget gurus
at Turtle Bay could take on Washington money managers any day. Particularly
since they are busy spending your hard-earned cash on such events as a New York
City bash known as "Durban III" next September. And guess what, this includes
inviting Iranian President Ahmadinejad to lecture Americans about ending racism
and intolerance.

The U.N. budget process goes like this. First, the U.N.
majority dreams up new ways to spend U.S. taxpayer dollars on conferences which
are antithetical to American values. Durban III is a perfect example.

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) invented the idea of
celebrating the 10th anniversary of the anti-semitic jamboree held in Durban,
South Africa in 2001. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, a
native of Durban herself, threw the full weight of her office behind the
concept.

The idea blossomed into the suggestion that a meeting of world
leaders take place on September 21, 2011 in New York. All heads of state and
government will come together to embrace limits on free speech in the name of
fighting “Islamophobia” and to declare Israel a racist state which should be
isolated and disassembled like apartheid South Africa.

Ergo, the
production in U.N. backrooms of resolution “A/C.3/65/L.60.”

At the next
step in U.N. policy-making, U.N. staffers are charged with determining whether
the proposed resolution has financial implications. Any such implications are
required to be declared up front, so that the vote for or against the
substantive resolution takes the dollars into account. In the case of “L.60,”
however, the rules just happened to be thrown out the window.

The
secretariat did not produce the “program budget implications,” known as the PBI,
fast enough for the likes of Islamic states. Rather than wait for the PBI, the
vote went ahead oblivious to the costs. The United States voted against the
decision to hold Durban III, along with such countries as Canada, the United
Kingdom, and Australia, and most of the countries that had known Nazism at very
close range: Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania. They were outvoted, however, 121
for, 19 against and 35 abstentions.

U.N. sausage-making, however, does
not end there. Once a resolution is adopted – and in the case of Durban III, the
PBI produced after the fact – the money folks in another committee examine the
costs and recommend to the General Assembly where to find those dollars and
cents.

In practice, the U.N.’s budget committee recommends one of two
things. Either the costs should be “absorbed” in the existing budget – a polite
way of saying “no new money and if you do this, you have to drop something
else.” Or they say, sure, we can count on U.S., European Union and Japanese
bankers rolling over, so let’s add the new dollars to the budget and spend money
from a practically inexhaustible “contingency fund.”

Which brings us to
December 17, 2010. The PBI on Durban III, or the cost of handing Ahmadinejad and
company a global megaphone to spew anti-American and anti-Jewish vitriol, has
finally made it into the public domain.

So here is what it is going to
cost YOU...

The secretariat started by low-balling the charges, excluding
all kinds of “regular” support that current staff can provide. Then the
secretariat announced that celebrating the 10th anniversary of the 2001 Durban
hate-fest will cost $322,500. Of that “$116,100 would be absorbed” by the
existing budget – read, no new money – and $206,400 “would represent a charge
against the contingency fund.”

Yemen, speaking on behalf of the “G-77” or
the bloc of 130 developing nations, was understandably enthusiastic. Another
quarter of a million dollars in fun money. Yemeni representative Waleed
Alshahari blamed the U.N. secretariat for not producing the budget implications
earlier and suggested the glitch be resolved “in the future.” Israel, the United
States and Japan noted that the rule of procedure requiring costs be transparent
and produced up front, had not been followed. The EU sat silently staring into
space.

Everybody knows how the game will be played out. In the next few
days, there will be a vote in the budget committee. The U.S. and Israel will
vote against. They may be joined by some European Union countries that might
just decide to translate their vote against holding Durban III into a vote
against paying for it.

EU states, though, most often start trembling at
the thought that ‘putting their money where their mouth is’ might harm the UN’s
image. The resolution will then be adopted by an overwhelming majority who
couldn’t care less how they spend other people’s money. The package will go to
the General Assembly plenary body next week, whereupon the decisions to hold
Durban III and to pay for it will be rubber-stamped.

Then the Obama
administration will pay up.

In other words, in September the world’s
demagogues (and as many frightened Europeans as they can gather) will line up
just days after the 10th anniversary of 9/11 to declare -- in the middle of New
York City -- that Muslims are the primary victims of intolerance, that Israel is
the chief racist and that America must somehow be to blame for the violent
anti-democratic tendencies of a few poor lost souls. And under the U.N. budget
scheme, American taxpayers will be paying 22% of all the costs.

By the
way, President Obama is invited to the big bash. But in marked contrast to
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who announced weeks ago that Canada
would take no part in Durban III, the president of the United States has
remained deafeningly silent and still not declined to attend.

For more United Nations coverage see www.EYEontheUN.org.

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