Coiney Dave Welsh moans that the CPAC is not going to listen to US coiney moans about "unfair treatment" of US collectors who want to buy illicitly exported items from Bulgaria and other "source countries". He says:
I can see no alternative to a long-term legislative campaign to repeal US accession to the 1970 UNESCO Convention. We have recently seen the clearest possible evidence that UNESCO is an organization inherently opposed to and relentlessly working to undermine essential principles and aspects of US foreign policy, notably US support for the continued existence of Israel and a secure Jewish homeland within the historical borders of ancient Palestine. It is time to send a clear and unmistakeable message to the UN and to all who seek to use that pernicious organization as a tool for promoting corrosive anti-American goals. The United States should now permanently withdraw from UNESCO, in the process denouncing and repealing US accession to all UNESCO conventions, particularly the unjustly and unfairly administered 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Cultural Property.
Yes, I am sure the US will be only too happy to withdraw from some of them. There are a lot connected with that touchy subject "educashun" and not a few on nasty radical tree-hugging "consavashun" and "prezervashun" so hated by the gas-guzzling political right in the US:
International Convention against Doping in Sport
Paris, 19 October 2005 More
| Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions Paris, 20 October 2005 More |
| Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Paris, 17 October 2003 More |
| Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage Paris, 2 November 2001 More |
| Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region Lisbon, 11 April 1997 More |
| Convention on Technical and Vocational Education Paris, 10 November 1989 More |
| Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific Bangkok, 16 December 1983 More |
| Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Certificates, Diplomas, Degrees and other Academic Qualifications in Higher Education in the African States Arusha, 5 December 1981 More |
| Multilateral Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Copyright Royalties, with model bilateral agreement and additional Protocol. Madrid, 13 December 1979 More |
| Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees concerning Higher Education in the States belonging to the Europe Region Paris, 21 December 1979 More |
| Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in the Arab States Paris, 22 December 1978 More |
| Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in the Arab and European States Bordering on the Mediterranean Nice, 17 December 1976 More |
| Convention relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite Brussels, 21 May 1974 More |
| Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Diplomas and Degrees in Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean Mexico City, 19 July 1974 More |
| Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Paris, 16 November 1972 More |
| Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms Geneva, 29 October 1971 More |
| Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat Ramsar, 2 February 1971 -Protocol, Paris, 3 December 1982 More |
| Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property Paris, 14 November 1970 More |
| International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations Rome, 26 October 1961 More |
| Convention against Discrimination in Education Paris, 14 December 1960 More |
| Convention concerning the International Exchange of Publications Paris, 3 December 1958 More |
| Convention concerning the Exchange of Official Publications and Government Documents between States Paris, 3 December 1958 More |
| Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with Regulations for the Execution of the Convention The Hague, 14 May 1954 -First Protocol, The Hague 14 May 1954 -Second Protocol, The Hague, 26 March 1999 More |
| Universal Copyright Convention, with Appendix Declaration relating to Articles XVII and Resolution concerning Article XI Geneva, 6 September 1952 -Protocol 1 -Protocol 2 -Protocol 3 More |
| Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials, with Annexes A to E and Protocol annexed Florence, 17 June 1950 -Protocol, Nairobi, 26 November 1976 More |
UNESCO is a body which has delegates from over 170 states, yesterday those delegates voted to support a motion the US does not support. Nevertheless 107 member states do. Not "UNESCO", but the member states in UNESCO. If the US does not believe that these member states have the right to take a democratic decision and they should submit to US bully-tactics, then yes, yes the US should jolly well get out of UNESCO. it can take its pathetic sites off the World Cultural Heritage list, it can withdraw from all the above conventions. On the other hand, it could decide that it is a member of the international community and accept that other members of that international community have other opinions than those America would like to dictate.
Here is a song for all that think like Dave Welsh, Anarchy in the UK by Johnny Rotten ... (I did not link to the more topical Megadeath cover, because in my opinion it is not a patch on the original, but here it is Anarchy in the USA).
"Destroy!!"...
PS: What ARE the essential principles and aspects of US foreign policy when they are not bombing everyone or assassinating people which UNESCO "undermines"?
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