Democracy Now Interview of former UN General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto

Robert,

I came home late last night reread the article and decided to get some sleep.

In all sensibility, this is 2010 and although they are a lot of things said in 2008 that warranted our attention, I believe we need to be on target with the present General Assembly. As to why if this article is current-Amy Goodman interviewed Father d'Escoto, I believe it was out of courtesy.

If I sound distrusting, it's true. When President Clinton won the election it was made with concession to the Roman Catholics. One needs to understand what had transpired between father Bush and Clinton in the State of Florida pryor to the presidential election that gave the winning vote to Clinton. When that is connected the whole Latin World comes to play on Wall Street. And New York former Senator Clinton -Chicago Union, and the Nuclear Proliforation will come into play.

For us guys, "Justice for nations Like the Hawaiian Kingdom" we should shift our thinking to the East and depart from the West for they are in power in the UN for 2010. And because my issue is Nuclear Proliferation and the Pacific Islanders, I hardly am concern with the genecide in Nicaragua on the political plate at this time. By no means do I not have empathy for the people in the Latin World, but of course I do. I am concern that the US is going to use the Pacific Islanders and the Pacific Ocean as a means to dump their nuclear waste. It has happened in the past, today, and yesterday. And the Latin Countries certainly don't want the waste in there Atlantic Ocean either. Kaohi

Aloha Robert,

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September 16, 2008|Richard Boudreaux, Times Staff Writer
UNITED NATIONS — Father Miguel d'Escoto stopped saying Mass 23 years ago when the Vatican suspended his priestly functions for refusing to quit Nicaragua's revolutionary government. But he never stopped preaching.
From university lecterns, slum soup kitchens and diplomatic forums, he has voiced moral wrath over the plight of the poor and the might of wealthy nations, particularly the United States.
Today he is being promoted to a far bigger pulpit: the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly.

Thanks to quirky election rules that gave U.S. diplomats limited means to block him, the man guiding the 192-nation assembly's debates and resolutions for the coming year will be a sharp-tongued cleric who once called Ronald Reagan a "butcher," President Bush a liar and both men threats to international security.
But his sermons these days convey a mixed message. After decades of rhetorical combat, the 75-year-old priest is trying to adjust to a more diplomatic role.
Since his election in June, he has taken oblique swipes at American policy while promising not to use his new position to bash it head-on.
Without naming culprits, he railed in his acceptance speech against "acts of aggression, such as those occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan." But the same speech warned U.N. member states against "futile recriminations."
"Look, the world is in a very lamentable state," D'Escoto said in an interview last week. He cited global food shortages, climate change, human rights abuses, and weapons purchases that drain resources from efforts to fight poverty.
"Things have to change," he said. "If we are going to move in a different direction, it's absolutely important that we not go with an attitude that others are to blame. We must work together."

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Kaohi May 2, 2010 at 8:25am

Robert,

I came home late last night reread the article and decided to get some sleep.

In all sensibility, this is 2010 and although they are a lot of things said in 2008 that warranted our attention, I believe we need to be on target with the present General Assembly. As to why if this article is current-Amy Goodman interviewed Father d'Escoto, I believe it was out of courtesy.

If I sound distrusting, it's true. When President Clinton won the election it was made with concession to the Roman Catholics. One needs to understand what had transpired between father Bush and Clinton in the State of Florida pryor to the presidential election that gave the winning vote to Clinton. When that is connected the whole Latin World comes to play on Wall Street. And New York former Senator Clinton -Chicago Union, and the Nuclear Proliforation will come into play.

For us guys, "Justice for nations Like the Hawaiian Kingdom" we should shift our thinking to the East and depart from the West for they are in power in the UN for 2010. And because my issue is Nuclear Proliferation and the Pacific Islanders, I hardly am concern with the genecide in Nicaragua on the political plate at this time. By no means do I not have empathy for the people in the Latin World, but of course I do. I am concern that the US is going to use the Pacific Islanders and the Pacific Ocean as a means to dump their nuclear waste. It has happened in the past, today, and yesterday. And the Latin Countries certainly don't want the waste in there Atlantic Ocean either. Kaohi
Kaohi May 2, 2010 at 7:58am

Aloha Robert,

Blogs are difficult to maintain on Maoliworld.

September 16, 2008|Richard Boudreaux, Times Staff Writer
UNITED NATIONS — Father Miguel d'Escoto stopped saying Mass 23 years ago when the Vatican suspended his priestly functions for refusing to quit Nicaragua's revolutionary government. But he never stopped preaching.
From university lecterns, slum soup kitchens and diplomatic forums, he has voiced moral wrath over the plight of the poor and the might of wealthy nations, particularly the United States.
Today he is being promoted to a far bigger pulpit: the presidency of the United Nations General Assembly.

Thanks to quirky election rules that gave U.S. diplomats limited means to block him, the man guiding the 192-nation assembly's debates and resolutions for the coming year will be a sharp-tongued cleric who once called Ronald Reagan a "butcher," President Bush a liar and both men threats to international security.
But his sermons these days convey a mixed message. After decades of rhetorical combat, the 75-year-old priest is trying to adjust to a more diplomatic role.
Since his election in June, he has taken oblique swipes at American policy while promising not to use his new position to bash it head-on.
Without naming culprits, he railed in his acceptance speech against "acts of aggression, such as those occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan." But the same speech warned U.N. member states against "futile recriminations."
"Look, the world is in a very lamentable state," D'Escoto said in an interview last week. He cited global food shortages, climate change, human rights abuses, and weapons purchases that drain resources from efforts to fight poverty.
"Things have to change," he said. "If we are going to move in a different direction, it's absolutely important that we not go with an attitude that others are to blame. We must work together."

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