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By Patrick Wood
On June 30, President Obama created a firestorm with the announcement of his intent to award 16 people with
the Medal of Freedom award, the highest and most prestigious civilian
award in the U.S. The awards will be presented on August 12, 2009.
One might expect the list of recipients to honor ideological cronies
of Obama, like leftist/Marxists Sidney Poitier and Desmond Tutu. One
might expect gay activists to be on the list, like Billy Jean King and
Harvey Milk.
What is out of place is Obama's selection of Trilateral Commission
member Mary Robinson, formerly President of Ireland and an anti-Israel
activist.
Jewish groups around the world immediately protested Robinson's selection, and called for Obama to demand that she "firmly, fully and publicly repudiate her views on
Israel and her long public record of hostility and one-sided bias
against the Jewish state."
It was Robinson who presided over the United Nations' infamous 2001 World Conference against Racism
meeting in Durban, South Africa. The U.S. boycotted this meeting, and
the Israel delegation walked out after it degenerated into a racist
attack on Jews and Israel. Delegates screamed and hurled insults at
each other. Even physical threats were made against those who refused
to join in on the hate-fest.
The conference also blamed and bashed the United States for slavery, apartheid and colonialism.
Apparently, Robinson's hatred of Israel and intolerance for America
is not a hindrance for her to receive the highest civilian award that a
U.S. president can confer.
This further deepens Obama's association with the Trilateral
Commission. He currently has appointed 12 U.S. members to top
government posts in his administration, and has other members, like
Zbigniew Brzezinski and Paul Volker, as top policy advisers.
As people like Mary Robinson are elevated and honored, it
underscores the insidiousness of the global elite's agenda for a world
without the U.S. and its democratic allies.
If you click on the Global Elders in the map below, you will see that Robinson hobnobs with fellow Trilateral, Jimmy Carter.
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