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Originally Posted by flagtag  I still believe we need to get out of the UN (now) anyway. We're wasting all that money for nothing. They're useless!!! And we could use that money here - like for the flood/tornado victims. |
Where did people get that info?! We havent paid any of our UN dues essentially since it was created! The UN will not become an overseeing power:
1. It does not have taxing power. The meny they recieve is from private donations or willing nation state donations. We offer a place for them and occasionally money but mostly troop support in fights we see as beneficial.
2. The UN does not have power to control governments as they are not a Nation state themselves. They cannot hold land (only be granted land by a nation state) they cannot have a standing army (only troops given to them , and even then, still controlled by the nation states themselves) and can only have volunteered support from nation states in the sense of treaties (UN cannot dissolve a nation state's sovereignty). The only times the UN has involved themselves was when the existing controlling nation state has dissolved and have civil war insues.
The idea of UN helicopters landing in one's back yard is meerly a fantasy created by people who are frightful of anything that even challenges their notion of sovereignty or what they think of is even a challenge. You should be worried about US helicopters or acts of terrorism, not a 'mystery organization'. Many people just listen to political shock jocks and dont actually do their own research.
On the 5.7 notion: Barnes makes a 50gr. Banded solid that, while maybe not the best for supersonic flight, is made of homogenous metal. Scary thought
. Would make a pretty (legally) interesting handload!