Kofi Annan's speech

[winterbadger]

...hatred, corruption, violence and exclusion go without redress. The vulnerable lack effective recourse and the powerful manipulate laws to retain power and accumulate wealth. At times even the necessary fight against terrorism is allowed to encroach unnecessarily on civil liberties,"

You'd think he was talking about the US, except there are sadly many places where things are much, *MUCH* worse :-(

AP report

UN text of his speech

Comments

[cutedeadgirl.livejournal.com]

Our lovely prez gave a great speech, dunno if you can find it from web tho :X. Here's something tho.

[cutedeadgirl.livejournal.com]

*lol* Ok sorry, seems you have to search a bit more to find the anti Iraq war bits... seems it's the bit cut out by most news angensies.

[cutedeadgirl.livejournal.com]

http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/59/statements/fineng040921.pdf
Aha... there it is. Had to find it cause we only got small bits in news too so needed to read it. I'm so gonna vote for the first time in my life if she goes up for re-election.