The UN to take control of the Alamo???

[Twisted_Dawg]

The New Battle of the Alamo
by George Rodriguez

Texans should be aware that San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro may have started a new “battle of the Alamo”. He has made some initial moves to allow the United Nations to influence and even manage the Alamo, and the San Antonio Express/News is doing a soft sell of the idea in their Sunday, September 15 opinion page. It has been reported that Mayor Castro and his close ally, City Councilman Diego Bernal, have been meeting with U.S. Department of Interior officials about the future of San Antonio’s historical missions. Castro wants to make the missions a greater tourist attraction by designating them national and world cultural treasures.

But there is the catch in designating the Alamo and the other missions “world cultural heritage” sites. Castro and Bernal want the United Nations’ UNESCO or United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to do the designation. The UNESCO is a specialized agency of the U.N. whose purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the U.N. Charter. According to their charter, UNESCO’s aim is "to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information".

It is ironic that while many Texans across the state talk about the dangers of the UN’s Agenda 21, the Alamo, the very symbol of Texas liberty and freedom, may fall under U.N. influence. Castro wants to UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee to help manage the Alamo. The World Heritage Committee has a list of recognized sites that are managed through legal agreements regarding cultural heritage for protecting diversity. Quite simply, the U.N. would manage the Alamo under these agreements.

The influence of the U.N. has already been felt when there was a proposed hotel tower for the old Joske’s building near the Alamo. But because it could have jeopardized the World Heritage Site status for the Alamo and the other four missions, the proposed hotel tower was nixed. The U.S. National Park Service, which plays a key role in nominating U.S. sites, warned Castro that such a skyscraper so close to the Alamo could be a deal breaker. Apparently, the U.N.’s World Heritage Sites had threatened to yank the status because of the potential for new development. Thus, the U.N. influenced a local issue and decision.
Castro is liberal progressive who believes in a “global society”, and apparently he sees no problem with the U.N. influencing or even managing the Alamo.

However, the “Cradle of Texas Liberty” is a symbol of Texas independence and freedom, and we should not let it be influenced or management of any foreign interest.Texans should recognize that if Castro is willing to let the Alamo fall into the U.N.’s grasp, what will he do if he becomes Texas’ governor, senator, or (as many have suggested) vice president of the United States? Remember the Alamo!

[pgardn]

Jesus...

We are going to have to fight the guys in the blue helmets?
All those old ladies from the daughters of the revolution did such a nice job of revising the history.
The next thing you know we might have to admit this State allowed human beings to be sold as property.

Wait a sec... A thought: Why don't we deal with the UN through the Alamo, and the UN can recognize us as a separate country? This will make seceding that much easier.

Whatever brings more tourist money to this city is the way to go comrade.

[m>s]

texas is under attack, as the last free place in the world look at the way they target us by infiltrating the state capital austin, all the talk about turning texas blue, and now this crap with the alamo. we need to fight back and jump these s when you see them walking around town, bring back the old school good old texas ass whooping.

[TDMVPDPOY]

just a ethnic minority in power selling out while his incontrolol

[The Reckoning]

no problem with it being a UNESCO world heritage site, but i'd think the THC would run things if it came down to it. you can't go directly national without consulting the state historical commission.

if it's on the UNESCO list, that will boost tourism like crazy. i say go for it .

control over the site would still be operated by Texas, but it would probably have to abide by rules set aside for the UNESCO world heritage treaty, which i think the US hasn't even ratified.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/

here's a link for you. do you see blue helmets at carlsbad or the grand canyon? no, it's merely a formality so international visitors know where places of heritage are.

people such as myself often look at the website to plan vacations. having more of a heritage presence in the interior of the states will draw more international visitors from the east and west coast.


plus you have people like rick perry trying to dissolve our heritage branches to shore up funding, so appealing to national or international help might be the only outlet if Texas wants to retain its fiscal conservative approach to heritage.


whoever wrote this article is woefully misinformed and obviously didn't consult any heritage officials before writing it.

[ChumpDumper]

George sounds like an idiot.

[AntiChrist]

Lol

Maria del Rosario Castro, the mother of San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, said in 2010 that she grew up being told the battle was “glorious,” only to learn the so-called heroes were really “a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialists who conquered land that didn’t belong to them.”


“But as a little girl I got the message -- we were losers,” she told The New York Times Magazine. “I can truly say that I hate that place and everything it stands for.”

[boutons_deux]

George is an fake super-patriot, iow, a paranoid idiot.

from where does Jorge's article originate?

did Jorge fail to graduate from Fox Tech?

List of World Heritage Sites in the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._United_States