Save the Alamo from the UN!

By James Thompson

Just when we thought the nuttiest nuts from Texas couldn’t get any nuttier, they screech “Save the Alamo from the UN!”

According to the Houston Chronicle, Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels, introduced a bill to protect the Alamo from coming under the control of the UN. She is quoted as saying “I can tell you anything that starts with UN gives me cause for concern.” She filed the bill in response to the nomination of the Alamo as a UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage site.

This potential designation has many people in San Antonio very excited since it would be a first for Texas. The bill apparently has bipartisan opposition in the Texas state legislature.

Opposition to the United Nations, a world wide peacekeeping organization, by vicious right-wingers has been loud, obnoxious and outrageous since the inception of the organization. I can remember seeing billboards along the highways of Texas and Oklahoma which proclaimed “Get the US Out Of the UN!” when I was a child.

According to Wikipedia, “The John Birch Society, an anti-communist group founded in 1958, was opposed to US involvement from the society’s beginning. From an early date they had bumper stickers with the slogan “Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.!”

Hopefully, this bill will die a timely death so that Texas can avoid being designated as the “Lamebrain Capitol of the World.”