The Liberty Alliance: Championing Liberty and Dignity in our Human Community By Thaddeus McCotter

All of the exclusive alliances, spheres of influence, balances of power and all other expedients which occurred and failed for centuries outside of a universal organization have now occurred and failed this century inside the UN.  Unlike the UN, the Liberty Alliance will be composed of free nations dedicated to expanding human liberty to peoples yet free, its objective being the maximization of transparency, equity, and democracy in accordance with the effective expansion of human liberty and dignity.

This speech was given at the Hudson Institute, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, and the Touro Law Institute Conference on The United Nations: “Hijacking Human Rights," November 18, 2007. Reprinted with permission of Congressman McCotter.

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In the immediate aftermath of World War II, President Harry Truman confronted two momentous challenges – the commencement of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and the struggle to create a Jewish state in Palestine.  In his blunt, son of the middle border manner, Truman enunciated the eponymous doctrine he would apply to these and all international challenges during his March 12, 1947, address to a joint session of Congress:

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