Tony BarkJesse Watters says America needs to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations
ExtremeDullardThe UN is headquartered in New York. This guy therefore is directly calling for terrorist acts to be committed on US soil. That’s slammer-worthy.
Who’s doing the political violence again?
hyperhopperThe UN is not on US soil, it’s been international territory for a very long while
LemmyoutofhereDownvoted for actually knowing the truth. Am I back on Reddit?
You left out the rest of that paragraph, though:
However, in exchange for local police, fire protection, and other services, the United Nations agrees to acknowledge most local, state, and federal laws.
Ok, but that only says they agree to follow local laws. It’s still not American soil as per the agreement.
There’s no dotted line around the UN on maps like Vatican City or Monaco. The UN is a diplomatic construct, and not its own country. It is fully on US soil, and nothing in the treaty says otherwise. (Yes, I checked, at least this copy I found as a [pdf](treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume 11/volume-11-I-147-English.pdf) , which looks to be the official one. I don’t know if there are any addendums though.
That agreement was put in place specifically to guarantee worldwide access to the UN facility for diplomats, regardless of the opinion of the host country. It calls on the local government to maintain access to the facility, but does not allow local government officials on site without permission. It exempts diplomats and other visitors from the local visa requirements, but also states that the site will not used as a refuge for anyone avoiding legal process in the US.
(The original agreement also has arrangements if the UN wants to build their own “aerodome”…)