ANDREW THOMPSON


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If blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs.
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In the latter years of the 20th century and into the 21st, United Nations peacekeepers had a woeful record of refusing to fight to defend the lives of captured civilians. From the Balkans to Africa thousands of civilians were massacred while United Nations peacekeepers did not interfere. Many physicians whose instincts were against violence were so frustrated by the cowardice and ineptness of UN peacekeepers that armed civilian resistance to armies was preferable.

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Estonia, a country that has the most digital leadership in the world, just completed its third election where folks voted on a cellphone. Anyone ever heard of digital embassies? The Estonians have them.
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Andrew Thomson, whohas worked for the United Nations for 12 years in New York, Cambodia, Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda lost his job after writing a tell all book.