End Of The Summit

The UN Millennium Summit held last week in New York City was very enlightening in many ways – and just about all of them wrong. In reviewing a copy of the text of its declaration, I see a number of flaws and outright falsehoods.

First of all, they have the temerity to declare themselves "to reaffirm our (their) faith in the Organization and its Charter as indispensable foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous and just world." In the over 50 years that the UN has been in existence, they have only shown themselves to be a dismal failure the majority of endeavors. Every time they have picked the pockets of the wealthier countries, it has been money that has never really been well spent and whenever they need more money, they try to pick a wealthy pocket (usually the United States) to pay for their incompetence.

In their Values and Principles Statement, they state "We reaffirm our commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, which have proved timeless and universal. Indeed, their relevance and capacity to inspire have increased, as nations and peoples have become increasingly interconnected and interdependent."

This statement is fraudulent on the basis that the representation at the UN has become more and more anti-Western in general and more and more anti-American in particular. It’s a classic case of America/Europe-envy. The United States is expected to pay the bulk of the tab, provide the bulk of the peacekeeping troops and take the bulk of the abuse from the have-nots of the world.

Instead of bringing the rest of the world UP to the standard of living enjoyed in the developed countries of Western Europe and the United States and Canada, UN-sponsored ideas like the Kyoto Protocol on the emissions of greenhouse gasses will only result in the lowering of established countries to the status of some third-world toilet like Burkina Faso. The biggest polluters like China, India and Mexico were exempt, while Canada and the USA among others were not and their output was far below those of these developing nations. The UN hopes to have this in force by 2002. I can tell you right now that the United States will never ratify this environmental and political travesty, especially if Governor Bush is elected to the Presidency in November.

Not to be left out of the action are Bill Clinton and Al Gore, both of whom are big supporters of the Kyoto Protocol, which the Senate has wisely refused to ratify. Yet despite this, Clinton is trying to do an end run around the Constitution in regards to this treaty. Senate approval is required on all treaties the United States is a party or signatory to and the sad fact of the matter is that Clinton in the power trip of his final days just simply doesn’t care.

In the UN declaration statement on shared responsibility, it states, "Responsibility for managing worldwide economic and social development, as well as threats to international peace and security, must be shared among the nations of the world and should be exercised multilaterally. As the most universal and most representative organization in the world, the United Nations must play the central role".

The United States is a sovereign nation and should NEVER relegate its authority to any other entity, let alone to one that has ruled against it time and again. There is no way that the US gets its fair share form the UN, and their membership in the UN benefits no longer benefits the American people. Another part of the UN declaration is the call for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, with specific emphasis on nuclear weapons. I’m sorry folks, but there are too many rogues and other assorted nutcases out there to put our nuclear capability aside for anyone – even the UN. We, the USA, need to have them to protect us from the likes of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin-Laden and other assorted cretins with a bug up their shorts.

Another problem the UN also seems to have is with anti-personnel mines. I believe however, that there are limited circumstances where they are not only appropriate, but necessary. A good case in point is the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. There are numerous attempts every year by the North to invade the South, and anti-personnel land mines are an effective way to keep that type of invasion without prohibitive constraints on manpower, which is already at a critical stage in both the US and Korean military.

An additional problem the UN has with the US is with the UN’s Conventions on the Rights of the Child, which among other things if memory serves, seeks to retain the age of 18 as the age for the infliction of capital punishment. And while the UN disapproves of capital punishment, they recognize that some of its member states use it as a means of punishment for crimes within their borders. The United States and Kuwait are the only two nations that will not sign a treaty with the UN banning the sentencing to death of a person for crimes committed while a juvenile.

We in the US need to remember that we are a nation whose origins were born in blood. We broke away from the British in a bloody war that cost many lives on both sides in an eventually successful break from King George III. The last thing we need now is to surrender our sovereignty to an entity that does not have the best interests of our people at stake. Submitting blindly to the dictates and whims of the UN will do exactly that. Such action will make the sacrifices made by Americans from the Minutemen to the troops of our modern military to have been in vain and that is the last thing that we as a people can afford.

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