The Great Global Power Grab

Beginning this weekend, there will be a United Nations Millennium Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York in which most or all the leaders of the 188 member nations will be gathered. They will be discussing a variety of matters, to include, but not limited to adopting programs and policies that will make the UN more efficient and responsive to the needs of the world’s people.

What a laugh! In the 55 years the UN has been in existence, they have shown time and again that they are anything but efficient. They have repeatedly shown that they can be neither effective nor responsible in solving the problems that affect areas of the world with the greatest need for help. In fact, the only time where I can remember the United Nations being an effective body was ten years ago.

It was November 1990, and the United States had the rotating chairmanship of the Security Council that month. Secretary of State James Baker had pushed through the resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, which passed and brought about the successful removal of Iraq from Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War.

Since then, radical factions within the UN have been seeking to dissolve the concept of national sovereignty from the countries of the world. It’s part of what they call the New World Order. They have sought to make abortion on demand (among other things) a universal right and to exercise worldwide jurisdiction on anyone who would deny it. Is it any wonder that the United States refuses to pay its share of back dues to the UN when the resources are squandered in such haphazard a fashion?

Should the UN succeed in its goals of one world government, national sovereignty will become a thing of the past. The United Nations will empower themselves with the power to override the proposed legislation of any country if they do not approve of it. The United States Constitution does not permit us as a nation to be subservient to another entity. That was one of the reasons we broke away from the British and told King George III to shove it in a manner of speaking.

We (the United States) do not report to ANYBODY. In the Olympic Games, other countries dip their flags as they pass by the host leader in the opening ceremonies. The United States has never done that. It’s not that we are better than anyone else is - it’s just that we were once kicked around 200 years ago and we’re not about to let that happen again.

In its existence, the UN has not (in my opinion) made any substantial contribution to raising the standard of the rest of the world. By imposing their ideas on the developed nations of the world, they will only lower the overall standard of living of the world in general. It sounds like a classic case of America or Europe-envy.

It reminds me of the Kyoto Treaty of a couple of years ago that the other nations were pushing. China, India and Mexico are far worse polluters than Canada or the United States, yet they were exempt from complying with the terms of the treaty requiring the reduction of greenhouse gasses. Canada and the US were not.

The United Nations is in my opinion under undue Communist influence. On October 24, 1999, the Charter for Global Democracy was made public. Among its principles, it calls for the consolidation of all international agencies under direct UN authority. It calls the regulation by the UN of all transnational corporations and financial institutions. In addition, it would provide the UN with the power to levy taxes, eliminate the veto power right of Security Council members, and revoke the concept of permanent membership in the Security Council. It would also authorize a standing UN army.

They would also call for complete and total gun registration, which is contrary to the Second Amendment and would eliminate all foreign debt owed to the haves by have-nots. Such an action would wreak havoc on world financial markets and could easily trigger a worldwide depression.

The United Nations has outlived its usefulness as an entity with which the United States can either contribute or influence. There is too great an anti-American sentiment and they have proven themselves to be unreliable in dealing with the United States fairly and equitably.

It is high time that the United Nations be asked to leave New York, that the United States withdraw their membership, and that the UN move to Geneva, Switzerland, a country which is not even a UN member. Let them deal with all the diplomatic headaches that New York has had to put up with.

The Sooner this happens, the better.

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