The u.n. is as useless as teats on a boar hog.
Without even reading the post, I agree with the title!
Excellent article, I wonder what other nations, besides the bribed ones, think of this. Is there any recognition that the UN is a rotting cesspool of corruption?
The entire rat's nest needs to be cleaned out, that especially means Kofi.
Plus the nations that took part in this need to be put on a probation of sorts and all veto power they have needs to be revoked.
That would only scratch the surface, it would be easier to just scrap it and not start over. It seems that a multi-national beauracracy is a breeding ground of corruption and anti-American interests.
I totally agree with Mark Steyn. The UN is as useful now as the League of Nations was after WWI.
They are hive of bribery, liers and above all America-haters.
There would be groundswell citizen approval if a gutsy U.S. Congress did not pay our U.S. dues next year and as a result, the UN was homeless.
great article
And it won't happen. The reason it won't happen is the reason the UN is doomed - it has become the playground for every two-bit bureaucrat and tinpot despot in the world, a means for them to validate one another and act out a legitimacy they have not earned. Duty there for this ruling class is no more than an extension of their progress in theft within their own countries. No more perfect example of this is the sitting Human Rights Commission, chaired by Libya and populated by such avatars of human dignity as Cuba, Zimbabwe, and Sudan.
The problem here is obvious: it is that in an effort to promote egalitarianism the foreign minister of Zimbabwe is accorded the same respect that is given the foreign minister of Australia, despite the (ahem) difference in moral character between the two men and their respective governments. There is no judgment in that august body between good men and evil, oppressors and liberators. That is not to say there is no moral approval or disapproval for actions dealt with therein, but the only criterion used is whether, or on which side, the United States is involved. The other side is the moral one.
I shall not give up on the idea of the UN, because I think that something like it is needed, but in its current form and under its current miasma of corruption I cannot find a single reason to defend it.
For decades it has been clear that in order to help establish liberty and justice in the nations of the world, the UN MUST be destroyed first. The question is how to do it. The U.S. Congress does not have the will to stop funding the damn corrupt bastards at taxpayers' expense; I have no doubt that a lot of that stolen money winds up in the campaign coffers of members of the US Senate and probably quite a bit of it in the senators' personal accounts. Those who may not have been multimillionaires when they were elected to the Senate, sure as heck are when they leave! $100 billion buys a lot of corruption. Couple that with the payoffs coming from the drug cartels, and pretty soon it adds up to a lot of money.
I don't give a RA if they go or where they go but I am sick and tired of watching our tax money go to the UN Mafia.
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Keep your friends close and your enemy's closer.
Walk away from the UN. Pull every single diplomatic provision specific to the UN from every lawbook in the land.
When their first tax bill arrives payable to the NYC Board of Revenue, we'll have an empty building in heavy need of repair. Not to mention a choice opportunity to regroup with the good guys of the world and try again.
The self-righteous Left thinks that all of their most sacred cows are indeed sacred--but they are all about money...abortion is a money making industry...over $1 billion a year...no wonder they oppsed sonograms for poor women...welfare and food stamps are a racket aided and abetted by the poverty pimps in the minority community...lots of double dipping and food stamps for sale on the street...the environmental movement is about trial lawyers and social engineering more than about the land and the people...as my mother used to say "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".
I am especially pissed about the UN creeps who force poor children in Africa to give up sex in exchange for food...Lord help us...boys and girls often orphans being exploited and often infected with AIDS...BTW where's Al I love my people Sharpton...too busy getting paid by the Dems to scare up the vote, I guess.
Ceded sovreignty is ceded sovreignty. Empowered bureaucracies are corruptible bureaucracies.
The US should not send any contributions to the UN until there is a full accounting by a reputable Big 4 accounting firm of all dollars spent. Since the US funds over 70% of the UN budget, things would get straightened out quickly. Kofi Annan needs to go.....
Don't forget that is was the Rockefellers who gave land in Manhattan to the UN. The UN should be abolished.
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I just hope that if Bush is elected, changes will be made, and that all of us petition to get these bastrds out of our country, and built a 'true' UN with only those who have assisted us. It makes me very agnry knowing that these bastards are being paid by all of us, to continue their corruption, and their anti-merican rhetoric.