An answer for the U.N.'s complaints

Enter Stage Right ^ | June 19, 2006 | Henry Lamb

[yoe]

The U.N.'s second in command, Mark Malloch Brown, is unhappy about the lack of respect U.S. citizens afford the United Nations. He is particularly unhappy that U.S. officials allow "too much unchecked U.N. bashing and stereotyping." to reach the heartland through Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. Ambassador John Bolton called on Kofi Annan to repudiate Brown's remarks; Annan refused, and stood by his Deputy Director.

These comments come from the U.N. at a time when the U.N. is asking the U.S. to facilitate a $1.2 billion renovation project, and only a few weeks before the U.N. runs out of money if the U.S. does not approve the U.N. budget. Budget approval has been withheld pending agreement on reforms that, so far, the U.N. has been unwilling to adopt.

When will the United States realize that the U.N. is beyond repair, reform, renovation, renewal, or any reason to exist?

To be sure, it is far better to have a neutral forum for nations in dispute to discuss their differences, rather than to settle those disputes on a battlefield. But the United Nations is not that forum. The U.N. neither prevents war, nor keeps the peace.

The United Nations has instead, worked long and hard at becoming a separate governing entity with influence, and eventually, authority over all its member nations. In the process, it has become a corrupt, bloated bureaucracy with virtually no accountability to anyone. Its successes are few; its failures are legion. The oil for food scandal and the never-ending sex scandals of the U.N. peacekeepers in Africa make the headlines. U.N. supporters overlook these failures, and criticize John Bolton for holding up the U.N. budget.

What rarely makes the headlines are the incessant efforts to expand global rule through endless treaties, agreements, commissions, and agencies. Each of these U.N.-offsprings draws every member nation a little more securely into the U.N. web. The World Trade Organization, for example, drains a little sovereignty from each member nation that agrees to submit to decisions made by the international body.

The Law of the Sea Treaty, pushed by U.N. supporters in the U.S. State Department, and others, would drain more than a little sovereignty, and require the U.S. to submit to decisions made by the International Seabed Authority. The Kyoto Protocol is trying to create its own compliance mechanism.

Congressman Ron Paul has introduced legislation to prevent the implementation of global tax policy, long desired by the United Nations. So far, only six Congressmen have signed on in co-sponsorship.

Many people across the country who have watched their property rights evaporate through so-called "smart growth" plans are completely unaware that these schemes originated in the U.N. and became "internationally accepted policy" when Agenda 21 was adopted by the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. Even when Bill Clinton's President's Council on Sustainable Development began to implement Agenda 21 through federal agencies, few people made the connection to the U.N. This is just another way that sovereignty is being eroded while the U.N. weaves another web around this nation.

The National Animal Identification System now being developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture also originated in the international community. Most environmental laws and regulations are the result of treaty compliance or international obligations. The influence of the U.N. on domestic policy goes far beyond the headlines. This insidious force is sucking the sovereignty from our nation with the support of Congress, and most Americans - who fail to see the danger.

A more visible danger is the reality that when push comes to shove in matters or war and peace, the U.N. can do nothing but talk. Action must be taken by affected members. This truth became evident when the U.N. Security Council refused to act on Iraq, even after Iraq ignored a dozen or more U.N. resolutions. Now in Iran, The U.N. Security Council can do nothing but talk about Iran's flagrant deceptions and non-compliance with prior agreements.

People who have supported the U.N. in the past should realize that the institution is beyond repair; that a new mechanism must be constructed which is truly a forum for debate, not an excuse to build a global government.

A good way to begin would be to demand that Congress enact another Ron Paul bill: the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 1146). This is the best answer the U.S. can make to Mark Malloch Brown's complaints. This Act would remove a heavy U.N. burden, and open the door to a brighter, and more hopeful future.

Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO), and chairman of Sovereignty International.

[yoe]

American Sovereignty

Fax Ambassador John Bolton often - show him we support a U.N. Free Nation and that we support him.

The Honorable John R. Bolton
Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations
United States Mission to the United Nations
140 East 45th Street
New York, NY 10017

Phone: 212/415-4050
Fax: 212/415-4053

[snowrip]

Posted the other day, but an excellent article nonetheless.

The UN needs to go ASAP.

[BenLurkin]

Not surprising that the U.N. does not like freedom of speach.

The internet sure would be different if the U.N. ever gets control.

[cripplecreek]

It goes somethinglike this.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.........

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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —

[cripplecreek]

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

I'm thinking that our government needs to be reminded of that point as well.

[seasoned traditionalist]

Not surprising that the U.N. does not like freedom of speach.

A lot less than you know.

Tried to find email address for Brown, Kofi, anybody?

None, nein, zip, nada.

Found one "generalized" place to send "comments."

http://www.un.org/forms/feedback/english.asp

FEEDBACK

Your feedback is an important way for us to receive questions, comments and suggestions...ultimately providing you with enhanced services on United Nations web site.

The personal information requested is used for no other purposes than to respond to your feedback.

You can either send us an email at inquiries@un.org, or use the form below to send us feedback.

Too bad as I was going to suggest that we send Brown a "few" messages to let him know just what we in middle America thought of him (and his comments).

Not even an address for Kofi.

Guess I don't blame them as their server would probably melt daily.

Guess we could always use snail mail. Might even make more of an impact.

[diogenes ghost]

Bolton is an enigma; while he may feel the UN needs major reforms, he would not get support from his government, including his boss. Still, whacking that ole windmill must give ya a good woody now & then.

[cripplecreek]

I wouldn't mind flooding the UN with millions of eviction notices by way of snail mail.

[seasoned traditionalist]

In case anyone missed my post last week and want a good read, here it is:

A Miasma Of Corruption: The United Nations at 50 (NOTHING’S CHANGED IN 10 YEARS—AND NOTHING WILL)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649841/posts

[BenLurkin]

Doesn't matter -- I sure as heck would never send them an email.

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my keYBoARD GOing Out cut/pastE. \will lurk

[sgtbono2002]

$#@& Him and the horse he rode in on.

[Salem]

"He is particularly unhappy that U.S. officials allow "too much unchecked U.N. bashing and stereotyping," to reach the heartland through Fox News and Rush Limbaugh."

The U.N. is, today, a premonition of corrupt global PC fascism and tyranny if the United States and her citizens in the "heartland" weren't standing right in the way.

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[maine-iac7]

U.S. officials allow "too much unchecked U.N. bashing and stereotyping

How very socialistic/communistic of him.

and Anan backs him up -

This is an in your face example of their mind set and why they have as an ultimate goal, eliminating sovereignty of nations, starting with us/US.

[listenhillary]

Mark Malloch Brown

[proud_yank]

good read.

[Fred Nerks]

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Thursday, July 28, 2005

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Muslim nations throttle
U.N. terror resolution
Criticism of suicide bombers censored by global body's Islamic member states

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Posted: July 28, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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U.N. Human Rights Commission meeting
Islamic United Nations representatives blocked an attempt to have the world body condemn killing in the name of religion.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union said it submitted the request to the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva in response to moves by Islamic clerics to legitimize the current wave of terror attacks.


IHEU representative David Littman tried to deliver a prepared text in the names of three international NGOs – the Association for World Education, the Association of World Citizens and the IHEU – but was blocked by the "heavy-handed intervention" of Islamic representatives of the panel.

Littman said that after repeated interruptions, he was unable to complete his speech.

The Muslims members said they saw the text as an attack on Islam.

The IHEU argued Littman's speech was a report on recent critical comment on Islamist extremism by a number of notable Muslim writers.

The intent was for the U.N. Human Rights Commission "to condemn calls to kill, to terrorize or to use violence in the name of God or any religion."

The text referred to recent decisions by high-ranking Muslim clerics to confirm that those who carry out suicide bombings remain Muslims and cannot be treated as apostates.

A Saudi cleric, for example, issued a fatwa saying that innocent Britons were a legitimate target for terrorist action. Also, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, dean of the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies at Qatar University, who has visited Britain, said terror attacks are permissible.

Roy Brown, president of IHEU, said the censorship is "part and parcel of the refusal by the Islamic representatives at the U.N. to condemn the suicide bombers, or to accept any criticism of those who kill innocent people in the name of God."

[Convert from ECUSA]

The UN is about as useful as a sun porch on a submarine.