It gets worse. In the U.N., there are 31 nation-states with extremely small populations, each having a population of less that a half million (less people than our least populated State, Wyoming), but entitled to a full vote in decisions of the General Assembly. Each of these U.N. member nations has the same voting power as the U.S.A., China, India, Russia, Great Britain, Japan, or any other major power in the world. Indeed, fourteen nations, each with fewer than 100,000 people, has a vote equal to America's. These fourteen nations include Tuvalu (10,836), San Marino (26,937), and Liechtenstein (31,130).

The real power is in the United Nations Security Council, composed of five permanent members, plus ten temporary members elected for two-year terms. The five permanent members are the U.S.A., Great Britain, France, Russia, and China. Among these permanent members, only the U.S.A. has been highly resistant to the trend toward State Socialism and other forms of Statism, i.e., centralized control and direction of economic activity, control and direction of the nation's economy by the central/national government, acting as agent or instrument of the sovereign state. All of the other permament members of the Security Council have, in varying degrees, succumbed to forces pushing for establishment and operation of government controlled and directed economies--command economies, rather than free market economies. In the United Nations and its organs and agencies, the U.S.A. is virtually alone among a multitude of Statists, an island of free market Capitalism in a sea of Collectivism.

There is one question no one has been able to answer for me. As regards the word "security" in the name of the U.N. Security Council, how much security has the United Nations provided the world since the inception of the U.N. in 1947?

The U.N. Charter says that the organization exists to "save succeeding generations from the scourage of war ... to practice tolerance and live together in peace as good neighbors, to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security." This malignancy that passes for an international organization devoted to fostering peace and a bunch of other noble ideals has proven to be utterly useless and totally irrelevant, except as a threat to constitutional democracy, freedom, and justice everywhere.

These days, the U.N. is totally devoted to transforming itself into a global government, essentially ending the sovereignty of all member and nonmember nations through a matrix of treaties, conferences, and protocols. The U.N. has its hand in all aspects of life on Earth from trade to the environment. It wants the right to tax everyone, to have its own judicial system, and its own military capability. If it has its way, you will be saluting the U.N. flag, not the Stars and Stripes.

Founded after World War II, the United Nations was built on a rotten foundation by a rotten element. The architects of the U.N. were secret agents of the Soviet Union, working at the highest levels within the U.S. Department of State. The first interim Secretary General of the U.N. was none other than Alger Hiss, who went to jail for lying about the fact that he was a Soviet agent. The U.N. has never had a Secretary General who wasn't a dedicated Socialist.

The first major conflict that broke out after World War II was the Korean War, which resulted from the 1950 invasion by Communist-controlled North Korea of South Korea, an ally of the U.S.A. U.S. troops are still stationed in South Korea, more than a half-century after the U.S.A. and its allies, operating as a socalled "United Nations Police Action," drove the North Koreans and the Red Chinese army back behind the 38th. parallel. Frankly, there isn't enough room to recount all the other socalled United Nations' efforts to restore and maintain the pease that weren't totally dependent on the military and economic might of the U.S.A. for success in achieving any resolution of the conflict.

The five wars waged by the Arabs against the State of Israel are a testimony to the U.N.'s ability and willingness to look the other way when a member nation is fighting for its life. There is no single organization in the world that is more anti-Semitic than the United Nations. Its conference "against" racism, held in Durban, South Africa, last year, was such a horror of racism, mostly aimed at Israel, that the U.S.A. withdrew its representatives. Between 1967 and 1988, there were 88 Security Council resolutions passed against Israel and not one criticizing a single Arab nation or the PLO. In that same time span, the U.N. General Assembly passed 429 anti-Israel resolutions.

In the years since the United Nations was founded, there have been appalling genocides in Asia and Africa.

When the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by Al-Qa'ida terrorists on September 11, 2001, the U.S.A. did not go to the U.N. General Assembly to ask permission to respond. It sent its military to Afghanistan to decimate this threat. The U.S.A. had learned the lesson of earlier wars during the post-World War II era, wars in which the U.S.A. and its allies operated under U.N. resolutions and were not permitted to complete the job of destroying the enemy and eliminating its threat to the peace and security of the world.

After its military defeat at the hands of the U.S.A. and its allies in the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, failing to cooperate with the U.N. inspectors searching for weapons of weapons of mass destruction, finally ordered them to leave Iraq, and the U.N. cravenly withdrew its inspection teams. No one seems to be too upset by this, except, of course, those of us who keep calling for the complete withdrawal by the U.S.A. from the United Nations. This perfectly sane response to what is clearly an evil organization invariably earns us the knee-jerk nomenclature of "extreme Rightwingers."

What is "extreme" about opposing an institution that has not only utterly failed to bring about peace, has made no impact on the abuse of human rights around the world, and which poses a threat to our Republic? The United Nations is an international malignancy, undermining free societies everywhere, a platform for racism, a mechanism seeking to transfer the wealth of industrialized nations to those that do not foster any economic growth of their own.

Remember that the next time a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations casts our one vote in the General Assembly at the same time as Djibouti.

Alan Caruba is the founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. At the Center's Internet site, http://www.anxietycenter.com, Caruba writes a weekly column, WARNING SIGNS. He is also author of A POCKET GUIDE TO MILITART ISLAM and THE UNITED NATIONS VS. THE UNITED STATES.

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