THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VII, Issue # 105, May 7, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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TIME TO DECLARE OUR INDEPENDENCE
FROM THE UNITED NATIONS
By Tom DeWeese
THE UNITED NATIONS: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL MESS BURRIED UNDER SCANDALS & A TOTAL FAILURE AS AN
ORGANIZATION FOR PREVENTING WAR & INSURING WORLD PEACE -- WHY MANY AMERICANS QUESTION THE LEGITIMACY OF
THE UN, FEAR ITS GAINING ANY EFFECTIVE GOVERNING AUTHORITY, & CALL FOR THE U.S.A. TO TERMINATE ITS MEMBERSHIP &
PARTICIPATION IN THE UNITED NATIONS & STRONGLY ENCOURAGE AMERICA'S ALLIES TO DO LIKEWISE
FULL STORY:
The United Nations is a mess. It now finds itself buried under scandals. It
has Oil-for-Food scandals, sex scandals, power-abuse scandals, smuggling
scandals, theft scandals. And there is the matter of unpaid traffic tickets. Rob, rape, and pillage
seems to be the UN's modus operandi.
Yet why is anyone surprised? The UN considers itself above the law of mere
nations. And it answers to no one. There is no vote on UN leaders (other
than by the culprits themselves). There is no international referendum on
its policies. The UN sets its own standards of conduct and it controls its
own judge and jury.
These, of course, are the very reasons why many Americans have
opposed U.S. membership in the UN. And it's why many have feared the UN
gaining any effective power, particularly power to tax, field an army, or
create a court system. Possessing these three powers woul drastically change the
UN from a volunteer membership organization to a global governing body.
Compliant nations simply give the UN a pretense of legitimacy. The United
States government plays to the folks at home by talking tough about the need
for "UN reform." Yet not once has the Republican-led administration or the
Republican-controlled Congress taken any steps to withhold funds for UN
programs. Instead, the U.S.A. continues to go along with nearly every UN
policy scheme, international conference and peace-keeping mission, paying
the majority of the funds, thus supplying huge amounts of American taxpayers' money to
UN coffers so that business as usual goes on down at UN headquarters.
There is one public entity to which the UN at least pretends to react. The
court of public opinion. There is a growing awareness, at least in the
living rooms of common Americans, that something is very wrong with the UN.
The UN's greatest fear is that those Americans might influence our leaders
to withdraw from the world body. If that ever happens, then the UN is
finished and it knows it.
Articles are surfacing and pundits are pondering, questioning the future of
the UN. To sidestep the obvious that the UN has utterly failed in its stated
mission to promote world peace, or to even have a hint of influence in
making anyone's life better, voices are beginning to suggest the word
"reform." Reform the UN, make it more "workable." American leaders, looking
for a way to get around the growing argument to dump the UN, may latch on to
such a reform movement. But they should be careful what they wish for,
because they may not get the kind of reform they are expecting.
The UN is never without a contingency plan for its well-prepared agenda of
global governance. A major thorn in the side of those who seek to drive the
UN into a position of international power is the Security Council and the
veto power of its permanent members. Many say the United States controls the
UN with its veto power. Solution: take away the veto.
One of the twelve points of the Charter for Global Democracy, which surfaced
prior to the UN's Millennium Summit in 2000, was a plan to "reform" the UN
by doing away with the Security Council and replacing it with an "Assembly
of the People." The Assembly would be made up of "people from the world" in
the form of non-elected, non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Take note,
these are the same NGOs which write the background material for most of the
UN treaties like Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Treaty, Rights of the Child,
and even the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. NGOs are special interest groups
(almost all Leftist) who are seeking to turn the UN into a global
government. They are the ones pushing for UN tax schemes, UN standing armies,
and the International Criminal Court. While the average citizen focuses on
the Security Council and its dramatic, even heroic image, NGOs have become
the driving force in setting UN policy.
To them, it would be a dream come true for the UN to scrap the Security
Council, which still pretends to be a place where nations simply air their
differences. They would then be free to install the Assembly of the People,
through which their drive for UN power could accelerate unabated by pesky
U.S. vetoes.
The fact is the UN is not an instrument for guarding the peace. The UN is
the source for international unrest, and "reform" will not fix it. Most
urgently, American leadership must not fall into the trap set by British
Prime Minister Tony Blair to allow the UN to take the lead in rebuilding
Iraq. Worse, Blair is also attempting to bully the United States into
embracing the Kyoto Climate Change Protocol. Such a foolish move would be a
disaster to the U.S. economy and would do nothing to cool the planet.
For the past fifty years, as the UN lived off the perception that it
provided a forum where nations could air their differences off the
battlefield, more wars were fought than ever before in human history.
Instead of removing the threat to peace, the UN has encouraged, even
nurtured, regimes that waged violence on their neighbors, and indeed,
oppressed and tortured their own peoples.
The first great challenge to the UN's ability to provide peace was the
Korean conflict in 1954. Allowed to operate on its own, the United States of America
would have waged war against this aggressor and eliminated forever the North Korean Communist
regime and the threat it posed. However, because American leadership abided
by United Nations diplomatic authority instead of reason, not only was the
regime allowed to survive, the conflict was never resolved. Indeed the North
Korean Communists' greatest ally, Red China, was also allowed to take root
and grow. As a result of that UN failure, today, both North Korea and
Communist China are two of the leading international threats to peace. These
are festering sores that the United States will eventually have to deal
with, most certainly over UN objections.
Almost the exact scenario was played out in the Vietnam conflict in the
1960s, as UN resolutions tied American hands and thereby prevented the U.S.A. from destroying the Communists,
allowing another brutal regime to remain in power, again within the axis of
China.
Today, sixty years after the inception of the United Nations, the
international community is a dangerous place. Instead of peaceful,
prosperous, stable trading partners, the world is full of brutal, murdering
dictatorships which starve and torture their own people, while threatening
the security of their neighbors, as once-great powers cower and use
diplomatic doublespeak to ignore responsibility. Most of these international
thugs have two things in common. (1) Each has a voice and a vote in the
United Nations and (2) none of them would be a threat if they didn't.
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nation-states, petty and
tarnished former superpowers, and self-ordained special interest groups. Each
promotes a Socialist agenda that seeks to redistribute the world's wealth
into their own coffers, as they diminish the power of the United States and
enslave the citizens of nations in a dark ages of poverty and misery.
That's why terrorist states like Libya and Syria are allowed to serve on the
UN's Human Rights Commission, as Israel is condemned in resolution after
resolution. It's the reason why a prosperous, industrious nation like Taiwan
is refused membership in the UN, while a murderous thug like Zimbabwe's
Robert Mugabe is given a prominent voice at UN conferences.
The United Nations is not "dysfunctional," as some "reformists" have
claimed. It is a criminal enterprise in which no moral nation should ever
participate, let alone perpetuate.
Many of our elected officials indicate that the United States is bound to
some kind of forced membership in the UN, as if it's our legal duty.
Congress has resisted Congressman Ron Paul's efforts to pass his "American
Sovereignty Restoration Act" (H.R. 1146), which calls for the complete
withdrawal of the United States from UN membership. Critics say it just isn't
reasonable in today's society. They say that the United States would become
isolated from the rest of the world. They say that the United States is
bound by a treaty to stay in the UN.
But, according to legal and Constitution scholar, Herb Titus, the Charter of
the United Nations is neither politically nor legally binding upon the
United States or the American people. Says Titus, "The Charter of the UN is
commonly assumed to be a treaty. It is not." Instead, Titus explains, the
UN Charter is a constitution. As such, it is illegitimate, having created a
supranational government, deriving its powers not from the consent of the
governed (the people of the United States and peoples of other member
nations) but from the consent of the peoples' government officials, which
have no authority to bind neither the American people nor any other nation-state's people
to any terms of the Charter of the United Nations.
Titus goes on to explain:
"Even if the Charter of the UN were a properly-ratified treaty,
it would still be constitutionally illegitimate and void, because
it transgresses the Constitution of the United States in three
major respects: (1) it unconstitutionally delegates to the UN
the U.S. Congress' legislative powers to initiate war and the
U.S. President's executive power to conduct war; (2) it
unconstitutionally transfers to the United Nations General
Assembly the US House of Representatives' exclusive power
to originate revenue-raising measures; and (3) it
unconstitutionally robs the 50 American states of powers
reserved to them by the Tenth Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution."
Titus declares that H.R.1146 is the only viable solution to the continuing
abuses by the United Nations. He says, "The U.S. Congress, by enacting
H.R. 1146, can remedy its earlier unconstitutional actions of embracing the
UN Charter."
The world of the UN is like a parallel reality. It is no place for a nation
born from the minds of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. How would
today's American leaders in Congress react if they were suddenly brought
before a tribunal of Founding Fathers and told to justify American
participation in such a folly?
Rather than wasting more time and money on hearings and debates over a new
UN Ambassador, the Congress would better use its resources by simply ignoring
the UN and quitting that organization. It is past time for the American people to demand action of
our elected officials to uphold the U.S. Constitution they have sworn to
defend. Just as our Founding Fathers did when confronted with tyranny, it's
time for the American people to again declare their independence, this time independence from the United
Nations.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Tom DeWeese is the Publisher and Editor of The DeWeese Report and President of the American Policy Center, a
grassroots activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia. The Center maintains an Internet website at
www.americanpolicy.org.
Copyright 2005 Tom DeWeese
Published with Permission of Tom DeWeese
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