The U.N. Joke
By Henry Lamb
Soon it is
the 65th birthday of the United Nations – a great age for retirement.
This institution has consistently failed to achieve the objectives for
which it told the world it was created, and has just as consistently
drained the coffers of developed nations under the guise of eliminating
poverty and maintaining the peace.
What a joke.
Global poverty is just as rampant today as it was in 1945 – probably
worse. U.N. peacekeepers are routinely caught exploiting the very people
they are supposed to protect. Corruption
flourishes at the U.N. from the oil-for-food program to the ongoing
procurement scandals throughout the entire institution. What's worse is
that this joke continues from administration to administration because
there is no oversight or accountability.
Despite these blatant failures, the United Nations has been remarkably
successful in achieving the purpose for which it has consistently told
the world it was not created: that is, to govern the world.
The League of Nations was a product of the Woodrow Wilson
administration, which made no apology for its desire to create a world
government based on Marxist principles. Fortunately for the world, the
U.S. Senate rejected Wilson's dream – three times – and the League
withered, but did not die.
Many of the same people who created the League of Nations created and
gathered in the Council on Foreign Relations in America and in the Royal
Institute for International Affairs in Europe. When Franklin Roosevelt
reclaimed the federal government for the Democrats in 1932, his
administration was filled with Wilson cronies and other progressives who
longed for the global government Wilson failed to create.
Two weeks after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt appointed a 14-member Committee
on the Post War World. Ten of the members were members of the Council on
Foreign Relations. Two weeks later, Roosevelt issued a "Declaration of
United Nations," the first time the term was used officially by any
government.
Global government remained a distant dream of the progressives and
Marxists on both sides of the Atlantic until the 1970s. The new
environmental movement absorbed the young war activists who were left
with nothing to protest after Vietnam. Maurice Strong created the U.N.
Environment Program in 1973 and pushed through several environmental
treaties. The U.N.'s Man and the Biosphere Program was created during
this period, which was not a treaty, but a simple agreement between the
U.S. State Department and UNESCO to manage 47 U.N. Biosphere Reserves in
the United States according to the recommendations of UNESCO.
In 1976, the U.N. adopted its first policy position on land use. The
preamble says "public control of land use is indispensable." Two of the
people who signed the document for the United States were members of the
Council on Foreign Relations: Carla A. Hills, who became George Bush's
trade negotiator responsible for the World Trade Organization, and
William K. Reilly, who became Bush's administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
Progressives in
all
parties have promoted the United Nations and worked to advance global
governance. The 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and
Development in Rio de Janeiro produced the Convention on Climate Change,
the Convention on Biological Diversity and Agenda 21. All of these U.N.
documents were embraced by the successive
administrations and implemented
administratively as much as possible.
For 65 years, the U.N. has publicly abused the
world's poorest and most vulnerable people, while almost without public
notice building its own power through a global web of international
laws, regulations and recommendations. The U.N. paints itself as a noble
institution, redistributing the wealth of the West to the needy
elsewhere – while raking off an administrative fee and scamming whatever
else they can.
Congratulations U.N. on reaching 65.
Now retire – and good riddance!!
