The UN: Liberty’s Enemy/The problem is not just the UN’s stench of corruption, incompetence and lack of managerial discipline, which are shocking enough

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The problem is not just the UN’s stench of corruption, incompetence and lack of managerial discipline, which are shocking enough

The UN: Liberty’s Enemy

 By Joseph A. Klein  Monday, December 27, 2010

In a fitting year-end commemoration of the United Nations‘
accomplishments,  the Security Council and General Assembly were
evacuated recently amid reports of a “suspicious
odor”
at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The stench turned out to
be sewage-related.

To be fair, the United Nations headquarters is going through some major
reconstruction work, which could explain the sewage and the spate of
bedbug attacks reported around the UN headquarters. Perhaps, in
retrospect, the UN’s staff would have been better off following the
design
ideas of former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton. Ambassador Bolton
had wisely suggested that nobody would notice the difference if we lost
ten stories off the top of the United Nations building.

At the time Bolton made this suggestion, Bolton’s opponents criticized
his lack of respect for the globalist shrine adorning the East River
skyline of Manhattan. Actually, Ambassador Bolton was being kind. The
problem is not just the UN’s stench of corruption, incompetence and lack
of managerial discipline, which are shocking enough.

The real problem is the illusion – shared sadly by the Obama
administration – that the United Nations has any moral legitimacy, much
less

effectiveness, in the areas of international peace and security or
human rights.

Moreover, to reverse Bolton’s metaphor, the
United
Nations’ cheerleaders – including the Obama administration – are
striving to add even more stories of UN power. Whether it’s suppressing
free speech, trying to take away our national sovereignty in deciding
when to use our military power or global wealth redistribution, the
United Nations establishment is seeking to expand its powers through
unaccountable, undemocratic institutions that are supposed to represent
some synthetic form of normative global consensus.

President Obama has made it a top priority of his foreign policy to
“re-engage” with the United Nations. Incredibly, he warned that not
following “the United Nation’s demands” (sic) would make “all people less
safe
.”

The following list exposes the dangerous fallacy in Obama’s thinking. It
provides some examples of how the United Nations is making us all less
safe.

Next: The UN’s
war on capitalism.





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