It is time to start thinking about
leaving the United Nations. When we attend a conference against racism and
are asked to endorse a document prepared by the Arab League that equates
Zionism with racism, we are being asked to act like a fool. Then we are
asked to condemn the State of Israel as the only culprit in the Middle East
war, which flies in the face of reality. It is time to re-think our stance
and re-arrange our priorities. It is time to realize that we taxpayers are
paying for at least one fourth of the expenses of this Socialist group.
When we are asked for reparations for slavery, of which no citizen of the US
is guilty, we are dealing with radical idiots. When the same group of
African nations also wants reparations for colonialism, they have gone too
far. Do you think Canada wants reparations from Britain because Britain once
colonized their country? We were once a colony of Britain also. And France.
And Spain. Should they be required to pay us just because they settled this
nation? Maybe the British should require France to pay them for the Norman
Conquest in 1066.
We have become wealthy because we have freedom. Freedom to try something
new, to take a chance, to dare to be different. We were rugged
individualists and were not held back by oppressive and corrupt governments.
Our Founding Fathers saw to that.
Nigeria is one of the richest countries in natural resources in the world
and yet the population lives in poverty. Somebody is skimming off the wealth
and probably depositing it in numbered Swiss bank accounts. Zimbabwe, once
known as Rhodesia and the breadbasket of Africa, is now driving the whites
out in spite of past reassurances that this would never happen. As a result,
the people no longer export the produce and grain as they once did.
Slavery is currently practiced in Sudan and Mauritania, but no mention is
made of reparations from the slave traders. The stupidity of the situation
demands our attention. If the United Nations can be taken over by the
"have-nots" and be used as a propaganda mouthpiece, we have no
business helping them along.
Koffi Annon, Secretary General of the United Nations recently was
'distressed' because Australia refused asylum to some 460 Asians who were
illegally trying to enter the country. He felt that Australia should have
let them in, disregarding the fact that there are people who arrange such
voyages for profit. When the Secretary General advocates the illegal entry
into a country despite the wishes of that nation, he is acting in violation
of that country's laws. We do not need to support such a group.
When the United Nations was formed in San Francisco in 1945 after WW2, it
was not designed to satisfy the values of Socialism. It was not designed to
take from the rich and give to the poor. It was not designed to 'level the
playing field' for the poorer nations. It was designed to prevent genocide
(a recent example: the terrible massacre of the Tutsi tribe by the Hutu
tribe in Rwanda in1997, where the UN did absolutely nothing except stand
aside and wring its hands.
We don't need this. We can make our own treaties with the countries that do
not hate us. We can even make treaties with those that do hate us, but still
know right from wrong. We can uncork our own oil wills and tell the Arab
League to get lost. We do not need to be blackmailed by a bunch of rag tag
second-rate nations who really just want us to hand over our wealth.