The
"Crackpots" were Right
As a boy growing up in the Midwest, my first introduction to
politics was seeing bulletin boards demanding, "Impeach Earl
Warren" (a liberal member of the U.S. Supreme Court) and "Get the
U.S. out of the U.N."
Even then, there were farsighted individuals who saw the
dangers posed to our freedoms and way of life by a Supreme Planetary Body
that would have the right to impose the will of the world on a sovereign
sitting duck, well-to-do nation like the United States.
Invariably, those wary of a strong international central
authority were referred to in my small circle of adult influence as
"crackpots." My parents, best described as "fiscal" or
"country club" Republicans did not see or at least admit publicly
the future risk of a U.N. out of control.
Indeed, the quibbling, petty gathering of bureaucrats that
populated the New York high rise in the days of my youth formed a bi-polar
display of Soviet-bloc manics and western depressives. We saw Nikita
Kruschev pounding his shoe and roaring threats while kneejerk world police
actions sought by the U.S. were, by and large, bottled up in committee,
indefinitely.
The only reason U.N. troops were committed to stopping the
communist invasion of South Korea was that the Russian delegate was unable
to attend the Security Council meeting on the day of the vote.
Obviously, the clearest threat posed by the United Nations
in those days was to our pocketbooks. Even then, U.S. taxpayers were
spending inordinate amounts of money to keep this boondoggle bureaucracy
afloat. And, yes, even country club Republicans recognized the waste
involved and opposed authorizing the misspent money.
Things have changed in the past 40 years. Secretly, by
individual treaty, international agency and intentional duplicity, the
United Nations, World Court and the substrata of a genuine world government
have grown real teeth and a bad appetite.
We could go on for hours about tinhorn dictators being
called before international tribunals, foreign troops training on American
soil and U.S. soldiers being forced to serve under international command. We
could lament the loss of economic rights stolen by international ecology
treaties and trade agreements. We could even warn about the latest efforts
of the U.N. to impose itself into the family life of every household on
earth by demanding children’s rights and the limitation of religious
proselytizing.
Each one of these fearsome developments deserves to be
examined at length.
But the most timely and outrageous example of international
do-gooders meddling in the lives and rights of American citizens is
scheduled for Monday, July 9th in New York City. That’s the day
the U.N. stages a public burning of pistols and rifles to dramatize its
intention to license and limit the private ownership of firearms in direct
violation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Never mind that bonfires cause pollution and are normally
illegal in New York City. The U.N. does not have to abide by such petty
considerations. Never mind that possessing such weapons in New York City is
illegal. The U.N. is above such laws.
And what happened, last week, when concerned American
firearms owners deluged the United Nations with e-mails in protest of this
planned affront to our constitutionally derived freedoms. U.N. officials
promised they would turn over the names and addresses of all who had
submitted such "threats" to United Nations police for
investigation…not local authorities…not the FBI but U.N. police.
Soon and very soon, thinking Americans will have to draw a
line in the sand and demand that our legislators remove the U.S. from the
U.N. While they’re at it, let’s also demand that the U.N. remove itself
from the U.S. Let them go to Europe or any other continent accustomed to
placing the heavy burden of tyranny on the backs of their oppressed
citizenry.
If we don’t act soon to draw that line in the sand, we’ll
be forced off the beach at gunpoint and quickly find ourselves going down
for the third time.