Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Another reason to hate the United Nations
While I have always believed that the first purpose of the United Nations -- to serve as a forum at which countries that do not ordinarily speak to each other might do so -- is worthwhile, its many efforts at world government almost always side with the oppressors to the great disadvantage of the oppressed, and those who would take away freedom at the expense of the free. For example.
7 Comments:
By 
, at
Tue Jul 22, 09:25:00 AM:
The United Nations has no standards for membership. and it shows.
By 
Grumpy Old Man, at
Tue Jul 22, 09:36:00 AM:
I used to think it was gauche and a bit extreme to want out of the cartel of tyrants, but perhaps the Birchers stumbled into the truth on this one.
By , at
Tue Jul 22, 09:53:00 AM:
I appreciate another reason BUT I didn't need one :-)
By , at
Tue Jul 22, 11:08:00 AM:
Anyone who hasn't figured out that th UN is as useful as tits on a fish is beyond all hope. It does far, far more harm that it ever did good. Why does it still exist?
By Anthony, at
Tue Jul 22, 11:30:00 AM:
Self-defense is a violation of the human rights of the criminal?? Where do they derive their legal theory, "Brave New World?"
By , at
Tue Jul 22, 01:23:00 PM:
I think that the actual purpose of the United Nations (pragmatic) for many years was to immobilize the US and Soviet alliance blocs from starting WWIII. In that, it was part of a success.
But at the same time, it empowered the entire "Third World" movement, which, in effect, has culturally and economically made a basket case of the many little tyrannies cited. It has, in effect, extended the ability of some nations to develop very captive markets (Western Europe, Japan, OPEC), and now they want to extend cultural hegemony to guarantee continued "safe markets". Hence, the gun-control mania, among other things that Americans would view as infringement of "inalienable rights", which this all is, in truth.
Just a reminder of how different the American notion of "human rights" differs from even our many cousins in the First World.
-David
By Dawnfire82, at
Wed Jul 23, 10:20:00 AM:
I suppose this justifies all those rightist survivalists who have been claiming for decades that the UN is out to seize our guns and strip the American people of their sovereignty.
And to think, I never took them seriously.
