Some Good News

 

1. In “Modern Times” (Revised edition, New York, HarperCollins, 1991), Paul Johnson has this to say:

   “...by the 1970’s, the UN was a corrupt and demoralized body, and its ill-considered interventions were more inclined to promote violence than to prevent it.  Truman’s fatal mistake in allowing executive power to slip toward the General Assembly in 1950, compounded by Eisenhower’s error in 1956, when he allowed Hammarskjold to hound Britain and France as aggressors, now yielded a bitter and abundant harvest.  The UN was founded by fifty-one states, the great majority of them democracies.  By 1975 there were 144 members, with plans for 165, all but twenty-five of them totalitarian or one-party states, mainly of the Left.  The Soviet, Arab-Muslim and African states together constituted a working majority.  There was thus no question of taking action against terrorism.  On the contrary....Idi Amin, a terrorist himself and a patron and beneficiary of terrorism, was given a standing ovation in 1975 when he advocated genocide.  Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO, the world’s largest terrorist organization, was actually given a seat in the Assembly.  The UN Secretariat had long since ceased to apply the principles of the Charter.  The Secretary-General functioned as a mere post office.  Communist members of the Secretariat lived in their national compounds and handed in their hard-currency salary cheques to their embassy finance officers...” (p.689)

   Furthermore:

   ”...The synthetic anger of the UN was concentrated wholly on America...and by extension to the West as a whole.  It is illuminating to trace the genesis of this assault.  The original Marxist thesis was that capitalism would collapse.  That had not happened.  The first fall-back position (Khruschchev’s) was that the ‘socialist bloc’ would overtake the West in living standards.  That had not happened either.  The second fall-back position, used from the early 1970’s onwards, which was sold to the Third World and became the UN orthodoxy, was that high Western living standards, far from being the consequence of a more efficient economic system, were the immoral wages of the deliberate and systematic impoverishment of the rest of the world.  Thus in 1974 the UN adopted a ‘Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States’ which condemned the workings of Western economies.  The 1974 UN World Population Conference was a prolonged attack on US selfishness.  The 1974 UN World Food Conference denounced America and other states, the only ones actually to produce food surpluses....” (p.691)

   Now you are better acquainted with just why we are the largest source of funding for the UN, and yet we receive nothing but abuse from the UN.

   Turn off the gas and kick the cretins out!  Yesterday, if possible.

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       03/25/2005  at  07:48 PM  



2. I say we throw the U.N. out and sell that real estate to Donald Trump so he can build condos or co-ops.  Maybe then the rents in Manhattan wouldn’t be so sky high.

   Posted by lisar915       03/25/2005  at  10:38 PM  



3. They can make a marina or a garbage dump out of the real estate for all I care, so long as that rat pack is sent packing. 

   Posted by Tannenberg       03/26/2005  at  09:58 AM  

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