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Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy
Frederick B. Meekins - 05.25.01
Students of political science would be forced to conclude that the field of
international relations is a discipline fraught with bizarre irony and
stunning contradiction. This is no where as evident as it is at the United
Nations.
Both American policymakers and the general public fell victim to this
reality in the controversy surrounding the expulsion of the United
States from various UN panels such as the Commission on Human
Rights and
the International Narcotics Control Board.
One almost doesn't know whether to laugh or cry being that these
decisions are both a blessing in disguise and a cause for concern all at
the same time.
For too long, the United States has drifted along in a state of blissful
denial or outright complacency as to the maniacal hootenanny taking
place
under the auspices of the United Nations.
The United States has been booted off these international bodies largely
because of this nation's refusal to submit fully to the yoke of the
globalist agenda and for mustering some courage with the advent of the
Bush
administration to stand up to this planetary nonsense to a limited
degree.
It has been speculated that the U.S. is being punished for challenging
UN
initiatives regarding issues such as the International Criminal Court, the
effort to abolish landmines, and the Kyoto global warming treaty --- all of
which the United States has rational grounds for opposing.
Yet this dispute between the United States and the United Nations runs
deeper than these significant but peripheral policy disputes. These
disagreements merely scratch the surface of the ideological chasm
festering
between these two geopolitical powerhouses.
Increasingly, freedom lovers everywhere find two opposing
interpretations as to the nature of human rights competing for
prominence in the world at large.
On the one hand can be found the traditional Western view held by the
majority of decent upright Americans adhering to the Judeo-Christian
worldview that fundamental rights and liberties are granted by God to
the individual as an inherent protection against the intrusive
tendencies of governments as well as other individuals.
Those holding an opposing standard contend that rights --- or rather
social privileges --- are granted by government and are subject to
modification, curtailment, or even outright abolition in pursuit of a
regime's particular agenda.
It is this conflict between the differing conceptions of personal
liberty that has gotten the United States kicked off the UN panels where
the statist interpretation of human rights have come to predominate.
A rundown of the Commission's membership will bear this assertion out.
Perusing the Commission's rolls is like taking a tour down Dick Tracy's
Rogue's Gallery on an international level.
The primary power wanting the U.S. off the Commission was none other
than our esteemed "strategic partner" Red China, a nation renowned for
its
overwhelming devotion to the welfare of the individual. The Communist
government there has slaughtered millions in pursuit of dubious ends as
epitomized by that county's Great Cultural Revolution. Forced abortions
and
religious persecution of believing Christians continues in that nation to
this very day.
Another paragon of inalienable rights guiding the Commission to ever
higher plateaus of individual emancipation is Saudi Arabia. In that
particular land of opportunity, women aren't even allowed to drive cars
and
those who convert from Islam to another faith are rewarded by having
their
heads lopped off.
One will realize just how ludicrous the decision to remove the United
States from the Commission really is once they learn that the seat
belonging to the beacon of hope to the world in this life was given to
Sudan. Thus a nation where children are sold into the bondage of slavery
for simply belonging to the "wrong" religion has been elevated as a better
example to the world than the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Even the more enlightened and civilized nations on the Human Rights
Commission leave something to be desired in their interpretation of
fundamental rights and liberties.
For example, in Canada one can run afoul of the law for speaking out
against homosexuality and a number of Evangelicals have been subject
to
criminal prosecution there for distributing literature critical of other
religions. Other industrialized democracies on the Human Rights
Commission
such as France, Germany, and even the United Kingdom have laws
unduly
hampering religious and individual expression.
A number of those opposed to the controversial agenda being pursued
by the
United Nations have suggested that now is the perfect time to get out of
this planetary bureaucracy in light of this slap across the face of the
United States since the UN largely pursues an anti-American agenda at
the
expense of U.S. taxpayers.
Rather it is the time to rally goodhearted people to the side of our
cause rather than to run from the fight. Edmund Burke is credited with
saying that all it takes for evil to win is for good men to do nothing.
The only thing protecting the people of the world from the full wrath of
the diabolical intentions of the United Nations is the love of freedom and
concern for justice found at the heart of the American spirit. Without this
influence, such evil would know no bounds.
Without an American presence to temper its decisions, the Human
Rights
Commission has continued its downward spiral of propagating policies
inimical to a true understanding of human rights.
Soon after banishing the United States, the Commission proceeded to
bar
non-governmental organizations such as the Family Research Council
and the
Simon Weisenthal Center from providing input regarding the work of the
Commission because of the practice of these associations to speak out
against atrocities around the world.
According to the May 17, 2001 Washington Times, it is becoming
increasingly difficult for such watchdog organizations to get the
bureaucratic clearance necessary to participate in UN forums and
meetings. Joanna Weschler of Human Rights Watch points out in the
article that repressive governments have been emboldened to deny the
right petition to organizations opposed to the totalitarian style of
administration since Sudan successfully banished the abolitionist
Christian Solidarity International from participating at UN functions
nearly two years ago.
Unless America stands its ground, things will only get worse. According
to
the radio news program "Point of View with Marlin Maddoux", UN
"peacekeepers" in Sudan threatened to use helicopter gunships on
missionaries trying to deliver Bibles to Christian refuges in that
beleaguered country. Perhaps such military force should be brought to
bear
against Sudan's radical Islamic government when that regime decides to
drop
bombs as it has done in the past on Samaritan's Purse hospitals, the
relief
organization administered by Billy Graham's son Franklin.
These outrages are nothing compared to what the UN has in store for the
world in general and America in particular if the institution could ever
avail itself of such an opportunity.
For example, it is the ultimate goal of the United Nations to establish an
independent standing army financed through taxation extracted from all
international commercial transactions. And with the threat of force, even
nations who might otherwise oppose such globalist nonsense could
eventually
be forced to comply or face military occupation, with their citizens
subject to the same kinds of laws governing the most brutal nations of
earth.
It is therefore imperative for the United States to remain active within
the United Nations for the time being if for no other reason than to try
and hold this Hobbesian leviathan at bay along with its proposals of
perdition.
It would do good indeed for the United States to disentangle itself from
the snares set by these world bodies whose intentions stretch far
beyond
the aversion of global war and the maintenance of amicable relations
between nations. However, the United States must not leave the table
with
its back turned to such a den of cutthroats and vipers. The United
States,
not the United Nations, must be the last one standing on the world
stage in
reference to this planetary showdown.
In the movie "Star Wars", immediately prior to entering the scene in the
sleazy bar Obi-Wan Kenobi said, "You'll never find a more wretched hive
of
scum and villainy. We must be cautious." Such words of wisdom are
quite
apropos regarding America's relationship to the United Nations.
© 2001 by Frederick B. Meekins
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