Originally published 7-09-2001 as “Abolish the United Nations.”
Still relevant today. A history lesson from a land far away and a time long ago.
A 1300 word article that examines some of the reasons why the United States should exit the United Nations. Whatever good the U.N. has accomplished is far outweighed by the threats it represents to freedom and individual rights.
Available for purchase here.
It’s way past time for it to go.
After too many decades of mucking about in the affairs of the world, the moguls of the United Nations are stepping up their efforts to strip you of your rights and your freedoms.
On July 9, 2001, a United Nations sponsored event will continue the assault on your right to defend yourself by using a handgun, rifle, or shotgun. The “United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects” will burn guns in that notoriously victim-disarmament oriented city, New York, as a symbol of their commitment to save us all from ourselves.
The collectivists and statists roaming the halls of the United Nations want to dictate all aspects of gun usage: how they are manufactured, the manner in which they can be sold, and who will be permitted to buy them.
You can bet your bottom dollar that you will not be one of those “sanctioned” to buy or possess those dastardly tools of death, guns. Only the rich, politically connected, or select few leaders will have access to any practical means of self-defense. A case study indicating how this will work can be seen in the disgusting anti-self-defense rhetoric of Senator Diane I’ve-Never-Seen-A-Gun-Control-Law-I-Didn’t-Like Feinstein…who nevertheless has a concealed carry permit.
Oh, yes, just as in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, we’re all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.
One of the first things that United Nations “peace”-keepers do whenever they enter a hot spot is seek to disarm the combatants. After all, they say, all wide-eyed and innocent, the more guns there are, the less safe everyone is!
This nonsense is the same brand of propaganda spewed forth in the lies our own politicians tell. It’s ensconced in the lunacy of “zero tolerance” policies in our government-run schools. It resonates well with the insulated and parochial intellects of so many folks who inhabit the larger cities of this country.
Not everyone buys in to this fairytale, however. In Northern Ireland, for example, the so-called peace accord they are trying to implement is in danger of derailment. The Irish Republican Army is refusing to turn in their weapons. Maybe some of those combatants are familiar with what Fidel Castro’s men told the citizens of Cuba: “Why, you won’t need your guns anymore. Trust us! We’ll protect you…”
Just like that guy in New York City who tried to sell me the deed to this big, old bridge he owned…
What minuscule bits of good the United Nations may have accomplished in its overly-long tenure is vastly overridden by its dogged turtle march towards world dictatorship.
Its so-called “Universal Bill of Rights” (a.k.a., the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) justifies the worst abuses of our politically-correct, welfare state culture, and leads many countries to codify those horrors into the iron-grip of constitutional law. This declaration of “rights” is strikingly similar to the one elucidated by that well-known fascist, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The UBR and FDR both decreed that, among other “positive rights,” people have a “right” to a job; a “right” to a minimum income; and a “right” to housing, medical care, food, clothing, a “free” education, and recreation.
As Ayn Rand said in her essay, “Man’s Rights” ( The Virtue of Selfishness, p. 96), “At whose expense?” (emphasis in original)
The U.N. cloaks in the language of rights a call for the enslavement of the most productive segment of society to the least.
The UBR also calls for enforced “public services”; arbitrary rules to push arbitrarily defined “social and cultural rights”; compulsory, state-determined education; regulation of the mother-child relationship; mandated PC “tolerance” and voiding of free speech; and the explicit subordination of the individual to the “community.”
As can be readily observed, a large percentage of these outrages are already law in this country. In addition to losing your right to keep and bear arms, you will be deprived protection of a laundry list of other rights guaranteed in the Constitution and our own Bill of Rights.
The U.N. is also in the forefront of the eco-fascist movement. Anti-science and anti-progress, the United Nations promotes the elimination of some of the most useful chemicals we have available to us; chemicals that have improved the lifestyles of hundreds of millions of humans around the world.
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