The UN

**** Repost from my blog Several stories, such as the UN Oil for Food scandal and Sex scandals in Africa have developed since.


In principle, I am not opposed to international diplomatic organizations, clearly however, the UN is inept, corrupt and unaccountable. Tom Deweese:

"The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations, petty and tarnished former superpowers and self-ordained special interest groups. Each promotes a socialist agenda that seeks to redistribute the wealth of producers into their coffers as they diminish the power of the United States and enslave the citizens of every nation in a new Dark Age of poverty and misery"

The UN's management of rebuilding Kosavo was a disaster. UN bureaucrats were haughty, indifferent, socialistic and incompetent. Stephen Schwartz writes in UN Go Home:An example:

"In Kosovo, during decades of Serbian domination, the Albanians had established an extraordinary "parallel" school system, in which teachers were paid in clothing, food, transportation, and other goods and services. Kosovo had 28,000 education workers, serving 400,000 students in more than 800 institutions. Children were transported to and from their classes, hot lunches were dispensed, medical personnel were available, and school premises kept clean--all by parents and other volunteers. The teachers, who represented the civic conscience of the Kosovars, looked forward to U.N. expenditures to regularize their schools. They were out of luck. The first action of the international administration in Kosovo was to announce that education must start over from zero."

"Since the U.N. had no money for education, the teachers would be paid in scrip, exchangeable for relief supplies. But first, all janitors, cooks, and nurses were fired. No more milk or hot food would be served; school bus service was shut down. It is no wonder, then, that the streets of Prishtina soon filled with children spending their days out of school, selling cigarettes. Nor was it surprising that in 2002 the first group of public employees to strike against the foreign rulers were schoolteachers.""

Schwartz describes UN employees: "They call themselves "internationals," and are generally young and inexperienced, although the heads of their missions tend to be old and uninterested. They have a strong prejudice against privatization, and too many of those chosen for economic responsibilities hail from Sweden and other countries where statist socialism remains the political religion. "

Lets not forget the UN Oil for Food Scandal. The UN signed off on Saddam's diversion of oil profits from food and medicine for the people of Iraq to the construction of palaces for himself and embargoed weapons. UN officials accepted bribes and Kofi Annan himself signed off on Saddam's spending. Corruption exists at the highest levels of the UN.

And corruption exists at the bottom. The charactor of both higher and lower level UN employees was demonstrated when the cafeteria was looted during a strike of the food service employees. UN higher ups actually encouraged the employees to loot the cafeteria.

Consider, many UN employees were born and raised in third world tyrannies. They left these nations to join the UN to escape their failed countries. How is Kofi Annan, exactly, qualified to lecture the US about how to run our affairs?

This is an organization that incessently tries to impose UN taxes, impugns our soveriegnty, and protects tyrants like Saddam. The Kyoto treaty is a fraud and a bad idea. Unesco is a crime. Its demonstrated ineptitude in Iraq and Kosovo and lets not forget the endless disasters in Africa.

The UN is the last place to look for guidance in any area.

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