The
idea for the United Nations was birthed in London England in 1941 with the inter-allied
Declaration for free nations to work together. On August 14, 1941 President
Roosevelt & Prime Minister Winston Churchill proposed a set of principles
for peace & security known as the Atlantic Charter. Later 26 Allied nations
fighting against the Axis Powers pledged their support for the Atlantic Charter
by signing the “Declaration by United Nations.” In the spring of
1945 delegates from fifty nations adopted a charter that later formed the United
Nations of today. The concept for the United Nations was to settle disputes
without going to war and the concept was good. But, as in the case of so many
organizations that started out good but later turned out to be corrupted, so
it is with the U.N.
Most people are
familiar with the “U.N. oil-for-food scandal.” The idea was to allow
Saddam Hussein to use Iraqi oil to feed the Iraqi people. But as it turned out,
bribes, greed & corruption took over. Many Iraqi people were left to starve
while Saddam Hussein was putting millions in his pocket and corrupt companies
mainly from Russia, Germany and France were putting billion in their pocket
and corrupt U.N. official were making million in kickbacks. That’s why
the United Nations didn’t want America to go to war with Hussein. They
were making billions of dollars with his corrupt regime and Hussein owed them
billion more they didn’t want to lose.
More
recently, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was appointed to look
into the U.N.-run Iraqi oil for-food program. Volcker’s report found U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan’s son Kojo was employed by a company that
had been given a large oil-for-food contract which was a conflict of interest
and a violation of U.N. policy. Volcker’s report found that not only had
Kofi Annan been looking the other way concerning the corruption of his son’s
illegal operation but that there was a pattern of looking the other way. In
a recent survey, two thirds of U. N. employees admitted being a part of unethical
conduct and when seeing others involved in wrong doing, they did nothing. It
has become common place for U. N. staff members to receive kickbacks in exchange
for keeping their month shut and eyes closed.
According to an
article in a recent U.S. News and World Report, “a staff member at the
U.N.’s Geneva office was allowed early retirement after he was found viewing
child pornography on his office computer.” Some U.N. officials guilty
of sexual harassment and child pornography were allowed to continue at their
post until the pressure from the media forced them to resign. The same article
pointed out that other U.N. peacekeepers who have committed serious crimes,
such as, rape were just allowed to go home as punishment for their crime. Auditors
say serious allegations against U.N. peacekeepers are getting worse. Sexual
exploitation of young refugee girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on
the rise and peacekeepers are bribing the victims with food. These wrong doers
are not punished, they just keep their jobs and continue their criminal ways.
There is basically no training for new employees, promotions are based on who
you know, not what you know, and it is nearly impossible to fire anybody for
anything. Even if they are fired it takes two to three year to do it. And the
criminals keep getting paid. The system is corrupt. Many employees are hired
for positions they know nothing about and paid big money just because they happen
to know the right person. There is little if any background check, no accountability
and resumes are found to be full of lies. The deadwood staff workers are so
entrench that the honest staffers become so frustrated that some just quit.
The U.N. has become an example of the fruits of Political Correctness and unrestrained
liberalism.
So
what can America do? For one thing stop supporting Kofi Annan and this corrupt
organization with tax payer’s money, however, that’s not likely
to happen any time soon. However, the one thing that would help now, would be
for liberals in the U.S. Senate to stop blocking the confirmation of John Bolton
as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. The liberals have manufactured
a hatchet job on trumps up charges against Bolton. They have developed unsubstantiated
accusations produced from the liberal swear machine. Bolton is a straight shooter
and is just the right person to shine the spot light on the corruption that
has enveloped the U.N. over the last several years. But the problem goes deeper
than just the corrupt official that runs the world organization. According to
Nancy Soderberg, who represented the United States in the U.N. Security Council
during President Clinton’s second term, “half of the 191 member
states don’t want reform and don’t want democracy?”
Even
though U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is on record of saying the United States
is “one of the least generous” countries in the world, the United
States actually gives more money to the U.N. than nearly all the other countries
combined, and for all that money we give we get very little in return. There
are 62,000 U.N. employees, and only 7% are Americans and worst of all, seventy
five percent of the U.N. member countries have voted against the United States
at least half of the time. Some are calling for the United States to get out
of the U.N. and let that corrupt world body reap the consequences of its own
deeds. Of course, if that were to happen, the liberals in Congress and in the
media would go bananas, because their goal for America is that we not pull out
but get more involved, put more money into it by mandating a U.N. Income Tax
and force all Americans to pay into it. Also, they would prefer that we overlook
the corruption, relinquish our national sovereignty, give up our freedom of
religion and subjugate our Constitution to the United Nations authority. Let’s
pray for common sense to win out and that it never happens, also call 1-202-224-3121
and ask both Senators to do all they can to confirm John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador.