Posted by
Katherine Harms on Saturday, June 07, 2008 9:16:22 AM
The elections and their overflow have captivated the attention of voters so intensely that many of the real issues are lost. We worry about who said what and who apologized or didn't. We worry about manner of dress, or facial expressions. We analyze handshakes and parse speeches. We are so busy analyzing what politicians say that we allow them to tell us what to be concerned about instead of telling them what to be concerned about. The UN is a case in point.
I read this week that the UN has appointed itself the population czar. Apparently, it is no longer politically correct to have children without the permission of the UN. This organization has demonstrated its care and concern for all mankind by scarfing up as much money as it can extract from gullible countries without producing any helpful outcomes whatsoever. The UN, what a dream it was -- a forum for all nations to settle their differences by means of polite, intellectual discourse. What a flop it has become.
I am appalled to think that anyone anywhere would allow the UN to dictate anything. This attitude, of course, flies in the face of demands by Congress that we work with the UN on all our international issues, but then I don't have much use for Congress, either. The UN has become a place where autocrats who oppress and defraud their own nations send representatives to oppress and defraud all the rest of us.
That is why I completely reject the idea that the UN should tell anyone how many children to have. China was the first nation in modern times to instigate national birth control. It has proved to be a completely unmanageable policy. The recent terrible earthquake brought to light the fact that this policy fundamentally disenfranchises unauthorized children born to families who choose to ignore the "one child" rule, and the fact that the government has given its permission to people who lost their one authorized child in the earthquake to register another one in its place does not change the truth that the government has tyrranized people with this rule. Imagine the administrative nightmare if the UN got its way and we had to deal with the UN after such a disaster anywhere.
Politicians do not solve problems. They only invent new bureaucracies which they can use to extract money and power from the people they oppress. Whether the politicians "serve" in a national government or in the UN, it is the same. Problems are actually solved by lonely thinkers and tinkerers who are willing to ask "what if....?" Politicians only ask where the money can be found.
Today it appears that Barack Obama and John McCain will duke it out in the battle to be President of the United States. I can't think when a more unappealing pair of politicians ran for this high office. I can't think when I contemplated my vote with more distaste. However, when the time comes, if these are still my only choices, I will vote for McCain. At least there is a shred of hope that conservative Republicans can influence him to stand up for the USA and the Constitution. Obama is such a committed socialist, dare I even say Marxist, that as president, he could do irreparable damage to our country.
Instead of letting these two men sell us agendas that only mean our income will be looted ever more heavily to support ever greater bureacracies that solve no old problems and only create new ones, we need to demand that they address our concerns. One of my big concerns is that we need to pull the plug on the UN and prevent it from looting our national treasure and preeminence any longer. We need to demand that our presidential candidates commit to withholding any further payments to the UN until all the other nations have caught up on theirs. Since that won't happen in this lifetime, our huge donations to the UN can be applied to real national problems in years to come. We must not let the UN have authority over anything. Our presidential candidates must stand up for personal freedom to bear children or not, and that means shutting down the UN and its illegal hegemony over the world.