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UN Deputy Secretary Slams American People!
U.N. Deputy Secretary Mark Malloch Brown has slammed the American people in a speech given at an even sponsored by the leftist organizations Progress for America and the Century Foundation.
Fortunately, the Century Foundation has made a transcript of the speech available for download.
In his opening remarks, Brown said:
I am going to give what might be regarded as a rather un-UN speech. Some of the themes--that the United Nations is misunderstood and does much more than its critics allow--are probably not surprising. But my underlying message, which is a warning about the serious consequences of a decades-long tendency by US Administrations of both parties to engage only fitfully with the UN, is not one a sitting United Nations official would normally make to an audience like this.But I feel it is a message that urgently needs to be aired. And as someone who has spent most of his adult life in this country, only a part of it at the UN, I hope you will take it in the spirit in which it is meant: as a sincere and constructive critique of U.S. policy towards the UN by a friend and admirer. Because the fact is that the prevailing practice of seeking to use the UN almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable. You will lose the UN one way or another.
I don’t think the United Nations is misunderstood. I believe most American’s understand that the United Nations is a failure, rife with corruption, and hungry to implement a global government under its direct control.
The UN was set up as a great deliberative body, designed to allow countries to get together and sort out their differences in the hopes of averting war. Since its formation, there have been some 150 NEW wars in the world. That is not a very good track record for an organization set up to foster global peace.
He claims the U.S. is failing to standup against domestic critics (he names Rush Limbaugh and Fox News in his speech), which I would guess that my current writing makes me one of; yet fails to mention that in our great country we enjoy the right of freedom of speech. Many member nations in the UN do not have the freedom of speech.
Here’s another choice clip:
The U.S.--like every nation, strong and weak alike--is today beset by problems that defy national, inside-the-border solutions: climate change, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, migration, the management of the global economy, the internationalization of drugs and crime, the spread of diseases such as HIV and avian flu. Today’s new national security challenges basically thumb their noses at old notions of national sovereignty. Security has gone global, and no country can afford to neglect the global institutions needed to manage it.
Climate change is being used as a geo-political football to push a socialist-environmental agenda that is based on bad science. Global climate change has been going on since the Earth formed, with cycles of ice ages and hot houses. As recently as a thousand years ago, citrus was farmed in Mongolia, but now it is too frigid for such fruit trees. The Earth’s average temperature is still several degrees below the measured mean average computed from a variety of core samples (see Edmund Contoski’s paper on climate change). Climate change I a scientific fact, and there isn’t anything that can be done to change that fact, not even if we went back to the age of living like cavemen.
International terrorism is also a problem; so long as the U.S. continues to fail in securing its borders, there will be a continued threat against America. And then there is the homegrown variety to deal with. Just as bad. However, if our government takes it seriously (and I believe it does) it can be dramatically reduced.
The spread of HIV can be eliminated by people abstaining from you-know-what until they are married, and then maintain a monogamous marriage. But that is unpopular with the cult of hedonism.
Jimmy Carter hamstrung the nuclear energy industry in the U.S. in the name of non-proliferation, by ending the practice of reprocessing nuclear fuel rods for further use. It failed in its goal of preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Not only that, it is because of Carter (who brokered the deal) and the Clinton administration that the world now faces a nuclear armed North Korea. And where was the UN to prevent that from happening?
International crime (and drugs)…I have yet to see the UN do anything in this respect. Could it be a secret, or is it because so many countries involved on the production side of the illicit drug trade are corrupt in nature, and are members of the UN.
Many of these issues can be addressed by securing our borders and enforcing our laws; some, like the proliferation of nuclear arms cannot be averted by any means. If a country wants to build a bomb, they will find the means to do so.
And let’s not forget that the Human Rights Council has many countries like Libya on it, where human rights violations are considered the norm. Yet consider the U.S. a great violator of human rights. Go figure.
The list of failures goes on and on, like a bad novel. Only it’s real, and scary. I don’t believe reform is sufficient to cure the sickness and corruption that has taken hold of the UN. It should go the way of the League of Nations, one more good intentioned deliberative body, that failed to live up to expectations