In a transaction the Freedom Alliance calls an "investment in ingratitude," the US plans to lend the United Nations - at what for the US would be abominable terms - $1.2 billion to refurbish the UN headquarters in New York City.
Let's look at some background on our loan applicant, shall we?
Two years ago Syria, a totalitarian, terrorist-supporting regime, replaced the US on the UN Human Rights Commission. Libya, whose dictator murdered 270 people in the Lockerbie jet bombing in 1988, was recently elected to chair the commission. Only Canada and Guatemala supported the US in opposing Libya's election; 33 nations voted for Libya, the rest abstained. Human rights violators Vietnam, China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Zimbabwe have been elected to serve on the commission.
Just prior to the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the US's co-chair on the UN Commission on Disarmament was to be Iran, whose 25-year-old, Islamic lunocracy is feverishly working to obtain nuclear weapons for use against Israel and the West, in defiance of the feckless International Atomic Energy Agency.
Since 1964, the UN Security Council has passed 88 resolutions against Israel, the only democracy in the Mideast. The General Assembly has passed more than 400 such resolutions. In 1974 the UN permitted Yasser Arafat to address the General Assembly, armed with a pistol on his hip. Later the UN formed three well-staffed entities to advance the Palestine Liberation Organization's anti-Israel agenda. The UN has never censured any Arab state for actions against Israel or defiance of the 1948 resolution recognizing Israel as a state and UN member.
In 1976 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, upon leaving his role as US ambassador to the UN called it a "theater of the absurd." In December 2003 National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg observed, "You can't have a civil rights organization where Klansmen are welcomed as members; you can't have a softball team where half the players want to play basketball, and you can't have a global organization dedicated to the spread of human rights and democracy with nearly half the members representing barbaric, corrupt regimes."
In spite of multi-billion-dollar US contributions to UN efforts ($3 billion in 2003 alone), in a speech at Notre Dame University, UN Chief Ingrate Kofi Annan called the United States "one of the least generous" countries in the world.
That the US is a member of an organization that has become a weapon of authoritarian regimes is problematic enough. It certainly should not be that organization's stooge financier. The scrapping of the UN and its replacement with a League of Democracies is long overdue. Use our Take Action page to tell President Bush and your representatives to cancel the planned loan and send the UN packing, perhaps to a headquarters in one of those luxurious totalitarian states who now hold so much sway among its membership. I hear Khartoum is lovely this time of year.
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