The United Nations was originally created to help nation-
states facilitate the peaceful resolution of international
disputes. However, the United Nations has moved from advocating
diplomacy among nation-states to replacing them altogether.
The international elite running the United Nations look at
the idea of the nation-state with disdain. They consider the
nation-sate an anachronism. The international elite even believe
that nation-states should leave their sovereignty at the door of
the United Nations and recognize the primacy of global interests
in this distorted vision of the new world order, the self-
anointed international elite would like each sovereign nation to
bow to the altar of the Security Council and accede to UN
sovereignty.
Although the Clinton Administration has not quite learned
the lesson yet, political leaders in Asia, Europe and Latin
America are belatedly recognizing the destructive effects of
central bureaucracies and state-controlled economic activities.
Those leaders are fighting uphill battles. They have discovered
that once established, bureaucracies and their aid addicted
constituencies are nearly impossible to overcome.
While sovereign states are attempting to dismantle their
bureaucracies, the virus of centralization is spreading at a
global level via the United Nations. Just as the Washington blob
has strangled the United States economy to such an extent that
its best and brightest are leaving the country, the UN
bureaucracy is beginning to establish a beachhead on the
international stage.
We must protect ourselves from the development of one world
government. In the same way that we encourage competition among
business enterprises to prevent the disastrous effects of
monopolization, we must recognize that Adam Smith's invisible
hand also applies to sovereign states. Competition among nations
places a check on the ability of governments to impose unjust
laws and oppressive taxation by self-appointed elite. When one
nation like the United States goes too far in its destruction of
individual liberties, we should be thankful that there still
exist countries that allow those freedoms to be practiced. Under
one world government, that opportunity would not exist.
About the author
Marc M. Harris is the President of
The Harris Organisation, a financial planning and investment management firm
with a staff of 150 people in Panama. Reprinted from
The Marc M Harris Analysis, a publication of
The Harris Organisation. The Libertarian Library has reprinted this article with the permission of
The Marc M Harris Analysis.
Copyright © 1996 by Marc M. Harris
