UN
© May 2002 Alicia

666. You've heard about it, right? You've perhaps wondered where a terrifying world leader could come into power? Maybe you've heard the ponderings about a Roman leader and how it relates to the European Union?

Well, I'm not really writing this to talk about that. Unfortunately, they're all valid ideas.

The United Nations is a bad thing because it shouldn't be the superior power to all independant nations. As a matter of fact, July 4th is starting to seem like a farce in this country. Are we free? We're a sovereign nation, and yet the UN can tell us to do what it wants us to do. The UN is not on America's side. Why not say it flat out? The US is the most powerful country in the world. Britain would just as soon bring us down a notch or two or three. Britain tends to hold grudges (I'm not saying that because it sounds interesting: look at Israel and Ireland before you look at us).

The UN is frightening. When we turned US troops over to the UN to do with what they wanted (American citizens, who signed up to fight for America!), that was frightening. When the UN suggested it needed some more American land, that was frightening. When the UN and the EU started rumbling about an International Court, that was frightening (that court is now in effect). As a matter of fact, any time a group of countries start thinking they can make decisions for another, it is reasonably scary. In World War 2, Czechoslovakia was handed over to Hitler in a last-ditch effort to satiate him. Czechoslovakia didn't hand itself over to that madman. In recent years, and with far more force this year, the idea that Israel should be handed over to the Palestinian squatters has been bandied about. (That both of these things involve Jew-haters is no coincidence, but now is not the time for that.)

It's horrifying to think that the US basically created the UN. Apparently, we've created a monster. The intentions were good, but the concept has run away with itself.

Conspiracy!
So there!