Corruption At The United Nations
By Tom Barrett (12/14/04)
I have long believed that the United Nations is the most dangerous organization on our planet. The corruption that has been revealed there over the last few years has only reinforced my opinion. Now it is becoming apparent that the rampant corruption at the UN starts at the very top.
More than any thing, the UN is a savagely anti-United States propaganda outlet. It is made up primarily of nations that hate or are jealous of the US. These include Communist and Socialist nations, nations ruled by ruthless dictators, and various banana republics and third-world nations. These nations can’t run themselves without US aid, and therefore have no business being members of an organization that wants to run the world.
Which idiots decided years ago to give the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics a seat on the Security Council with veto power over every major decision of the body? The same idiots that allowed Russia to take over that seat after the USSR collapsed and proved that Communism and Socialism are failed concepts.
Most of the member nations of the UN receive billions of dollars of US aid, but they take every opportunity to revile us and curse us for not giving them more! They pass resolutions opposing almost everything we do as a nation, except of course when we give them money that we should be using for our own people.
Of course we have allies in the UN, but they are far outnumbered by the US-haters. All of which begs the question: Why are we still members of the corrupt organization that hates everything we stand for? Further, why do we, one of almost two hundred member nations, continue to allow ourselves to be extorted into providing over half of the budget of the UN?
I do not have the time or space to detail all of the transgressions of the UN, but I have provided an extensive list of articles below which you can use as a starting point for your own research. If you do just a little searching, you will find thousands of documents on the Internet which prove beyond any doubt that the UN is corrupt from the very lowest to the very highest levels, and that it has never been in the interest of the US to be a member of the UN.
I will mention just a few of the items which are explored in detail in the Internet Research section below:
The Iraq Oil for Food Program was corrupted from the very beginning by Saddam Hussein with the full knowledge and consent of highly placed UN officials. Billions of dollars intended to feed poor Iraqis were used to bribe UN officials and heads of state of member nations, including people closely linked to Secretary General Kofi Annan and France’s Jacques Chirac.
The chief investigator for the accounting firm KPMG (which is investigating the scandal) is Claude Hankes-Drielsma. He sent a scathing letter sent to Kofi Annan on March 3, 2004, in which he called the U.N. program "one of the world's most disgraceful scams," and said that "based on the facts as I know them…the U.N. failed in its responsibility to the Iraqi people and the international community at large."
Kojo Annan, the Secretary General’s son, has for years been getting kickbacks from companies which received illegal funds from the Oil for Food Program. The kickbacks only stopped last February, when the scandal became public.
The UN held its international conference on AIDS in Thailand. This is very ironic, since trading in illicit sex is a major part of the economy of Thailand.
Another irony was when the UN removed the US from the Human Rights Commission, allegedly because our nation mistreats blacks. Our seat on that Commission was given to the Sudan, which is probably the worst human rights offender of any nation. The Sudan, a Muslim nation, sells Christians into slavery. Government soldiers are allowed to rape and torture Christians in the Sudan simply because they are Christians.
Security Council members France, Germany and Russia blocked resolution after resolution that would have allowed the UN to deal with Saddam Hussein before he had the time to hide or destroy his weapons of mass destruction. Why would they do such a thing? For two reasons. First, because these nations were making billions by selling WMD’s and materials to make them to Saddam. Second, because Saddam paid millions of dollars stolen from the Oil for Food Program (which was administered by the UN) to officials of those nations to influence their votes.
The UN is investigating itself regarding the Oil for Food Program. And it is using millions of dollars of money siphoned from the program to finance the investigation! The new Iraqi government is crying out that it is bad enough that the UN mismanaged the program so badly that billions were stolen from needy Iraqis. Now it is using money that belongs to Iraq for an “investigation” that will surely turn out to be a whitewash of the entire affair.
Fears that that will be the case have caused Congress to initiate its own investigation of Oil for Food. But Kofi Annan has repeatedly blocked the United Nations from receiving the documents that it needs to investigate the scandal – even though the US contributes the lion’s share of the budget of the UN.
UN ambulances have been used by Palestinian terrorists to transport gunmen and weapons for raids against Israel. This has been reported for some time, but last May videotape was taken clearly showing Palestinian terrorists piling into a UN ambulance to escape after murdering Israelis. At first the UN denied this, but after the video was aired, they claimed the ambulance drivers were forced to help the terrorists. No explanation was given for why the incident was not reported until after the video was broadcast. By the way, documentation for this incident and the others mentioned in this article can be found in the inks below.
UN funds are used to fund programs that most Americans would find repugnant. These include forced sterilization programs in Communist China and abortion programs worldwide. Keep in mind that most UN funds are actually YOUR tax dollars.
Finally, Kofi Annan recently cleared Ruud Lubbers, the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees of charges of sexual harassment after a woman on his staff claimed she had been groped by the ageing Dutch former Prime Minister. The only problem is that after Annan cleared his friend, embarrassed UN officials were forced to admit that the UN’s own investigation by the Office of Internal Oversight Services (an internal watchdog) had verified the woman's allegations in a report to Annan.
I could detail hundreds of other examples of corruption in the UN in general and the Secretary General’s office in particular, but I’m sure you get the picture. We as a nation have no business supporting an organization which does not share our values, which stabs us in the back at every opportunity, and which is a leech on our economy. Not only do we provide the vile palace which houses this corrupt organization on our own soil, but we contribute more money to it than most other nations combined.
This is my solution to the United Nations problem:
1) Withhold ALL US contributions to the UN until Kofi Annan is removed, the corruption is rooted out, and the UN cooperates completely with the investigations of the US Congress.
2) Evict all UN bureaucrats from their New York headquarters and use it as a homeless shelter.
3) Make all member nations contribute their fair share of the costs of running the UN based on the Gross National Product. We have been carrying this organization on the backs of the US taxpayer for far too long.
4) Place a provision in the UN Charter that precludes it from engaging in any military operations. We have NATO for that, and anyway the UN has been a total failure in every operation in which they been engaged.
Actually, forget all that. I have a better solution. Quit the UN and start a new organization with nations that share our values. We can call it Nations That Believe in Freedom and Democracy and Will Wipe the Floor With Any Nation That Messes With Us (NTBFDWWFWANTHWU for short).
INTERNET RESEARCH:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38040
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040510-122650-7025r.htm
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110005060
http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=232593
http://www.krg.org/docs/articles/wsj-anan-son-must-go-986-scandal-dec04.asp
http://www.krg.org/986/index.asp
http://www.davekopel.org/Media/RMN/2004/Possibly-big-UN-scandal-slighted.htm
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/006913.php
http://forums.dealofday.com/showthread.php?t=149422
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=37784
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