Fight Terrorism - Get US out! of the United Nations

"Syria won a seat on the U.N. Security Council ... with overwhelming global support and no opposition from the United States, despite its prominent position on the U.S. list of nations sponsoring terrorism."

- Associated Press
October 8, 2001

Undisguised Anti-Americanism

Secretary of State Colin Powell, addressing a nationwide "town meeting" on October 11, 2001, insisted that the United Nations "is at the center" of the global alliance against terrorism. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan insists that only the leadership of the world organization can provide "global legitimacy for the long-term response to terrorism."

Criminologist Harvey Kushner, a professor at Long Island State university and a widely respected analyst of terrorism, has a very different view. Professor Kushner compares the role of the UN to that of Afghanistan's Taliban government in sheltering Osama bin Laden: "The UN provides cover [for terrorism] almost the same way the Taliban does.... It serves as the laboratory, the linchpin for legitimizing incendiary rhetoric" against the United States.

In fact, just prior to the Black Tuesday attack upon our nation, UN Secretary-General Annan was in Durban, South Africa, to attend a UN world conference on "racism" - an event that proved to be an orgy of undisguised anti-Americanism. Delegates from scores of Arab and other Third World dictatorships and terrorist states vilified the United States and the West and demanded "reparations" for slavery. Among the nations demanding slave reparations was Sudan, a northern African nation where slavery is still practiced. (Sudan is also a notorious sponsor of international terrorism.)

The Durban conference was hosted by South African President Thabo Mbeki, a former leader of the African National Congress (ANC), a communist-dominated terrorist group. During the 1980s the ANC slaughtered thousands of black South Africans through a tactic called "necklacing": ANC thugs would bind the victim's hands with barbed wire, force him to drink gasoline, place a gasoline-filled tire around his neck, and then set him on fire. While the victim dies a gruesome, prolonged death, his murderers would mock and taunt him.

Since the ANC came to power in South Africa, that once-prosperous land has been overrun with crime, corruption, and racial violence, driving South Africans of all racial backgrounds out of the country or behind barricades of "gated communities." Yet Annan - Presumably speaking on behalf of the "world community" - described the ANC's South Africa as "a beacon of enlightenment ... for the entire world" and praised the ANC terrorists themselves as a "heroic movement."

Trojan Horse in America

Annan has also been generous in his praise for Fidel Castro's Cuba, a grim Communist dictatorship that is on the State Department's roster of terrorist-sponsoring governments. During an April 2000 summit in Havana, Annan insisted that Castro's regime has "set an example we can all learn from."

Indeed, Castro's regime typifies many of the governments represented in the UN General Assembly. Cuba, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Syria, Libya, Namibia, Angola, Sudan, Vietnam, Cambodia - these dictatorships and scores of others were brought to power through terrorism and support the international terrorist network whose murderous handiwork was seen in the Black Tuesday attack.

In early 2001, the U.S. received a slap in the face when it was voted off the UN's Human Rights Commission. The Commission's membership includes such supposed champions of individual rights as Lybia, Sudan and Communist China. On October 8, 2001, nearly one month after the attack upon the World Trace Center and the Pentagon, the General Assembly elected Syria - a notorious terrorist state - to a seat on the Security Council, which is supervising the "war on terrorism." This is typical of the UN's institutional approach to "solving" the problem of international terrorism.

As the horrible events of September 11th unfolded before our eyes, one television anchorman expressed relief that the UN Headquarters Building had been spared. That comment provoked Canadian journalist Mark Steyn to remark: "Why would the guys who took out the World Trade Center and Pentagon want to target the UN? The UN is dominated by their apologists...."

For decades, the UN has acted as a platform for anti-American rhetoric and a staging base for terrorism, espionage, and subversion by our foreign enemies. Far from providing "legitimacy" for global anti-terrorism efforts, the UN has been the international terrorist network's Trojan horse within our borders.

In the Old West, Sheriffs didn't recruit cattle rustlers into their posses. Honest law enforcement officers haven't enlisted the mafia in the struggle against organized crime. it makes just as little sense for our leaders to turn to the UN for help in the war on terrorism.

Why risk the lives of American fighting men on distant battlefields if we are going to allow the international terrorist network to maintain a beachhead within our own shores? If we are serious about winning the war on terrorism, as essential step should be to get our nation out of the United Nations, and to expel that organization from our country.

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The Bush administration’s compliance reports to a new Security Council committee show the extent to which we are now willing to let the United Nations dictate terms to us.

How Best to Achieve Justice? - February 25, 2002
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Terrorism’s True Roots - December 3, 2001
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