Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Get the U.S. out of the U.N.!

I remember when I lived in West Texas from 1958 to 1964, and The John Birch Society used to put up billboards demanding that the American people get the U.S. out of the U.N. Well, since that time, the U.N. has increasingly become a nightmare for the U.S., as it has become increasingly controlled by the likes of Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Iran-chaired Non-Aligned Movement, and other bastions of freedom, like China and Russia. When will we get a political party in America that says "Enough?"

Claudia Rosett writes this week at PJ Media that the totalitarians are having a conference in Dubai this week to try to regulate, tax and censor the Internet. The conference is being sponsored by the International Communications Union (ITU), which is the same group that was one of the UN agencies tasked to deliver humanitarian relief to the people of Iraq, in this case by way of developing the telecommunications system. What was the result of those efforts? Rosett writes, "The result? As the Volcker inquiry reported, on Sept. 7, 2005: “While ITU spent less than $900,000 of Programme funds for humanitarian aid and services during the Programme, it spent more than $10 million in administrative costs.” Read more here: http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/un-and-internet-cautionary-tale/

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