Needless to say, this edition is tardy. It is tardy because I've agonized
over what I might write about this subject that I haven't already shared
with you.

If you know anything about the UN or have been a regular visitor here, you
may appreciate how target-rich an environment it is for those who cherish
their freedoms and national sovereignty. And, by that measure, you may also
resent as deeply as I do that for nearly a century, some of our alleged
"leaders" have sought to diminish those freedoms and destroy that national
sovereignty by attempting to chuck them into the maw of the Manhattan
macerator known as the United Nations.

With some exceptions - the "Police Actions" in Korea and Vietnam among them
- in their good sense and grasp of our traditions, the American people
appear to have, so far, frustrated those efforts. But that may be changing
as the population of this country is consciously being altered for some
short-term political advantage or, more sinisterly, for the longer-term goal
of merging the United States into some cockamamie "New World Order" where
all will be "equal." Can you say "Animal Farm?"

Not content with the huge voluntary American wealth redistribution program -
euphemistically called "foreign aid," there is serious discussion among many
members of the UN to impose a "world tax" on the wealthier nations for
distribution among the poorer member nations. Needless to say, the members
praising the idea are the poorer members. Can you say "FORCED international
wealth redistribution?"

If you have studied the various political systems established throughout
history, you know that many of those poorer nations are poor due to their
failure to adopt systems which reward enterprise and hard work, political
corruption and tyranny or tribalism incited wars which prevent a level of
order compatible with coherent commerce and the creation of wealth at an
individual level. (And, before you head for that "Reply" button, there have
been many examples of colonial exploitation. You must also admit that after
those colonial powers withdrew, progress stifling tribalism, factionalism or
religious hatreds boiled back up in many of those areas and bubble today.)
And if you don't understand that the system of private property and free
enterprise responsible for OUR 240 year success here could be lost, you have
not been paying attention to the words of a disturbing number of the
candidates - of BOTH parties - in the upcoming 2008 election.

If you visit here and find that I am far too negative and have the wrong
take on the United Nations, I sincerely invite you to write me with examples
of POSITIVE news about the UN. In the meantime, I'll simply continue to do what I can to detail the machinations of an organization more and more Americans who have even a
rudimentary grasp of the history of the United States have come to see as a
real threat to liberty not just here but around the world: The United Nations.
Stay tuned for more.