January 10, 2003

Via those lovely lads over at Samizdata, comes this link to a terrific site The UN is Evil where their byword is: "The United Nation's mission is not world peace between sovereign nations, but the establishment of a global collectivist dictatorship."
There, at the top of the page, they quote the ever prescient and sage Ayn Rand (one of my personal idols):

There is no margin for error about a monstrosity that was created for the alleged purpose of preventing wars by uniting the world against any aggressor, but proceeded to unite it against any victim of aggression. The expulsion of a charter member, the Republic of China [Taiwan]—an action forbidden by the U.N.'s own Charter—was a 'moment of truth,' a naked display of the United Nations' soul. "What was Red China's qualification for membership in the U.N.? The fact that her government seized power by force, and has maintained it for twenty-two years by terror. What disqualified Nationalist China [Taiwan]? The fact that she was a friend of the United States.  It was against the United States that all those beneficiaries of our foreign aid were voting at the U.N. It was hatred of the United States and the pleasure of spitting in our face that they were celebrating, as well as their liberation from morality—with savages, appropriately, doing jungle dances in the aisles.— AYN RAND

So when Kofi Annan gives a pass to Iraq for having no "sign" of WMDs and blows off the NorKs' nuclear proliferation as "negotiable" and condemns Israel for defending her own territory and citizens, keep these thoughts in the front of your mind!