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King Solomon once said that there is nothing new under the sun. That is certainly the case when we consider the many scandals involving the sex, violence, and corruption associated with the United Nations’ peacekeeping operations.
What strikes me as most ironic about the UN is the fact that this thoroughly corrupt organization has the audacity to hold itself up as the moral authority for the rest of the world. The UN purports to support and even guarantee universal human rights for all of mankind, but in reality it betrays, exploits, and victimizes those very people whom it most solemnly pledges to protect.
This sad truth is, of course, obvious in the many dehumanizing UN actions that diminish rather than expand the human rights and freedoms (as well as the individual dignity and worth) of the people with whom the UN must interact on the basic local level. But the UN’s elitist attitude is perhaps most succinctly expressed in two phrases that we have recently read: certain sets of people are dismissed as being essentially worthless because they are either “just n———” or “just prostitutes.” This blatant hypocrisy is evident to reasonable people of all political persuasions. Both liberals and conservatives can see that the UN doesn’t deliver on its promises. We may disagree on whether those promises are worthwhile to begin with, but at this point that hardly matters, because we are dealing with a flawed, failed model.
I have sought to establish the fact that the UN today is at heart an arrogant, unaccountable organization—one that is basically out of control— for a very specific reason.
What we have seen, in discussing the failures of various UN peacekeeping missions over the past decade, is that the UN is characterized by corruption, negligence, and incompetence. In the coming chapters we will see how those same characteristics are manifest in every facet of the UN’s operations, whether it be a global environmental policy through its Biosphere Reserves program, the attempt to establish binding international law and worldwide jurisdiction for its International Criminal Court, or the desire to establish a global police state and a UN standing army.
Because the volatile geopolitical situation is becoming increasingly complex and controversial, Americans are taking a renewed interest in the United Nations. However, much of the information now coming to light about the organization reveals a long-standing UN agenda that is at odds with the values and beliefs of most American conservatives—an issue of special concern since US taxpayers supply the lion’s share of the UN’s annual budget.
What is most disturbing to me as an American citizen is the appearance that this fatally flawed and thoroughly corrupt organization really does want to rule the world. Further, there are a lot of very powerful people who agree it should do so and are trying to help it achieve that goal in the very near future.
If you happen to be rolling your eyes in disbelief, that reaction is perfectly understandable. After all, we are conditioned to regard such suggestions as conspiracy theories. However, this idea is anything but absurd, as the following chapters will demonstrate.
The UN strategists and global planners have a very specific agenda designed to accomplish their desired objective. It begins with the subtle indoctrination of our children over time through the outcome-based educational system, a process of dumbing-down and mental conditioning designed to make people think of themselves as citizens of the world rather than patriots of any one nation.
This agenda includes establishing control over our nation’s vast wealth of national resources and private property through a stealth process of environmental regulations imposed by executive fiat without public or congressional approval. It also demands absolute control over 70 percent of the earth’s surface through ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty. It seeks to eliminate the private ownership of firearms and to establish a global police force that can enforce the dictates of an International Criminal Court—a tribunal that is not bound by the protections of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
It also seeks the ability to levy global taxes, so that the UN will no longer be dependent upon the voluntary contributions of its members in order to fund its operations.
Once the United Nations has its own independent source of money, its own court system to declare what is legal and what is not, and its own army to enforce its edicts, it will then be a de facto global government, no matter what it may be called initially.
Those who promote this globalist agenda are very patient. Incrementalists, who know full well that their goals will not be achieved overnight, are confident of ultimate success and content with gradual gains. But the fact is they have been working diligently and patiently for more than sixty years to advance their world government agenda, and we are now entering the endgame on the geopolitical chessboard.
Today the World Federalist Association, the Commission on Global Governance, the United Nations Foundation, the Gorbachev Foundation and Green Cross International, and a host of other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are all working overtime to accomplish their globalist goals. They see world government under the UN as being “the last best hope of the world,” and they see it coming into view. One of the most transparently proglobalist propaganda films of the last decade is the 2005 Universal Pictures release The Interpreter, starring Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman. Actually filmed inside the Security Council and General Assembly chambers of the United Nations building in New York City, this movie clearly intends to tell the world that for all its faults, the UN is the one absolutely essential international organization in the world today, and our only hope for the future.
These people may be sincere, but I believe that they are sincerely wrong. I see their aspirations toward global government as being inherently evil and inimical to the best interests of the United States and the vast majority of its citizens. I believe that our uniquely American system of individual liberty protected by our Constitution is a precious, Godgiven heritage that must be preserved for our children and grandchildren. And I believe that most Americans agree with me.
It is now time for America’s elected leaders to do their jobs and protect America’s interests from the clear and present danger that confronts us. The choice is simple: Either we boldly assert and preserve the national sovereignty of our free country, or we accept the ascension and inevitable authority of a world government over us.
The United States of America is the only nation on earth that can stop the UN’s determined drive to global government, and it is without question in our own best interests to do so. Preservation of our personal liberty and national sovereignty is the only hope that our children will have for a better life in the future.
But we are already very nearly at the point of no return, and most Americans aren’t even aware of the impending danger. This book is a call to immediate action—read its contents very carefully. What you will discover may surprise and anger you.
Over the years, many books have been written on the general theme of one-world government, the new world order, and/or the United Nations. Most of these books have been of an alarmist religious nature, focusing on the allegedly conspiratorial and/or occult forces behind the UN’s global agenda and the push toward global governance. Some have been marginally successful within certain niches of the reading public, but most of them either have been ignored by the mainstream media or dismissed by pompous pundits as the work of right-wing troglodyte conspiracy theorists.
The Beast on the East River touches on some of the same basic facts and ideas contained in those other works, because the facts are irrefutably true. But the primary emphasis of this book is on a commonsense analysis of how the current, generally anti-American agenda of the UN is fundamentally at odds with the values and beliefs of most conservatives in America today. I also intend to offer practical suggestions as to how we should respond to the threat that confronts our nation, in the enlightened self-interest of both our country and our posterity.
There have been a few books written quite recently by authors with impeccable credentials and experience who give some insight into both the operations and the goals of the UN. Most of these books, such as the aforementioned Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, are highly critical of the UN.
Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the UN, has written an insider’s account entitled Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos. Gold argues that the UN is ineffective at preserving peace or impeding terrorism, and that it is also thoroughly corrupt.22 Another book critical of the UN is Inside the Asylum: Why the United Nations and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think, written by former US undersecretary of defense Jed Babbin. He argues that the UN has been infiltrated by terrorist groups and that it openly pursues anti- American policies, all at the expense of the US taxpayers who foot the bill to keep the organization afloat.
By contrast, An Insider’s Guide to the U.N., by Linda Fasulo, presents a pro-UN perspective. A UN correspondent for NBC News, MSNBC, and NPR, Ms. Fasulo is sympathetic to the ever-increasing responsibilities of the UN. According to Publisher’s Weekly, “This book will be a useful source for those seeking in-depth information about one of the international community’s most influential establishments at a time when its role and significance is very much in question.”
That seemingly innocuous statement is both accurate and highly informative. The United Nations is indeed one of the most influential organizations in the world today; its influence is rapidly growing; and its importance as the focal point of the “international community’s” drive toward global governance cannot be underestimated.
However, it is equally true that both the UN’s role and its significance are increasingly being questioned and in some cases challenged by growing numbers of Americans perceptive enough to grasp the logical consequences of this incrementalist international political process, and to be alarmed by it. This book has been written to help legitimately concerned American citizens understand the hard and unpleasant truth about the United Nations, the beast on the East River.