The United Nations Conspiracy to Destroy America. Michael Benson
a “model UN General Assembly” that was put on by the Philadelphia regional high schools at the University of Pennsylvania. When the Security Council convened in its temporary headquarters at Lake Success, New York, to deal with the outbreak of a war in Korea in June 1950, he watched the proceedings on the TV set, with a ten-inch screen, that his father had bought a few years earlier. He felt proud of the United States and the UN for rallying to the plight of the free people of South Korea who were being overrun by a horde of invaders from Communist North Korea.
Not long after the UN moved into its permanent location on New York City’s First Avenue, on land donated by John D. Rockefeller, Jeffers joined other students for a guided tour of the headquarters and saw the Security Council chamber on the ground floor of the impressive and imposing forty-story office building and the General Assembly’s auditorium beneath the dome of an adjoining structure with a majestic sloping roof.
In 1964, as a reporter for ABC Radio News, Jeffers occasionally covered UN meetings and observed public and private expressions of animosity toward the United States because of the conflict in Vietnam, which was labeled by many Third World countries as a colonial war.
The United States was also faulted, he recalled, by Arab nations for its support of Israel. No other issue before the UN, he noticed, contributed more to anti-American sentiment than the conflict between the Arab states and the Jewish state.
Dividing Palestine
Despite a UN decision in 1947 to divide the postwar British mandate in Palestine between Jews and Arabs, an increase in UN membership of Muslim nations resulted in a UN resolution that Zionism, which called for the creation of Israel, was racism.
It was this declaration that turned the UN from its role as a champion of peaceful relations between nations to a pro-Arab body. Because Israel could not survive without American support, the United States was seen not only as an obstacle to Arab desires to eliminate Israel, but as an imperialistic power that was the bulwark of capitalism and a roadblock to worldwide Socialism.
Cold War Fractures
This bulwark or roadblock view flourished as the UN membership list expanded in the decades since World War II, and the globe fractured during the Cold War into three blocs—nations allied with the United States (the West), the Soviet Union and its satellites, and the “uncommitted nations,” many of them part of the Third World.
In the post–Cold War era, there was a realignment, and there was a brief euphoric period during which the United States thought its number one enemy was whipped. As it turned out, a new enemy, a slithering and insidious foe not bound by the laws of civilized man, emerged. It was an enemy willing to attack women and children and to hit and run. It was an enemy made strong and united by an extremist interpretation of Islam.
Through an ongoing process, the UN developed into a force that hoped to tip the scale from Right to Left, from West to Middle East, from First to Third World.
A 1986 investigation requested by Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Arlen Specter by the General Accounting Office (now called the Government Accountability Office) confirmed that the UN’s public information operations were biased against the United States. A content analysis of materials produced by the UN’s Department of Public Information (DPI) found that publications and radio and TV programs frequently opposed key U.S. interests, discussed U.S. policies in a biased manner, and distorted or ignored U.S. purposes at the UN.
Not What FDR Had in Mind
All of this would have come as a shock to the idealistic American president who reportedly envisioned the United States leading the UN into an epoch of world peace and prosperity. In letters dated February 28, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited wartime allies to send delegates to “the United Nations Conference” in San Francisco on April 25, 1945.
He wrote, with his usual run-on abandon, “I feel certain that this important conference bringing together all the United Nations which have so loyally cooperated in the war against their common enemies will successfully complete the plans for an international organization through which the close and continuing collaboration of all peace-loving peoples may be directed toward the prevention of future international conflict and the removal of the political, economic, and social causes of war. I am confident that as a member of the delegation, you would effectively contribute to the realization of the hopes and aspirations of the American people for an international organization through which this nation may play its full part in the maintenance of international peace and security.”
Because FDR felt the United States shouldn’t belong to any organization it could not control, he made certain that the United States would have veto power in the Security Council, along with the other major powers during World War II—Great Britain, Russia, France, and China.
When representatives of the fifty nations convened in San Francisco to complete the Charter of the United Nations, the result was the establishment of a General Assembly of all member states and a Security Council of five permanent members (with veto power), and six nonpermanent members.
The Charter provided for an eighteen-member Economic and Social Council, an International Court of Justice (ICJ), a Trusteeship Council to oversee certain colonial territories, and a Secretariat under a secretary-general.
The U.S. Senate approved the Charter on July 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2. The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945, after twenty-nine nations had ratified the Charter.
Notice, in FDR’s world, enemy nations simply were not invited to the party. In 2010, almost seven decades later, the UN consisted of 192 members, almost all of whom had shown antagonism to American policies and resentment toward U.S. economic power.
Roosevelt did not anticipate that the UN’s membership would expand through the admission of scores of small, poor nations, few of which were true democracies, nor did he anticipate that the General Assembly would become imbued with far more influence than intended and that the lavishly decorated public rooms, delegate lounges, private chambers for “consultations,” ambassadorial offices, and nearby restaurants and cocktail bars would become incubators for anti-American conspiracies.
Good Public Relations
America was slow on the uptake when it came to the foul mess the UN had turned into. The UN’s utopian vision appealed to schoolteachers, and the benevolence of the UN was taught in every public school in America. The UN was a symbol for humankind’s high evolutionary state, proof that we as a people were more sophisticated than we’d ever been before. But it was a lie.
In some special UN schools, students were taught that the UN was God. And that was a big lie, one we’ll get into in depth later on in the chapter titled “International Baccalaureate.”
By 1999 journalists were beginning to get the word out. The UN liked to paint itself with a halo over its head. A closer examination always revealed budding horns.
Hotbed for Communists
Some journalists did not believe that the UN started out okay but turned evil. Some thought the UN had been engaging in a reign of terror since its birth. The UN’s founders were communists, it was said. The seventeen American men behind the UN’s creation were later found to be members of the Communist Party USA. The UN’s first secretary-general, Alger Hiss, was later discovered to be a Soviet agent. The UN’s secretary-generals over the years were all linked to socialism or communism. When it came to the big decisions, the communists usually won the vote. Even the American employees at the UN were socialists. Red-blooded Americans who were aware of the facts saw the UN as an enemy entity right from the start. Barry Goldwater, the Republican senator and 1964 presidential candidate, said that considering the makeup of the UN, perhaps it would be better if its headquarters were moved out of New York to Moscow or Peking where it belonged.
Enemy of National Sovereignty
The UN, with it utopian vision, didn’t believe in countries and borders. It was okay if they took down some of the borders in Europe and elsewhere, established international currency like the Euro, but they seemed to think that American borders didn’t matter either—and that was where they crossed