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Yet another intellectual demands the US cede its sovereignty to the UN

un-noflagYep, the Association of Undemocratic States and Tinpot Despots who have made it clear that they are there because MO MONEY, MO MONEY, MO MONEY, getting cover for their actions, and oh yeah, hating on Israel. In a piece titled “My Turn: Strengthen the UN“, Ray Perkins Jr (professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Plymouth State University and vice chairman of the Bertrand Russell Society board of directors) seems to be typical of those academicians that went to Germany in the 1880s that brought back that foreign political philosophy that called for a larger, more intrusive government that dismissed the US Constitution – Socialism.  Now, Perkins wants to pick that up a notch and centralize government control even higher – to the UN.  Self-government, representative republic?  Not if the UN is in charge.  And he’s happy as a jay bird in doing so.

…But how dare the U.S. take it out on the U.N.’s meager budget and even threaten member states with financial retaliation. Never mind that the U.N. has denied Israel lawful control of Jerusalem since 1947 (and reaffirmed the original plan for international control many times since, despite Israel’s illegal seizure of control after the 1967 Six-Day War). But in practice the issue in recent years has been a point of contention which the Palestinians have hoped to settle peacefully in forthcoming talks with the Israel. It’s hard not to think that this internationally disapproved action by the U.S. has undermined hopes for peace in the region.

Say, Professor – you left out that Israel has been under attack since 1948.  And contrary to popular Progressive belief, violence does solve problems and answer questions (like it or not). Read the rest but this is what caught my eye (note: he forgets the fundamental rule for “respect”):

 

…We should set to work now to build a stronger U.N. not a weaker one…We must have respect for the U.N. and international law, and the international courts that adjudicates that law. In international matters a nation must be held accountable to an independent, impartial legal authority, not merely to itself.

Few countries in the world utilize our system of justice – why would Prof. Perkins be so easy in throwing away the concepts of the US system?  Rather simple:

I hope some of us will live to see the day when nations give the U.N. its own authority to raise taxes and a military-police force as we (the separate nations) begin the process of general disarmament per obligation of Article 6 of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Undoubtedly, that will require some unpleasant surrender of some national sovereignty. The states in 1787 managed to survive it when they settled on a national federation. Most of us would agree we couldn’t have survived without it.

That last part about the Colonies is quite the strawman argument and turns the world outside down.   The Colonies were in the process of creating a new nation from scratch and realized that the Confederation was too weak for a national government.  The US Constitution rectified that but still was a limited government for the next 100 years or so.  Then the intellectuals drank the Socialist Kool-aid .

This is NOT the situation we find ourselves in – the UN was never meant to be a One World Government – Perkins is actively advocating exactly for that with the ability to raise taxes – and a military.  How responsive to Citizens would this be – or is the operative word actually “serfs”?

About that “will require some unpleasant surrender of some national sovereignty“?  I left a comment:

“that will require some unpleasant surrender of some national sovereignty”

I can guarantee that “unpleasant” won’t even BEGIN to cover the problems that the Law of Unintended Consequences would bring. Unpleasant really stands for “this is a stupid crazy idea” in practical terms – and we all know who would be the target for any “taxing authority”.

No thanks – we became a sovereign nation to get away from the overbearing governments our forefathers loathed. You’d want to put us back there? No thank you.

I think back to this post and wonder where Prof. Perkins allegiance lies?  But then again, he probably agrees with Obama that folks like me are knuckdraggers and bitter clingers. He and the others like him probably still don’t understand how they got Trump as President

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