The first great challenge to the UN's ability to provide peace was the Korean conflict in 1954. Allowed to operate on its own, the United States would have waged war against this aggressor and eliminated the communist regime and its threat forever. However, because American leadership abided by United Nations diplomatic authority instead of reason, not only was the regime allowed to survive, the conflict was never resolved. Indeed the North Korean communists' greatest ally, Red China, was also allowed to take root and grow. As a result of that UN failure, today, both North Korea and communist China are two of the leading international threats to peace. These are festering sores that the United States will eventually have to deal with, most certainly over UN objections.  

Almost the exact scenario was played out in the Vietnam conflict in the 1960's as UN resolutions tied American hands from destroying the communists, allowing another brutal regime to remain in power, again within the axis of China .  

Today, fifty years after the inception of the United Nations, the international community is a dangerous place. Instead of peaceful, prosperous, stable trading partners, the world is full of brutal, murdering dictatorships which starve and torture their own people while threatening the security of their neighbors, as once-great powers cower and use diplomatic doublespeak to ignore responsibility. Most of these international thugs have two things in common. 1) Each has a voice and a vote in the United Nations. 2) None would be a threat if they didn't.  

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations, petty and tarnished former superpowers and self-ordained special interest groups. Each promotes a socialist agenda that seeks to redistribute the world's wealth into their own coffers as they diminish the power of the United States and enslave the citizens of nations in a dark age of poverty and misery.    

That's why terrorist states like Libya and Syria are allowed to serve on the UN's Human Rights Commission as Israel is condemned in resolution after resolution. It's the reason why a prosperous, industrious nation like Taiwan is refused membership in the UN while a murderous thug like Zimbabwe 's Robert Mugabe is given a prominent voice at UN conferences.    

The United Nations is not "dysfunctional," as some "reformists" have claimed. It is a criminal enterprise in which no moral nation should ever participate, let alone perpetuate.   

Many of our elected officials indicate that the United States is bound to some kind of forced membership in the UN, as if it's our legal duty. Congress has resisted Congressman Ron Paul's efforts to pass his "American Sovereignty Restoration Act" (H.R. 1146), which calls for the complete withdraw of the United States from UN membership. Critics say it just isn't reasonable in today's society. They say that the United States would become isolated from the rest of the world. They say that the United States is bound by a treaty to stay in the UN.  

But according to legal and Constitution scholar, Herb Titus, the Charter of the United Nations is neither politically nor legally binding upon the United States or the American people. Says Titus, "The Charter of the UN is commonly assumed to be a treaty. It is not."  Instead, Titus explains, the UN Charter is a constitution. As such, it is illegitimate, having created a supranational government, deriving its powers not from the consent of the governed (the people of the United States and peoples of other member nations) but from the consent of the peoples' government officials, which have no authority to bind either the American people nor any other nation's to any terms of the Charter of the United Nations.  

Titus goes on to explain: "Even if the Charter of the UN were a properly-ratified treaty, it would still be constitutionally illegitimate and void because it transgresses the Constitution of the United States in three major respects: 1) It unconstitutionally delegates to the UN the U.S. Congress' legislative powers to initiate war and the U.S. president's executive power to conduct war; 2) It unconstitutionally transfers to the

United Nations General Assembly the US House of Representatives' exclusive power to originate revenue-raising measures; and 3) It unconstitutionally robs the 50 American states powers reserved to them by the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution."  

Titus declares that H.R.1146 is the only viable solution to the continuing abuses by the United Nations. He says, "The U.S. Congress can remedy its earlier unconstitutional actions of embracing the UN Charter by enacting H.R. 1146."  

The world of the UN is like a parallel reality. It is no place for a nation born from the minds of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. How would today's American leaders in Congress react if they were suddenly brought before a tribunal of Founding Fathers and told to justify American participation in such a folly?  

Rather than wasting more time and money on hearings and debates over a new

UN Ambassador, the Congress would better use its resources to simply ignore the UN and quit. It is past time for the American people to demand action of our elected officials to uphold the U.S. Constitution they have sworn to defend. Just as our Founding Fathers did when confronted with tyranny, it's time that the American people declare their independence from the United Nations.  

Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report and president of the American Policy Center , an activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton , VA. The Center maintains a website at www.americanpolicy.org. 

C Tom DeWeese 2004       

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