The Time Has Come

Cross posted at Reject the UN

What started with high ideals and lofty aspirations, has become a hotbed of corruption and scandal.

In 1945 the victorious Allies who fought against the horrors of Nazi Germany and Japan sat down and wrote a charter for a new organization to help the world prevent another World War. This time they thought they would get it right and not make the mistakes that the League of Nations made. And for a while they did get it right. The founders insisted that all nations follow certain rules of behavior. Rules that all civilized nations follow. They put a stop to North Korean aggression of the South, tried to make a civil agreement for the partition and disposition of the Palestine question, tried to halt the violence between India and Pakistan, and helped rebuild the world after the horrors of World War 2.

This organization did some wonderful things in its beginnings. Under WHO (World Health Organization) the eradication of Small Pox was achieved.

But the good has been destroyed by the corruption and scandal that has plagued the UN since the 1970's. And the UN can get away with it because there is no oversite of the organization. The founders were so sure that the best and most honest people would be part of the UN that they forgot to put in any checks and balances into the charter. That is a shame. For then the UN would be a truly worthwhile organization. Instead we got:

Food for Oil: The oil-for-food program began as a humanitarian plan to soften the sanctions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The U.N. would allow Iraq to sell a certain amount of oil each year, provided that the profits were used to buy food, medicine and other necessities for Iraq's people.

Instead, the oil was allotted to politically connected insiders, allegedly including the head of the oil program himself. The insiders got rich while Iraq's people suffered. One beneficiary of the program was U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's own son, who was employed by a firm that played a key role in the scandal-plagued program.

The word for that is Nepotism. Having your own son make a small fortune at the expense of needy people. And taking kickbacks from it yourself. Does the UN throw the bum out. No, they praise him and he gets a Nobel Award.

Sexual Scandals: LAST MONTH A CLASSIFIED UNITED Nations report prompted Secretary General Kofi Annan to admit that U.N. peacekeepers and staff have sexually abused or exploited war refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The worst of the 150 or so allegations of misconduct--some of them captured on videotape--include pedophilia, rape, and prostitution. While a U.N. investigation into the scandal continues, the organization has just suspended two more peacekeepers in neighboring Burundi over similar charges. The revelations come three years after another U.N. report found "widespread" evidence of sexual abuse of West African refugees.

Allegations of sexual abuse or misconduct by U.N. staff stretch back at least a decade, to operations in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. A 2001 report, released by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Save the Children, found that sexual violence against refugees in West Africa was endemic (though some of its findings were denied by a subsequent U.N. team). A year later a coalition of religious organizations sent a letter to Secretary of Secretary of State Colin Powell urging the United States to send more human rights monitors into Congo. The U.N. then introduced a "code of conduct" to help prevent future abuses, including prohibitions against sexual activity between staff and children and the exchange of money or food for sex.

The UN takes a Boys will be Boys approach to the issue of rape. After all, most member nations believe that a woman is asking for it. And the offending parties cannot be held accountable by the UN, charges can only be brought up against them in their home nations. How convenient. In other words: No charges, no punishment. But that is how the United Nations works.

Everyday operations are based on corruption: Now the issue is becoming the scale of corruption in the U.N.'s normal operations — and which individuals and corporations are reaping the benefits of a network of bribery and conspiracy that investigators have just begun to uncover. So far, those identities are still a mystery — but perhaps not for much longer.

Want to make a bet on how long the corruption will stay a mystery? I wouldn't bet the farm on ever finding out this one.

Then we get this story of how the best of intentions in Lebanon gets corrupted.

UNIFIL helps murder 2 Israeli Soldiers:

On October 7, 2000, Hezbollah terrorists entered Israel, attacked three Israeli soldiers on Mount Dov, and abducted them Lebanon. The kidnapping was witnessed by several dozen UNIFIL soldiers who stood idle. One of the soldier witnesses described the kidnapping: the terrorists set of an explosive which stunned the Israeli soldiers. Clad in UN uniforms, the terrorists called out, "Come, come, we’ll help you."

The Israeli soldiers approached the men in UN uniforms. Then, a Hezbollah bomb detonated—-apparently prematurely. It wounded the disguised Hezbollah commander, and three Israeli soldiers.

Two other terrorists in U.N. uniforms dragged their Hezbollah commander and the three wounded soldiers into a getaway car.

According an Indian solider in UNIFIL who witnessed the kidnapping, "By this stage, there was a big commotion and dozens of UN soldiers from the Indian brigade came around." The witness stated that the brigade knew that the kidnappers in UN uniform were Hezbollah. One soldiers said that the brigade should arrest the Hezbollah, but the brigade did nothing.

According to the Indian soldier, the UNFIL brigade in the area "could have prevented the kidnapping."

"I’m very sorry about what happened, because we saw what happened," he said. Hezbollah "were wearing our uniforms and it was too bad we didn’t stop them."

It appears that at least four of the UNIFIL "peacekeepers," all from India, has received bribes from Hezbollah in order to assist the kidnapping by helping them get to the kidnapping spot and find the Israeli soldiers. Some of the bribery involved alcohol and Lebanese women.

The Indian brigade later had a bitter internal argument, as some members complained that the brigade had betrayed its peacekeeping mandate. An Indian government investigation sternly criticized the brigade's conduct.

There is evidence of far greater payments by Hezbollah to the UNIFIL Indian brigade, including hundreds of thousands of dollars for assistance in the kidnapping and cover-up.

The UN cover-up began almost immediately.

Lebanon's The Daily Star reported the story told by a former officer of the Observer Group Lebanon (OGL), which is part of the UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO). ("UN 'destroyed' evidence after abduction of 3 Israeli troops," The Daily Star, July 20, 2001.)

A few hours after the kidnapping, UNTSO learned that two abandoned cars had been discovered. One was a white Nissan Pathfinder with fake UN insignia; it had hit an embankment because it was being driven so fast that the driver missed a turn. The other was a Range Rover; it was missing a tire rim, and was still running when it was discovered.

Rather than using the very-recently-abandoned vehicles as clues to rescue the kidnap victims, the UN initiated a cover-up. The next morning, eighteen hours after the kidnapping, a team of OGL and the Indian UNIFIL began removing the contents of the cars.

The Range Rover was soaked with blood. Among the contents of the vehicles may have been a cell phone belonging to the terrorists. The UNTSO officer confirmed that the cars contained "extremely sensitive" items which included "current and relevant information that could have been easily linked to the incident."

On January 29, 2004, the bodies of the murdered Israelis were returned to Israel by Hezbollah, as part of a prisoner exchange.

In the US all the above actions would be considered criminal activities and would result in heavy sentences for the parties involved. At the UN, it was business as usual.

But corruption and scandal are not the only degenerations that has happened a the UN. It has become a center of anti-Semitism for the world. From the early days until the 1970's the UN has fought for Human Rights and Human Dignity. But since the 1970's the members of the Arab League have been able to pass resolution after resolution condemning Israel for Human Rights Violations, yet not one resolution has ever been passed that condemned any Arab or Muslim nation for their violations of Basic Human Rights. Not one. They call it anti-Zionism. That is just a new name for an old hatred: anti-Semitism. And it is rampant in the UN.

Just a few examples:

Has the UN ever condemned any Muslim nation for the lack of women's rights? NO!

Does the UN address the genocide that occurred in Bosnia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, East Timor, Kurdistan, Angola, Zaire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Darfur? NO!

The UN Human Rights Council is too busy with a world-wide food shortage that they have no time to address the suffering of people of Myanmar. Even though weeks after a cyclone has hit the nation, the ruling Junta still will not allow basic supplies, medical and rescue personal into the nations. Does the UN do anything? NO!

In 2000 held a Conference at Durban, South Africa to address the issue of racism. Did they succeed in addressing the problem? NO! It was only used to condemn Israel and only Israel. And next year they will be repeating the same Lovefest again.

The world has seen that time and time again the UN has become nothing more than a Tower of Babel. Words are spoken, but no action is done.

Genesis 11:1-9(KJV)

1. And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children builded.
6. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

G-d destroyed the last Tower of Babel. Man will have to destroy this one. For many Heaven help us if G-d did show His wrath.

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