To: DMaA who wrote (165962 ) 7/30/2001 5:27:58 PM From: goldworldnet Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667 Get US Out of the United Nations! Recent blatant statements by UN officials and open proposals within UN documents are so alarming that, if most Americans were aware of the UN’s efforts, they would demand immediate U.S. withdrawal from the global organization. Consider the following list of recent proposals by the United Nations: * At the June 1998 Rome Summit, the UN openly called for the ability to bring to trial any person in the world before their criminal court. In June of 1999 the UN’s Environmental Programme came out with its Human Development Report 1999. It calls for the imposition of several types of world taxation, a world central bank, and a socialist-style redistribution of wealth. * The September 1999 UN Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms calls for global abolition of the right to keep and bear arms. * From September 1999 through the present, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has delivered a series of addresses openly calling for an end to national sovereignty, the creation of world law under a global government, and the unrestricted ability of the UN to intervene in the internal affairs of nations. These and other recent UN pronouncements have openly advocated the accumulation of all of the powers in the UN that modern governments exercise: Trial and punishment of criminals; raising armies and waging war at will; imposing taxes; redistributing wealth; imposing onerous environmental regulations; and confiscating firearms. Many of those powers are certainly not legitimate functions of government. But legitimate or not, the fact remains that these powers can only be exercised by governments. jbs.org BTW, although I am not a member of the JBS, I question the extent to which they have been demonized by the left. -josh * * *