Issue Position: The United Nations

Issue Position

The United Nations was originally instituted to be a diplomatic entity that could bring to pass world stability and limit or eradicate conflict between nations. It was never intended to be a governing body that would rule territory or populace. The people of our nation and indeed the world have no elected representatives at the United Nations. Any person, believing in representative government, would therefore find it intolerable that such an organization should have any sovereign authority over them.

To allow the UN to tax, put in place a standing army within a country, or dictate to a country how to govern themselves in any way whatsoever would be repugnant indeed. For such an institution to set standards for the citizens of this country in areas of commerce, education, liberty, or domestic law would be an unthinkable insult.

The United Nations has a very poor record when it comes to human rights. According to most human rights organizations two of the five nations that make up the Security Council, Russia and China, have atrocious human rights records. And since the fiasco in Iraq most human rights organizations could also claim the United States had a poor human rights record. If the United Nations were serious about human rights it would require that any nation on the Security Council would have a very good human rights record. For anyone to be on the Human Rights Council they would also have to have a good record in human rights. In other words if you wanted to join to the club you would have to live by a code of human rights. To create an organization from the very inception with the highest council being composed of human rights violators was to ensure that the organization would be a failure on human rights from the very beginning.

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