Coalition or
Bust! Virtue or Vice?
by Steve Farrell
The current administration, brags about its bipartisanship, and
its propensity for building coalitions. And their point is well
taken.
The thought
is, unity is better than division, middle grounds are superior to
left and right extremes, compromise expedites legislation and action
- and oh yes, let’s not forget, middle of the roaders get
more votes!
There’s
even the claim that compromise for the sake of unity is the "Christian"
thing to do, for wasn’t it Christ who said, "If ye are
not one, ye are not mine," and that "a house divided shall
fall"? A noble thought.
But unity in the Church referred to being true to the mind and will
of God, not compromising it for the sake of transgressors, traitors,
enemies, and lunatics. It also had to do with love of all men, not
blind tolerance for anything and everything men do. One can listen
and love without tolerating or endorsing the unacceptable. One can
reach out a helping hand to a fallen neighbor, without plunging
headlong into the pit.
Which brings
us to the President’s over-zealousness for coalitions. Four
weeks ago, in order to win support for a world coalition against
Iraq, President Bush offered a startling concession: he reversed
the US’ twenty year ban against The United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Talk about example as to why President’s Washington, Adams,
and Jefferson warned against entangling alliances!
In December
of 1984 when President Ronald Reagan said, "No to UNESCO!"
he had good cause.
For starters, UNESCO was sold to Americans as an educational advocacy
group for an illiterate third world. This was dishonest. UNESCO's
goal was not to be merely advocacy, but to become a school board,
and not a school board for only the third world, but for the entire
world, and not merely to educate but to indoctrinate children along
communistic/humanistic/world government lines.
It didn't take a rocket scientist to decipher a communist blueprint.
In their 1951
work, UNESCO: Purpose, Progress, Prospects, former UNESCO officials
Walter H.C. Laves and Charles A. Thompson identified the ancestor
of the UN organization as: "The Soviet All Union Society for
Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries," or the "Voks,"
whose goals included "the world union of intellectual forces
for the triumph of genuine world culture," so as to inspire
intellectuals to "fight the war danger [and] agitate for peace."
Former top communist
Joseph Z. Kornfeder, with an insider's knowledge regarding UNESCO’s
founding and its goal to "agitate for peace," added this
additional testimony: "UNESCO corresponds to the agitation
and propaganda department in the Communist Party. This department
handles the strategy and method of getting at the public mind, young
and old."
Consistent with
its founding, Julian Huxley, the first Director General of UNESCO
was criticized for appointing communist agents and sympathizers
to key positions. Huxley's vision for UNESCO fit theirs. UNESCO
should be used, he said, to preach a "single world culture
with its own philosophy ... scientific world humanism;" a pseudo
religion which envisions "some sort of world government"
as the next stage in "human evolutionary progress." Marx
and Lenin must have smiled, the doctrine is theirs.
It didn't take long. By 1956 the Senate Judiciary Committee concluded
that "by far the worst danger spot, from the standpoint of
disloyalty and subversive activity among Americans employed by international
organizations, is UNESCO...."
In 1972 British
Intelligence joined in, issuing a report branding UNESCO "a
Soviet Intelligence body."
Even socialist France joined the chorus. In 1983 they expelled 47
Soviet diplomats on charges of espionage. 12 of them worked for
UNESCO. Three of the 12 were high in the secretariat, close to the
secretary-general himself, who, instead of firing them, kept them
on the payroll and in line for promotion. One of them, a KGB officer
named Kritsov, turned up with a Soviet delegation in Tashkent as
a translator in September 1983, still on UNESCO's payroll.
And what were
these "educators" up to besides mere worldwide espionage
activities?
Diverting money to support the socialist New Economic Order and
the Soviet-directed international "peace" movement.
Fighting
Free Markets
Preaching forced
redistribution of the wealth from rich countries to poor countries.
Bringing to America the Sex Information and Education Council of
the United States (SIECUS), which radicalized American education
favoring teen sex, homosexuality, pedophilia, even incest, and a
child's "democratic right" to reject the moral counsel
of parents.
Advocating a
New World Information Order wherein governments must control news
gathering and reporting, and license newsmen.
The latter item
was the straw which broke the Trojan horse’s back. Enough
was enough. UNESCO got the boot - courtesy of President Ronald Reagan.
It is now 2002.
Unfortunately, little has changed at this world school board wannabee.
Besides promoting the aforementioned, UNESCO now demands that schools
teach sustainable development (the old communist goal of government
oversight of everything on the planet, for the sake of future generations),
and a few other morally and politically repugnant ideas: the right
to safe and legal abortions, to same-sex marriages, to prostitution,
to graphic sexual and homosexual education for children, and the
need for criminal penalties against any who's speech vilifies homosexuality.
Unity is a worthy
goal, but not with a harlot; and a willingness to compromise, a
sign of the kind of inner strength that fosters selflessness and
love, but not at the cost of our virtue.
Washington advised in his farewell address: "`Tis our true
policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of
the foreign world."
To which President
Jefferson added: "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever
State or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and
honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
It is in other
words, that sage advice to "be in the world, but not of it."
Observing the growing threats to our sovereignty and way of life
being imposed upon us by way of that mother of all entangling alliances,
the United Nations, it is appears to this observer, that their advice
was good.
Bibliography
Lee, Robert
W. "The UN Reality versus the Modern Clichés,"
The New American, Oct. 28, 1985
Grigg, William Norman. "A Global School Board," The New
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Du Berrier, Hilaire, "Nazi, Soviet Agent, UN Retiree?"
The New American, February 16, 1987
Julian Huxley, UNESCO, Its Purpose and Its Philosophy (1946)
Laves, Walter H.C., and Thompson, Charles A. "UNESCO: Purpose,
Progress, Prospects," 1951.
Ruse, Austin, "Bush Says "Yes" to UNESCO," NewsMax.com,
September 20, 2002, copyright: Catholic Family and Human Rights
Institute, New York, New York
Washington, George. "Farewell Address" September, 1796
Jefferson, Thomas, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
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