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Stiff Right Jab: Go It Alone! Steve Farrell The current administration brags about its bipartisanship and its propensity for building coalitions. And its point is well taken. The thought is that unity is better than division, the middle ground is superior to left and right extremes, and 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 and his "Yes, Massa 'conservative' party." Three weeks ago, in order to win support for a world coalition against Iraq, President Bush offered a startling concession: He reversed the U.S.'s 20-year ban against the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)! Talk about risky concessions! Listen up! 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 to be not merely advocacy but to become a school board, and not only a school board for the Third World, but for all the 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 U.N. 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, echoed: "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." Little surprise, 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 that envisions "some sort of world government" as the next stage in "human evolutionary progress." Marx and Lenin must have smiled. 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 it expelled 47 Soviet diplomats on charges of espionage. Twelve 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?
It's now 2002. Nothing's changed. Besides promoting the aforementioned, this so-called education association now demands that schools teach sustainable development (the old communist goal of government oversight of everything, for the sake of future generations), with a few new twists: 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 whose speech vilifies homosexuality. But let me level with you, none of this matters! What does matter is this: We need to be one in fellowship with our friends at the U.N. After all, how in the wide, wide world can we defeat tyrants without the consent of every other tyrant! Contact Steve at stiffrightjab@aol.com. Bibliography 1. Lee, Robert W. "The UN Reality Versus the Modern Cliches," The New American, Oct. 28, 1985. 2. Grigg, William Norman. "A Global School Board," The New American, Jan. 23, 1995. 3. Du Berrier, Hilaire. "Nazi, Soviet Agent, UN Retiree?" The New American, Feb. 16, 1987. 4. Julian Huxley. "UNESCO, Its Purpose and Its Philosophy," 1946. 5. Laves, Walter H.C. and Thompson, Charles A. "UNESCO: Purpose, Progress, Prospects," 1951. 6. Ruse, Austin. "Bush Says 'Yes' to UNESCO," NewsMax.com, Sept. 20, 2002. Copyright: Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, New York, N.Y.
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