The acquiescence of the we-are-the-world mainstream media means that Bush can get no traction on this issue. It means that if he tries he will assailed from every editorial page because the UN represents a way to change the rules of the game ad hoc which is the way the Left always wants to play. When the left is inconvenienced by state laws, it appeals to the feds. When the left is frustrated by a conscensus on the right, it tries to change the venue to the UN or the WTO or The World Court.
By forum shopping the left can win its cases and leave the part of the world which we represent, who think we ought to play by the rules of the game as written, so far out of the loop that we become consigned into a huge new fly-over country.
Usually the left forum shops upwards toward bigger government but sometimes, as with the issue of gay marriage, they will feint downwards, calling it a state issue. Inexorably, however, the drift is toward bigger government, where the people have no written constitution to rely on (the EU, UN world Court), no domocratic control over their rulers (EU UN WTO) and no financial accountability (UN).
Most Americans are unaware that their precious sovereignty is leeching away just as most of my neighbors in Germany are unaware they are losing their nation state, except in an abstract sense. Patriotism has been wrung out of the people here since 1945 so perhaps Germany is an exceptional state. But I must confess to a condition of ignorance for many years about the threat posed to America by the UN. Never took the trouble to understand what the flap about UNESCO was all about,for example. I was taught as a child in the fifties that the UN was a new hope for mankind. We took field trips to the shiny new UN building in NYC as though to a shrine.
Attacking the UN in America is a little like attacking the monarchy in England, we know it is only for show, internally corrupt, very expensive, and widely admired. But there is a general sense that if it did not exist we should have to invent the institution again.
So in the shadow of media protection the UN waxes ever more arrogant.
But we must keep trying. Educating our fellow citizens and changing attitudes one person at a time if we have to.
Even as we speak: The U.S. Senate will be voting next spring on yet another dangerous entangling alliance (the so-called "Free Trade Area of the Americas" that will effectively create in our own hemisphere a regional government similar to the European Union, only without the loopholes.It is not about "free trade", nor even trade at all, so much as creating new laws that will subvert our national sovreignty to an unaccountable international bureauocracy.This has been promoted by the One-Worlders as another step in placing the entire world under the control of the U.N. eventually.
Let's all work to stop this travesty before it is too late!Check it out here