Posted on 08/18/2004 12:44:57 PM PDT by MindFire
CONGRESS MUST GET US OUT OF U.N.E.S.C.O., AGAIN! By Tom DeWeese August 17, 2004
The nation laid Ronald Reagan to rest with a massive outpouring of respect and affection for the accomplishments of this great man. One of his most important achievements was to get the United States out of the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Yet it was just one year ago that Congress voted to undo President Reagan's work and authorized the nation to begin again to pay dues of $60 million annually to this corrupt organization. That's an incredible 25% of UNESCO's total operating budget. During the nation's week of mourning it was shameful to watch those same politicians, with crocodile tears running down their faces, telling us how they admired the former president's courage to do the right thing. If these congressmen truly want to honor his memory, then they should show some courage themselves and take immediate steps to undo their mistake and get us out of UNESCO again.
UNESCO is the root of much of the evil oozing out of the United Nations. It is the source of much of the anti-American education curriculum that is now cropping up in our nation's public classrooms. UNESCO is the source of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The IB program teaches our children that they are citizens of the world and that love of country is an evil that must be abolished. UNESCO says that the IB program promotes human rights, social justice, sustainable development, population, health, environmental and immigration concerns. In other words, IB teaches our children to accept the international socialist agenda.
Remember, the United States is now paying $60 million per year to help pay for this propaganda. UNESCO wants to control the Internet by taxing its use. UNESCO would like to collect a fee every time you send e-mail. UNESCO would also like to control who can open up a web site and who can put information on the web. UNESCO wants to get control of the world's greatest source of information in order to control its flow.
Control of the Internet will open personal privacy to inspection by non-elected bureaucrats who are accountable to no one. If you want to know how UNESCO would oversee the Internet, just take a look at how Communist China does it. That's the model UNESCO intends to use.
And the United States is now paying $60 million per year to pay for this effort. UNESCO has laid claim to 47 United Nations biosphere reserves in our nation, accounting for more than 70 million acres of U.S. soil that is locked away. Worse, UNESCO's rule over these lands extends beyond the actual boundaries into what are called buffer zones. That's how UNESCO successfully stopped a private gold mine operation located miles from Yellow Stone National Park, a UNESCO Heritage Site.
Thanks to the courageous men and women of the United States Congress, American taxpayers are now giving UNESCO $60 million per year for the privilege of having our own land locked away.
These are just a few of the evils of UNESCO and the very reasons why Ronald Reagan did the "right thing" and got us out in 1984. For 19 years UNESCO whined and cried about how the U.S. took its money away so the poor UN bureaucrats couldn't spread their brand of socialism around the world. America, ever the sucker for a sob story, came crawling back.
In July, some truly courageous members of Congress said they had had enough of this folly. Texas Representative Ron Paul introduced H. Con Res. 443, declaring that the United States should withdraw from UNESCO. Paul noted that there is a sizable block of anti-UN votes in the House of Representatives and the Resolution would help energize them to action. 145 members voted last year to keep the U.S. out of UNESCO. On July 7th the House voted on H. Con Res. 443 and 135 Members voted for it. Though the measure failed, clearly the block of anti-UN votes is holding. The majority of votes for the Resolution came from western and southern states.
Paul will continue to offer more Resolutions and they should be used as a rallying point for all who love the American brand of independence and liberty. Call or write your Congressman and tell him to support renewed efforts to get America out of UNESCO. If, as you watched the national memorial for Ronald Reagan, you had a sense of pride for the America he stood for, then the time to act is now.
Send a strong message to those who seek UN global governance. Tell them that the United States will not go quietly into the night.
This is not true, and has been debunked here on FR in the past.
UNESCO has no control over any lands in the U.S. If the government agencies in charge of the permit process for that gold mine decided to ignore the UNESCO objections and approve the mine, the worst thing that would have happened was that Yellowstone Park would have been removed from UNESCO's list of "heritage sites."
The reality here was that local officials preferred the UNESCO designation to the gold mine -- because of the foreign tourism that such a designation tends to attract.
UNESCO is just a small part of the Summit of the Americas, in which Clinton and Bush have both agreed to implement. Far worse will be coming.
We are to be a member state in a Hemispheric Democracy of the Americas.
MCD
Why would the 'government agencies' ignore UNESCO's objections when that very govt agreed to re-join, abide by, fund and promote UNESCO?
That's like saying 'If the govt decided there was no more income tax, we'd have fatter paychecks every week.' lol
You're assuming the govt has a 'adversarial' type relationship with Unesco, when in reality they empower it.
I would also point out that the article makes no mention of who actually owned the land on which the gold mine would have been located. I suspect it was government-owned land in the first place.
Many people have never even heard of it and couldn't care less. It is one of those boring complicated issues people just aren't interested in.
"UNESCO is anti-American. In 1949 UNESCO published a ten-part series of recommendations to schoolteachers, entitled " Toward World understanding." According to this study, "One of the chief aims of education today should be to prepare boys and girls to take an active part in the creation of a world society...." But it's not enough to merely encourage world society: "As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism."
UNESCO (motto: "Every Child is Our Child" ) is anti-family. According to "Toward World Understanding," nationalism is the enemy, but teachers should strike at the roots of the problem—the family. "The kindergarten or infant school has a significant part to play in a child's education. Not only can it correct many of the errors of home training, but it can prepare the child for membership ... in the world society."
The United States has had very little to do with UNESCO since it's beginnings in 1945. Our membership and participation in UNESCO has not been consistent. In 1984 the United States withdrew from UNESCO because, according to Gregory Newell, then-Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, it had "extraneously politicized virtually every subject it deals with. It has exhibited hostility toward a free society, especially a free market and a free press...."
Our membership status in UNESCO may change once again. On September 12, 2002, President Bush said at the United Nations: "[T]he United States will return to UNESCO. This organization has been reformed and America will participate fully in its mission to advance human rights, tolerance, and learning." Contrary to what President Bush said, UNESCO has not reformed or changed their basic philosophy. It is still just as anti-American and anti-family as it was in 1945. Today's UNESCO is ready to continue to pursue its established global collectivist agenda through an already prepared and operational global curriculum based on the Earth Charter...
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