Inside the Asylum — EDITORIAL

November 17, 2004
Pelican Post

Jed Babbin, author of the new book "Inside the Asylum," was a guest being interviewed on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" this morning. Babbin's book is an analysis of the renegade and unacceptable behaviors of the United Nations and some of its rogue leadership, particularly Kofi Annan who is the Secretary General.

According to Babbin, "accountability is unknown at the U.N. and he referred to the U.N. as the "U.N. crime family." He said "the biggest difference between the Mafia and the U.N. is that the Mafia holds its employees accountable for their performance."

Jed Babbin believes the U.N. rogues have gone beyond their entitlement immunities and that, under international law, those immunities could be stripped away. An alternative would be for the U.S. to change its laws to take away those immunities.

Babin lauded the work of Sen. Norm Coleman, R-MN for his permanent sub-committee's work in investigating what is now known to be fraud in the amount of $21B in the U.N. administered Oil-for-Food program, some of which went to pay Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber's families.

Babin said that Kofi Annan and Paul Volcker were not cooperating in the U.N. imposed investigation. Volcker has no subpoena power, his investigation is not open, and it is going nowhere. The secretive Annan refuses to release the results of 55 audits of the Oil-for-Food money,is not cooperating in any of the investigations, and refuses to allow U.N. employees to be interviewed or questioned.

My opinion is that it is time for the U.N. to be locked down, all diplomatic immunity to be revoked and implicated officials prosecuted under U.S. law, all records to be seized and all accounts frozen as part of the current criminal investigation. It makes no sense to give Kofi Annan another two years of his term to stonewall, hide evidence and protect the guilty parties, including himself.

What we need is a Union of Democratic Nations, for which you must have an established democratic form of government to become a member. The U.N.'s predecessor, the League of Nations became totally irrelevant and was done away with. The U.N. is not only irrelevant, it has become a criminal body and that cannot be tolerated. Further, we do not know how many other U.N. programs have been involved in fraud and/or funding of terrorism---and we won't know unless they are investigated thoroughly. We do know that some of the 80 affiliated humanitarian relief agencies that receive U.N. funding are run by terrorist supporting organizations, with the acknowledgement and approval of the U.N. official in charge of that program.

We also know that Kofi Annan tried to affect the outcome of our presidential election by openly undermining President Bush; he has also done everything in his power to obstruct the Irac War, undermining both the U.S. and Irac and their leaders and trying to prevent the taking of Fallujah. Annan is clearly a terrorist sympathizer and his attempted obstruction re Fallujah was an overt act under color of his high position at the U.N. Nothing gives him that authority. Which begs the question: does the implied test "they're either with us or they're with the terrorists" apply to the U.N.?

If so, they have failed the test.

To borrow a term from Jed Babbin, the U.N. is like the "Mafia" gone global. It must be stopped.

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