Written by: Beck

At least, that's what I assume United Nations Day is all about.

To celebrate, I was going to Fisk a few of the online Messages in Commemoration of UN Day, but I found them to be too bland to have much fun with. There was one thing, however, which caught my eye. From Kofi Annan's message:

I believe we can build a better United Nations. That's why I will soon be putting before world leaders a package of measures to renew the Organization. [ed: I've noticed that throughout various UN dignitaries' speeches, they persist in referring to the UN simply as, "The Organization." Is it just me, or does that make it sound vaguely like something affiliated with the Mafia?] It will be up to your leaders to respond with vision and goodwill. They must find common ground at a historic meeting this time next year.

I ask you to encourage your leaders to give our world the United Nations it deserves. With your help, I know we can do it.

We are in a new era. We need a new United Nations. Let's make it happen.

I can't help but wonder what sort of new monstrosity Annan intends to attempt to inflict upon us. Here, I'll hazard a guess or two as to what Annan's "package of measures to renew the Organization" entail:

1) The Package of Measures will make the UN more powerful at the expense of member nations, especially larger and wealthier nations

2) The Package of Measures will weaken the Security Council & strengthen the General Assembly

3) The Package of Measures will require the UN to exceed projected revenue needs; thus, it will be accompanied by a call for new funding. This new funding will be disproportionately allocated to the USA.

4) The Package of Measures will do nothing to address the widespread inefficiency, corruption, and institutional rot which tirelessly serves to erode what little respect & legitimacy the UN still retains.

5) The Package of Measures once revealed, regardless of what it turns out to specifically entail, will really piss me off.

6) At the end of the day, regardless of whether the Package of Measures is implemented or not, the UN will remain a massively bloated heap of ineffective inertia run by unelected bureaucrats primarily dedicated to thwarting American security and prosperity.