We need the U.N.'s approval why?

"Congressional investigators say that France, Russia and China systematically sabotaged the former United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq by preventing the United States and Britain from investigating whether Saddam Hussein was diverting billions of dollars. . . ." (from Instapundit)

Let's see, Sudan and Cuban on the Human Rights Council, France and Germany and Russia telling us to give the sanctions longer to work while they're violating them for cash & oil from Iraq, and no matter what the problem the U.S. is obviously to blame for it and can only make amends by prostrating ourselves and handing over our money...

The U.N. may once have had a chance to be a serious organization for peace and freedom, but I rather doubt it. Too many of the governments involved have for too many years followed the old "Your betters have spoken, you peasants obey!" method of government, and looked on the U.N. as a way for them to have a hand in controlling other countries, and stealing from them.

One of the reasons I really don't like Kofi Annan is his insistance that all countries of the world should ban the ownership of 'small arms' from citazens (citazen seems to translate to 'subject' in U.N.-speak). And he defines 'small arms' as being pretty much ANY firearm. Can't let a bunch of peasants run around armed, you know, they might get to thinking the actually have some say in how their lives should go. Yeah, there's a price in people owning arms; all rights have costs.

Get rid of that pesky 1st Amendment, and lots of dangerous information could be kept out of untrustworthy hands. Get rid of that damned 4th, you can search anyone's home or business without the hassle of getting a warrant and can use anything you find, could put lots of bad people away. And so forth.

People, all rights have costs as well as benefits. You don't get something for nothing. And giving up liberties, because someone says you'll be better off (by whose definition?) gets you screwed. And everyone else, down the road.

And I've got news for the folks who like the idea of having the U.N. taking a hand in our elections; the first time some blue-hatted flunky tries to give orders or direct a U.S. polling place, he's going to find out just exactly what most Americans think of that nonsense.