THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VII, Issue # 158, July 23, 2005
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WHY DO WE FUND UNESCO?
By Dr. Ron Paul
THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTICIC, & CULTURAL ORGANIZATION: A UNITED NATIONS AGENCY WHICH
REGULARLY ACTS AGAINST AMERICA'S NATIONAL INTERESTS & BASIC CULTURAL VALUES & WHICH FUNCTIONS AS A
MOUTHPIECE FOR GLOBALISM & BLATANT ANTI-AMERICANISM & FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT, GLOBAL STATISM & SOCIALISM,
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM, INTERNATIONAL POPULATION CONTROL THROUGH WHOLESALE ABORTIONS, IMPOSITION OF
A "POLITICALLY CORRECT" UN CURRICULUM ON AMERICA'S DOMESTIC EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, UN CONTROL OF FEDERAL LAND
IN THE U.S.A. THROUGH SOCALLED "WORLD HERITAGE SITES," & OTHER RADICAL CAUSES PUSHED BY THE UN BUREAUCRACY & ITS POLITICAL ALLIES &
SUPPORTERS IN THE DIFFERENT NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS, IN LEFTIST POLITICAL PARTIES & FACTIONS, & IN THE LIBERAL
INTERNATIONALIST, LEFTIST SEGMENTS OF THE WESTERN MEDIA -- WHY SHOULD THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BE REQUIRED TO
FUND TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF UNESCO'S BUDGET & PAY DEARLY FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF U.S. MEMBERSHIP IN AN
ANTI-AMERICAN ORGANIZATION?
FULL STORY:
At the end of 2002, President George W. Bush announced that the United States of America would rejoin UNESCO, an educational
agency of the United Nations. One year later, the First Lady, Laura Bush, was dispatched to Paris for a ceremony marking the end
of our 20-year absence from UNESCO, where she assured the world that the U.S.A. would be a “full, active and enthusiastic
participant” in the organization.
Rejoining UNESCO, of course, means paying for it. Our new commitment to UNESCO costs $60 million annually for starters, fully
one-quarter of the agency’s budget. Sadly, I believe the Bush administration made this decision as a concession to our globalist
critics, who decry supposed American unilateralism.
UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which sounds lofty. In truth, the agency is
nothing but a mouthpiece for the usual UN causes, including international abortion and population control, a "politically correct"
UN curriculum for American schools, and UN control of federal land in America through socalled World Heritage sites.
President Ronald W. Reagan rightly withdrew the U.S.A. from UNESCO in 1984, citing the organization’s financial mismanagement,
blatant anti-Americanism, and general hostility to freedom. President Reagan believed the organization had become too politicized,
too bloated, and too hostile to free markets. Furthermore, UNESCO enjoyed rapidly expanding budgets during the 1970s and 1980s,
increasing expenditures creating a growing financial burden which Reagan felt American taxpayers should not have to shoulder.
President Reagan was correct in identifying UNESCO as an organization that did not act in America's interest, and he was correct in
questioning why the U.S.A. should fund 25 percent of UNESCO's budget for the privilege of membership in an anti-American
organization.
From its inception, UNESCO has been openly hostile to American values, the United States Constitution, and Western culture.
Why in the world should we send tax dollars to an organization that actively promotes values so contrary to those of most
Americans?
To better understand the origins and ambitions of UNESCO, we need only consider a quote from Sir Julian Huxley, brother of the
famous Aldous Huxley. Julian Huxley was the founding Director-General of UNESCO when he said the following:
"The general philosophy of UNESCO should be a scientific world
humanism, global in extent.... It can stress … the transfer of full
sovereignty from separate nations to a world political organization…
Political unification in some sort of world government will be
required…to help the emergence of a single world culture."
Those who supported rejoining UNESCO claim the organization has been reformed over the years. Yet, it’s strange that, in two
decades since the United States left UNESCO, we only started reading about purported reforms in the year 2000. Are we to believe
that, after nearly twenty years of business as usual, a large bureaucracy like UNESCO suddenly reinvented itself in a few short
years? Is it worth spending $60 million every year on an organization with such a terrible history of waste, corruption, and
anti-Americanism?
President Reagan’s politically brave withdrawal from UNESCO portended an era of greater disengagement from the United
Nations itself. Congress can revitalize that worthy goal by urging the Bush administration to rethink its terrible decision to
entangle the American people with an organization as rotten and subversive as UNESCO. Recently, I introduced into the U.S.
House of Representatives a proposed congressional resolution urging an official U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO, and I plan to
attach the resolution as an amendment to a foreign aid spending bill. It will be interesting to see whether the same members of
Congress who savaged the UN before the Iraq war actually vote to get America out of UNESCO.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, elected from and representing the Fourteenth
Congressional District of Texas. Congressman Paul is considered to be one of America's leading spokesmen for constitutional
government, the rule of law, liberty under law, the private enterprise system,, free market economics, sound monetary policy, and
fiscal restraint on the part of the U.S. national government.
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