The U.N.'s "Peace-Keeping" Thugs

The U.N.--never an organization of impeccable credentials--has made sullying itself a new art-form. This article goes into quite a bit of detail about the corruption, brutality, and barbarism characteristic of the U.N.

A French U.N. logistics expert in the Congo shot pornographic videos in his home, in which he had converted his bedroom into a photo studio for videotaping his sexual abuse of young girls. When police raided his home, the man was allegedly about to rape a 12-year-old girl sent to him in a law enforcement sting operation. As the Times reported, a senior Congolese police officer confirmed the bed was surrounded by large mirrors on three sides, with a remote control camera on the fourth side.

U.N. officials are worried that the scandal, which already has netted 150 allegations of sex crimes by U.N. staffers, will explode if the pornographic videos and photos, now on sale in Congo, becoming public.

U.N. "peacekeepers" from Morocco based in Kisangani – a secluded town on the Congo River – are notorious for impregnating local women and girls. In March, an international group probing the scandal found 82 women and girls had been made pregnant by Moroccan U.N. staffers and 59 others by Uruguayan staffers. One U.N. soldier accused of rape was apparently hidden in the barracks for a year.

Despite the fact that the U.N.'s sexual code of conduct is prominently displayed on U.N. facilities Congo – forbidding sex with prostitutes or women under 18 – the U.N. continues to hand out free condoms to "peacekeepers" to protect them from AIDS.

. . .previous revelations of peacekeeping abuses have only been revealed by news organizations. Such was the case in Cambodia in the early 1990s and later in Somalia, Bosnia and Ethiopia.

The list goes on. Keep in mind that this is the same organization that our government officials kowtow to, licking its boots and scampering to make sure that this august body sees us in a favorable light. Remember when the U.N. looked down its nose at us over Iraq, criticizing our every move? Remember when it tut-tutted at us over Abu Ghraib? What brazen hypocrisy. Isn't it fun receiving moral lectures from the morally reprehensible?

The U.N. is a despicable, worthless institution. Our continued alliance with it is unjustifiable and ill-considered. This has been true for a long time, now--at least since the occasion when its illustrious members gave Idi Amin a standing ovation, yet denounced Israel as a racist entity. Any decent person--no matter where one stands on the political spectrum--should be disturbed by our government's unwillingness to kick these rats out of our country and cease all funding and involvement with them.