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A thinking person who discovers a tumor attacking a vital organ will quickly find a surgeon to cut it out. Only someone bereft of his senses will continue to feed the growth and assume that it will not hurt him. Likewise, a thinking person will not try to "reform" an institutional entity that has no worth. He will shut it down. Any careful reading of the Charter of the United Nations should lead one to the conclusion that the world body is to our nation what a cancerous tumor is to a human being. Reforming the UN will not accomplish anything of value.
From its outset, the UN was built on a series of untruths. The very first lie that was told held that acceptance of membership in the United Nations could properly be accomplished via the treaty power possessed by the president and the Senate. But a treaty has always been a solemn agreement between two or more sovereign states, and the UN has never been a sovereign state. Hence, the decision to become a member of the UN should not be considered a treaty. The agreement to join the UN was called a treaty because of the widely promoted yet totally false assertion that treaty law supersedes the Constitution and therefore, under the treaty establishing U.S. membership in the world body, the Constitution's sole grant of war-making power to Congress could be circumvented by UN mandates. But treaty law does not supersede the Constitution according to James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson. Summing up his attitude on this extremely important point, Jefferson stated that if treaty-making power is "boundless ... then we have no Constitution."
More deceit appears at the very beginning of the UN Charter where the word "peace" or "peaceful" appears six times in the four short paragraphs of Article 1. Hence the oft-repeated claim that the UN is mankind's "peace organization." But Article 2 clearly authorizes "the application of enforcement measures" should the world body decide to compel adherence to its will. The "enforcement measures" pointed to within the charter call for "action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary" to assure "international peace and security." The UN is no "peace organization."
Article 2 of the charter further claims that the UN "is based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members." The use of the word "sovereign" creates the false impression that nations joining the UN remain independent. But the charter's Article 25 later stipulates that member nations "agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council." Nations joining the UN, therefore, are required to accept dictates ...
Source: HighBeam Research, You can't reform a deadly disease.(United Nations )