Stalking the beast: with The Beast on the East River, author Nathan Tabor unmasks the United Nations, its criminal behavior, and its globalist designs.(Book review)

The Beast on the East River, by Nathan Tabor, Nashville, Tennessee: Nelson Current, 2006, 261 pages, hardcover, $24.99. Order from American Opinion Book Services by calling 1-800-342-6491 or online at www.aobs-store.com.

For most Americans, there is probably no subject that can elicit as many yawns as the United Nations. The world body seems distant from everyday life in America, its globalist schemes dismissed by most Americans--who have other pressing things to worry about--as little more than the daydreams and delusions of Marxist malcontents, green eco-nuts, and tin-pot dictators.

Unfortunately, while most Americans go about their lives, the schemers on the East River have patiently built an organization that looks more and more like a world government. Slowly and meticulously, without fanfare and without the media mentioning it, the UN's dark tendrils of tyranny have spread across the globe and are now gradually tightening their grip. The danger has not been lost on author Nathan Tabor. "I am persuaded," he writes, "that the totalitarian global agenda that the UN seeks to advance is inherently evil." That conclusion has led to a book, The Beast on the East River, written by Tabor, that should play an important role in alerting Americans to the UN's dangerous designs.

The UN Is No One's Friend

Tabor observes that the UN is widely viewed as a benevolent, compassionate agency that is badly needed in a dark and dangerous world. "Most people in the world today probably believe that the ultimate goals of the UN are benign," Tabor notes. "Even when it is ineffective in its efforts, its intentions are good, the pro-UN public relations spin declares." But without exception the history of the world body proves that UN practice does not live up to UN propaganda.

The UN's dangerous tendencies have been on display in Africa for decades. The mainstream media has long ignored Africa, giving the world body the opportunity to flex its muscles there largely without observation or question from the outside world. Anyone who cares to examine the UN's atrocious record in Africa will find the real nature of the world body on frightful display.

One of the earliest examples of UN brutality occurred in the Congo in the early 1960s. In July 1960, Congo's Katanga province, under the leadership of anti-communist Moise Tshombe, broke away from the pro-communist Congolese regime of Patrice Lumumba. In September 1961, UN forces mounted an unsuccessful attack on Katanga to force it back into Lumumba's regime. In the wake of the attack, a cease-fire was signed, but the duplicitous UN broke the agreement, attacking Katanga's capital of Elisabethville. The attack was described by Smith Hempstone for the Chicago Daily News: "The U.N. jets next turned their attention to the center of the city. Screaming in at treetop level ... they blasted the post office and the radio station, severing Katanga's communications with the outside world.... One came to the conclusion that the U.N.'s action was intended to make it more difficult for correspondents to let the world know what was going on in Katanga." Among the things "going on in Katanga" was a deadly UN attack on a clearly marked hospital, in concert with other UN perpetrated atrocities.