G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

the United Nations. It is for this reason that we need to take a close and searching look at
this mammoth organization. And, just as one picture is worth a thousand words, one case
history is worth a thousand theoretical arguments.
This is by no means an exhaustive treatment of the subject. If the reader wants a detailed
explanation of the structure of the United Nations, how the organization functions
mechanically, or what relation one subdivision has with another, he can find countless
volumes in a public library. All of this is academic in the minds of most people, anyway.
The citizens of Katanga who were dying under United Nations bombs were not concerned
over whether the air attacks had been authorized by the Security Council, the General
Assembly or the Military Staff Committee, or whether it took a two-thirds vote or only a
majority vote.
Nor has the tremendous financial burden that membership in the United Nations places on
the shoulders of American taxpayers been discussed. After all, mere money is relatively
unimportant. If the UN really were what most people think it is, it would be well worth the
investment. The real cost of our membership will not, in the end, be measured in terms of
dollars and cents; it will be counted out in terms of lost freedoms, despair and human
suffering.
This is not an attempt to present an "objective" view of the United Nations. If the reader
wants to acquaint himself with the other side he need only turn on his radio or TV, or
glance through the pages of his favorite newspaper or magazine. The other side has been
presented almost without challenge by every conceivable means--books, movies, plays,
speeches, editorials, pamphlets, posters, and poetry. It has been promoted by politicians,
athletes, movie stars, teachers, beauty queens, and businessmen. By comparison, the
case against the United Nations has been relegated almost entirely to the media of
mimeographed news letters and hastily compiled fact sheets put out by housewives and
neighborhood study groups. Radio and TV time is usually denied on the basis that such a
point of view is "controversial." It is as though history had slipped back 450 years. When
Galileo attempted to demonstrate the theory that the earth was not the center of the
universe, he was imprisoned and condemned as follows:
We say, pronounce, sentence and declare that you, the said Galileo, by
reason of the matters adduced in this trial, and by you confessed as
above, have rendered yourself, in the judgment of this holy office,
vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having believed and held
the doctrine--which is false and contrary to the sacred and divine
scriptures--that the sun is the center of the world and does not move
from east to west, and that the earth moves and is not the center of the
world. . . . Consequently, you have incurred all the censures and
penalties imposed and promulgated in the sacred canons and other
constitutions, general and particular, against such delinquents.
Now, as then, history will be the judge.
G. Edward Griffin