Global protectors or oppressors?

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Are you aware we are increasingly regulated and even taxed by international organizations that are undermining the protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution?

The "oil for food" and other recent U.N. scandals made many aware the U.N. is quite literally out of control. What is not well known is that the U.N. is only one of now dozens of international organizations that increasingly exercise control over citizens in all countries and misspend taxpayer monies.

From the end of World War II, many new multinational organizations have been created, most with the ideal of promoting world peace and prosperity in one form or another.

These organizations are set up and funded by the member governments, often accompanied by self-righteous announcements about all the good they will do. In reality, most often the organization is set up with a high-minded charter, a staff is hired to do the work, and the politicians who created the organization move on, giving it little, if any, oversight.

These organizations' professional staff quickly learn they are largely in charge of setting the agenda and operational structure. Being human, they often feel they know better than the founders what the agenda ought to be, and, of course, they want an organizational structure and physical environment comfortable for them. Usually, much time and money are spent meeting staff needs that may or may not be in the interests of the intended recipients or the client state's taxpayers.

Bureaucrats, being bureaucrats, tend to want enhanced power and budgets. They can increase power by "mission creep," expanding the original purpose, which requires more staff and money. They lobby donor government officials for more funds and look for independent ways to acquire resources.

The following are a few examples of the problem. As we have seen in the "oil for food" scandal, the U.N. operates as a law unto itself. The crooks within the U.N. bureaucracy may even get off because they have "diplomatic immunity." There is almost no oversight of U.N. activities because there is no institution or member government with the right to do so.

The U.N. bureaucrats are always seeking more revenue, one reason they loved the "oil for food" program money without accountability. The U.N. keeps pushing for the right to directly tax the world's citizens and business firms, and has proposals for doing so. The "Law of the Sea Treaty" already gives them a right to tax corporations that mine the oceans.

--The World Bank has a 50-year record of mismanagement, and by lending almost exclusively to governments, it has ended up primarily promoting statism rather than free markets. This undermines economic growth and saddles poor nations with repaying loans that should have never been made.