THE UN HAS TO GO

UNESCO AIMS TO CONTROL OUR SPEECH

Many people have sought to end US support for all UN agencies.  Whatever their original mission, the goal of every agency appears to be control at a global level, funded primarily by extracting dollars from reluctant taxpayers.  Allied with groups like WEF (World Economic Forum) and other globalist groups, they are anxious to be active participants in “The Great Reset.”

The latest, blatant move is from UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.  Their original goal was to build peace by having their three platforms cooperate internationally.  Science has always led the way; scientists want to work together to achieve advances.  Education…not so much.  It isn’t clear that any educational advances percolate across the planet.  It’s when we begin to talk about culture that things get stickier.  After all, our planet is enriched by the variety of cultures it is people with.  Most of us don’t want some kind of gray monoculture, dictated by so-called “smart people in the room,” who are never us.  Preserving culture is one thing; dictating is another.

The only good news is that they have lost a lot of their funding.  Trump cut them off completely, but the lack of confidence in the agency began in the late 1990’s.  Unfortunately, making yet another of his endless mistakes, Biden has signed on again to support UNESCO, 

Danger, Ahead

It isn’t surprising that this agency is looking for new targets, hoping for funding increases, as no one seems to care all that much about their original charter.  Their latest move is covered in a 50-page report issued this month which defines “concrete measures which must be implemented by all stakeholders: governments, regulatory authorities, civil society and social media platforms.”  Their goal is to control all speech online, even more than governments have been able to do thus far.

They deem this the “Internet of Trust” which will go farther than Biden’s speech control plan, doubling down on identifying “misinformation, disinformation, hate speech and conspiracy theories.”  House Republicans are on top of it, issuing a report which condemns the “pseudoscience of misinformation” and declares a huge concern about the Censorship Industrial Complex.  Our Constitution, unlike any other, protects political speech, but UNESCO seeks to get around that.  They claim this will be implemented by independent regulators who can’t be influenced by politicians or companies.  And yet, where do you find such apolitical people? Does anyone think there is a person on the planet who could serve rationally on this committee?

The Biden administration is already busy implementing their recommendations, as fast as they can.  As we saw with Covid, the CCP has undue influence on all UN agencies, and they want to crush all free speech.  Unfortunately, a lot of countries buy into this, enjoying the idea of telling their citizens what they can say and how they should think.

These plans mean uncontrolled censorship.  While some might find exceptions that make sense to them, as a former scientist, I would tell you that dissent is critical to thinking and creating.  When we come up with one answer to a problem, we miss out if we don’t let people argue and criticize the proposal.  The Manhattan Project had a number of ideas which were tried out in parallel, as we had to get it right in a timely manner.  This is how all invention works.  Ideas need to be challenged, even if the original idea ends up prevailing.

If you’ve ever done a brainstorming session at work, in most cases, the result is not only better than the original ideas forwarded; it is also very often novel, because everyone is free to throw out ideas.  This is true for ALL ideas, even if they sound wrong at first. 

Let’s look at some well-known topics.  The idea of a lab leak for Covid was treated as heresy, as were low-cost effective treatments.  Both government-mandated “truths” were found to be problematic, which is what you’d expect.  We let China come up with “theories” – a pangolin, a wet market, a series of bats flying hundreds of miles to infect just one town…  There are still valid and reasonable theories about the Kennedy assassination.

Cancellation or censorship, the purported aim is to implement thought control.  Are you down for that?  I’m not.  It’s time to stop all funding of the UN by the US (which would probably doom it) and to get back in alignment with our Constitution.