The UN body which summoned NZ government representatives to Geneva to account for our "care" of children has judged that the situation in New Zealand is appalling. According to the NZ Herald, "The United Nations has expressed concern over shortfalls in the rights of New Zealand children, including "staggering" infant and child mortality rates and a lack representation for children in legislation." That we pay money to this bizarre, corrupt organization and participate as a "good global citizen" is madness.
MacDoctor takes the UN's report apart. A few choice quotations:
The UN committee on the rights of the child are concerned that we have insufficient rights for children in New Zealand. They imply that this is the cause of our “staggeringly high” infant mortality statistics. This would be impressive if we actually had high infant mortality stats, but we don’t. New Zealand’s infant mortality rate (from CIA stats) is 4.85 deaths per 1000 live births. This is not an especially good statistic, but is only marginally worse than the UK’s (4.69) and Australia’s (4.67). It is quite a bit better than the European Union’s (5.61) and America (6.14) and massively better than Russia (10.32) and United Arab Emirates (12.30) – the latter being the best of the middle eastern countries except, of course, Israel (4.17).And,
It would seem that all these concerns for child abuse, infant mortality and poverty are just a smoke-screen for the UN to get across its real agenda of child rights. While these “rights” are made out to be essential for combatting the ills besetting our children, there is no evidence that this is what they will achieve. After all, Singapore has no child rights at all and yet has the second lowest infant mortality in the world (2.32, right behind Monaco at 1.78), low rates of child abuse and fewer people in income poverty.As MacDoctor suggests, the UN is driven by an evil ideology, viz: all the ills of mankind can be solved by government and its ministries.
In this particular case more government legislation, rules, interventions, committees, foundations, databases, and commissions superintended and intruding into family life will shore up and strengthen families. "NZ is bad because it does not have enough intrusive government is the basic refrain." One can think of nothing which is more devastating to family life. The more government asserts itself to become the uber-parent, the weaker family life becomes. Soon parents are living in perpetual infancy, looking to government as its wetnurse and nanny. We already have plenty of that in New Zealand--to where state dependence has become the heritage of generations. The UN wants to see more of it.
The UN is a morally bankrupt and wicked institution, existing solely for the glorification and deification of Man. It has no warrant in Scripture. As the world progressively Christianises, it will be gradually starved then dismembered. It is not something which we will likely live to see, but it will inevitably transpire. It, too, is an idol which will eventually "like broke in the temple of Baal".
In the meantime what we can rightfully expect is that our own Government would stand up and complete the kind of surgical dismembering of this UN report performed by MacDoctor. But our expectations, rightful or otherwise, will not be met. Why? Because New Zealand governments never criticise the UN, over anything. In overweening arrogance New Zealand diplomats, politicians, media, and other Beltway creatures see the UN as offering a way to increase New Zealand's influence in the world, opening up doors so that we can sit at the table with the Big Boys. Thus, never criticise, never resist. The powerbrokers at the UN may shut doors in our national face.
New Zealand has a very, very bad case of "short man's syndrome". Prattling on about "global governmental solutions to global problems", and glorying in the UN, is one way of compensating for our endemic cultural cringe.
The UN is a morally bankrupt and wicked institution, existing solely for the glorification and deification of Man. It has no warrant in Scripture. As the world progressively Christianises, it will be gradually starved then dismembered. It is not something which we will likely live to see, but it will inevitably transpire. It, too, is an idol which will eventually "like broke in the temple of Baal".
In the meantime what we can rightfully expect is that our own Government would stand up and complete the kind of surgical dismembering of this UN report performed by MacDoctor. But our expectations, rightful or otherwise, will not be met. Why? Because New Zealand governments never criticise the UN, over anything. In overweening arrogance New Zealand diplomats, politicians, media, and other Beltway creatures see the UN as offering a way to increase New Zealand's influence in the world, opening up doors so that we can sit at the table with the Big Boys. Thus, never criticise, never resist. The powerbrokers at the UN may shut doors in our national face.
New Zealand has a very, very bad case of "short man's syndrome". Prattling on about "global governmental solutions to global problems", and glorying in the UN, is one way of compensating for our endemic cultural cringe.
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Might we perhaps withdraw all funding to the UN and instead channel the money into promoting the stable institution of marriage and family values?
I'd normally suggest they go out and solve the bigger problems of child prostitution and child labour in countries without the same resources as New Zealand, but I suspect charity organisations would do a better job in that area anyway.
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