Global Deception: The U.N.’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom written by Joseph A. Klein, a practicing attorney who earned a J.D. with honors from Harvard law school where he studied constitutional law under the late Professor Archibald Cox, is a book that postulates that the United Nations (U.N.) has strayed meaningfully from its original founding principles.
The book has provoked a particularly good example of charge and countercharge, Keith Porter first criticises Klein in a column and Klein gets to respond. Porter responds and Klein has the last word. In this written debate between the author and Keith Porter, director of communication and outreach and executive radio producer for an international affairs policy and educational group in the American Midwest, Klein outlines the original mission of the U.N.
The United Nations was founded to bring sovereign nations together for the purpose of cooperating to solve common problems while taking collective action where warranted against threats to international peace and security.
Klein says the mission of the UN today has evolved:
The globalists (as I refer to them in Global Deception) had a different concept of what the U.N. should be. … they want the U.N. to serve as an instrument of global governance funded by a variety of global taxes.
Porter, who knows many good people working at the U.N. and many intelligent people working for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who work for much less than they would be paid in the private sector, says it’s easy to pick on the U.N.’s lofty goals. He writes:
American critics of the United Nations on the left feel the U.N. is well intentioned but ineffective. Critics on the right amplify the ineffectiveness theme - and they mix in a note of danger about how the U.N. is part of a conspiracy to erode American liberties and supersede national sovereignty in an attempt to take over the world.
Porter puts Klein down by saying that you can’t be both ineffective and a threat. Klein lays out his opinion of the U.N.’s threat that is heavily documented about people who thrive on their anti-Americanism. He believes, and offers evidence, that groups within the U.N. are pushing for global taxes, prohibition or severe restrictions on the possession of guns in our homes, exclusive authority to decide when collective military action is needed to repel aggression, and UN proposals for codes of behavior regarding adequate housing, the disabled, labor practices etc.
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