A Halloween Boo to UNICEF
With Halloween upon us, what could be sweeter than urging your kids to skip the candy and instead collect coins for UNICEF? It’s a grand old tradition, and many of us did it as kids. Even among UN critics, UNICEF — the UN’s children’s fund — often gets a pass as an outfit which must by nature be benevolent and politically benign. It is, after all, dedicated (at least in theory) to children.
Think again. UNICEF may qualify as a brilliant exercise in branding, and it trades on this to hoover up spare change everywhere from hotels to restaurants to airplane flights — all in the name of needy children. But UNICEF itself is no wide-eyed innocent. It is a big UN fund, bathing in government money (more than $255 million last year in U.S. tax dollars alone), and as such it is prone to the same hypocrisies, Potemkin platitudes, and politicized travesties that bedevil the rest of the UN.
For a summing up, it ought to be enough to note that among the 36 member states on UNICEF’s executive board is China — where the one-child policy has led to staggering numbers of sex-selective abortions, and in some cases, the killing of baby girls. Because the UN values geographic diversity, rather than moral integrity, in parceling out seats on its governing boards, UNICEF’s executive board also includes Somalia, Sudan, Belarus, Russia, and Cuba.
What about UNICEF’s policies? Blogger Yid With Lid has just posted a good rundown of some of the problems, under the headline “This Halloween Please Don’t Give Money to Pro-Terror Anti-Capitalism UNICEF!!” The list includes UNICEF’s fondness for Libya’s late Moammar Qaddafi; UNICEF’s funding of Palestinian summer camps where kids are encouraged to become suicide bombers; and anti-Semitic propaganda such as an advertisement produced by a UNICEF-funded Palestinian youth group, featuring the UNICEF logo under a picture of an axe smashing a Star of David, with the command, in Arabic, “Boycott.”
To this, I can add some further items, such as UNICEF’s announcement on its own web site that, partners being “an essential aspect of UNICEF’s work,” its main partner in North Korea is the North Korean government. That would be the same North Korean government whose totalitarian and utterly self-serving policies have resulted in the stunting and starving to death of millions of North Koreans — a great many of those victims being children.
A troop of Girl Scouts would be more responsible with it’s funds that any of the UN organizations. The corruption of the various agencies is on a breath-taking scale.
Wow! Finally!!! Someone has noticed that our United Nations is mostly an anti-freedom organization designed to give totalitarian tyrants some cover of respectibility. When are we going to demand that U.S. tax dollars be denied to those that deny the brilliance of our founding documents. Is the First Amendment really something that can be compromised? Or the Second Amendment? To listen to Euroweenies and UN scammers you’d think that Americans only have to bend a little on these to have whirled peas. Ain’t happending. I hope our leaders are starting to wake up but I’m guessing that we won’t hear a word about it for the remaining of the silly election season.
Thanks Claudia for unmasking another fraudulent UN organization… something else you’ll never read in the MSM. Shame the world not only turns a blind eye to the the truth, but helps promote this evil by even using kids & Halloween candy to front for its evil agenda. Please keep promulgating the truth & maybe US taxpayers will finally revolt to subsidising this tyrants’paradise.
Still think halloween is a benign holiday that’s fun for kids? There are two kingdoms operating in the world today; the Kingdom of Light and the knigdom of darkness. You can’t serve both. Dressing your little kids up as demons and taking them out to shake down the neighbors for candy, desensitises them to the evils of this world, which will come back to haunt them (pun intended). In this article, the covering has been removed to expose the monster, or at least one of its many characteristics.
My company has little UNICEF boxes all over the place collecting Money for children. Its such a shame that this company is supporting this organization all in the name of Children. They don’t see what is really going on in the world.
I have never given to any UN organization other than my taxes. I don’t support it and never will. God Bless Claudia for this great article on the UN and UNICEF.
I, too, had similar Halloween experience to yours, Claudia–and just yesterday, working with a friend; I voiced my objection akin to yours (although my knowledge of the UN does not compare)!
How much uglier can an international organization–originated for the benefit of human rights worldwide–become?! Please, God, let us leave; the taxpayers have been swindled enough by the many criminals involved in the “United Nations”.
Nancy Joyce.
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2518/united-nations-slavery
powerful truth about UN
Portraying smashing a Star of David with an accompanying call to boycott as anti-Semitic is like saying I hate ethnic Russians cuz I’m against their gov’t.
I’d be in favor of a pic showing the Congressional Black Congress logo being smashed and calling for them to be marginalized in Congress – La Raza cut off too; do I hate black folks and Latinos? An authoritative answer one way or the other needs some mind-reading.
Today’s Outrage Award goes to UNICEF’s sister agency UNESCO, which today voted to accept Palestine as a member (though it’s not a state). That should trigger a US cutoff of funds, but no doubt Obama and Clinton are trying to find a way around that cutoff. Among UNESCO’s own outrages: declaring two Jewish holy sites – the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb – to be “mosques”.
They’ll cut off funds.
It’s an election year.
(But God help Israel if/when Obama doesn’t have to worry about re-election.)
Every year we usually get one or two kids collecting for UNICEF.
I never give them one single dime, just candy.
I am sick and tired of “for the children” being used an excuse for all sorts of mischief and tyranny.
IKEA and other stores sell UNICEF Christmas cards. I wonder if they realize what they’re pushing?
The politicization of UNICEF and other UN bodies is disgraceful. What would be a viable alternative to placating dictators in order to access their hungry children in order to deliver food, vaccines and other urgently needed supplies?