Happy Birthday to the United Nations

That's right. The folks that brought you the "oil for food" scandal, the "sex for food" scandal and most recently, the Kyoto cash transfer scandal is preparing for celebrations for it's 60th Anniversery.

They've declared October 24, 2005 to be UN Day!

I'm so excited. I wonder if they'll have cake...

Well, to help them celebrate I've got two videos for you to watch.

The first is a short infomercial produced by the NRA that highlites the UN's part in the failed gun control programs in Canada, Austraila, the UK and their current efforts in the US. George Soros is involved and that means that our own Maurice Strong can't be that far away. You'll also see a surprising connection between UNICEF and the gun bans. Run time is approximately 11 minutes. If you only ever watch one bit of video I post, please watch this one.

The second is a trailer for a documentary titled "Broken Promises - The United Nations at 60". This one highlites the UN's incompetance and should be watched as well. Better yet, buy the video and pass it around to your friends...

I'm not the only one thinking about the UN this weekend. Kate at SDA discusses the inept Stephen Lewis, Locusts & Honey and Let it Bleed tear into the UN over it's stand on Syria and some interesting recent developments. Over in Thomas Paine's Corner, it's arms control. Finishing up our little round-up we have the Coalition for Darfur talking about the UN's success (not) in the Darfur region, Elisa at Boxer Watch shows us what a lib-left US Senator thinks about the UN and Cool Blue who mocks the UN's own status reports.

ADDITION: The folks over ate Right Wing Nation have a wonderful idea for making UN Day a little brighter for all of us...

I didn't see any UN articles posted within the open trackback thread at Stop the ACLU yet so I'm going to post it there as well. For the uninitiated, the UN and ACLU have some very congruant objectives...