Happy U.N. Day. Mahmoud to Sing. *groan.

I hear it's UN day. What a great time to celebrate all the good the UN has done. Like... 

Stopping genocide and promote practical peace... Okay, maybe not. 

Speaking out against tyrants and refusing despots a platform from which they can attack Israel and the West... Oh, wait. No. 

Backing a coalition of Western democracies, led by the US, in their operation to free tortured Iraqis from over two decades of Saddam Hussein's murderous madness... Yeah. No. They weren't exactly on board there.   

Protecting and upholding the rights of women by rejecting the membership of oppressive Islamic regimes... No. They didn't quite do that, did they?  

The UN has failed. Only the most liberal progressive Bono channelling social trendy would delude themselves that this corrupt and useless body has achieved anything but, at the best - petty symbolism, at the worst - a dias for the diatribe despots. 

The UN is useless and redundant. Nations lived in peace alongside each other for centuries before the UN was formed. There was never a need for it. 

UN treaties are useless. They are not binding under US law. They do not override the constitution. Nor are they binding under Australian law. 

Why should we Aussies even give them the time of day when they shamelessly compare us to Apartheid era South Africa http://m.smh.com.au/world/un-rights-chief-slams-racist-australia-20110526-1f4yy.html 

Of course the UN Human rights chief made those statements at a time when women were being raped in the Congo; Christians were being persecuted in Nigeria, Iran, Yemen, North Korea; and the people of Cuba, Myanmar, Laos and North Korea were living under military, communist dictatorships. 

I will always have a deep dislike of the UN. Not just for their libellous smearing of my country - which, I remind you, was founded under peaceful circumstances, has never suffered through a civil war, never allowed legalised slavery, and is today ranked in the top ten of world's best economies and democracies. And I mean REAL democracies. Not "Democratic" Republic of Congo democracies. 

No. My dislike of the UN is born from hearing of the millions of lost and hopeless people - many of the atheists - who turn to the UN with wide eyes and radiant auras; hoping for change and looking to the bright future. Poor, blind leftists. Actually, that isn't fair. Most of them are probably 11 and 12 year olds who have been brainwashed by an activist teacher. I don't have the heart to tell them the truth. Maybe they'll read this and find out. 

It can be tough to learn that the "saints" and "saviours" you look up to aren't all they seem. 

Happy U.N. day.