Wednesday, October 19, 2005

What Law?

Scientists from Britain, the United States, and South Korea are to announce in Seoul the formation of a World Stem Cell Foundation. The idea is to collect stem cells from cloned human embryos and sell them to researchers.
So much for banning stem cell research. They just go elsewhere.
Anything else you want banned, people? You'd think we would have learned from Prohibition. Ban alcohol, and people just go to Canada. Result - the Canadian liquor industry is STILL booming, 80 years later.
Today, you go to Amsterdam for drugs, to Singapore for virgins, and now to Seoul for stem cells.
There ought to be an international body that can create and enforce common laws. Oops, we've got one. Oops, we don't cooperate with it. Oops, we left it toothless. Oops, it's become corrupt without proper oversite.

Like it or not, we need a United Nations. A functional United Nations. We thought back in 1941 that the oceans could protect us from the rest of the world. We thought wrong. We were reminded of this on 9/11. We should have been reminded by Ebola, AIDS, and avian flu. We should have known after we had to send our National Guard just to pacify ONE of many terrorist breeding grounds.

A lot of my fellow conservatives are not going to like hearing about this. A lot of my fellow conservatives would like to have control of their own destinies, not have an international organization out there telling us what to do. Well, we've got to live with it, just like we have to live with a bloated federal government and an unweildy body of laws.
Because the alternative is gruesome.
The world is too small now. Everything affects us, from an outbreak in the Amazon rain forest to an uprising in Uzbekistan. We need to be able to influence these events, not just sit and watch our doom develop and be unable to do anything about it.

Kick the crooks out. Reform the hell out of the UN.
Then empower it and support it. Like it or not, we need the support.

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