Unfortunately, what starts in academia, unlike Vegas vacations, does not stay there, or even repose in the United States. In our end-of-the-year reviews, we feel that we must take special notice of a quartet of professors who have been actively working to erode American national sovereignty through the sort of proposals that come dangerously close to becoming reality no matter how conceptually divorced they are from it.
Probably the mildest of the lot is Father J. Bryan Hehir, now at Harvard, who argues that “We have moved from sovereignty to intervention but you will always have sovereignty because that is how you get admitted to the UN.”
DePaul University law professor M. Cherif Bassiouni designed the International Criminal Court (ICC), as Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media notes. The ICC is a UN creation that largely looks upon the U. S. as a felonious party.
Bassiouni moonlights as a war crimes expert for the UN. We have been unable to uncover any instance in which he found communist governments guilty of such injustices.
From his perch at American University, former Carter Administration official Robert Pastor works feverishly to create a North American Union among the U. S., Canada and Mexico. “Of course Mexico doesn’t like us,” he said at a panel last year that Mary Kapp covered for AIA’s Campus Report monthly newsletter. “We stole one-third of their country.”
Speaking of theft, Pastor noted of the South-of-the-border variety, “ When a police officer gets paid $100 a month, and he is dealing with people who get three or four million per drug transaction, it is hard to keep him honest.” As former U. S. House Majority Leader Richard Armey likes to say, “When you make a deal with the devil you are always the junior partner.”
University of Miami law professor Bernard Oxman uses his spare time—a luxury academics have way too much of—to tweak and promote the UN Law of the Sea Treaty. “The web site of University of Miami law professor Bernard H. Oxman claims he is an arbitrator of choice of some of the 150 nations that signed onto the two-decade-old pact that Ronald Reagan refused to put his presidential signature on,” this correspondent pointed out last October.
Oxman admitted in congressional testimony last Fall that under LOST, the UN could arbitrate disputes between nations.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
