To the editor:

The United Nations under the leadership of Kofi Annan is trying to assume a one-world government. Annan and the United Nations are no friends of the United States and, above all, are not responsible for the security and defense of either our Constitution or us. Some of the U.N. treaties are even pre-empting our Constitution. Mr. Annan wants the International Criminal Court to “have unquestioned authority and the widest possible jurisdiction.”

In a speech at Notre Dame, Annan smeared the United States as “a greedy nation” and has also supported a global tax to support the United Nations.

Annan supports worldwide gun control, yet, at the same time, his bodyguards carry submachine guns to protect the secretary general. He does not recognize Taiwan as an independent state and stands firm on his one-China policy. Under his stead the United States was kicked out of the U.N. Human Rights Commission while Libya led it.

On Sept. 5, 2000, the United Nations convened its session and designated it as the Millennium Assembly and constructed a Millennium Declaration. Part of this declaration calls for managed development by the United Nations in lieu of free enterprise and markets. The tactics and doctrines of Annan are nothing short of Marxist.

In reply to John Bond, what should really be taught in our schools is truth and how hard-fought our American independence was.

Robert M. Tyler,

Ozawkie