Several years ago I checked out a book about the United Nations being a Trojan Horse. In many ways I found it to be written from the right brain point of view and lacking in what was really necessary to make the point the author was trying for. Included in the book was a very interesting story about UN Day at a college and the ruckus they attempted to raise in order to expose the Communist roots of the UN.

     They wanted to alert everybody to the fact that the United Nations was going to subvert the sovereignty of the United States. They were told that they could not harass anyone going in or out and they had to stay out of the building. They could however engage in discussions and hand out their pamphlets, etc. They fought that limitation tooth and nail. I can’t really say that I blame them for their efforts either. UN Day is the day before the anniversary of the 1917 October revolution using the old calendar. Interesting isn’t it, an indoctrination held on the day before the anniversary of the Communist Revolution. The Communists celebrate it on the 25th of October, even though it is popularly stated to be on the 14th of October.

     Now back to that fateful day….. The anti-UN crowd was energized and had unfortunately alerted the UN crowd that something was in the offing. In the morning the anti-UN folks arrived with their signs, pamphlets and soap boxes ready to champion freedom. They knew they were right and intended to settle for nothing less than victory and setting the record straight. They intended to make sure everyone knew what the United Nations was all about. There was a bit of a problem however.

     As they all gathered they could see that the United Nations flag was flying over the United States flag. Immediately the pamphlets and soap boxes were jettisoned in favor of more direct action. The groups fanned out and tried to get hold of unavailable administrators, politicians and anyone else they could think of to remove this insult. The entire day was spent dealing with this egregious affront to common civility, mom and apple pie.

     The numerous children, or shall I say young adults, arrived and went to their little UN indoctrination and learned all of the warm fuzziness that has brought us nothing but war since it came into being. At the end of the day the kids all went home having learned the UN’s side of the world view. That was all they learned that day too.

     What happened to the opposing view? Unfortunately they got short circuited by a much sharper adversary. They spent the entire day trying to remove an affront to their delicate sensibilities. Not one speech was made. Not one pamphlet was handed out. Their enemy had been alerted because they didn’t think about what they would and would not be allowed to do in advance. Because of that the enemy was more prepared than they were. The enemy had located their hot button and it wasn’t hard to do it either. These people were reacting out of patriotism and all they had to do was set that on edge….so they did. They caused their adversary to wrap themselves around an issue that ticked them off. The patriots went to work to try to undo what they perceived as a horrible wrong. What they did was absolutely stupid and it was a waste of time. People who have hot buttons have no place in situations such as this because they can be damaging to their cause.

     What could have been done? I would have shot tons of film showing the flag in its’ wrongful position. I would have had a lot of pictures of who took the flag down and carefully stowed it away. The chances would be pretty good they would be the ones that put it up that way in the first place. The editorials I would have written would have been slanted that way at least. Everyone upon whom I could possibly smear it would be named even if they were only remotely involved in the entire little UN promotional event. I would have cheerfully named those names along with the name of Alger Hiss and all of the other scum who were involved in the very formation of the UN. I would have pointed out the numerous similarities to all of them.

     But those would have been the things I would have done afterwards. What about while it was going on in there? I would have gotten every parent and veteran in the area to come and see what they had going on there. The VFW would have been contacted for sure so they could do the rest of the contacting for me. It would not have gone unnoticed. When everyone came out? I would have used their tool against them! I would have pointed out where that flag was flying in relation to ours and I would have used it as an instructive tool. I wouldn’t have wasted my time trying to remove the evidence. That was all they did. They had evidence of what they were there to prove, and like a bunch of fools spent the entire day trying to erase it rather than use it to their own advantage.

     Not very good strategists were they?!