U.N. power grab exposed

John O'Sullivan, writing in National Review Online, calmly discusses

"an obscure document, now circulating in draft form among U.N. delegations, that calls on the assembled governments to re-affirm their support for the U.N.'s Millennium Declaration Goals and the other declarations of U.N. conferences over the past 30 years ..."

and if you believe in self-governance, liberty and the right of Americans to continue the experiment begun in 1776, his column will is alarming.

As it should be. Some good points he makes:

When bureaucrats seize power, they do it not with swords but with chloroform. ...

Alas, a reader who has the fortitude and diligence to plough through all of its 158 provisions will discover that its main thrust is to extend the U.N.'s power directly into countries and over the lives of citizens, corporations and private bodies. ...

The section on the environment commits governments to promoting something called "sustainable consumption." Consumption is your standard of living. If that commitment is not mere flapdoodle, it means that a government that endorses it will limit its citizens' standard of living in line with the U.N.'s view of its environmental sustainability. And we all know from other pronouncements that the U.N. and its agencies consider U.S. consumption to be unsustainable.

There's much more but you should read it yourself.