Ever go on a blind date?  Or maybe you’ve heard stories from your friends?   Sometimes you do it as a favor, or maybe it actually sounds like you’ll have a good time.  And maybe you do.  Maybe you even feel pretty good afterwards.  But later on you discover something that makes you want to puke in your boots. 

Well say hello to the ONE campaign, a media darling, politician attracting, anti-poverty organization that held a recent confab at Saint Anselm college,  and whose fundamental purpose should make anyone on the political right want to puke in their boots. 

How to break this gently.  Remember Senator Barack Obama’s 2007 Senate Bill S 2433?  That billwould require the US government to give a percentage of total US GDP every year to fight global poverty.  Obama wrote the bill to satisfy his socialist desire to (tax) redistribute America’s wealth through federal legislation to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG).  And ONE campaign is part and parcel to that mission.

Here’s where that comes from, courtesy of MGD monitor.

8.1 Net ODA, total and to the least developed countries, as percentage of OECD/DAC donors’ gross national income.

MDG’s objectives run contrary to most if not all conservative principles, cloaked in third world initiatives.  That’s not to say that some of the objectives are bad, or that most of the people associated directly even see the contradictions, but what people think they are doing by supporting—or being seen to support—groups like ONE, ONE vote, and any of the other social justice organizations is giving them credibility and expanding their reach.  What they want is good, but how they want to do it is bad. 

And ONE is nothing more than the culmination of Social Justice Groups peddling poverty to advance the UN’s Millennium Development program.

 Is it a big deal?  It is.

ONE brags about how it, in conjunctions with Global Call To Action Against Poverty (GCAP), milked a promise of 25 Billion from western countries to advance their efforts.   GCAP is at the top of the list of non UN groups pushing the MDG.  Groups that Senator Obama was prepared to fund through federal legislation with a mandatory tax on American GDP, whether we liked it or not. 

That bill never got out of committee but the effort has not ceased.  Groups like ONE continue to attract politicians who want to be seen as or associated with “ending poverty,” and working “with them” to develop goals (legislation) that will eventually tax gross national income and divert that wealth into the UN’s social justice initiatives.

And US politicians continue to propose bills to that end.  In 2009 US House Rep Adam Smith D-WA took up Obama’s spear of redistribution and sponsored HR 2639, The Global Poverty Act of 2009, for the purpose of  “promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal…” 

I’m sure there’s a 2010 version brewing somewhere as well.  And I know Obama has not stopped wanting it.  But to facilitate the smoke screen groups like ONE campaign, in conjunction with organizations like GCAP and others, haveto work the political will, cloaked with high profile celebrity endorsements, by focusing on poverty, without revealing the contradictions.  Their agenda is more than it appears to be, and they have no problem hiding behind world hunger to advance their socialist redistributive solutions.

Conservatives understand that the only thing that lifts people out of poverty is a stable government committed to rule of law, the right to own property, the right to self defense, free markets and open trade, and some form of representative government.   These are things we should support and strive for.  But the UN MDG does none of these things, nor do they or the associated groups(Like ONE) seem to desire them.   And why would they.  The despots and dictators at the UN only want the money.  They want to balance out wealth and resources courtesy of taxing or guilting the US to part with it, and then throw it at the “problem,” hoping that brute force and the appearance of good will, can make it better.  But without fundamentalrights, protected by law, no amount of money will solve these problems.

So if you were at that ONE event, you might want to start working on your plausible deniability.  ONE is part of the UN MDG and  seeks to divert wealth (Social Justice), institute global environmental regulations and the control of CO2 emissions (environmental justice), as well as creating mandated funded mechanisms for the UN which also seeks to implement the rights of the child, rights to development, UN education mandates, international Human rights laws, and even a global ban on hand guns.  

And you thought you were just shining up your “feed the hungry” creds by showing up at the ONE confab?  Talk about a blind date gone bad.

ONE campaign is a poison pill for conservatives and small government republicans, and they’d do well to keep their distance in the future.