Typical, isn’t it? Create a world-spanning organisation to keep the peace and put yourself, along with the rest of the group who won the last local disturbance, in charge. Next thing you know it’s being run by a terrorist loon who wants to abolish Switzerland.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the United Nations has declared Bolivian President Evo Morales as “World Hero of Mother Earth” and misery-inducing, freedom-strangling Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “World Hero of Solidarity.”

Hans Bader at OpenMarket.org writes: The award was presented to Castro by the President of the UN General Assembly, Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann. Brockmann also successfully lobbied the Obama Administration to demand that Honduras allow the return to power of its ex-president and would-be dictator, Manuel Zelaya. (Two months ago, soldiers acting on orders of Honduras’s Supreme Court arrested Zelaya after he systematically abused his powers. After the Court quite legally declared that Zelaya was no longer president, he was duly replaced by Honduras’s Congress with a civilian, the Congressional Speaker). The Obama Administration recently decided to impose sanctions on Honduras, and indicated it will not recognize future democratic elections in Honduras unless Honduras first lets ex-president Zelaya return to power.

 Marxism seems to be back in fashion in Washington these days.

Can we have our ball back please? Rather like that other supranational club with pretentions of grandeur the EU – this isn’t funny any more. If you children want to be silly then can we have our membership fee back and leave?