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Bill to Get U.S. Out of UN Introduced in New Congress
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Amid growing outrage on both sides of the aisle surrounding the United Nations, legislation to get the U.S. government out of the UN and evict the scandal-plagued global body from the United States has been re-introduced in the new Congress. If approved, H.R.193,
better known as the “American Sovereignty Restoration Act,” would end
U.S. participation in and funding of the widely ridiculed “dictators
club” while protecting American sovereignty under the Constitution.
Support for the effort is spreading like wildfire.
As
in past years, the measure to defend the rights and self-government of
the American people from escalating UN attacks will undoubtedly face
intense opposition from entrenched globalists and the “swamp”
establishment. However, analysts and lawmakers believe the bill stands
its best ever chance of becoming law this session — especially under the anti-globalist,
anti-establishment Trump administration and a Congress that remains
incensed at a recent anti-Israel UN Security Council resolution targeting Jews in East Jerusalem and other areas.
On the campaign trail, Trump, whose campaign was equated with ISIS by a top UN bureaucrat,
lambasted the UN, saying it was “not a friend of freedom” or the United
States. He also vowed to “cancel” key UN agreements in office,
including the illegitimate “climate” regime concocted in Paris in 2015.
“When do you see the United Nations solving problems? They don't. They
cause problems,” President-elect Trump declared following the
controversial UN vote condemning Israeli settlements. “So, if it lives
up to the potential, it's a great thing, and if it doesn't, it's a waste
of time and money.”
Globalists appear to be taking Trump's rhetoric very seriously. “Global Governance” director Stewart Patrick with the establishment Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), for example, warned
recently that the UN was set to get “hammered” in the years ahead by
the hostile administration and GOP-controlled Congress. The CFR's Patrick, who responded to the systematic rape of children by UN “peace” troops by demanding more power for the UN, called for the UN to try to dupe Trump into believing that he could use the dictators club to “get things done.”
H.R.193
was re-introduced in the 115th Congress on January 3, the first day of
the new Congress, by Representative Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and a coalition
of liberty-minded lawmakers. While the full text of the legislation is
not yet available online, sources on Capitol Hill confirmed that the
bill was the same as H.R. 1205 of the 114th Congress, also known as the American Sovereignty Restoration Act. The new bill is currently going under the header, “To end membership of the United States in the United Nations.”
If
approved, the legislation would repeal the UN Participation Act of
1945, which authorized U.S. involvement, and shutter the U.S.
government’s mission to the outfit. It would also “terminate all
membership by the United States in the United Nations, and in any organ,
specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of
the United Nations.” That specifically includes UNESCO, which President
Ronald Reagan withdrew from, along with the World Health Organization,
the UN Environment Program (UNEP), the UN's dictator-controlled “Human Rights Council,” and more. It would end all U.S. involvement in all UN conventions and agreements, too.
The
proposed law, introduced in numerous Congresses in recent decades,
would also end all funding to the UN and all of its agencies — with the
estimated savings to taxpayers reaching as high as $10 billion per year,
and potentially even more. The legislation prohibits all U.S. military
involvement in UN “peacekeeping” schemes, too, creating a ban on U.S.
troops serving under UN command.
Finally,
following generations of espionage and subversion aimed at the United
States conducted by hostile foreign regimes under the guise of UN
“diplomacy,” the bill would evict the UN and its spy- and
dictator-infested headquarters from U.S. soil. It would also ban any use
of American government facilities by the global outfit, while stripping
UN bureaucrats and dignitaries of the diplomatic immunity that has
become synonymous among critics with the total impunity and lawlessness
that pervades the organization.
In a statement announcing
the bill in the last Congress, chief sponsor Representative Rogers
explained the reasons why he and many of his constituents in East
Alabama wanted to end U.S. government participation in the UN
immediately. “The U.N. continues to prove it’s an inefficient
bureaucracy and a complete waste of American tax dollars,” the
congressman said, echoing widespread concerns about the international
outfit expressed across America and worldwide.
Beyond
just being a waste, it is also a threat to U.S. interests, sovereignty,
allies, and liberties, the Alabama Republican warned. “Why should the
American taxpayer bankroll an international organization that works
against America’s interests around the world?” he asked. “The time is
now to restore and protect American sovereignty and get out of the
United Nations.”
The congressman cited attacks on U.S. liberties as a key motivation for the legislation.
“Although the United States makes up almost a quarter of the U.N.’s
annual budget, the U.N. has attempted a number of actions that attack
our rights as U.S. citizens,” he explained in the statement. “To name a
few, these initiatives include actions like the Law of the Sea Treaty,
which would subject our country to internationally based environmental
mandates, costing American businesses more money, or the U.N.’s work to
re-establish an international regulation regime on global warming which
would heavily target our fossil fuels.”
Indeed, the UN has in recent years become incredibly bold in attacking the rights of Americans,
and even the U.S. Constitution that enshrines those unalienable rights.
From attacks on free speech and gun rights to assaults on parental
rights and even America’s federalist system of limited government, the
UN and its member regimes have become increasingly aggressive during the
Obama years. It has also attacked U.S. independence like never before, with recently departed UN boss Ban Ki Moon claiming the UN was the “Parliament of Humanity” and that the radical UN Agenda 2030 was the new “Declaration of Interdependence.”
Representative
Rogers took special aim at a deeply controversial UN treaty infringing
on gun rights that has become a lightning rod for bipartisan opposition
across America. “The U.N. has also offered a potential Arms Trade Treaty
which would threaten our Second Amendment rights and impose regulations
on our gun manufacturers, who are already facing regulations and
pressure from the Obama Administration,” Rogers explained. That treaty,
ATT for short, would purport to require gun registration and eventually strict controls.
The ultimate aim is disarming civilians and leaving all weapons in the
hands of the UN and “authorized state parties” such as the
mass-murdering regimes enslaving North Korea, Zimbabwe, Cuba, China,
Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Venezuela, and other prominent UN members.
The
UN’s anti-Israel bias, which some critics on both sides of the aisle
have even dubbed systemic anti-Semitism, also attracted criticism from
Representative Rogers. “Lastly, the U.N. does not support Israel and
voted to grant the Palestinian Authority non-member state permanent
observer status,” he argued. “Anyone who is not a friend to our ally
Israel is not a friend to the United States.” Following the recent vote
on Israeli settlements, even leading globalists and neo-cons in Congress
have announced plans to defund the global organization.
Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a cosponsor of the bill, has also outlined
a wide array of reasons for the U.S. government to withdraw from the UN
in what he termed an “Amexit,” or American exit, after the
historic “Brexit” vote in Britain to exit the European Union. “Who would
be crazy enough to stay in the United Nations and pay the most for
their funding while it’s attended by Third World dictators who are
writing rules and regulations that are supposed to bind our country?”
asked the liberty-minded lawmaker in a radio interview promoting the
legislation last year.
He
also suggested that support in Congress for reining in the UN is strong
and growing stronger. “When it did come to a vote we came just 70 votes
short of cutting funding for the United Nations, and 70 votes is not a
lot,” he continued. “You know, you flip 35 votes and it’s passed, out of
435. I think there will be more attention paid to it as time goes on, I
think we’re going to pick up momentum. This was trending yesterday on
Facebook, this issue.” Indeed, polls show Americans are overwhelmingly
dissatisfied with the controversial global body, even in the face of an
establishment media that generally conceals the truth about the UN.
Congressman
Massie, one of the leading constitutional conservatives in Congress,
called on listeners to help ensure more cosponsors for the bill in the
U.S. House of Representatives to move it forward. Other cosponsors on
the latest bill include Congressmen Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Andy Biggs
(R-Ariz.), and Jason Smith (R-Mo.). More are expected. Last Congress,
establishment operatives on the House Foreign Affairs Committee were
able to keep the bill from moving. This time, with momentum growing
fast, that may be more difficult.
UN
estimates suggest that American taxpayers pay as much as $10 billion
per year to support the UN system and all of its tentacles, including
the scandal-plagued “peacekeeping” forces that have become infamous
around the world for raping and sexually exploiting children. That means
the United States, which is constantly being demonized and attacked for
its freedoms by the dictators club, pays more than some 185 other
nations — combined. In exchange, the United States is constantly
attacked by the UN for its constitutional protections.
Since
the American Sovereignty Restoration Act was introduced in the 114th
Congress, more than a few political heavyweights have echoed calls for a
full U.S. withdrawal. Among them is former Alaska governor and GOP vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has become increasingly vocal
since Brexit in calling for the United States to sever the UN “shackles”
binding America. “I called for our next president, Donald Trump, to
call for the unshackling of the political bands tying us to the UN,”
Palin said in a recent radio interview.
“It’s our money funding the lion’s share of the globalist circus. It’s
We the People needing to rise up and make this a part of the revolution
that we have just so benefited from.”
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), meanwhile, has also expressed a desire to dismantle the UN during
a campaign stop while a leading contender for the 2016 GOP presidential
nomination. “I dislike paying for something that two-bit Third World
countries with no freedom attack us and complain about the United
States,” explained the popular pro-liberty senator, the son of liberty
icon and former Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) who led the charge for an
Amexit in Congress during his long career as an undefeated
constitutionalist lawmaker. “There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t like
the UN, and I think I’d be happy to dissolve it.”
In addition to the effort to withdraw from the UN, U.S. lawmakers are also preparing an effort to defund the controversial global institution.
“I believe Congress should end U.S. taxpayer funding for the United
Nations unless and until the UN reverses this anti-Israel resolution,
and I believe there will be considerable support in Congress, I hope in
both parties, to do exactly that,” said Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas),
adding that the push would come “soon, very soon.” Even establishment lawmakers are joining the defunding bandwagon as demands for a U.S. withdrawal become mainstream.
Defunding
the UN may be a good interim step on the road to full withdrawal,
helping to neutralize the dictators club and the havoc it can wreak in
the coming months. However, cutting funds for the UN is no substitute
for a complete Amexit from the increasingly totalitarian global outfit.
For liberty and self-government to survive over the long haul, the UN
and its globalist agenda must be stopped. Thankfully, Americans now have
the best opportunity in generations to “Get the U.S. out of the UN”
and the UN out of the United States. It will take hard work and effort.
But setting the globalist establishment back by decades while
preserving American freedom and independence is well worth the price.
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