American National Sovereignty
vs. UN "International Law"-
Time for Congress to Vote
By Rep. Ron Paul, MD
Ron Paul in the US House of Representatives
April 29, 2003
Mr. Speaker, I rise to urge the leadership of this body
to bring a very important vote to the House floor. I
recently reintroduced HR 1146, the American Sovereignty
Restoration Act, which would end our participation in the
United Nations. Millions of Americans have begun to
question why we continue to spend $300 million each year
funding and housing an organization that is actively
hostile to American interests. Surely Congress, which
routinely spends 15 minutes renaming post offices, can
spare 15 minutes to vote on this fundamental issue of
American sovereignty.
Obviously many Americans now want to get out of the UN
because they resent its refusal to sanction our war in
Iraq. The administration deserves some credit for
ultimately upholding the principle that American national
security is not a matter of international consensus, and
that we don’t need UN authorization to act. But the
administration sent mixed signals by doing everything
possible to obtain such authorization, and by citing UN
resolutions as justification for our actions. The message
seems to be that the UN is credible when we control it and
it does what we want, but lacks all credibility when it
refuses to do our bidding.
Perhaps it’s time to stop trying to manipulate the UN, and
start asserting our national sovereignty.
If we do not, rest assured that the UN will continue to
interfere not only in our nation’s foreign policy matters,
but in our domestic policies as well. UN globalists are not
satisfied by meddling only in international disputes. They
increasingly want to influence our domestic environmental,
trade, labor, tax, and gun laws. UN global planners fully
intend to expand the organization into a true world
government, complete with taxes, courts, and possibly a
standing army. This is not an alarmist statement; these
goals are readily promoted on the UN’s own website. UN
planners do not care about national sovereignty; in fact
they are openly opposed to it. They correctly view it as an
obstacle to their plans. They simply aren’t interested in
our Constitution and republican form of government.
The choice is very clear: we either follow the Constitution
or submit to UN global governance. American national
sovereignty cannot survive if we allow our domestic laws to
be crafted or even influenced by an international body.
This needs to be stated publicly more often. If we continue
down the UN path, America as we know it will cease to exist.
Noted constitutional scholar Herb Titus has thoroughly
researched the United Nations and its purported "authority."
Titus explains that the UN Charter is not a treaty at all, but
rather a blueprint for supranational government that directly
violates the Constitution. As such, the Charter is neither
politically nor legally binding upon the American people or
government. The UN has no authority to make "laws" that bind
American citizens, because it does not derive its powers from
the consent of the American people. We need to stop speaking
of UN resolutions and edicts as if they represented legitimate
laws or treaties. They do not.
In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I’m merely asking House leadership
to schedule vote on HR 1146. Americans deserve to know how
their representatives stand on the critical issue of American
sovereignty.
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.
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