[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9949-9950]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge the leadership of this 
body to bring a very important vote to the House floor.
  I recently introduced H.R. 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 U.N. because 
they resent its refusal to sanction our war in Iraq. The administration 
deserves some credit for ultimately upholding the principle that 
American national sovereignty is not a matter of international 
consensus and that we do not need U.N. authorization to act.
  But the administration sent mixed signals by doing everything 
possible to obtain such authorization, and by citing U.N. resolutions 
as justification for our actions. The message seems to be that the 
United Nations 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 is time to stop trying to manipulate the United Nations 
and start asserting our national sovereignty. If we do not, rest 
assured that the United Nations will continue to interfere, not only in 
our foreign policy, but in our domestic policies, as well. U.N. 
globalists are not satisfied by meddling only in international 
disputes; they increasingly want to influence our domestic, 
environmental, trade, labor, tax, and gun laws.
  U.N. global planners fully intend to expand the organization into a 
true world government, complete with taxes, courts, and possibly a 
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army. This is not an alarmist statement; these goals are readily 
promoted under on the U.N.'s own Web site.
  U.N. planners do not care about national sovereignty. In fact, they 
are openly hostile toward it. They correctly view it as an obstacle to 
their plans. They simply are not interested in our Constitution and 
Republican form of government.
  The choice is very clear: we either follow the Constitution, or 
submit to U.N. 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 U.N. path, America, as we know it, will cease 
to exist.

                              {time}  1930

  Noted constitutional scholar Herb Titus has thoroughly researched the 
United Nations and its purported authority. Titus explains that the 
U.N. charter is not a treaty at all but rather a blueprint for a 
supernational government that directly violates the Constitution. As 
such, the charter is neither politically nor legally binding upon the 
American people or Government. The U.N. 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 U.N. 
resolutions and edicts as if they represented legitimate laws or 
treaties. They do not.
  In conclusion, Mr. Speaker, I am merely asking House leadership to 
schedule a vote on H.R. 1146, the American National Sovereignty Act. 
Americans deserve to know how their representatives stand on the 
critical issue of American sovereignty.

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