NEW HAMPSHIRE INTRODUCES RESOLUTION TO GET US OUT OF UN (Claims U.N. violates State's rights.)

New Hampshire Senate ^

[Happy2BMe]

2005 SESSION

05-0002

05/01

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 1

A RESOLUTION urging Congress to withdraw the United States from the United Nations.

SPONSORS: Rep. Albert, Straf 1; Rep. Matthew Quandt, Rock 13; Rep. Hawkins, Hills 18; Rep. Buhlman, Hills 27; Rep. Headd, Rock 3; Sen. Boyce, Dist 4; Sen. Roberge, Dist 9

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

ANALYSIS

This resolution urges Congress to withdraw the United States from the United Nations.

05-0002

05/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five

A RESOLUTION urging Congress to withdraw the United States from the United Nations.

Whereas, the United States is the greatest nation in the world and is known for its compassionate people who are generous and kind in caring for the needs of those in other countries and whose resources are used worldwide to alleviate hunger and poverty; and

Whereas, the United States is called upon to defend the rights and freedoms of people in other nations as only we have the capacity to do so as a world superpower; and

Whereas, these responsibilities create an immense burden on the citizens of this country, many of whom are in need and living in poverty themselves; and

Whereas, United States military forces are called upon to bear the brunt of any conflicts that may arise while other nations stay on the sidelines and expect the United States to fight its battles; and

Whereas, the United States provides the largest share of the financial burden for the United Nations, paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year that could be used to address many of the nation's challenges, including homelessness, education, law enforcement, poverty, a strong military, and the war against terrorism; and

Whereas, many of the members of the United Nations are not friendly to the United States and support many things that are detrimental to the country and against its interests, yet expect the United States to provide the finances and manpower to solve all of the world's problems, even putting the lives of the nation's military forces in danger; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the New Hampshire general court respectfully but firmly requests that the United States Congress:

I. Take measures to dissolve the membership of the United States in the United Nations, thereby freeing the nation from a large financial burden and retaining its sovereignty to decide what is best for the country; and

II. Take the steps that it considers appropriate as the leader of the free world, with full control of its armed forces and destiny; and

That a copy of this resolution, signed by the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate, be forwarded by the house clerk to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and the members of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.

[Happy2BMe]

Addendum: Whereas we are being raped in broad daylight at the town square on main street by the likes of Kofi Anan - GET US THE HELL OUT OF THE UNITED NATIONS - NOW!

[Happy2BMe]

New Hampshire is putting their money where their mouth is - they are making official moves to get the U.S. out of the (endlessly corrupt) United Nations - ping.

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Whereas, these (United Nations) responsibilities create an immense burden on the citizens of this country, many of whom are in need and living in poverty themselves; and

[Tarpaulin]

I hope this resolution passes.

[Happy2BMe]

CIA: Saddam Bought Off Countries, People with Oil

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"But it was the weasels who scuppered any return to business-as-usual. Messrs Chirac and de Villepin barely paused for breath before moving on from their pre-war sabotage programme to a revised post-war sabotage programme."

"Do you think his lawyers will speak French?"

Don't sweat it Saddam, your lawyers on his way, and your punk Chirac has already said he's willing to post the bail.

"Within France and its client states!!"

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The United Nations Wants to TAX you!

"Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali ... urged the [UN] to consider imposing its own taxes to become less dependent on the United States...."

-Washington Times, January 16, 1996

Are you concerned that...
...numerous taxation schemes to finance the UN are being considered?

Economist James Tobin proposed in 1972 that the UN be the recipient of a tax of 0.05% on foreign exchange transactions. In 1993, the Ford Foundation produced Financing an Effective United Nations, a report containing recommendations that the UN tax airline traffic, shipping, and arms sales. In 1995, the UN-funded Commission on Global Governance suggested that the UN collect levies from those who use "flight lanes, sea lanes for ships, ocean fishing areas, and the electromagnetic spectrum." Ultimately, of course, the burden of all taxation falls on consumers.

Are you concerned that...
...a State Department study specifically proposed giving the UN taxing power and, ultimately, control of the world?

In 1962, the State Department financed a study entitled "A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations." The report outlined what would be needed for such a total world government: "a mandatory universal membership," an ability to use "physical force," and "compulsory jurisdiction" of its courts. One of the UN's "principle features," stated the report, would be "enforceable taxing powers." (Emphasis added.)

Are you concerned that...
...no matter how much our nation gives, the UN will never be satisfied?

In addition to hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid, our nation has provided the UN with tens of billions more for its programs since 1945. Currently, U.S. contributions make up 25% of the UN's annual budget. But, in his May 2001 speech at Notre Dame University, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan complained with a typical anit-American attitude, "It is shameful that the United States ... should be one of the least generous in terms of helping the world's poor."

Are you concerned that...
...taxing authority would fuel an unaccountable UN Superstate?

Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said of a UN tax: "We would not be under the daily financial will of member states who are unwilling to pay up." UN Founder Harlan Cleveland made the same point in Futures: Rather than relying on "the worn-out policy of year-to-year decisions by individual governments" (about how much to give the UN), "what's needed is a flow of funds for development which are generated automatically under international control." And there would be no Congress to limit the UN's appetite for your tax dollars!

The United Nations Wants to Take Your Land!
"Private land ownership ... contributes to social injustice.... Public control of land use is therefore indispensable."

- United Nations "Habitat I" Conference Report, 1976

Are you concerned...
...that the UN is militantly anti-property rights?

The UN is dominated by socialist, communist, and other collectivist regimes that are hostile to private property, the basis of our freedom and prosperity. Karl Marx wrote in the Communist Manifesto that "the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property." Marx continued: "In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend."

Are you concerned...
...that the UN intends to carry out Marx's plan?

In true Marxist fashion, the report of the UN "Habitat I" Conference declares that private land ownership "contributes to social injustice.... Public control of land use is therefore indispensable...." Agenda 21, the UN's massive environmental manifesto, envisions a UN empowered to control and micro-manage our planetary environment and the actions of every person on Earth. It says: "All countries should undertake a comprehensive national inventory of their land resources" and "develop national land-management plans." The UN's Assessment would "reallocate" property rights and have "stakeholder groups," instead of property owners, make decisions on private land use.

Are you concerned...
...that our own U.S. government is adopting many of the UN's anti-property rights and policies and treaties?

The U.S. has signed Agenda 21 and has begun implementing the UN's "Wildlands Project," an incredible plan to push millions of Americans off their land to make vast nature preserves out of half of the nation. Also, under the UN's 1988 Convention on Narcotics, the U.S. has adopted unconstitutional "asset forfeiture" laws that allow seizure of property without due process.

Are you concerned...
...that UN treaties could destroy our heritage of freedom?

Nobel Prizewinning economist, Friedrich A. Hayek, noted that "the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves."

[Happy2BMe]

I can't believe it's coming out of a liberal state. I applaud the people of New Hampshire (a rarity for me.)

[G.Mason]

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

The ayes have it!

[Tarpaulin]

If it does pass, I'll be interested to see if it even sparks a comment from the federal government.

[followerofchrist]

Right on New Hampshire!

[Enterprise]

Wow! And from New Hamstershire! Did hell freeze over?

[Happy2BMe]

TSUNAMI AID AMERICA’S GOT THE BUCKS AMERICA IS EVIL

[B4Ranch]

ping

Here's hopng this spreads like AIDS did and kills the UN ASAP

[Eastbound]

BUMP the UN off-shore and use the building for a veteran's home.

[backhoe]

Thanks- I'll link to this.

[Enterprise]

The first cartoon is something I have expressed also. But the cartoon expresses it better!

[Happy2BMe]

"Spread like AIDS did and kills the U.N."

AIDS has proven very difficult to kill.

BTTT

[Borges]

Isn't NH the capital of Libertarianism though?

[Poser]

This won't pass, but thanks Rep. Russ Albert of Rochester, New Hampshire for submitting it to the NH House.

Russ is a 3 time purple heart recipient (Korean conflict) and a member of the Strafford County Republican delegation.

Good work Russ.

[Happy2BMe]

See #17

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Get US Out Ping!

[Prime Choice]

NEW HAMPSHIRE INTRODUCES RESOLUTION TO GET US OUT OF UN (Claims U.N. violates State's rights.)

Who are the sponsors of this resolution and when are they running for President?

[I'm ALL Right!]

AYE!

[JustAnotherSavage]

New Hampshire? Who would have thougt! Good on them.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Good move!!! The sooner, the better!!!

[libs_kma]

How long do we have to wait for this one to get stuck in committee like Ron Pauls H.R. 1146??

[26lemoncharlie]

We have to start Banging on the doors of Congress and the White House!! We may have to make a trip to Washington to get this job done!! Get the US Out of the UN and the UN out of the US.

End all treaties and agreements, as they should be Illegal and Unconstitutional. No one has the right, permission or the authority to negotiate away the Sovereignty of the United States or the Rights of it's Citizens!!

[Paperdoll]

"Spread like AIDS did and kills the U.N."

>AIDS has proven very difficult to kill<

All it takes is abstention. I doubt the UN is addictive so let's just abstain and that will kill it.

[MeekOneGOP]

To Kofi Annan with love,

Bart

[libertyman]

Adding the introduction of this Respolution into the NH Senate, plus the state's voting for Kerry in the '04 election, makes me wonder if the Free State Project (as well as what seems to be an increasing # of Constitutionists into the state) are beginning to have a statewide impact.

LET'S REALLY HOPE SO. From what I've noticed so far, I don't think Kerry won NH--instead, Bush LOST NH because the smaller-government voters are sticking to principle & are voting for those who insist on cutting the federal government down to its Constitutional limits rather than voting for a big-government Republicans like President Bush. If that causes a socialist like Kerry to win the states' electoral votes, then too bad--maybe the GOP should become more like the New Hampshire Senate rather than having these 3rd Party voters vote GOP.

Live Free or Die!!!!!

[libertyman]

uhhhhhhhhhh.....what's wrong w/ that?

They might be, if you wanna look at it that way: they're the state chosen as the place the members of the Free State Project decided to move to, because of its small population size, it's strong ties to traditional family values, strong support for the 2nd Amendment, & no state income tax.

I wish the FSP a great deal of success...now only if I could move there!!!!!!! (This pro-Confederate Arkie boy would be welcome up in THAT part of Yankee territory, wouldn't he?).

[Texas_Jarhead]

BUMPMARK

[late bloomer]

I would further venture to lead a committee of citizens that will raise funds to purchase a barge of sufficient size, that when moored on the west bank of the East River will be able to accommodate the entire UN building sawed off at its base with some room to spare.
Thence proceeding southbound under the Manhattan Bridge, The Stately Brooklyn Bridge, around the Battery to Liberty Island, it will stop temporarily and have the statue of liberty added to its cargo it will then proceed across the Atlantic to the coast of Normandy where both edifices will be ceremoniously rolled into the surf on Omaha Beach to lie forever below the cliff at the American Cemetary at Colleville-sur Mer.

[alessandrofiaschi]

I'm surprised too!

PING!

[an italian]

Can Italy join you?

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Southack]

It sounds great, but in practice it would be tremendously STUPID to give up our UN veto by leaving.

Such a bone-headed move would permit the Tallyrands of the world to outmaneuver the U.S. in global geo-politics; we'd find the international equivilent of union strikes against us as well as treaties that excluded us from certain types of trade...or that singled us out for tariffs.

It would also screw Israel, a nation that depends upon our UN veto to keep Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East from combining to wipe it out politically, economically, and even militarily.

Sometimes "feel good" politics make for bad policy.

If you want to kill the UN, then simply advocate the the U.S. veto *everything* that the UN wants. Grind that place to a halt.

But you can't do that if you've forfeited our veto by leaving.

[Southack]

"I can't believe it's coming out of a liberal state."

Liberals would *love* for the U.S. to forfeit its UN veto.

[wagglebee]

But the veto is basically meaningless, if the US leaves the UN the entire organization will be worthless.

[alessandrofiaschi]

In Italy, as we know, is impossible! Damn...

[Southack]

"But the veto is basically meaningless, if the US leaves the UN the entire organization will be worthless."

No, and no.

Our UN veto means that the UN can't place global economic sanctions and embargoes onto Israel, for one thing.

For your other claim, keep in mind that many organizations survive today *without* U.S. membership; so too could the UN.

You would be making a bad gamble, with lives and entire economies at stake, if you played your hand such that the *only* way for you to win would be if the UN folded if we left.

I promise you that Europe, China, Africa, and the Middle-East would *love* to pay for a UN that had no U.S. veto.

[SmithL]

Hey Kofi,
Senator Leahy has an important message for you from the Vice President of the United States.

[an italian]

Yeah... But we can try! This idea is good...

[alessandrofiaschi]

No, this idea is WONDERFUL! Thanks.

[Just Lori]

APPLAUSE APPLAUSE APPLAUSE!!!!!!!

[alessandrofiaschi]

[alessandrofiaschi]

[freeandfreezing]

Since when is New Hampshire a "liberal state"?

[Borges]

Nothing wrong with it. I'm just saying it shouldn't he surprising that this sentiment would arise there because of their ties to movements like FSP.

[an italian]

Yeah, and after may be we can get us out the EU...

[B4Ranch]

How fast could Europe, China, Africa, and the Middle-East organize the same charity effort that we put forth for the tsunami disaster?


>>Our UN veto means that the UN can't place global economic sanctions and embargoes onto Israel, for one thing.<<

Are you more concerned for the USA or Israel becoming a victim?


>>For your other claim, keep in mind that many organizations survive today *without* U.S. membership; so too could the UN.<<

We are the reason why the UN doesn't just 'survive'. We are the reason why they are effective.

>>I promise you that Europe, China, Africa, and the Middle-East would *love* to pay for a UN that had no U.S. veto<<

Then why aren't you promoting the idea that they pay as much as we do every year?.

When I look at what we pay in cash and how much of our military strength or the threat of our military strength is used to 'satisfy' UN needs, I don't see Europe, China, Africa, and the Middle-East working hand in hand to replace us.

[4woodenboats]

Any vote passed by the UN would be irrelevant once we left. Other countries would follow our lead, expotentially accellerating the UN's demise . Your pacifistic arguments are based on the flawed assumption that the UN has something we need, rather than the other way around. Do you honestly think that, once a France led UN enevitably demands it's members "pick sides", there's be anyone left to fold the chairs up at the end of the day?

We leaving will be a permanant veto on the UN itself, and should be accompanied by the creation of a totally new entity, one with principles, transparancy, and accountability. Like Social Security, it needs a true leader to initiate action. A policy of fearing the dark as you seem to favor never gets anyone anywhere.