{"id":30710,"date":"2017-04-26T13:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30710"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:19:44","slug":"has-sovereignty-become-an-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30710","title":{"rendered":"Has Sovereignty Become An Issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Mirengoff<\/a> at Power Line posted an article<\/a> today about the repeal of ObamaCare<\/a>. That’s not so unusual, but some of the source of the pushback against the repeal is interesting.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Dana Milbank reports<\/a>, with glee, that the United Nations<\/a> \u201chas contacted the Trump administration as part of an investigation into whether repealing [Obamacare] without an adequate substitute for the millions who would lose health coverage would be a violation of several international conventions that bind the United States<\/a>.\u201d The warning comes from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights<\/a> in Geneva.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.N. Human Rights Commission<\/a> (now known as the Human Rights Council) purports to \u201cuphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights,\u201c Its members include<\/a> China, Cuba, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia<\/a>, and Venezuela<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This would be laughable if it were not serious. So what is happening here? President Trump is not a globalist. Unfortunately for a number of decades, the American government<\/a> has been run by globalists. Our recent Presidents have been in step with the United Nations and have done things that have put our national sovereignty in jeopardy. Evidently the globalist elites at the United Nations now feel that they have a valid voice on the American political landscape. That’s a notion that needs to be put to rest very quickly. It is a little upsetting to think that countries with such dismal human rights records as China, Cuba, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela feel free to criticize America because America does not want socialism. Let’s look at what poverty looks like in those countries versus what poverty looks like in America.<\/p>\n

The article goes on to report:<\/p>\n

By way of illustration, one of the provisions the U.N. relies on in this case is Article 5(e) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination<\/a>, ratified by the U.S. in 1994. It calls on states to \u201cguarantee the right of everyone\u201d to, among other things, \u201cpublic health, medical care, social security and social services\u201d without regard to race or color.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not far-fetched to imagine lawsuits in U.S. courts based on claims that the government is violating this kind of \u201cobligation\u201d to which America agreed. How far-fetched is it to imagine left-liberal judges seriously entertaining such lawsuits? Not very, in my view.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In reality, pre-Obamacare America offered health care to everyone without regard to race or color. It provided poor Americans with free health care via Medicaid. Millions of other Americans received health insurance from their employer. The rest (except those with pre-existing conditions, a matter of real concern) were free to purchase health insurance, if they so desired. The market offered plans that were not expensive \u2014 my wife had one \u2014 at least not compared to the ones Americans are required to purchase under the Obamacare regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No one was denied health insurance due to race or color. Nor, to my knowledge, was anyone denied service \u2014 e.g. at an emergency room \u2014 on that basis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The U.N., through its \u201cinvestigation,\u201d is claiming the right to evaluate Obamacare replacement packages. In effect, it asserts the right to assess whether the replacement incentives measure up to the Obamacare incentives (inadequate though these are).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.N.\u2019s infringement on our democracy is obvious.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not surprising that elites in the rest of the world want to dictate to America. It\u2019s not surprising that many of the left want such leftist elites to dictate to us. What\u2019s surprising is that America has gone as far as it has to provide the tools with which claims like those being made by these elite, via bureaucrats in Geneva, can be asserted with a straight face.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the United Nations begins to attempt to interfere in internal politics of its member countries, it is time for the United Nations to go away. We need to withdraw our membership, make them pay their parking tickets, and kick them out of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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