The latest report issued by the UN Human Rights Committee demands that the United States crack down on free speech, change the Constitution, and allow more abortion.
While praising the Biden administration for supposedly making progress bringing the United States into compliance with United Nations agreements by promoting abortion, gun control, and transgenderism, the UN “human rights” bureaucracy released a scathing report last month slamming America as a bastion of horrors.
In the UN’s crosshairs: free-speech rights, state-level restrictions on killing babies, state efforts to protect children from genital mutilation, and the use of the death penalty on murderers. All that and more came under attack by the UN “human rights” machinery as supposed “human rights” violations. The global organization even called for the United States to change its Constitution to comply with UN schemes.
The controversial UN report, released by the UN Human Rights Committee on November 3, examined whether government at all levels in the United States was complying with the largely unconstitutional commitments to the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The global agreement, ratified by the U.S. government in 1992, purports to commit the U.S. government to usurp a broad array of powers that were never delegated to it in the Constitution that created it.
In the UN’s Crosshairs
One of the most troubling elements of the report from a constitutional perspective is that it ignored the fact that most of the legal areas in question are under state rather than federal jurisdiction. Under America’s Constitution, which remains the supreme law of the land regardless of any treaties or statutes contradicting it, states only delegated a few, clearly defined powers to the feds. All other powers were reserved for the states or the people, as explained clearly in the 10th Amendment.
And yet, throughout the report, the UN spoke as if the federal government can and must simply force states to obey, as if they are mere administrative units of an all-powerful unitary state beholden to the UN. The global outfit even lashed out against key constitutional procedures including state-level redistricting. It slammed constitutionally protected, God-given rights including freedom of speech and the right to keep and bear arms, too, calling for the government to crack down on both.
The UN committee started off by praising the U.S. government for what it described as “Positive Aspects.” These “positive” developments include the “Respect for Marriage Act” enshrining so-called homosexual marriage into federal statute, along with executive orders from Joe Biden promoting contraception and abortion. Also “positive”: racist “racial equity” and transgender-bathroom-at-school executive orders. Each one of the “positive” aspects is a clear violation of the U.S. Constitution.
But the negatives far outweighed the positives, in the UN’s view. “The Committee remains concerned at the lack of measures to effectively incorporate the Covenant in the domestic legal order,” the report said, demanding that the “State Party” (the U.S. government) incorporate the UN dictates at the federal, state, and local level. The document also called for judges and prosecutors to rely on the global agreement while demanding that the U.S. government accept the UN’s interpretation of the covenant.
Another key demand was that the U.S. government establish an independent “human rights” body to enforce the UN agreement across the United States. One of the purposes of this institution would be to punish speech that the UN considers to be “hate speech,” a concept developed by the mass-murdering Soviet dictatorship, and to censor internet speech the UN hates.
Perhaps even more startling, the UN demanded that the United States change its Constitution and pass the Equal Rights Amendment, which went down to defeat thanks to the efforts of conservative leaders such as Phyllis Schlafly. “The State party should redouble its efforts to guarantee protection against sex and gender-based discrimination in its Constitution, including through initiatives such as the Equal Rights Amendment,” the UN committee said.
The UN also demanded that the U.S. government take more action against states that are working to protect children from surgical genital mutilation known as “gender-affirming care.” It called for ensuring that men be allowed to use the bathroom with girls, and it demanded that males be allowed to compete in women’s sports as well.
The mass slaughter of the unborn must continue unimpeded, too — and with tax money. Among other concerns, the UN said it was “alarmed at the increase of legislation, barriers and practices at the state level that impede women’s access to safe and legal abortion, inter alia, the criminalization of various actors linked to their role in providing or seeking abortion care, including health care providers.”
With no trace of irony, in the very same section the UN committee also claimed it was “deeply concerned” about the “profound impact” that measures reining in the mass killing of unborn children would have on “the rights of women and girls seeking an abortion, including the rights to life, privacy and not to be subject to cruel and degrading treatment.” How not being allowed to kill one’s baby could be considered a threat to the “right to life” was not made clear.
The UN committee provided a broad list of specific demands surrounding abortion. These include making sure that all women and girls can kill their pre-born babies with tax funding and without legal restrictions of any kind. The report also called for the U.S. government to work on “harmonizing” its abortion policies with the “Abortion Care Guidelines” from the scandal-plagued World Health Organization.
On guns, the UN committee praised the Biden administration’s efforts to infringe on the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment, but called for far more infringements. Among other demands, the UN called for forcing everyone to obtain government permission to acquire firearms, magazines, or ammunition. It also demanded bans on broad categories of commonly owned firearms, and proposed helping to bankrupt the gun industry by subjecting it to endless litigation.
The “climate change” narrative featured prominently in the report, too. The UN committee called on the U.S. government to “intensify efforts to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change and environmental degradation, including by strengthening its legal framework, and take adequate steps to adopt a precautionary approach to protecting persons, especially the most vulnerable, from the negative impacts of climate change and natural disasters.”
https://coloradofreepress.com/un-report-condemns-u-s/
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