United Nations
Blazing the Trail to Get US Out!
The New American
The past is prologue: When this sign was erected decades ago, the exhortation must have struck many passersby as outlandish and unachievable. But the goal seems far more realistic today, in large part because of many years of grassroots activism such as that by the valiant patriots shown here.

Blazing the Trail to Get US Out!

The John Birch Society launched its long-range campaign to Get US Out! of the UN in the early 1960s, and over time has set the stage for today’s widespread anti-UN sentiment. ...
Gary Benoit
Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

The current wave of anti-UN sentiment in America is not just a result of the world body’s recent actions, such as its complicity in anti-Jewish terrorism. For generations, concerned Americans who believe in a free and independent United States of America have warned that the United Nations is a dangerous, sovereignty-destroying, world-government trap, and that the United States needs to exit this trap before it becomes hopelessly ensnared.

Early efforts to get the United States out of the UN were launched by The John Birch Society not long after its 1958 founding under the rallying cry “Get US Out!” At the time, the UN was still almost universally regarded as mankind’s last, best hope for peace. But that has long ceased to be the case, thanks largely to JBS efforts.

A Look Back

At the founding meeting of the JBS in December 1958, founder Robert Welch warned that part of the subversive plan to bring about communist tyranny was “to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty, piece by piece and step by step, to various international organizations — of which the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the only example.” A little more than three years later, in the January 1962 JBS Bulletin, Welch formally announced the Society’s “long-range project” to get the United States out of the UN. At the time he noted that the UN “should not be reformed, but abolished.” He added, “You don’t reform the rats and fleas that spread the bubonic plague, you wipe ’em out.”

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