The World Health Organization (WHO) is negotiating a global pandemic treaty and considering dangerous amendments to its International Health Regulations (IHR). These will further enable Covid medical tyranny while amounting to yet another step toward a one-world government.
On December 1, 2021, the World Health Assembly agreed to begin “a global process to draft and negotiate” an agreement “to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”
Although the specific details of this proposed treaty are currently unknown, it no doubt will threaten Americans’ God-given freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution. Any “pandemic treaty” is a threat to liberty for the following reasons:
- It will further erode U.S. national sovereignty, giving foreign bureaucrats greater control over domestic policy. It would also amount to yet another step toward a tyrannical one-world government.
- It will further expand the WHO’s ability to dictate health policy worldwide, making it easier for the Deep State to impose its tyrannical “health” measures on the global populace.
- It will enable the creation of global “health passes,” thereby restricting travel and certain activities to only those who have been vaccinated or who are in compliance with the WHO’s “health” dictates. These so-called “health passes” will further compromise individuals’ medical privacy and lay the groundwork for a biomedical security regime.
- Enable “global coordinated actions” to censor those who dissent from the Deep State’s narratives — all in the name of “public health.”
- American taxpayer money would likely be diverted to enable the implementation of the treaty’s dictates.
This is not the only WHO threat to liberty. Additionally, the United States has proposed amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), which could go into effect as early as the end of 2022. These amendments would also strengthen the WHO’s ability to take unilateral actions and meddle in countries’ internal affairs, and they could lead to an expansion of the CDC’s power to detain Americans for medical reasons. These amendments, combined with the proposed pandemic treaty, constitute a massive threat to liberty by the WHO.
The World Health Assembly will vote on the U.S. amendments to the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR) when it convenes on May 22-28. These amendments, like the proposed pandemic treaty, will vastly expand the WHO’s power and could be used by the CDC to justify detaining American citizens.
The Deep State, which weaponized Covid to implement its tyrannical agenda, has been pushing for a global pandemic treaty for some time already. For example, in an April 3, 2020 op-ed, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger stated that, “Addressing the necessities of the moment must ultimately be coupled with a global collaborative vision and program.” Additionally, Bill Gates has called for strengthening the WHO.
Unconstitutional Treaties
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution is key for stopping the WHO’s pandemic treaty and IHR amendments. It states: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof … shall be the supreme Law of the Land.” (Emphasis added.)
Government officials — at any level — are required to uphold and implement only those laws “made in Pursuance” to the Constitution. Accordingly, any laws not “made in Pursuance thereof” are therefore not the supreme Law of the Land; as such, officials are under no obligation to enforce or carry out their provisions. This stipulation applies to the treaty-making power — all treaties must also be subject to, and bound by, the limitations of the Constitution.
In a letter dated September 7, 1803, then-President Thomas Jefferson wrote, “I say the same as to the opinion of those who consider the grant of the treaty making power as boundless. If it is, then we have no Constitution.” This was further affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, in Reid v. Covert (1957), in which the Court correctly ruled:
It would be manifestly contrary to the objectives of those who created the Constitution, as well as those who were responsible for the Bill of Rights — let alone alien to our entire constitutional history and tradition — to construe Article VI as permitting the United States to exercise power under an international agreement without observing constitutional prohibitions.
The Court further explained, “It would be completely anomalous to say that a treaty need not comply with the Constitution when such an agreement can be overridden by a statute that must conform to that instrument.” Even the most constitutionally egregious pandemic treaty would be powerless under Article VI.
State Legislatures: Nullification
States have a key role in stopping the WHO’s pandemic treaty and IHR amendments, should they be adopted. Rather than sitting back and being complacent, state legislators would be wise to take bold action and nullify any WHO agreement.
Nullification is firmly grounded in the text of the U.S. Constitution. Specifically, Article VI binds state legislators — along with members of Congress and judges — by their oath to “to support this Constitution.”
Also key is Article VI’s stipulation that only laws “made in Pursuance” to the Constitution are valid. As such, state governments have an obligation to nullify such laws within the boundaries of their state. Rather than amounting to “secession” or “insurrection,” the nullification of unconstitutional laws actually upholds and enforces the U.S. Constitution against usurpations.
Nullification of the WHO’s pandemic treaty wouldn’t be the first time the states have taken such bold action. Among multiple other examples of nullification’s use throughout U.S. history, Alabama in 2012 enacted a strong law banning the implementation of the UN’s Agenda 21 (now Agenda 2030) in the state. Multiple other state legislative chambers passed similar bans.
Congress: UN Withdrawal
Congress also has a key role in stopping the WHO’s power grabs. A good first step would be to enact H.R. 419, the No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act. As implied by the title, the bill would end all U.S. funding for the WHO. The United States is one of the largest funders of the WHO, giving $700 million in 2020-21, so H.R. 419 would have a significant impact in hampering the WHO’s power grab.
Second, a pro-Constitution Congress should enact the American Sovereignty Restoration Act to fully withdraw the United States from the United Nations and every associated entity such as the WHO. Although the WHO’s power grab seriously threatens American sovereignty and liberty, the root of this threat lies in the U.S. membership in the UN itself. The UN’s very purpose is to establish a one-world government at the expense of its member states. If the United States is to remain a free and independent nation, withdrawal is imperative.
The United States is in a perilous position, but solutions already exist. Through decisive action by the American people, the WHO’s power grabs can be stopped and neutered.
To urge your state legislators to nullify the WHO’s planned power grabs, visit The John Birch Society’s legislative alert here. To urge your U.S. representative and senators to defund the WHO with H.R. 419, and to withdraw from the United Nations, visit the JBS’s alert here.
