On October 30, 2008, Senator Barack Obama declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” In the intervening years, myriad actions have been taken that have had that effect, possibly permanently.
These include: opening our borders; adopting Obamacare; weakening our military; undermining election integrity; underwriting and otherwise empowering and emboldening the Chinese Communist Party; hollowing out our energy security, ostensibly to prevent “climate change”; devaluing the dollar and endangering its status as the world’s reserve currency; promoting policies like abortion, cultural Marxism and transgenderism that afflict America’s families and ravage our society; and permitting fentanyl to kill tens of thousands of Americans annually.
Arguably, among the most transformative of all the things that have been done since the dawn of the Obama-Biden era has been the adoption of the “China Model” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The effect was to replace the U.S. government’s standing, sound and effective approach to pandemic outbreaks with one that imposed unprecedented mask, social distancing, quarantine, lock-down and vaccination mandates. The effect was catastrophic for our people – with the estimated needless death of a million of us – for our economy, for our political system and for constitutional freedoms.
The individual principally responsible for promoting the failed China Model here and elsewhere was the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus. He is not a medical doctor. But he is an Ethiopian Maoist selected for the job by the Chinese Communist Party and considered to be its puppet. He serially lied about the COVID-19’s origins, nature and the appropriate means of dealing with it. With help from equally dishonest enablers inside the U.S. government, his recommendations were implemented here disastrously.
Incredibly, the Biden administration seeks now to reward Dr. Ghebreyesus for such malfeasance by stealthily surrendering to him unprecedented power and national sovereignty. All other things being equal, at the end of May, the United States will be among the world’s nations that agree to make the WHO’s Director-General the exclusive arbiter of what constitutes an actual or potential “public health emergency of international concern” – and what must be done about such emergencies.
Administration officials have not apprised the American people about the contents of what amount to two separate, but interrelated, treaties currently being finalized for this ominous purpose by the WHO. Indeed, the texts of accords modifying the organization’s existing International Health Regulations (IHRs) and a new Pandemic Agreement are still being negotiated. And there is no plan to permit the public, or even their Senators, to assent to or reject the greatest surrender of our sovereignty since we gave away our Panama Canal, and the most radical transformation of our constitutional republic since the founding.
In fact, the Chinese Communist Party and other proponents of this unprecedented concentration of power describe it as “global governance” – a structure clearly at odds and
incompatible with our system of limited, representational and accountable government under the Constitution.
No one who claims to support “democracy” – let alone to be committed to defending it – can favor this plan to let an unaccountable foreign bureaucrat dictate U.S. public health, especially without the voters’ knowledge or agreement.
That is especially so given Tedros Ghebreyesus’ record of incompetence and malfeasance, his totalitarian, Marxist background and what he has already expansively described as public health emergencies of international concern. Among those are: “climate change,” reproductive rights, transgender rights, poverty, instability, migration and “gun violence.” It is predictable that Dr. Ghebreyesus’ prescriptions for contending with such emergencies will not be compatible with our constitutional rights, values or national interests.
For all these reasons, this is clearly not the time for the Biden administration and the World Health Assembly to try to jam through either or both of the two World Health Organization treaties. There is, moreover, another compelling factor: As noted in a recent open letter signed by four eminent experts on the WHO, the organization’s own rules require that any proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations be available for review at least four months prior to their consideration. That would have required the submission of final text by January 27, 2024. And, since the Pandemic Treaty refers to and depends upon those amendments being in place, its consideration is also not ripe.
When President Trump was in office, he was right to announce the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization. He was also correct in announcing that, following President Biden’s termination of that action, he will take us out of the WHO when he returns to office. In the meantime, these grievously defective treaties must not be approved and allowed to become binding on the United States and other freedom-loving nations.
We believe that every political leader who has taken an oath of office to “support and defend” the U.S. Constitution—and everyone who aspires to do so—must join us in saying “Not Now” to the consideration and approval of the two WHO treaties and insist that they be submitted for the Senate’s advice and consent.
Therefore, the undersigned call for the deferral of action on the treaties amending the International Health Regulations and governing the WHO’s purported prevention of, preparations for and responses to future pandemics and other public health “emergencies.” The final texts for these treaties must be made public and an opportunity afforded for an informed national debate and Senate approval of these deeply problematic accords before they become binding on the United States of America.
Hon. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
Richard Viguerie
Co-Founder, the Modern Conservative Movement
Bill Walton
Vice Chairman, Conservative Political Action Coalition
Kris Ullman
President, Eagle Forum
Frank Gaffney
Executive Chairman, Center for Security Policy
Reggie Littlejohn
President, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers
Richard Manning
President, Americans for Limited Government
Jenny Beth Martin
President, Tea Party Patriots Action
Naomi Wolf
President, Daily Clout
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