Paul Mirengoff, Powerline Blog
Dana Milbank reports, with glee, that the United Nations “has 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.” The warning comes from the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights in Geneva.
The U.N. Human Rights Commission (now known as the Human Rights Council) purports to “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights,“ Its members include China, Cuba, Iraq, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
The “High Commissioner’s” office warning that Obamacare repeal/replacement might be illegal comes in a letter to the Trump administration. The Commissioner asked that the letter be shared with majority and minority leadership in both chambers of Congress. It also proposed that “the wider public should be alerted to the potential implications of the above-mentioned allegations.” According to Milbank, the White House has not shared the letter with Congress, much less “alerted the wider public.”
The public should be alerted, and alarmed, that the U.N. is attempting to dictate our domestic policy. The “High Commissioner’s” letter shows that signing broadly worded international agreements allows foreign countries, including some of the world’s worst dictatorship, to accuse us of violating the law. We should sign no more of them.
To hell with the UN. They have proved themselves to be worthless. USA is OUR country and you have NO SAY! PERIOD!!
the U.N. has no right to tell us how to run our government or our country! it is time we get out of this organization, and we need to boot their asses out of the building setting on our land. when the u.n. was established it was a good thing, it has become a corrupt pseudo government that needs to be disbanded
I never swore an oath to that blue flag and I never will. on the other hand I was never released from the oath I swore to protect this land from all enemies both foreign and domestic. I would consider u.n. troops an enemy and would defend my home, my family and my country from their invasion
Why would The UN get involved in Obama Care? STAY OUT OF IT.! The UN should stay to its owns problems , they have enough of them.
Obama is behind it trying to keep his so called legacy alive,
United Nations you should bug off! You don’t tell Americans what to do or how to do it! I owe my allegiance to America! Not your blue flag!
THE UNITED NATIONS IS A JOKE!! THEY ELECT TERRIORIST LEADERS TO POSITIONS OF HUMAN RELATIONS, AND TO
POSOTIONS OF FEMZALE DISCRIMINATION, i.e. Iran, Sauda Arabia, Syria, and others. WHAT A PITIFUL JOKE!!! DISBAND THIS EXPENSIVE WASTE OF TAPAYER MONIES!!!!!
They need to STFU ! Stay out of America’s affairs . Maybe you need to move your asses to the Congo ! I’m sure they could use your stupidity to elevate their families !
Part of their plan to bankrupt the U.S.!
So, United Nations. There are horrible atrocities being perpetrated in South Africa. The farmers are being murdered, just because they are white. Somehow the blacks think their country was stolen from them by the whites, somtheynkill,the farmers. The people,who,provide food to them and everyone else in South Africa. So, tell me what are you people doing about that? I will tell you. Absoblooming nothing! Start policing the countries that need it, leave the USA alone, or you will be disolved.
LMAO !! What an arrogant bunch… this UN is !!If it wasn’t for the US…it wouldn’t exist !! The US should pull it’s funding and then laugh as the whole thing collapses !!
UN, are you serious right now!? U need to stay out of our business as U are not a good of an example to anyone…allowing other dictators massacre their own people without any repercussions to say the least!….stay out!!!….smdh
none of their fn business
The UN needs to shut the #### up. We are not one of your leftist liberal socialist countries. At least since President Trump was elected. This isn’t Obama’s country anymore and thank God to that.
Really He doesnt have to Its Out of Funds and Dead . Not one Medical facility Accepts it.
The UN needs to stay out of America’s business. You are a corrupt organization that allowed 170M people to die through genocide or mass murders of different sorts. You did nothing to help or stop the killings. You are a scum organization who thinks they are relevant. WE need to get out of the UN.
I think they should keep in mind why world war 2 japan feared trying to invade the U.S. they feared there would be a gun behind every blade of grass. I think they had a very valid reason for not stepping onto american soil.