A proposal from the United Nations (UN) could end US sovereignty as we know it, according to a New York Times bestselling author.
Justin Haskins, director of the Socialism Research Center at The Heartland Institute and New York Times bestselling author, recently warned in an article for The Federalist, that a recent UN proposal is a power grab that would end the sovereignty of member nations.
UN member nations are set to adopt a Pact for the Future, which will solidify the policy reforms that are part of the Our Common Agenda platform.
Haskins points out in his article that the agenda includes a plan for an “emergency platform,” which would give the UN significant powers in event of what the plan calls “global shocks,” such as a worldwide pandemic.
He cites a report from March 2023 that lays out the emergency platform in which the U.N. secretary-general wrote:
“I propose that the General Assembly provide the Secretary-General and the United Nations system with a standing authority to convene and operationalize automatically an Emergency Platform in the event of a future complex global shock of sufficient scale, severity and reach.”
Haskins says that when this platform is triggered, the UN will have the ability to control “stakeholders” - such as academics, governments, private sector actors, and “international financial institutions” – in order to ensure that there is a unified, global response to the subjectively-determined “crisis” at hand.
It also gives the UN power to force all actors to make commitments to the “crisis” and hold them accountable for carrying out these commitments.
“In other words, the United Nations would be given unprecedented authority over the public and private sectors of huge swaths of the world, all in the name of battling a yet unknown crisis.” according to Haskins.
He also highlighted that the UN Secretary-General will have the power to extend the emergency platform for as long as he finds necessary, without needing reauthorization from other member countries.
According to the agenda a “global shock” emergency can include a major climatic event, future pandemic risks, a global digital connectivity disruption, a major event in outer space, and unforeseen risks that are determined by the UN.
“Or, put in simpler terms, a ‘global shock’ is whatever the U.N.’s leadership says it is, triggered whenever the U.N. desires.” Haskins says.
The Biden Administration is in favor of the proposal, as U.S. Ambassador Chris Lu has expressed the president's support of the plans outlined in the “Our Common Agenda.”
“If the emergency platform is approved, the United States as we know it could cease to exist,” Haskins says.