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HJM014...............................................by HARWOOD AND MCKAGUE
UNITED NATIONS - Stating findings of the Legislature and urging Congress to
enact H.R. 1146 to have the United States withdraw from the United Nations.
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]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session - 2004
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 14
BY HARWOOD AND MCKAGUE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
3 TIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
4 DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
5 STATES.
6 We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of the
7 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-seventh
8 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
9 WHEREAS, the United States of America became an independent, sovereign
10 nation for reasons expressed in the Declaration of Independence and as the
11 result of a bloody War of Independence; and
12 WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States of America is, and right-
13 fully must remain, the supreme law of the land; and
14 WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States of America provides for
15 limited, nondelegable and diffuse powers of government which are separated
16 among the Congress, the President and the Judiciary; and
17 WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States of America preserves the
18 powers and duties of the individual states; and
19 WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees per-
20 sonal liberties of each individual citizen; and
21 WHEREAS, the American system of government is based on the "self-evident
22 truth" that "men...are endowed by their Creator" with rights that no govern-
23 ment can justly abrogate; and
24 WHEREAS, the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights claims
25 power to limit the exercise of basic rights and states that no "rights and
26 freedom may be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United
27 Nations"; and
28 WHEREAS, the Charter of the United Nations falsely purports to supersede
29 the independence and sovereignty of the United States and the Constitution of
30 the United States of America and usurp powers delegated therein, to wit:
31 (1) By concentrating in the Security Council control and use of certain
32 American military personnel and the military personnel of all member
33 nations for its own purposes without any accountability, in violation of
34 the exclusive power of Congress to declare war; and
35 (2) By seeking authority to tax citizens of the United States and of
36 other member nations directly to support United Nations activities; and
37 (3) By sponsoring an International Criminal Court which violates the
38 rights of the accused as well as the Constitution of the United States, in
39 that it:
40 (a) Has no legitimate judicial authority and lacks any body of laws
41 by which to adjudicate cases, the authority to enact such laws rest-
42 ing exclusively with sovereign nations; and
43 (b) Merges the functions of prosecutor and adjudicator into one
44 office, contrary to the Constitution of the United States; and
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1 (c) Fails to provide any appeal from adjudications at the trial
2 level; and
3 (d) Fails to provide for a trial by a jury of the accused's peers;
4 and
5 (e) Fails to require that the accused be confronted by his accusers,
6 providing instead for the use of hearsay testimony; and
7 (f) Fails to provide for the accused the right to compel the produc-
8 tion of witnesses; and
9 (g) Allows evidence obtained from the accused by compulsion; and
10 (h) Denies other fundamental rights recognized in the constitutional
11 jurisprudence of the United States of America.
12 WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the United Nations continues to place
13 rogue, terrorist nations such as Cuba, Libya and Syria in positions of member-
14 ship and leadership on its Human Rights Commission, in defiance of norms of
15 common decency, morality and justice; and
16 WHEREAS, the flaws and founding precepts of the United Nations are the
17 antithesis of this nation's independence and sovereignty, its Constitution,
18 and basic principles of justice and human dignity to the point that the United
19 Nations is incapable of restructuring or reformation to correct the aforesaid
20 flaws.
21 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
22 sion of the Fifty-seventh Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and
23 the Senate concurring therein, that we forcefully and respectfully urge the
24 Idaho delegation in the United States Congress to support enactment of H.R.
25 1146, a bill before Congress to have the United States withdraw fully and com-
26 pletely from the United Nations, and further to cease forthwith any and all
27 funding of the United Nations and any of its agencies, or any group with any
28 association therewith whatsoever.
29 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the House of Representa-
30 tives be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this
31 Memorial to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate
32 and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, and the congres-
33 sional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the Congress of the
34 United States.
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 13866
The purpose of this memorial is to request our Congressional
Delegation to withdraw fully and completely from the United
Nations and cease forthwith any and all funding of the United
Nations and any of its agencies.
FISCAL IMPACT
None.
Contact
Name: Representatives Harwood, McKague, Eberle, Langford,
Kulczyk, Wood, Nielsen and Bayer
Phone: 208-332-1000
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE HJM 14