The U.N. Is Planning To Seize Global ‘Emergency’ Powers With
Biden’s Support
By: Justin Haskins July 04, 2023
The proposal might be the biggest attempted power grab in
the history of the United Nations. If approved, the United States as we know it
could cease to exist.
In September 2024, less than two months before the next U.S.
presidential election, the United Nations will host a landmark “Summit of the
Future,” where member nations will adopt a Pact for the Future. The agreement
will solidify numerous policy reforms offered by the U.N. over the past two
years as part of its sweeping Our Common Agenda platform.
Although there are numerous radical proposals included in
the agenda, perhaps none are more important than the U.N. plan for a new
“emergency platform,” a stunning proposal to give the U.N. significant powers
in the event of future “global shocks,” such as another worldwide pandemic.
Many of the details of the U.N. emergency platform were laid
out in a March 2023 policy paper titled “Strengthening the International
Response to Complex Global Shocks — An Emergency Platform.” In the paper, the
U.N. secretary-general writes, “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.”
Once triggered, the emergency platform would give the U.N.
the ability to “actively promote and drive an international response that
places the principles of equity and solidarity at the centre of its work.” The
U.N. would bring together the “stakeholders” of the world, including academics,
governments, private sector actors, and “international financial institutions”
to ensure there is a unified, global response to the crisis.
The emergency platform would also give the United Nations
the power to “Ensure that all participating actors make commitments that can
contribute meaningfully to the response and that they are held to account for
delivery on those 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.
It Gets Worse
As difficult as it might be to believe, the story gets even
worse from here. Although the duration of the emergency platform would
initially be set for a “finite period,” at “the end of that period, the
Secretary-General could extend the work of an Emergency Platform if required,”
according to the United Nations’ own policy proposal.
That means the secretary-general would have the authority to
keep the emergency platform in place indefinitely, all without reauthorization
from member nations.
What kind of “global shock” would trigger the emergency
platform? The U.N. provides several possible examples in its formal proposal,
including a “major climatic event,” “future pandemic risks,” a “global digital
connectivity disruption,” “major event in outer space,” and, my personal
favorite, “unforeseen risks, (‘black swan’ events).”
This isn’t to say that these incredibly broad categories
would be the only potential justifications allowed to trigger the emergency
platform. The proposal makes clear that it “would allow the convening role of
the United Nations to be maximized in the face of crises with global reach and
should be ‘agnostic as to the type of crisis,’ as we do not know what type of
global shock we may face in the future.”
Further, “The Secretary-General would decide when to convene
an Emergency Platform in response to a complex global shock.”
Or, put in simpler terms, a “global shock” is whatever the
U.N.’s leadership says it is, triggered whenever the U.N. desires.
Biden Admin Supports the Proposal
The emergency platform proposal might be the biggest
attempted power grab in the history of the United Nations, but as shocking as
it is, it pales in comparison to the Biden administration’s treatment of this
extremist proposal.
Rather than assert America’s independence and sovereignty,
the White House has expressed its support for the emergency platform. U.S.
Ambassador Chris Lu noted in at least two March 2022 speeches that the Biden
administration backs the emergency platform, along with numerous other
proposals included in “Our Common Agenda.”
The emergency platform would centralize an immense amount of
power and influence, giving the United Nations greater control over the lives
of Americans than it has ever had before. And rather than stand up for
Americans’ rights, President Biden has already agreed to sell us out.
If the emergency platform is approved, the United States as
we know it could cease to exist. That sounds dire, but it’s true. We either
stand for freedom now or risk everything come September 2024.
Justin Haskins (Jhaskins@heartland.org) is the director of
the Socialism Research Center at The Heartland Institute and a New York Times
bestselling author.