WHO Regulations and Pandemic Treaty: Is concern about loss of sovereignty really misplaced? UKC

Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-6th-march-2023
- Wrong-headed blog by Susan Guest (Substack): Dial back the panic! The WHO cannot ‘steal our sovereignty’ OR ‘subsume our constitution’! Here’s why.
- Peggy Hall, TheHealthyAmerican.org: Four things you need to know about the WHO—likewise misapprehended
- WHO: Report of the Review Committee regarding amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)—see Digital information and data protection section and Countering misinformation and disinformation section
- Wikipedia: International Health Regulations
- From footnote 4 to that Wikipedia entry: a 2010 scholarly book specifically on the International Health Regulations repeatedly describes them as “a treaty” (see especially Chapter 6)
- CDC, which would be the American implementing body of the IHR, describes the WHO’s International Health Regulations as “a legally binding agreement”
- Reminder—Thirty years ago: NAFTA (1993, later killed) was likewisecalled “an agreement” when it was actually a treaty requiring US Senate two-thirds approval
- James Roguski:
“Subsequent to the adoption of the amendments during the 75th World Health Assembly, no signature by any Presidents or Prime Ministers and no approval by the Senate. Congress or any Parliament was needed in order to “ratify” …”
- Senator Ron Johnson (Wisconsin): Sen. Johnson leads colleagues in effort to protect American sovereignty against World Health Organization
- Josh Smalley (Dead Man Talking on Substack): Republicans propose to make it a crime to administer the COVID jab in Idaho
- Fox News: GOP Mississippi doctor against vaccine mandate runs for governor
- House Bill 154, Idaho Legislature
- The Blaze—Horowitz: Tennessee lawmkaer introduces the single most important bill for the life of our Constitution
- House Bill 726, Tennessee Legislature
- Katherine Watt (Bailiwick News on Substack): Rep. Bud Hulsey in Tennessee understands the scale of the Constitutional crisis, and what states can and should do to respond
- The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates (state nullification) is espoused in Section 8 of Hulsey’s Bill
- The New American: Alberta passes law rejecting federal sovereignty
- Alberta Sovereignty Within A United Canada Act has received King Charles’ Royal Assent (15 December 2022)
- Reclaim The Net: Canadian premiers tell PM Justin Trudeau they won’t be sharing citizens’ medical data with federal government
- CommonLawConstitution.org—Urgent: When writing to your MP …