US Rep Bob Good: WHY SOVEREIGNTY MATTERS, IT MUST NOT BE COMPROMISED

Remarks made at the “SECOND SOVEREIGNTY SUMMIT” July 29, 2024.
https://sovereigntysummit.org/the-sovereignty-summit-2/  

U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BOB GOOD (R-5-VA), Chairman, House Freedom Caucus; Serves On The Education And Labor Committee And The Budget Committee

TRANSCRIPT:

US Rep Bob Good: I'd like to thank my friend Frank Gaffney for hosting and moderating this additional summit on the sovereignty summit. And I've said many times, I think this is the most important issue that's getting the least amount of attention relative to its importance. It's appropriate that we're talking about this just a few weeks after we celebrated Independence Day in this country. We remember our founders who risked everything and, in some cases, gave everything to secure the independence and the freedom that we still enjoy to a large degree today, as they fought to free themselves, to free us from what was then the dominant world power. They didn't want to submit to the sovereignty of a king, and they fought for that freedom. Then, some 80 years or so later, our nation fought again. A war for freedom for everyone, freedom for everyone, irrespective of color and to eradicate the slave trade, the slavery in this country. But it also was a battle, whether over states' rights and for the sovereignty of states to not be totally subordinate to a dominant central government, a dominant federal government if you will. And here we are now. Some are considering, certainly the Biden administration, [is considering] surrendering our sovereignty to an international organization, the UN and the WHO, which we know is a tool of the Chinese Communist Party. We saw the harm done by the WHO during the COVID pandemic of just a few years ago and how we as a nation surrendered our most essential basic freedoms, in large part to influence from the WHO, who was all in on the shutdowns of lockdowns, the mandates, the forced masking, the force, vaccinations and so forth.

And we just had, back in May, an agreement essentially to have an agreement where the Biden administration wants to agree with others around the world to submit to the control and the authority of the WHO and the UN. And we've got to reject that as a nation. I thank all of you for recognizing how important this is and for coming together to try to build awareness and resistance to this. We can't surrender our sovereignty as a nation to any other entity, let alone the WHO or the UN, to force upon us what they consider mitigation strategies for what they consider to be a crisis, whether it's the next health crisis, not a health crisis, or not if there's a health crisis, but the next health crisis, because we know there's another one on the horizon, whether it's the avian flu or whatever it might be or whatever else they might decide is a crisis, whether it's poverty or climate or immigration or so-called gun violence. And so, we've got to have congressional action. We need a resolution out of the House condemning any surrender or submission to an international organization such as WHO or the UN.

We need to reject this action, this, reject, reject this, but at a minimum requires Senate ratification, recognizing it as a treaty. But in the meantime, we ought to be withdrawing again from the WHO, as President Trump appropriately did. And of course, Biden reversed that. But we can't count on a Trump administration. We've got to prepare for the worst, hope for the best, pray for the best, work for the best, but prepare for the worst. We should be pushing the Biden administration to withdraw from the WHO. We ought to have a congressional resolution to that effect, and we ought to defund the WHO, as President Trump appropriately did. So again, I want to thank everyone here for being part of this very important summit and trying to build awareness and resistance to what those in the Biden administration would do to weaken the United States, to threaten our citizens, and to strip away our most basic, essential freedoms, and to take another step towards essentially one world government globalism, which obviously is in direct violation to who we are as a nation, a government of the people, by the people, for the people, an independent sovereign state. This first true experiment in representative democracy, a constitutional republic. We've got to continue to fight for that freedom. And what you're doing today is an important step in that direction. So, thank you so much and God bless you.