ACU warning

Dear Fellow Conservative:

In the first bill being rushed through the 110th Congress, liberal House Democrats are attempting to surrender a key aspect of our homeland security to the United Nations.

H.R. 1, Mrs. Pelosi and her ultra-liberal pal’s first attempt to draft legislation to make America safe since 9/11, contains language that would subject our country's most effective counter proliferation initiative to limitations imposed by the UN Security Council.

The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) is a four year-old program, created and led by the United States that allows America and our allies to interdict the transfer of banned weapons and technology. The program consists of 14 core partner countries and dozens of additional supporting nations, all of whom share a mutual interest in preventing the spread of WMD.

Incredibly, H.R. 1 would express the Sense of Congress that this program needs to be authorized by the UN. Talk about surrendering our national security to UN bureaucrats!

It should be obvious that the PSI functions precisely because the UN is not directly involved. Allowing the Security Council to govern the program would instantly jeopardize the intelligence, routes, and methods used by American and allied forces as they try and keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of terrorists and rogue regimes.

Even more ominously, the Democrat proposal would essentially hand over our efforts to stop nuclear proliferation to a global body that has counted among its membership in recent years both Pakistan and Syria. It is already a goal of the Bush Administration to broaden international participation in the PSI. It should not be a goal to expand that membership to the proliferators themselves.

If this effort is part of a broader agenda by Democrat leaders to globalize America's foreign policy and national security, it must stop now. This afternoon, Republicans will offer a motion to commit the bill H.R. 1 to committee with instructions to remove this language and ensure that America's homeland security efforts are not controlled by the United Nations.

Our national security depends on you calling your House Representative right now and urging him or her to vote YES on the Republican Motion to Commit on H.R. 1 to committee with instructions to remove this language that would jeopardize America.

Sincerely,

J. William Lauderback
Executive Vice President
The American Conservative Union