On August 13, local CBS affiliate 8 News Now asked Nevada Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle if she still supported an earlier-stated position to withdraw from the United Nations. Angle, who hopes to defeat Democratic Senator Harry Reid in November, replied: “The United Nations resides on our soil and costs us money. We are — I don't see any place in the Constitution with those priorities about the United Nations. So when we start talking about cutting programs, 5-percent per year, I think the United Nations fits into that category, yes.”

Zac Petankas, the deputy communications director for the Reid campaign, quickly responded to Angle’s call for withdrawal: “Sharron Angle’s extreme and dangerous agenda includes foreign policy ideas that even top Republicans say are crazy. Republican Senator Richard Lugar rejected Angle’s ideas as ‘very extreme views.’”

Although Senators Reid and Lugar may refer to Angle’s UN position as “extreme,” how extreme is that position when lined up with that of other well-known political icons? If Angle is elected the junior U.S. Senator from Nevada, she won’t be the first Senator to take such a position. In 1945 when the U.S. Senate voted for the United Nations Participation Act, Senator William Langer (N.D.) stated his opposition to the bill, as follows:

[Because the UN would be given authority] to send our boys all over the earth, I cannot support the Charter. I believe it is fraught with danger to the American people, and to American institutions.

Langer was one of two Senators to vote against the United Nations Participation Act. Several decades later, Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) carried on the torch, also advocating for U.S. withdrawal. In a statement delivered on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Goldwater said:

The time has come to recognize the United Nations for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the United Nations to find headquarters location outside the United States that is more in keeping with the philosophy of the majority of voting members, someplace like Moscow or Peking.

Goldwater made those remarks after the Republic of China (Taiwan) was removed from the UN Security Council and membership as a whole and replaced by Communist China. Upset at this betrayal of freedom, Senator Goldwater called the United Nations an “anti-American, anti-freedom organization.” The anti-UN sentiments continue to hold a place in Washington, as every congressional term Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) reintroduced the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 1146) to withdraw the United States from the United Natons. Throughout the 2007 and 2008 Republican primary campaign, Rep. Paul was quite vocal of his disapproval of the UN, calling for immediate U.S. withdrawal.

In his recent  CPAC speech, delivered on February 19, 2010, Paul received his loudest applause after he stated, “It’s the conservative position to not even belong to the United Nations.”

Congressman Ron Paul first introduced a bill to withdraw from the United Nations on September 19, 1983, 18 days after Congressman Larry McDonald, a vocal critic of the UN, was lost at sea aboard KAL Flight 007, the Korean passenger airliner shot down by the Soviet Union. Paul introduced the bill, then known as the United Nations Termination Act (H.R. 3891), in honor of his friend Rep. McDonald, who had previously introduced the same legislation, which Paul had co-sponsored.

In his book We Hold These Truths (1976), McDonald wrote, “Our participation in multi-nation pacts, such as the NATO agreement and the UN Charter, should be formally terminated.”

Now, Sharron Angle wants to take up the torch carried by Ron Paul and Larry McDonald into the U.S. Senate, but she isn´t the only U.S. Senate candidate with this position. In Kentucky, U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul has taken the following position on the United Nations: “Moreover, I believe that the United States should withdraw from and stop funding altogether those U.N. programs that undermine legitimate American interests and harm the cause of freedom around the world,” according to his campaign website.

The Tea Party-backed U.S. Senate candidates Rand Paul and Sharron Angle have not backed away from their calls to restoring America’s sovereignty and independence, as advocated by George Washington and other Founding Fathers who warned against entangling alliances.

Photo of Sharron Angle: AP Images

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Get Us Out! said:

... Lugar is the nutjob...the UN has turned into a megalomaniacal organization. Just look at their website! They have plans for every aspect of our lives... how can anyone say they are not trying to impose world gov't? Good on Angle, wish more would take up this cause.

August 13, 2010

EddieW said:

US Out Of UN The UN is just a part of New World Order and One World Government and as a Freedom loving Country, we should have no part in it...It is purely leading to slavery!!! They even said they would "impose" OWG on us if we didn't accept it willingly!!!!

August 13, 2010

Robert Shafer said:

... The UN is nothing but a Communist organization period. They have nothing in common with our nation, they are not a freedom loving organization plus they vote against us most of the time. I say get us out of the UN and get the UN out of the U. S. R. Shafer

August 13, 2010

Flu-Bird said:

get us out them them out We need to totaly get ourselves out of the sinister UN it never has been or ever was about world peace but about WORLD GOVERMENT the UN is a vulture pretending to be a dove Its time to totaly evict these radicals and extremists and have the etire facility bulldozed and turned into a bird refuge

August 14, 2010

Madeleine said:

Out of the UN I dont' know much about Sharon Angle yet but now I'm interested, I am not in favor of Rand Paul. I have been praying someone would get us out of that Anti American group for years. They serve no purpose and money for the poor they are always fighting for never seems ot reach its destination. I can't think of one good thing they have ever done. They are demanding money from us constantly because they think we are the only country with money in this world. China looks like it is doing pretty good and Russia is on a roll, they should target them for awhile. Obama is now hooking our air force up with Russia for a test fight this week and I see a one world army coming, I don't like the idea of that. Obama is getting us deeper and deeper into a one world order and I don't know of anyone who is happy about it, it might have seemed like a good idea on paper but its not in the stark reality of the way the world works. Richard Lugar is the King of the Seas treaty so of course he is in favor of the UN, thats who will be running all of the water ways and the Oceans if Lugar has anything to say about it, Obama is planning on signing that treaty, I only hope he doesn't get a chance to but he seems ot be moving at racehorse speed on everything we don't want. I can only hope someone comes to our rescue, it won't be anyone sitting in the Congress or Senate now, if they haven't done it yet , they never will.

August 14, 2010

sos4usa said:

Stick to your guns Sharron Angle Now we need to get our support out for this wise woman.

August 14, 2010

Solidspine said:

... The UN is a laughable, immoral waste of taxpayer’s money. Get out and kick the UN out of the US It is a complete joke

August 14, 2010

jerry said:

... i feel we should get out or repeal the federal reserve act.wwe should get out of IMF,WT(OO,WTO court,World Bank too Thoms Jefferson said no to,pres Andrew Jacckson veto national banking system and its time to do it again!

August 14, 2010

Jim said:

... The UN was founded by communists, is controlled by communists and their fellow useful idiots, and can only bring about a communist world. The UN is America's Trojan Horse.

August 14, 2010

judy said:

... if goldwater knew back then, we cannot be wrong in calling on our government to get them out of the great USA. Put them Iran apparently womens rights mean nothing to them.

August 15, 2010

Victor the SnakeMannn said:

Too Radical of an Idea??? Really? Let's look at Radical a minute!!! FREEDOM is a Radical Idea!!! Freedom from a tyrannical government and King was a Radical idea!!! So our forefathers set about to free the US from this tyranny and gave us Liberty!!! Now when every time the UN is in the news and on TV it's some evil tyrannical dictator or president of some country we have spent billions helping over the years, they come here on OUR SHORES and TALK BAD ABOUT THE USA!!! I am part of the USA and I am profoundly OFFENDED!!! Then you hear about their "Dignitaries" with hundreds of thousands of parking violations, photos of their cars that cannot be towed away blocking streets for hours while they are with Prostitutes. They are allowed to WILLFULLY Break OUR LAWS with NO repercussions. Then the next day they get up at the podium and speak bad and tell the US how bad of a country we are!!! I'm sorry. Whenever there is a Natural Disaster anywhere in the world, who is there? Whenever there is an unjust war or takeover who is there to help? Who polices the world's waters? Who's invented more things for the world to use for the future? WHO WENT TO THE MOON!!! Ding ding ding!!! We have a WINNER!!! The Undisputed Moon Visiting, World Saving Champion of the WORLD? AMERICA!!!! So unless you are a brain dead libtard who thinks everything is just gonna work itself out, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!! It is too RADICAL to keep the UN HERE allowing them to destroy us from within our OWN SHORES!!! How's this for Radical? Freedom of Speech and the Press? It's going away!!! Is it too radical to have or to lose? THE UN IS A RADICAL IDEA!!! Victor the SnakeMannn of Las Vegas - Hollywood Jewelry Designer to the Stars See all my Jewelry at NightWindCreations.com Find out more about me at SnakeMannn.com Myspace.com/snakemannn.com Twitter.com/snakemannn Facebook.com/victorthesnakemannn

August 15, 2010 | url

Rick Crain said:

... Right on Sharon you are absolutley correct throw the bums out along with Harry Reid.

August 15, 2010

VinceP1974 said:

Cant stand Everytime I see some Dem politician on the TV fearmonger about how some opponent of theirs is "extreme" I want to throw something at them and even something larger at the Republican who just drools upon hearing himself get slandered.

August 16, 2010