There are currently 193 member states of the United Nations , include everyone from South Sudan to the Solomon Islands . And , of course , the United States is a charter member — but that does n’t mean the entire U.S. is represented .
If you bar by Oregon ’s Grant County , you ’ll see signs declare the region a " U.N.-Free Zone . " That ’s the result of a 2002 balloting in the county that censor the U.N. from the realm over concerns that the body wanted to infringe on residents ' rights to own guns , take back individual property , control pedagogy and establish a one - cosmos religion . There were also concerns about the financial cost of belonging to the U.N. and the body ’s environmental record .
Herb Brusman , the author of the measure , severalise theEast Oregoniannewspaper that the vote was " a argument to be made … [ that ] the less we have link with [ the U.N. ] , the better . "
The area has a long history of strain to sweep off political science control : in the same election , they go by a law granting citizens the rightfulness to cut down tree on Union property and they have fought environmental regulations that they say restrain the tone business .
The practice of law still stands , although the U.N. says it ultimately does n’t matter . In a February 2011interviewwithThe Oregonian , U.N. embassador Susan Rice tell the county ’s concerns were " not ground in world . "
" The U.N. ca n’t tax us , the U.N. ca n’t transfer our Torah , the UN has no bleak helicopter fleet — it ’s a illusion , " Rice pronounce , sum up that the U.N. does n’t have jurisdiction over any country .
Grant County was n’t even the first spot to declare itself free of the U.N. In 2001 , the circuit card of the Utah townsfolk of La Verkin held aspecial sessionon July 4 to sink an regulation barring any town money to be pass on U.N. activity . If an individual citizen wanted to support the U.N. , they would have to display a sign of the zodiac read " United Nations employment conducted here . " The ordinance was declared unconstitutional a few hebdomad later and was ultimately repealed in a 2002 vote .
A similar measuring was enacted in Bingham , New Mexico , and a bill was even passed in theUtah House of Representativesthat would promote the U.S. Congress to withdraw from the U.N. That , predictably , did not meet its intended finish , but commonwealth Rep. and legislation author Dave Bush said passing the resolution was retribution for a body that had interfered in too many American wars .
