Sen. DeMint Offers Bill to Stop U.N. From Taking Rights Away From U.S. Parents

[FrankRep]

Sen. DeMint Offers Bill to Stop U.N. From Taking Rights Away From U.S. Parents (http://www.citizenlink.com/2010/08/sen-demint-offers-bill-to-stop-u-n-from-taking-rights-away-from-u-s-parents/)


CitizenLink
August 9, 2010


U.S. senators are under pressure to ratify a U.N. treaty that could give government the last word on parenting decisions.

At issue is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), a measure that purports to protect children’s freedom of religion and privacy.

In reality, this measure is not necessarily “about giving children rights, but about giving the government the power to override decisions of good parents when their choices differ from the paths favored by the progressive Left,” explained Michael Farris, president of parentalrights.org and chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association.

Among rights threatened would be parents’ ability to direct their children’s spiritual upbringing, as well as what – and when – they learn about sexuality.

To stop this threat, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has introduced a resolution (S. R. 519) that asks the Senate not to ratify the UNCRC, as it “undermines traditional principles of law in the United States, regarding parents and children.”

DeMint’s resolution highlights the unintended consequences. One example: “the United Kingdom was found to be in violation of the Convention … for allowing parents to exercise a right to opt their children out of sex education courses in the public schools, without a prior government review of the wishes of the child.”

So far, S. R. 519 has at least 30 co-sponsors. It would only take 34 senators to stop ratification of this treaty.

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Support H.R. 1146, to get the United States out of the United Nations


Warren Mass | John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/)
23 April 2009


On February 24, Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas) introduced H.R. 1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2009 in the House and the legislation was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The bill was cosponsored by Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R.-Tenn.) on March 19.

The stated objective of H.R. 1146 is to end membership of the United States in the United Nations. It would accomplish this end by initiating the following actions:


* Repeal the United Nations Participation Act of 1945;
* Require the president to terminate all participation by the United States in the United Nations, and any organ, specialized agency, commission, or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations;
* Close the United States Mission to United Nations;
* Terminate the appropriation of funds for assessed or voluntary contributions of the United States to the United Nations or any of its affiliated agencies;
* Prohibit funding of contributions to any United Nations military operation;
* Prohibit any member of the Armed Forces of the United States from serving under the command of the United Nations;
* Prohibit employees of the United Nations from using U.S. government property;
* Suspend diplomatic immunity for officers and employees of the United Nations;
* Repeal acts authorizing U.S. participation in UN agencies such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization; the United Nations Environment Program; and the World Health Organization; and would end all participation in any and all conventions and agreements with the United Nations.

In “America’s Role in the United Nations (http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr091800.htm),” a statement made before the House on September 18, 2000, Rep. Paul explained his reasons for introducing this legislation, which he has done in every Congress since 1997. A key part of his argument follows:


To date, Congress has attempted to curb the abuse of power of the United Nations by urging the United Nations to reform itself, threatening the nonpayment of assessments and dues allegedly owed by the United States and thereby cutting off the United Nations' major source of funds. America's problems with the United Nations will not, however, be solved by such reform measures. The threat posed by the United Nations to the sovereignty of the United States and independence is not that the United Nations is currently plagued by a bloated and irresponsible international bureaucracy. Rather, the threat arises from the United Nation's Charter which — from the beginning — was a threat to sovereignty protections in the U.S. Constitution. The American people have not, however, approved of the Charter of the United Nations which, by its nature, cannot be the supreme law of the land for it was never 'made under the Authority of the U.S.,' as required by Article VI. (Emphasis added.)

Those unfamiliar with some of the problematic aspects of U.S. participation in the UN might consider the UN’s role on the side of tyranny in several historic contests. These include, but are not limited to:


* In 1961, when Moise Tshombe, the respected leader of the peaceful province of Katanga, tried to secede from the central government of the Congo controlled by the brutal thug, Patrice Lumumba, the United Nations sent in troops not to quell Lumumba's brutality but to suppress Tshombe's secession.
* In 1971, the UN General Assembly voted to oust Nationalist China (Taiwan) and welcome in its place the bloodiest regime the world has ever known, the dictatorship led by Mao Zedong, who had murdered in excess of 60 million of its own subjects since gaining power with U.S. help in 1949.
* UN forces in Rwanda actually abetted the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Peter Hammond of Frontline Fellowship in Holocaust in Rwanda, testified that Belgian UN troops stationed in a heavily fortified compound in Kigali “deceived the [Tutsi] refugees by assembling them for a meal in the dining hall and then [they] evacuated the base while the refugees were eating. Literally two minutes after the Belgians had driven out of their base, the Presidential Guard poured into the buildings annihilating the defenseless Tutsi refugees.”

Far from being mankind’s “last hope for peace,” the UN has consistently provided a forum for tyrants and tin pot dictators to spew their vitriol; has favored tyrannical regimes over free societies in many international conflicts; and has threatened the sovereignty of the world’s free nations, by entangling them in numerous compacts and conventions that are the building blocks of a world government.

The late Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, who had initially approved of the establishment of the UN, later publicly lamented his action, claiming, “The UN is a trap; let’s go it alone!”

Follow this link (http://www.votervoice.net/Core.aspx?AID=972&APP=GAC&SiteID=0&IssueID=17531) to an alert that allows you to contact your representative and senators now, urging them to support this important defense of U.S. sovereignty.


SOURCE:
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[Krugerrand]

The UN went about this all wrong. They're supposed to start off by outlawing smoking in the same car as a child.

[oyarde]

We need to be done with the UN, done with funding it .Done.

[FrankRep]

Sen. DeMint: Ratifying U.N. Children’s Rights Treaty Would Turn Parental Rights ‘Over to International Community’ (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/70584)


CNS News
August 06, 2010


Sen. Jim DeMint (R- S.C.) said that if President Barack Obama gets his way and the Senate ratifies the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the precedent would be set to place parental rights under the jurisdiction of the international community.

“We believe we need to take clear action here in Congress to protect the rights of parents to raise their children," DeMint said at a Wednesday panel discussion. "This treaty would, in fact, establish a precedent that those rights have been given over to the international community."

DeMint is lead sponsor of S. Res. 519, a resolution to protect parental rights, which is co-sponsored by 30 senators total. Only four more senators need to sign on to inform President Obama that he does not have enough votes in the Senate to ratify the treaty, DeMint said.

DeMint has also introduced a joint resolution, proposing a constitutional amendment to protect parental rights.

Under Article 2, Section 2 of the U. S. Constitution, treaties must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate for them to take effect.

The U.N. adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Nov. 20, 1989. By Sept. 2, 1990, 20 nations signed on to enforce the treaty. Currently, with the exception of the United States and Somalia, 193 nations have signed on to enforce it.

Nations that ratify U.N. treaties are bound to adhere to them by international law.

The convention established an 18-member panel to oversee children’s rights in nations that are part of the treaty. If approved by the Senate, the United States would fall under the jurisdiction of this panel.

DeMint said the threat to parental rights is “not some theoretical threat.”

He also said that ratification of the treaty would be “a terrible precedent” not just for parental rights, “but in other areas that we’ve looked at.”

“It submits our federal laws, our national laws to this treaty,” DeMint told CNSNews.com. “And the fact is that we don’t know exactly how it’s going to run, but we know how bureaucracy works. Once a precedent is established and we have yielded control, we know that it will continue to grow. So the precedent is almost worse than the immediate details.”

DeMint also said that the treaty is superfluous because there are laws already that safeguard abused children in the United States.

“We have laws in place,” DeMint said. “And when we have a parent that abuses a child, in our country, we have laws to protect our children. So we don’t need an international law that was developed for a third world country.”

Asked by a reporter how to hold child abusers accountable, given high levels of child abuse in the U.S., according to statistics, DeMint said that the social services system may not be perfect, but that it is at least under U.S. control.

“The fact that there’s not perfection in our system does not mean that we go to the United Nations for help,” he added.

While DeMint is in the forefront of opposition to the convention, liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is leading the charge for its adoption.

During the Senate confirmation hearing of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, held in January of 2009, Boxer told Rice the treaty would protect "the most vulnerable people of society."

"Children deserve basic human rights,” Boxer said at the time, “and the convention protects children's rights by setting some standards here so that the most vulnerable people of society will be protected."

Boxer also labeled the fact that only the United States and Somalia are non-participants to the treaty as a “shame.”

Boxer has urged the Obama administration to review the treaty for the purpose of adopting it. The United States is already a part of two optional provisions in the treaty, namely relating to child prostitution and child soldiers. Boxer, however, is pushing for full participation in the treaty.

DeMint said there is a “pervasive attitude” in Washington at present that the federal government has “complete control over everything.” The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, he said, is government intrusion to the last degree.

“If the government, or even the international community, tell you how to raise your children here in America, is there anything that’s off limits?” DeMint asked.


SOURCE:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/70584