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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Dick Morris on May 14, 2012
In Screwed!, we expose the Rights of the Child Treaty which is now being
negotiated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and will likely be
submitted to the Senate this year (perhaps in the lame duck session).
Twenty years ago, during the Clinton Administration, the Senate refused to
ratify the treaty. But now it is being pushed by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA
).
The Treaty, literally, tells us how to raise our children. And it would be
legally enforceable in American courts under the Supremacy Clause of the
Constitution. Only a constitutional amendment could supersede the “rights”
it confers on children:
• It bans spanking or any form of corporal punishment of children.
• Article 12 of the Treaty says “when adults are making decisions
which affect children, children have the right to say what they think should
happen and have their opinion taken into account.” Could this proviso
establish a due process right of children to challenge their parents’
divorce or their decision to move?
• Worried that your children are hanging out with a bad bunch? Article
15 guarantees children “freedom of association.” It says “Children have
the right to meet together and to join groups and organizations, as long as
it does not stop other people from enjoying their rights.”
• The Treaty would stop states from trying children as adults and
incarcerating them with adult inmates. It would require that even murderers
in their teens be sent to children’s facilities rather than prison. Article
37 says “children should not be put in prison with adults.”
The Treaty requires all signatory nations to provide children with adequate
levels of food, clothing, housing, education and medical care. In Britain,
Prime Minister Cameroon is facing a lawsuit for violating the Rights of the
Child Treaty by proposing a cut in welfare benefits.
It also obliges rich nations to “help poorer countries achieve the best
health care possible, safe drinking water, nutritious food, and a clean and
safe environment for children.” Enforceable in US courts, this provision
might create a basis for judicial decisions ordering increases in foreign
aid, just as courts now order steps to address overcrowding of prisons.
The Treaty would make a new level of busybody intrusion into our lives. Read
all about this and the other treaties Obama is pushing in Screwed! | P*********0
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