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Free Choice Only for Expecting Parents

Posted 34 months ago|7 comments|583 views
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Billyberoo
Cedar Park, TX
I started my day in the normal fashion: I heard the alarm from my Blackberry, turned it off, rolled over for another hour, got up, ate breakfast, went on Facebook to play Mafia Wars, and then went to check out what my friends were saying on Facebook. That is when I saw the post that reveals how our world headed down the toilet (just imagine how much tax revenue the U.S. Government will get now under the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act of 2009 if it is signed into law. See my previous post "Taxing our Butts Off").

A friend who is running for the state legislature here in Texas posted an article "Do Parents Have the Right to Educate," by Heather Duncan of Knoxnews.com. A simple question right? "Yes," I said to myself. Not so fast. Not with the National Socialist government in power in the United States now. Not with multinationalist lawyers (Harold Koh is top dog), in the State Department who believe International Law trumps the U.S. Constitution. Not when our President, Barack Obama, feels we need to be more like Europe.

Well, "No," is the answer given by the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. That's right "No." How can this be, all the money paid by the world (most by U.S. taxpayers) and they come up with something this stupid. Let's think about this the U.N. says it wants to protect the rights of a child, yet will not condemn the mass slaughter of innocent children by abortionists. Now this doesn't mean I'm one of those extreme pro-life people. I am not. I do believe abortion is wrong, I condemn it, except in cases of rape or incest. I do believe since sexual intercourse is an act between two consenting adults, the act of aborting the child conceived by that act should be made by two consenting adults (a tie goes to the innocent life within the womb). The government should be left out period.

This convention believes in a form of "freedom of information act" for children who, "philosophically disagree with a parents educational goals." I have no problem with this philosophy once the child reaches the age of 18, or whenever they leave the house, or are not financially dependent upon the parents.

This coincides with our federal government's view on many issues. If a big corporation takes "bailout money," the federal government can dictate how that business is run. If a bank receives TARP money, the government can dictate who gets loans. If you receive federal welfare assistance, government dictates you have to have a low paying job, or none at all. If we give money to a foreign nation, we dictate that they must promote human rights. Well, following this logic, the child that lives under the parents roof, who eats food provided by the parents' hard work and sacrifices, is subject to have their "educational goals dictated" to them by their parents.

To sum up, our current U.N. Ambassador, Susan Rice, says our government will consider ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This Convention does not consider protecting the child's right to life. It takes away the Natural Right of parents to raise their child. I don't know about anyone out there, but their were plenty of times in my younger years that I "philosophically disagreed with my parents educational goals," but lucky for me there was nothing I could do about it. When I reached college is when I combined what my parents taught me (through their experience and wisdom) and what I learned in the school they chose for me, with what I wanted to learn. That is how I became an educated, informed, and generally good person. For that I owe them many "thank yous."

Germany has outlawed home schooling, England has just adopted it to force about 80,000 to register in state schools. Giving inexperienced, ignorant children rights of parents will only lead to dependence on STATISTS. We fought a war in the late 1700's to break away from Europe, lets keep it that way!! We entrust our government to protect our liberty, not give it to the United Nations!!!
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34 months ago: You just opened the door even further to the lawyers...

Thanks alot! I wonder how long before the onslaught of children divorcing their parents will be. Really think about it. A minor child gets pissed because they are held responsible to doing homework or other responsibilities. I wonder if regulated school, housework, play, meal, relaxation, nintendo, computer, bathing and sleep time will be tendered next.

Billyberoo
Billyberoo
Cedar Park, TX
34 months ago: I wish I had that much influence on the lawyers.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
34 months ago: That's one of the main tools of the progressives, alienating children and parents, and making the child feel more like a child of the state, with stronger ties and allegiance to the state than to the parents.
34 months ago: International law DOES trump the Constitution. In fact, it is the Constitution itself that allows this to be the case by virtue of "rule of law". To save you the hissy fit that I'm lying, here's the quotation from the Constitution.

Straight from Cornell's Law department: "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land;"

All treaties. Say, that wouldn't happen to include the UN convention, which we voluntarily entered into and remain a party to? And thus, by extension, all acts of that treaty?

We did not fight a war in the 1700s to break away from Europe. We fought a war in the 1700s with aid from a European monarchist country (France) to demand fair treatment by our British government across the ocean. In fact, the decision to secede came after the decision to take up arms.
ParentalRights
ParentalRights
Purcellville, VA
34 months ago: Out of the Box: We are not yet a party to the CRC, since it has not been ratified. We are a signatory - we have signed it - but that is not ratification, and it is not legally binding.

Also, Article VI does not permit a treaty to override the Constitution itself. "[The Supreme] Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." (Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (1957)). That case held that while all 3 are "the supreme law of the land," the text of the Constitution is over the others - neither a law nor a treaty can be adopted by Congress that is contrary to the Constitution. The other two - federal law and ratified treaty - are equal, and the newest controls.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
34 months ago: PR
Thanks for the contact info, you should incorporate it into the thread, not everyone will click your profile.


I am currently reading this and find this:
Article 13

1. The child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child's choice.

2. The exercise of this right may be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:

(a) For respect of the rights or reputations of others; or

(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals

It seems to contradict in some ways this:

Article 14

2. States Parties shall respect the rights and duties of the parents and, when applicable, legal guardians, to provide direction to the child in the exercise of his or her right in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the child.


Is this directed toward spankings?

Article 19

1. States Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child.

2. Such protective measures should, as appropriate, include effective procedures for the establishment of social programmes to provide necessary support for the child and for those who have the care of the child, as well as for other forms of prevention and for identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment and follow-up of instances of child maltreatment described heretofore, and, as appropriate, for judicial involvement.
ParentalRights
ParentalRights
Purcellville, VA
34 months ago: Out of the Box:
Thanks for the suggestion - I'm at parentalrights.org, and folks are encouraged to come by for more on this treaty.

Nothing in Article 19 talks about spankings, and a majority of the world's nations allow spankings, which would suggest they didn't connect it to spankings either. According to General Comment No. 8: The Right of the Child to Protection from Corporal Punishment and Other Cruel or Degrading Forms of Punishment released by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2006, however, it does in fact refer to spankings - in any and every setting.

As for some sections appearing to contradict, a careful reading of the whole CRC, advised by the content of the 12 General Comments and countless Concluding Observations to country reports, shows consistently that parents only have the right to raise their children as the U.N. says.

Consider Article 5: "States Parties shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents...to provide...appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the present convention." Notice that the rights at the beginning of the Article only exist in as much as the parent is providing direction in accordance with the Convention, as laid out in the last part of the article.

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