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August
5, 2002
July
31 Washington, DCGive the Democrats control of the Senate
for even a minute and you can give strong odds to the bookmakers that
socialism disguised as "democratic rights" will be knocking
on the door. And sometimes, the Democrats will
reach deeply into the closet of the past to find the right liberal issue
to champion. In this case, they reached back to 1980 and into the closet
of ultra-liberal James Earl Carter to drag out the failed UN treaty, the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
[CEDAW], that gives women supra rights over their male counterparts. Interestingly,
one of the first nations in the world to sign CEDAW in 1980 was Afghanistan.
As if they didn't have enough current problems
to deal with, the Senate Democratic leadership (with one eye on snagging
the woman's vote this November)
dragged Carter's failed feminist treaty out of the closet and decided
to give it another "go-round," where they could score political
points one way or the other. If they could manage to get 67 votes and
ratify the treaty and force it on George W. Bush's desk they would score
a major victory with the feminists whether Bush signed it into law or
vetoed it. If they managed to get only...say....50 votes, they could complain
to the female electorate that they were bullish on women's rights but
the GOP wanted to keep the woman shackled to the kitchen sink, barefoot
and pregnant. Anyway you view it, the Democrats win.
And, with Bush's popularity still hovering
around 60% even after the beating he took from the liberal media scripted
by Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt, which personally blaming Bush and Dick
Cheney for Enron and MCI-Worldcom's financial woes, the Democrats needed
something sticky enough to tar and feather the Bush-Cheney Administration.
This appears to be the best thing the liberals
could find since Bush has stolen not only most of the liberal's favorite
issues from them but most of the Hispanic voters as well. At the moment,
up to 167 liberal special interest feminist groups favor bringing CEDAW
out of mothballs and throwing it out on the Senate floor like yesterday's
smelly garbage for a recorded vote.
Senator Joe Biden [D-DE], Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced on Tuesday that by a party-line
vote of 12 to 7, the
Committee was sending the long-ago defeated Covenant on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women back to the floor for a vote
by the full Senate. "It's long past time for the Senate to act,"
Biden said. "The treaty provides a framework of basic rights for
women, such as right to equal opportunities in education, in employment
and a right to equality before the law."
In reality, women and ethnic minorities
are already granted supra rights in the United States in the areas of
education, employment and in competing for lucrative contracts with the
federal government. The only class of people in the United States who
are now denied equal opportunities under the law, and the only class of
people denied the right to openly and fairly compete in the United States
are middle-class white males. And, shocking as it may seem, the middle
class white male is, and has been for decades, a minority classalthough
he remains unrecognized as suchthroughout the world.
Opponents of CEDAW argue that the utopian
legal watchdogs exploit the deliberately vague language of the treaty
to undermine the tenets of democracy in all of the 170 nations which have
signed the Treaty. "This treaty represents a battering ram against
free and democratic societies," Cecelia Royals of the National Institute
of Womanhood, "and particularly against women with traditional values."
The treaty promotes abortion as a means of population control almost to
the point of mandating it, and promotes the use prostitution as a healthy
means of achieving sexual gratification without the cumbersome risk of
procreation. But moreover, the treaty requires every nation to provide
an adequate platform for women seeking office by guaranteeing that women
hold half of all elected offices in signatory nations. Denmark, which
immediately complied with that requirement by amending its constitution,
recently chastised Belgium (one of the power states in the European Union)
for not complying with that requirement. In response, Belgium enacted
a law that mandates that 50% of all elected positions in that nation be
reserved for female candidates.
Arguing that those forcing compliance of
this treaty, and the treaty itself "...make a mockery of human rights,"
declared Connie Marshner of the American Catholic Council, an advocacy
group aligned with Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation. "Under
CEDAW," Marshner said, "human rights becomes a scrap of politically
correct rhetoric that means whatever the implementers of CEDAW want it
to mean on any given day."
Nancy Schaefer, founder of Family Concerns
in Turnerville, Georgia, has been a UN watcher since the early 1990s,
and was an attendee at the UN Conference on Human Rights in Beijing when
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Timothy Wirth and several strident feminists attempted
to resurrect CEDAW under a new name, wearing a new suit of politically
correct red, white and blue flag-draped clothes to make it appear like
an "American" idea (the same thing Franklin D. Roosevelt did
in 1941 when he and Winston Churchill "remodeled" the failed
League of Nations into the United Nations and successfully tricked the
American people into believing that the UN was an American idea that would
promote American ideals all over the world.
Schaefer has been fighting not only the
UN agendas which have come out of every UN global conference since the
early 1990s, a battle that led to her current fight against Smart Growth
and Rural Legacy programs that encourage State governments to use taxpayer
dollars to "buy" public lands for the express purpose of denying
the taxpayers access to that land once it is assumed by the State or by
the federal government (which also uses our tax dollars to buy them).
Senator Barbara Boxer, whose daughter is
married is one of Hillary Clinton's brothers, voted to throw CEDAW on
the floor of the Senate. Boxer insisted that the Convention "...has
no enforcement power whatsoever..." and can only make recommendations
to the signatory states. Boxer is either deliberately lying or she is
a typical New Deal Democrat who never reads the bills she votes for, and
hasn't taken the time to read the "fine print" in the Convention
for the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women. Defending CEDAW,
Biden was quoted in the media as saying: "The treaty is a means to
an enda tool which strengthens the ability of the United States
as well as women's advocates around the world to press nations to expand
rights for women. We will not have to change any laws to become a party."
Of course we won't have to change any laws since, according to the 16th
century Law of the Nations, once the United States signs this treaty (which
Jimmy Carter did in 1980 without authorization from the Democratically-controlled
Senate) it becomes law. Under the Law of the Nations, international accords
supersede the national laws of any nation. In other words, in theory,
if the Senate ratifies CEDAW, the terms of that Accord supersede any State
or federal law that would contradict the terms of that treaty.
Under the Law of the Nations, once a "head-of-state"
signs an international accordeven if the laws of that nation require
confirmation by that nation's parliament or congressit immediately
becomes binding on that nation since the international arena does not
recognize anyone other than the legal president, premier or prime minister.
Further, according to the Law of the Nations, once an international accord
is signed it cannot be refuted or abrogated by future heads of State of
that nation.
What that means is that the minute Jimmy
Carter signed the Convention, it became a binding treaty on the United
States just as Bill Clinton's signing
the Kyoto Protocol bound the United States to the UN Global Warming Treaty.
That is likely the reason that Senator George Allen [R-VA] stated that
the convention, despite lacking enforcement powers could be used for litigation
purposes in this country. At the moment, the Convention is being used
as the legal authority on discrimination against women in a civil lawsuit
currently being conducted in Brazil.
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