The UN CRPD Treaty Needs to be Stopped

Last week I wrote in a SayAnythingBlog post  about an impending threat to U.S. sovereignty posed by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which was to be voted on in the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

On Thursday of last week, the committee did vote 13-6 in favor of the CRPD and has sent it to the floor for a full Senate vote. Three Republicans joined ten Democrats in lending their endorsement to this treaty — Sens. John Barrasso (Wy.), Richard Lugar (Ind.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.). Thanks to these Republicans we are now in a full court press to stop what a Washington Times headline describes as “Liberals Intent on Imposing Backdoor Globalism” given to an article written by Senators James Inhofe (R-OK) and Jim DeMint (R-SC) who both serve on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and were opposed to the treaty. The senators’ strong disapproval of internationalist interference in American policy was evident...   Read More

UN CRPD Treaty Would Undermine US Sovereignty And Eradicate Parental Rights

On July 16, former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum joined the fight against a a threat, one that is personal for him. Tomorrow that threat will take a turn for the worse or for the better as it comes to a vote in the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. It doesn’t only affect Rick Santorum, his special needs daughter, and his family, but it will expose thousands of Americans to a loss of liberty and representation. This threat comes from the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Although the CRPD may perhaps sound noble, the rights that it threatens to wrest from Americans are vast and troubling. Read More

The Larger Issues

Little fingers play with plastic figurines as the compact voice attached to them beckons me with questions. My computer keys grow silent. Unnatural light from the screen pales to the beauty and import of the person in miniature before me. For this reason, Political Happiness has been on a hiatus for a couple of years. There will be a day for typing, but today I'm holding chubby palms and making peanut butter sandwiches.

America under UN Pressure: An Update on the CRC

America is now under heightened pressure to sign the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) by what appears to be political maneuvering by the UN. In a recent announcement, UNICEF declared that Somalia's transitional federal government will ratify the treaty, leaving the United States to be the sole UN member country not to sign.

On the surface, this may seem confusing and even alarming. Why wouldn't the U.S. want to protect children's rights? Why wouldn't we want to join with other nations in such a noble cause?

To understand the destructive implications of the CRC for American families and why U.S. ratification demands a different standard for the U.S. than any other nation read my July article UN Dictating Parent-Child Policy to American Courts.

ParentalRights.org has an excellent article highlighting why this recent move of the transitional government of Somalia is intended to put pressure on the U.S. to ratify the CRC.

It's easy to focus on the more immediate issues of health care or the American economy, but we must be aware of how close we are to international invasion of the most sacred place in the United States: the home.