--- Eagle Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:00:38 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Eagle Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Clinton's Abuse of the Treaty-Making Power > > Clinton's Abuse of the Treaty-Making Power > > July 19, 2000 by: Phyllis Schlafly > > Annoyed with the Senate's refusal to ratify his various United > Nations treaties, Bill Clinton is arrogantly trying to bypass the > Senate by signing international agreements to implement them > anyway. Each one cedes more U.S. sovereignty to some global > organization, and we wonder if self-government can survive the final > six months of his Administration. > > Clinton knows that his proposed United Nations Convention (treaty) > on the Rights of the Child will never be ratified by the Senate > because it would be a codification of Hillary's plan to put the > global > "village" in charge of raising children instead of parents. But last > week Clinton disembarked from the tall ships parade in New York > harbor, walked into the United Nations, and made an end-run around > that obstacle by signing two protocols to the unratified Convention > on the Rights of the Child. > > The first of these protocols, a pet project of the United Nations > Children's Fund (UNICEF), would prohibit military service by minors. > This encountered stiff resistance from the Pentagon because every > year the U.S. Armed Services enlists about 50,000 high school > seniors before their 18th birthday. Clinton worked out a compromise; > he agreed not to send them into combat until their 18th birthday. > > I guess the negotiators haven't seen "The Patriot" in which Mel > Gibson gives guns to his 10- and 13-year-old sons when British > soldiers threatened their family. In any event, the age at which we > allow men to serve our country should be a U.S. decision, not one > determined by a Clinton treaty or regulated by a commission of > foreign bureaucrats, the kind of paper-pushers who expect > Americans to do all the fighting and dying in their wars anyway. > > The protocol's first paragraph makes its real purpose clear. It is > "to > achieve the purposes of the Convention on the Rights of the Child > and the implementation of its provisions." > > The protocol is quite lengthy, nine pages of fine print. That gives > the > global commission lots of excuses to inject itself into U.S. laws > and > behavior. > > Article 12, for example, requires that we submit, within two years, > a > report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Since that > committee is a creation of Article 44 of the unratified treaty on > the > Rights of the Child, this is another way that Clinton's protocol > locks > us into the unratified treaty. > > The second protocol that Clinton signed last week would make it a > crime to sell children for sex, to engage minors in prostitution, or > to > use them for pornography. Again, the real purpose is to validate UN > authority, not to protect children. > > Of course, those acts are already crimes in the United States. The > countries that engage in such behavior will not be deterred by some > piece of paper that Clinton signed. > > Furthermore, the UN committee set up to monitor compliance under > the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination > Against Women (CEDAW) recently ordered China (which has ratified > that treaty) to allow women to sell their bodies as "sex workers." > The UN committee calls prostitution a "reproductive right" over > one's > body. > > Despite this ruling, HHS Secretary Donna Shalala said on May 31 > that the Clinton Administration will continue to push for Senate > approval of CEDAW. She added that the Clinton Administration is > "quite frustrated on the inability to ratify CEDAW," for which she > blames Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse > Helms. > > While in Cologne, Germany, on June 20, 1999, Clinton announced > that he and then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin had agreed to > negotiate amendments to the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) > Treaty. This was a follow-up to the "Memorandum of Understanding" > on the 1972 ABM Treaty signed by Secretary of State Madeleine > Albright on September 26, 1997. > > This charade is a dishonest attempt to manufacture a new treaty > that takes the decision about defending America against a missile > attack away from Congress and cedes it to foreign countries, > something that the Senate would never approve. Clinton is using the > ploy of these new executive agreements to try to resuscitate the > now-moribund 1972 ABM Treaty, which is actually null and void > because the Soviet Union no longer exists. > > Everything about this treaty-bypass ploy is hurtful to the United > States. Clinton is pretending that the successors to the former > Soviet Union are four states -- Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and > Ukraine -- but the remaining 11 countries of the former Soviet Union > would be free to develop and deploy ABM systems. > > Clinton told the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, > 1997 that he wants to take America into a "web of institutions and > arrangements" that will set "the international ground rules for the > 21st century." Unable to get the advice and consent of the Senate, > he is using his last few months to try to bypass the Constitution > and > do it anyway. > > Will Congress let him get by such underhanded actions? > > Phyllis Schlafly column 7-19-00 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > JOIN OUR MESSAGE BOARD! > Join our Message Board and discuss Global Issues with others! > http://www.eagleforum.org/cgi_bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi > > Registration is not required to post to the Eagle Forum Message > Board. 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