UN Takes over our Children
Document 029.29.0.0 # 52 Subject: UN to attempt to usurp authority
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children. United Nations Children's Fund Seeks to Usurp Parental Rights. By
Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition. Washington,
D.C. Whenever a United Nations agency meets to discuss children's rights,
parents should be wary. In September, 2001, the United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF) is organizing a New York summit on children's rights. UNICEF
is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the U.N.
Convention on the Rights of the Child. In U.N. Newspeak, "children's
rights," typically means that the state will become the final authority over
a child. The parent is relegated to the role of caretaker. In the U.N.'s
view, the "family" is just a subunit of the state and is subservient to the
state's needs.
The officials who are organizing this UNICEF summit have recently created
new rules for determining who can participate in various closed negotiating
sessions over children's rights. UNICEF has ruled that the Non-Government
Organizations (NGOs) participating in this summit can only have two
representatives in each closed negotiating session. This children's summit
will discuss abortion as well as homosexuality this fall as "human rights."
What this means in practice, is that pro-family NGOs will be vastly
outnumbered in the final sessions. They are usually outnumbered anyway, but
this new rule will severely limit the ability of pro-family groups to fight
these pro-abortion and pro-homosexual proposals.
The primary goal of this UNICEF summit is to redefine the role of the
traditional family and to promote the idea that children ages 10-18 have an
inalienable right to be sexually active with same-sex partners and to abort
their unwanted babies if they choose opposite sex partners. These notions
spring directly from the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of the Child. The
U.N. Declaration, a treaty that has been warmly supported by President
Clinton and Senator-elect Hillary Clinton, is a parent's nightmare. Clinton
has been reluctant to send this treaty to the Senate because he knows
Senator Jesse Helms will keep it bottled up in the Foreign Relations
Committee. Helms is a vigorous opponent of any U.N. treaties that would
erode parental rights or American sovereignty. If ever passed by the
Senate, however, this treaty would usurp the right of parents to determine
the moral and spiritual development of their children.
In rather innocuous language, this U.N. document turns the United Nations
into a global parent, wipes out parental rights, and gives children nearly
unlimited freedoms to determine their own destinies without parental
interference. The full text of this frightening document is available on
UNICEF's web site.
It is sobering to realize that even though this U.N. Declaration has been
passed by nearly every nation on the earth, except the United States and
Somalia, it has really done little to stop the abuse of children.
Boys are still being routinely molested by homosexual predators in
Thailand, kids are still being sold into sex slavery in the Sudan, and
NAMBLA's worldwide outreach is still promoting the molestation of children.
The Declaration usurps parental authority, while not really protecting
children.The upcoming UNICEF summit will prove to be yet another effort of
the United Nations to destroy the traditional family and to place all
authority for parental decisions in the hands of a totalitarian U.N. agency.
If the U.N. ever gains authority over parenting in the United States, we can
say goodbye to freedom. It is our hope that President George W. Bush will
never send this treaty or any other treaty to the Senate that gives this
kind of totalitarian power to the United Nations.
It is also our hope that pro-family NGOs at this UNICEF summit will be
successful in overturning any U.N. proposals that will further erode
parental rights in nations that have already signed the U.N. Declaration.
Parenting should be left to parents, not a U.N. agency.
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Chester L McWhorter Sr, c/o 504 N. Brighton Rd, Lecanto, Occupied Florida,
C. S. A., 34461. Ph: 352-344-9073. Fax: Same. E-mail:
robertthebruce@naturecoast.net
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"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary
Americans." Comrade Pres W. J. Klinton. USAToday. 11 Mar 93. Pg 2A. "You
know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to
have their fair say." Comrade Pres W. J. Klinton. 28 May 93. The Courtyard.
City Hall, Philadelphia. "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing
through our papers. We are the President." Comrade Hillary Diane Klinton.