They hate your mommy

Once again the push is on for the Senate to ratify CEDAW, the United Nations women's rights treaty that has been hanging around since 1979. CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. There's a good reason that the Senate has ignored it for a generation: It's an incredibly toxic document, the work of international bureaucrats determined to impose a worldwide makeover of family relations and "gender roles." CEDAW is a blueprint for foisting the West's radical feminism on every nation gullible enough to sign. (Talk about cultural imperialism.) Some 167 nations have signed the treaty, many with no intention of observing it. But CEDAW ferociously monitors every nation's compliance. It has a few enforcement mechanisms and plans more. The idea is that someday, nations may not be able to resist.

CEDAW is a more perverse version of American radical feminism, circa 1975: It bristles with contempt for family, motherhood, religion, and tradition. Parents and the family don't count. The state will watch out for children's rights. The treaty extends access to contraception and abortion to very young girls and imposes "gender studies" on the schools and feminist-approved textbooks on students.

The committee criticized Belarus for reintroducing Mother's Day ("a sex-role stereotype") and strongly urged Armenia to combat the image of "the noble role of mother." It complained that voters in Ireland seem to be voting in line with Catholic values and warned Libya that the Koran can be followed only within "permissible" limits sets by CEDAW. Feminists will decide what religions may teach.

Free to be . . . a hooker? One of the CEDAW committee's techniques is to use broad language, which is then tightened and given a radical interpretation after signatories have accepted it. CEDAW did not announce that women's "right to free choice of profession and employment" would turn out to mean (as the CEDAW committee now says) that prostitution must be decriminalized around the world. Similarly CEDAW's ban on "any distinction, exclusion, or restriction made on the basis of sex" seems to make legal approval of homosexual marriage mandatory. Some analysts think CEDAW's ban on "orientation" bias will make pedophile sex legal, since some people are "oriented" toward children. Linguistic sinkholes are so common that Muslim women wanted assurance that the term "sexual slavery" would not be defined later as including marriage.

CEDAW reflects the rising importance of international conferences and the U.N. nongovernmental organizations. CEDAW bureaucrats constantly monitor and hector the world nations to comply. The World Bank now seems primed to serve as an enforcer for CEDAW. One World Bank document is titled "Integrating Gender Into the World Bank's Work: a Strategy for Action." The feminists talk about the World Bank's "accountability mechanisms." Translation: no CEDAW compliance, no loan.

Worse, CEDAW backers intend to use the new International Criminal Court as an enforcement tool. Patrick Fagan of the Heritage Foundation, who follows CEDAW closely, predicts that the CEDAW committee will bring an ICC case against Catholic hospitals to force the hospitals to perform abortions. Language setting up the court is so vague that radical prosecutors and judges might be able to jail clerics who refuse to perform same-sex marriages or who decline to ordain women.

The lesson here is that small groups of dedicated bureaucrats, out of the public eye, can make rules affecting the domestic affairs of countries that would be difficult or impossible to achieve democratically. The trick is to create "customary international law" out of marginal views, constantly repeated on the world stage. Rita Joseph, an Australian human-rights specialist, says, "The basic plan is ingeniously simple. The idea is to couch the feminist agenda in the language of human rights" and then assert the ascendancy of human rights over the sovereign rights of nations.

Still, over the past five or six years, as awareness of the radicalization of the United Nations has set in, nonradical American NGOs have mounted resistance, often with the help of the Vatican and Muslim nations. This alliance has had some success in exposing the language and parliamentary games played by the radicals.

CEDAW is coming up again now because of a fumble in the State Department. Someone listed CEDAW as a treaty the administration considered low level but acceptable. President Bush now has to choose between antagonizing his base by calling for Senate ratification or antagonizing female voters by seeming to come out against women's rights. But if he can't dodge the issue, he will have to oppose the treaty. CEDAW is dangerous as well as stupid.

If this passes, keep yourself and your families away from these minions. Do not let your children near a public school and go rural if you can.
These busy bodies have messed up their own lives so bad, they'll be comming to destroy you and your families happiness as well. Misery loves company, and the feminazis have proven it.
If you think the Muslim war is bad now, it's going to get worse because of the feminazies dictorial legislation. Many nations believe in family values, and when the see their families being torn and abused after they've been decieved by the propaganda of "individual rights" (me, me, me first propaganda), they'll really hate America for it.

I remember when klintoon was elected (by deceit), she went to the UN Women's whatever-the-heck it was, and was campaigning for this garbage. Some of the other "third world countries" really took a stand against it then. I remember that some republican female wanted to attend, they didn't want her there, she made it somehow and was in shock over the agenda. There's a lot of really evil stuff in this thing, yet on tv last night I saw a demoncrap and a supposedly republican woman championing it. Wish I had more details, but it's been a while and there was SO MUCH for that long, eight nightmarish years!!!

. . . when they [Muslim nations] see their families being torn and abused after they've been decieved by the propaganda of "individual rights" (me, me, me first propaganda), they'll really hate America for it.

That's an excellent point. When the Iranian revolutionaries overthrew the Shah's government in 1979, the U.S. embassy was the second building they sacked. The first building they stormed was the Tehran offices of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

I'll bet no more than a few people here knew that. It kind of puts that whole Islamic revolution in a different perspective, doesn't it?

Um, I think it guarentees women the right to vote. Pretty darn radical.

And if the people of other nations really don't want that? Is it our place to force them through politics of destruction, loss of funding, or hateful propaganda by the left?
Force abortions on their cultures? Force a woman to work and ignore her kids?
Not all people are liberal lefties in this world.
Forcing other nations and people to think contrary to their conscience creates hate, violence, war.
America is getting way too pushy since 1992. We're going to pay for that dearly someday. In a way, we are now.
I'm an American, and I feel it's destructive to the family unit by suggesting the uslessness of husbands in a womans life.
Heck, the NOW gang has been taken over by lesbians anyway who have become their own mates.
Of course they hate those who have fallen into true natural love, successfully married , bought that house with a white picket fence, and had offspring who love them.
The NOW gang will never enjoy that life. They've messed it up for themselves too much. No man would ever want them.
Now they want the world to follow their lead? They know whats best for the world?
God help us all!
If you feel what they're doing is right, remember, you asked for it. Your tax dollars will go to repair the social damages caused with those nations who have adopted this plan. You will pay the welfare for the divorced mother, the fisting classes in their schools and AIDs victims, the worship of Democrat politicians who feed them, clothe them, and house them afterwards. Their care will become your burden, whether you approve of it or not. Once they adopt liberal Americanisms, they become our burden to bare, just as it is here in America.
The majority of social programs here do not support the right, they support the left wing base.
By liberalizing the world, we will have no choice but to share the wealth. Someone has to pay for the clean -ups. The grasshoppers will want food. The ants will have to provide it.

The July 4th threat had a comment that the Muslim exremists were " In the land of legal prostitution and gambling."
They're after liberal targets.
9/11 was not only NYC, the land of liberal, but the pentagon and whitehouse.
At the time 9/11 was being planned, Clinton ( king of liberal extremists ) was there, and he was deploying troops all around the world to force other nations to act like liberal Americans in the name of "freedoms." He deployed troops 40 times during his reign of liberal terror himself.
We have no right to force U.S. values on other cultures.
Imagine how we would feel if Isalmic nations forced us all to become Muslims like the Muslim extremists want? We're fighting them, aren't we?
The other nations will fight to keep Liberal extremists away from them the same way. Are they wrong?

The feminists can preach all they want in all the UN directives they want, but the fact is that the family is safe until the State steps in and creates a welfare state. Then, since moral families usually have high incomes, they will be taxed and thereby punished, and a disincentive will be created against being moral. Likewise, since immoral families usually have low incomes, they will be given welfare payments and thereby rewarded, and an incentive will be created in favor of being immoral.

I wouldn't worry about UN blather. Rather worry about the foreign aid that is attached to it. Follow the money, follow the money, FOLLOW THE MONEY!

Mothers are the enemy, mothers are the enemy... The evil in this world that mothers have brought about... - Honestly, the shrill, misguided, unGodly and poisonous people who wrote and support this treaty should be marginalized. They exist, not because the majority of anyone supports them, but because nobody has enough strength to pick up the flyswatter.

CEDAW did not announce that women's "right to free choice of profession and employment" would turn out to mean (as the CEDAW committee now says) that prostitution must be decriminalized around the world.

CEDAW memo to self: We stand for the welfare of the world's children. Let's see, what could we do to help them?... Let's help the little girls to be prostitutes - so they can sell their bodies to twenty to thirty men a day. That'll help them out a lot. Oh yeah, and let's help the little boys be prostitutes for the homosexual child rapists in the sex clubs in Thailand and the Philippines. Oh, right, let's not remind them about their mothers with a stupid day to promote motherhood. Motherhood is soooo evil. Which is why we have to promote abortion. And that might be good for those little prostitute girls we support then they get pregnant (for the 20th time)... We're coming, little children. We'll save you!....

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