Crackdown on Homeschoolers: It's the UN Wot Done It (From Nanny-Land to Totalitarian)

Brussels Journal ^ | 6-20-06 | Alexandra Colen

[jankp]

In today’s Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen Bob Van de Voorde, the spokesman of Frank Vandenbroucke, the minister of Education, says:

“One of the conditions [for homeschooling] is that the homeschoolers must sign a document in which they promise to rear their children along the lines of the UN Convention on Children’s Rights. These parents have not done this. This is why the ministry has started an inquiry.”

The parents Mr Van de Voorde is referring to in the paper are my husband (TBJ editor Paul Belien) and myself. The “inquiry” is a threat to prosecute us.

[jankp]

We'd best begin preparing for EU immigrants immediately.

[squarebarb]

They had best ask why the UN is so infallible.

[MountainMenace]

I've never read the UN Convention on Children's Rights until this post. What a crock. They prescribe how a child is to be reared and what is to be taught. It even gives government the authority to remove the child based on their assessment of efficacy. Chilling!!

[satchmodog9]

When are people going to wake up about the UN?

[lsucat]

ping

[jankp]

As far as I know, only UNSC resolutions and/or subsequent actions can be deemed as 'legally binding.' The 'Charter' is little more than a guideline under which members agree to participate. This is where the UN is over-stepping their bounds of the Charter and its intent, they are not a de facto international governing agency to which all state members are subordinate.

Under no circumstances would our Constitution allow the US to subordinate our Sovereignty to an extra-Legislative hegemony of member nations.

[MountainMenace]

I hope you are right. I never would have imagined a justice on the SCOTUS would ever refer to European legislation as precedence but that has also happened.

[Teflonic]

Scary stuff, although I believe it is these types of cases that stir people up by shining a light on the liberal hypocrisy. Like chicken pox, once liberalism is cured out of a voter it never comes back.

[LurkLongley]

Our Constitution may not, but there are plenty of mind-numbed politicos who, enamoured of world opinion, would allow the UN to do exactly that. This upcoming UN conference on small arms is just one good example.

Sad that it's taken this long for even a small number of Europeans to understand what is happening in the global governance movement, and that given time, it will destroy their way of life as surely as Hitler tried to do not so many years ago.

[reformedliberal]

Chickenpox is an apt example. After the disease has run its course, the virus hides out in the spinal nerves and, among some, will emerge later to cause the painful and scarring disease of shingles.

Liberalism, once stymied or openly defeated, retreats, changes it name and reemerges later to again inflict socialism and tyranny upon the body politic.

While shingles won't kill, it can make its victims wish they were dead and unable to feel the pain. Liberalism, OTOH, does kill and the pain never stops.

[jankp]

I suspect the looming Iran Crisis added to the offenses of OFF, Iraq, the Sudan, the Congo, Rwanda...that endless list...will be the final blow to that infernal Union of Tyrants.

Kofi has already seen the writing on the urinal: Annan warns{ed: US} against pulling plug on UN over reform

[Tired of Taxes]

HOMESCHOOL PING!

Update on that story about the Belgian family...

[Ebenezer]

And all this time I thought we were supposed to abide only by our federal and state constitutions. Thanks for clarifying this.

Sarcasm aside, the U.S. has overstayed its welcome in the U.N. It's time to go.