A feminist end run around sovereignty

TownHall.com ^ | 8/05/02 | Pat Buchanan

[kattracks]

"The 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up. ... An end run around sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault."

So wrote diplomat Richard Gardner in 1974. And there is no better illustration of conducting an end run around sovereignty than the feminist drive to have the Senate ratify the U.N. "Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination Against Women."

Crafted by radical feminists, "CEDAW" was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979 and signed by Jimmy Carter in 1980. When the Reagan Revolution rolled over America CEDAW seemed a gone goose, and has lain doggo in the Senate for two decades.

But with Jim Jeffords' defection and a shift of power to the Democrats, CEDAW was revived by the new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Biden. Last week, Biden rammed CEDAW through the committee 12 to 7. Now, it is only a Senate vote away from becoming U.S. law.

While the language of CEDAW is vague, it is not too much to say that if the Senate ratifies it, feminists will have a weapon for federalizing and rewriting all family law in the United States.

Consider how the 23 "experts" the U.N. selected to oversee the implementation of CEDAW have interpreted it. Belarus was admonished for celebrating "Mother's Day." China was told to decriminalize prostitution. Belgium was ripped for not achieving quotas for women, and responded by reserving 50 percent of all candidate slots for women.

CEDAW requires that all women and girls "have access to adequate health care facilities, including information, counseling and services in family planning." This is being interpreted as a right to abortion on demand. And the CEDAW committee rapped the Irish for voting down legalized abortion, attributing it to Church influence in maintaining old "attitudes and stereotypes."

In its 1998 compliance report, cited by The Washington Times, the U.N. experts attacked Croatia's freedom of conscience law, which exempts doctors opposed to abortion from having to perform them, as "an infringement of women's reproductive rights."

Writes Phyllis Schlafly, "Article 10 would make it a federal responsibility to ensure the elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women at all levels, and in all forms of education ... by the revision of textbooks ... and teaching methods."

Do we really want U.N. busy-bodies nosing around the textbooks by which our children are taught? Or is that America's business alone?

Here is how Gardner's "house of world order" is to be built. Utopian elites, with radical visions of how the world ought to be ruled, but who cannot get their ideas written into law, bypass the democratic process in their own countries and go to the U.N.

There, they draft treaties with such non-controversial goals as ending torture, saving the earth, stopping genocide and abolishing discrimination. Few, other than their authors, read these treaties, which are whistled through the General Assembly.

The interpretation of what the treaties require is then left to "experts." But in every Western nation, judges and lawyers can be found to interpret these treaties exactly as their authors intended. Elevated to national law, the treaties are then used to reshape free societies in ways their own citizens would never have supported.

As a sovereign nation with its own unique customs, traditions and laws, the United States should reject any and all global treaties that attempt to force an ideological conformity on America.

Unfortunately, U.S. administrations have been morally bullied into attending the international conferences where these treaties are signed and celebrated. When Americans are horrified by what they read in the fine print, they must either swallow and sign on, at the expense of U.S. national interests and sovereignty, or be branded as isolationists and unilateralists by the "international community."

On defending U.S. sovereignty, George W. Bush has a good record. While he mistakenly went to the Monterey shake-down to pledge a 50 percent increase in foreign aid, he took a pass on the reparations hoe-down in Durban, he "unsigned" the Rome treaty creating the International Criminal Court, and he rejected the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.

But CEDAW is coming up for a full Senate vote this fall. The Democrats and their Big Media auxiliary will declare it an issue of women's rights. And the president will have to take a stand. CEDAW should be killed, after which the president should unsign this feminist scheme. Delenda est CEDAW.

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[lentulusgracchus]

I agree fully with Pat Buchanan's construction of this issue, and his recommendation concerning CEDAW.

The UN has long been the playpen of kleptocrats, ascended terrorists and assassins, and people with too much money, time, hubris, and ambition.

[Blood of Tyrants]

But we can't listen to Buchanan because he is tooooo radical.(sarcasm off)

Buchanan is once again right on the money.

[madfly]

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[madfly]

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[Under the Radar]

Thank you for the ping. He who has ears to hear, let him hear...

[patriot_wes]

The bottom Line kids.....While the language of CEDAW is vague, it is not too much to say that if the Senate ratifies it, feminists will have a weapon for federalizing and rewriting all family law in the United States.

Conservatives must work extra hard to win control of the senate back in November. Defend our beliefs and ideology wherever possible, particularly at the local level. One of the best places is in the editorial sections of your local newspaper. Voters read so let's articulate our phylosophy and our positions and make the case!

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

Yep - When he gets one. . . he really nails it !! !!

[cactusSharp]

Buchanan is correct here and rock solid
on core issues but he sure leaves the ranch
on others.....he reminds me of a closer
in baseball. You root like heck but look
thru your fingers when it is going bad.
lotta fingerlooking with Bushanan

[Digger]

Just think, the Sheeple could have had a president such as him but chose the New World Order & the compromised puppets that they shove on us.

[knighthawk]

Just how long are we going to take this kinda stuff from the UN?

[Victoria Delsoul]

But CEDAW is coming up for a full Senate vote this fall. The Democrats and their Big Media auxiliary will declare it an issue of women's rights. And the president will have to take a stand. CEDAW should be killed, after which the president should unsign this feminist scheme.

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[Ohioan]

Of course, Buchanan is right here. And, of course, this looney intrusion upon American cultural integrity needs to be stopped. But much that would be foisted upon us by this Treaty is already being foisted upon us by Domestic fanatics. For example, the part about the international feminists distorting American education. There are not many public schools left in America, today, where there is much respect being shown for traditional sex roles.

It is not enough to stop the threat from outside. Reagan stopped the Communist threat, but America's homegrown Egalitarian fanatics, have not missed a beat in the promotion of their own variety of Socialist Collectivism in the years since. What we refer to jokingly as Politically Correct is no joke to the Academic Left. What they have not been able to complete by legislation, they are accomlishing by indoctrination.

But Feminism remains at best a delusion. All life springs from the reality and overriding importance of sex roles. In Dean Swift's wildest flights of imagination, he never conceived anything quite as looney, as the Feminist movement. (See The Feminist Absurdity.)

We need to start sending unapologetic, traditionally minded Americans to the Senate. They have become virtually an extinct breed in what was once--many, many years ago--considered the greatest deliberative body on earth. Senator Biden, referred to in the article, represents the new breed; pathetic dysrons, who lap up whatever nonsense the Fabian Socialists at Harvard and other Ivy League Schools are peddling at the moment.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[2sheep]

Buchanan has clearly defined another device of the satanic agenda here.

• Here is how Gardner's "house of world order" is to be built. Utopian elites, with radical visions of how the world ought to be ruled, but who cannot get their ideas written into law, bypass the democratic process in their own countries and go to the U.N.
• There, they draft treaties with such non-controversial goals as ending torture, saving the earth, stopping genocide and abolishing discrimination. Few, other than their authors, read these treaties, which are whistled through the General Assembly.
• The interpretation of what the treaties require is then left to "experts." But in every Western nation, judges and lawyers can be found to interpret these treaties exactly as their authors intended. Elevated to national law, the treaties are then used to reshape free societies in ways their own citizens would never have supported.

This is the same technique used by animal rights wackos, enviro wackos and others of the left.  They change the laws and attempt to redefine truth.

Isa 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Da 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

>On defending U.S. sovereignty, George W. Bush has a good record.

He does?  Buchanan cited a few examples, but there are many more HERE of it being a bad record.

>But CEDAW is coming up for a full Senate vote this fall. The Democrats and their Big Media auxiliary will declare it an issue of women's rights. And the president will have to take a stand.

Congress should be renamed "Transgress".  The transgressors have come to the full and proven there is not an issue on which they will not cave as they bow and scrap to the New World Order  And who caves the most?  One who tries to please everyone and not take a stand.

Da 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Daniel 5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Daniel 6:8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Daniel 6:12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Daniel 6:15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

How flexible is Sharia?

[TopQuark]

But we can't listen to Buchanan because he is tooooo radical.(sarcasm off) Why not? Even a manipulative bigot can say something correctly. In this article, he is clearly correct.