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Senate rejects United Nations treaty for disabled rights
2012-12-05
[The Hill] A United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
 treaty to ban discrimination against people with disabilities went down to defeat in the Senate on Tuesday in a 61-38 vote.

The treaty, backed by President B.O. and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), fell five votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for confirmation as dozens of Senate Republicans objected that it would create new abortion rights and impede the ability of people to homeschool disabled children.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) argued the treaty would infringe on U.S. illusory sovereignty, an argument echoed by other opponents. “This unelected bureaucratic body would pass recommendations that would be forced upon the United States if we were a signatory,” he said.

Supporters of the treaty argued that the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities would simply require the rest of the world to meet the standards that Americans already enjoy under the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act.
Sure. And I'd make a good father, so it would be okay for me to sleep with your wife?
Posted by:Fred

#5  As a Recipient of the ADA, I am quite glad this got voted down. I am not glad how close the vote was.
Posted by: Charles   2012-12-05 16:58  

#4  Dammit Dole, got yourself hurt defending the USA from the dictates of foreign governments, what the crap support any UN treaty which would override US law?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-12-05 12:26  

#3  We have the ADA law passed in this country under George H.W. Bush. Let the UN worry about these things in other countries or let other countries exercise their sovereign rights to address such issues. I see no need to get in bed with the UN. Most likely, this involves US taxpayer money in some way. Don't we have significant problems in this country that beg attention?
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-12-05 09:04  

#2  Good point, P2K. And, as we saw in that Pakistaini essay on free speech the other day (the one that Fred ruthlessly savaged), forcing American values on the world is mean, hateful and un-Islamic. It prolly bees raciss, too.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-12-05 08:55  

#1  Supporters of the treaty argued that the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities would simply require the rest of the world to meet the standards that Americans already enjoy under the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act.

Well, gee whiz, if we already have the pertinent laws on the books why the need to ratify a treaty, other than to surrender power to an unelected non-American bureaucratic wannabee?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-12-05 07:49  

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