In an attempt to build its battered image, the desparate United Nations is teaming up with Spider-Man.
In a move reminiscent of storylines developed during the World War II, the U.N. is joining forces with Marvel Comics, creators of Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk, to create a comic book showing the international body working with superheroes to solve bloody conflicts and rid the world of disease.
The comic, initially to be distributed free to 1 million U.S. schoolchildren, will be set in a war-torn fictional country and feature superheroes such as Spider-Man working with U.N. agencies such as UNICEF and the “blue hats,” the U.N. peacekeepers.
But I like what John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., once said:
“if the U.N. building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
All the more reason to get the US out of the UN.
Posted by Walt as Education, General Commentary at 11:08 PM EST
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By Alan Caruba
If you want to witness the most blatantly un-Constitutional and un-American laws at work than just take a walk through your local schools. They are currently under the control of the federal government.
Why any town or city bothers to hold an election for members of the local board of education is a mystery to me. Between the U.S. Department of Education and a union, the National Education Association—masquerading as just a group of concerned teachers—local boards have no real power to reverse the subjugation and destruction of the nation’s education system.
Since the Constitution does not even mention education, it is a continuing mystery why the federal government has a department devoted to it. Well, it’s less of a mystery if you consider that its purpose is to indoctrinate the children passing through it to accept a whole range of values and ideas that lots of Americans think are wrong.
From the Head Start program to the International Baccalaureate, the whole purpose of “education” today is to create new generations of Americans who think that the United Nations should govern the entire planet and who uncritically accept politically correct beliefs about gender issues, diversity, multiculturalism, and environmentalism. To insure this occurs, Congress and some States are ready to sign off on programs that would evaluate the mental stability of every child from pre-school on through graduation. That’s Big Brother!
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The Belgium constitution has allowed homeschooling since 1831, yet couple in Brussels has been threatened with criminal neglect for schooling their children at home, and the case actually could pose a threat to the sovereignty of the U.S. Constitution. That's because if the basis for the legal arguments being made by Belgian prosecutors ever would be accepted in – or imposed upon the United States, that fact would make the U.N. protocol, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child equal to the Constitution. Even though in .
The U.N. protocol was signed by President Clinton and was ratified by 192 countries. Although it was not ratified by the US Senate because of strong opposition, it still can be cited by the courts. And the scary part is our Supreme Court has cited international law in some of their decisions.
Under the U.N. protocol, a child could have an abortion without telling her parents, while at the same time forcing them to pay for it. A generic description of the treaty calls it "child-centric." But Klicka's HSLDA is more specific.
The U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause requires that "all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land," the HSLDA said.
That would mean any state law relating to child custody, the family, education, adoption, child pornography and dozens of other issues could be nullified in an instant, the group said.
Under the protocol, children would be vested with freedom of expression, so that "any attempts (by parents) to prevent their children from interacting with material parents deem unacceptable is forbidden."
Reaching to the far end of that logic would produce this result: your 6-year-old wants Playboy magazine, or even to visit a Playboy club, and you pay for it.
Parents who fail would be subjected to "identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment, and follow-up." (World Net Daily)
Our country is at a piviotal point that threatens the basic rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The United Nations needs to recognized as the greatest threat to all our freedoms and rights.
Get U.S. the heck out of the United Nations!
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Threat seen from U.S. judges who bow to child-rights treaty.
A U.N. treaty conferring rights to children could make homeschooling illegal in the U.S. even though the Senate has not ratified it, a homeschooling association warns. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child could be binding on U.S. citizens because of activist judges, reports The convention places severe limitations on a parent's right to direct and train their children.
The Home School Legal Defense Association, or HSLDA has published a report in 1993 warning on how the convention intended to make homeschooling illegal and gain control; of our children and their education. The report states:
Article 13: Under this provision, parents could be subject to prosecution for any attempt to prevent their children from interacting with material they deemed unacceptable. Children are vested with a "freedom of expression" right which is virtually absolute. No allowance is made for parental guidance. Section 1 declares a child's right to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art or through any other media of the child's choice."
Article 14: Children are guaranteed "freedom of thought, conscience and religion." Children have a legal right to object to all religious training. Alternatively, children may assert their right against parental objection to participate in occult, Muslim or Buddhist worship services.
Article 15: This article declares "the right of the child to l freedom of association." If this measure were to be taken seriously, parents could be prevented from forbidding their child to associate with people deemed to be objectionable companions. Under Article 15, children could claim a "fundamental" right to join gangs, cults, and racist organizations over parental objection. Parental rights and responsibilities are unmentioned.
Already a world precedent was established when the United Kingdom was deemed out of compliance with the convention "because it allowed parents to remove their children from public school sex-education classes without consulting the child."
It was clearly illustrated in World War II, when Hitler was reported saying, once he has control of the children, then he has control over the people. The rest is now history.
We must assert our freedoms and pressure Congress to protect our freedom of education with strong legislation and Get Us Out Of the United Nations, NOW!
Source: www.wnd.com
Posted by Walt as Education, Freedom & Human Rights at 11:24 PM EDT
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