More “change”
When Candidate Obama declared himself a “citizen of the world”before thousands of cheering German socialists, and later pledged to“rejoin the World Community,” those weren’t just his usual platitudesabout “change.” Those words sounded the trumpet for his specific andfar-reaching globalist agenda.
Obama plans to use his presidential powerto get the Democratic-majority Senate to ratify a series of treatiesthat would take us a long way toward global rule over our money, ourlaws, our military, our courts, our customs, our trade and even our useof energy. Here are the treaties he says he wants.
The U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST),which Ronald Reagan rejected in 1982, is high on Obama’s list. LOSThas already created the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaicaand given it total regulatory jurisdiction over all the world’s oceansand all the riches on the ocean floor.
Next on Obama’s list is the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT),which was signed by Bill Clinton but rejected by the Senate in 1999. It would prohibit all nuclear explosive testing and thereby allow ournuclear arsenal to deteriorate until the American people aredefenseless against rogue regimes.
A new Global Warming Treaty is starting to be written at the U.N.Climate Change Conference in Poland in order to replace the KyotoAgreement, which George W. Bush and our Senate refused to ratify. Thenew treaty would force dramatic reductions in our use of energy — i.e.,our standard of living — and impose the “strong international norms”that Obama seeks.
Obama is toadying to his feminist friends by pushing ratification ofthe U.N. Treaty on Women, known as Convention on the Elimination of AllForms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). It was signed by Jimmy Carter in 1980 and persistently promoted byHillary Clinton, but the Senate has so far had the good judgment torefuse to ratify it.
This treaty would require us “to modify the social and culturalpatterns of conduct of men and women,” to follow U.N. dictates about“family education,” to revise our textbooks to conform to feministideology in order to ensure “the elimination of any stereotyped conceptof the roles of men and women” and to set up a federal “network ofchild-care facilities.”
Another U.N. Treaty on the list is the U.N. Treaty on the Rights ofthe Child, which was signed in 1995 by Bill Clinton but wisely neverratified by our Senate. This is a pet projectof the people who believe that the “village” (i.e., the government orU.N. “experts”) should raise children rather than their parents.
These Obama-endorsed treaties, every one of which would be adramatic encroachment on U.S. sovereignty, would be supplemented bytrade agreements negotiated by Obama’s trade representative, Ron Kirk. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the “global economic community,” of NAFTA and even of the NAFTA Super Highway, which he calls the “true river of trade between our communities.”
Details and implications here