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Beware of the Lame-Duck Session
Townhall.com ^ | November 6, 2012 | Phyllis Schlafly

Posted on 11/06/2012 6:37:44 AM PST by Kaslin

The current Congress hasn't finished its mischief. It still has the opportunity to do bad things in the upcoming lame-duck session, a period when members of Congress who are already defeated will have the opportunity to vote without concern for voter approval.

The globalists have been plotting to use the volatility of this lame-duck session to achieve some of their internationalist goals that they couldn't get passed during the last four years. In particular, they would like to lock us into treaties that slice out various parts of our national sovereignty, a concept that they have been trying to promote as obsolete.

The globalists could make a surprise treaty push for ratification of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (UNATT). This treaty is coming under the radar since gun control advocates know it could never pass the U.S. Senate after debate in broad daylight.

The gun control advocates assume that private ownership of guns is inherently dangerous. They hope they can achieve their goal of prohibiting private ownership by the covert strategy of a treaty with vague language, and, so far, they have been successful in avoiding media attention.

Supposedly UNATT is merely designed to regulate government-to-government arms transfers and direct sales by manufacturers to governments. Its danger to our Second Amendment is its innocuous treaty language that can impact on the use and ownership of guns by individuals.

Another plan to ratify an anti-sovereignty treaty and subject us to unwelcome global regulations is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This mischievous document was signed for the U.S. by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice (now famous for giving big TV time to Obama's lies about the Benghazi disaster).

We don't need a treaty that sets up U.N. busybodies to assure benefits and protections for persons with disabilities. We already treat individuals, able or disabled, rich or poor, better than any other nation by our Americans with Disabilities Act, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Fair Housing Act, Rehabilitation Act, Voting Accessibility for Elderly and Handicapped Act, Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, and Architectural Barriers Act.

The feminists are using this treaty as an opportunity to promote their abortion agenda. Article 25 requires signatory states to "provide persons with disabilities ... free or affordable health care ... including in the area of sexual and reproductive health and population-based health programmes."

The globalists desperately want us to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which was a bad idea when Ronald Reagan rejected it in 1981, and which has soured rather than ripened in its years of languishing in the Senate. This treaty cedes sovereign control over practically all the riches at the bottom of the world's oceans to an International Seabed Authority.

The treaty's one-nation-one-vote setup assures control by third-world countries, while Uncle Sap is expected to finance the technology and investment to bring the sea's minerals to the surface. This treaty sets up a system of dispute resolution by the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) based in Hamburg, Germany, whose judgments about "maritime disputes" can be enforced against Americans.

U.S. access to the high seas, as well as freedom of the seas for all countries, is best protected by a superior U.S. Navy, not by regulations made by U.N. paper-pushers financed by a global tax. Instead of paying tribute to a U.N. tribunal, we should build more U.S. ships so America can fulfill its mission to keep the seas open for commerce and national defense.

Still lurking in the drawers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the U.N. Treaty on the Rights of the Child, a broadside attack on parents' rights to raise their own children. This impudent treaty purports to give children their own right (against their parents) to express their views freely in all matters, to receive information of all kinds through "media of the child's choice," to attend a church of the child's choice (not his parents'), to be protected from interference with his correspondence, to have access to information from national and international sources in the media, to use his own language and to have the right to "rest and leisure."

After ratification, treaties become part of the "supreme law" of the United States on a par with federal statutes, which gives supremacist judges the power to invent their own interpretations. The whole concept of putting the United States in the noose of global organizations, in which the U.S. has only the same one vote as Cuba, is offensive to Americans, and all these UN treaties should be scrapped forthwith.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012senate; campaigns2012; lameduck; untreaties

1 posted on 11/06/2012 6:37:49 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Nothing will get through the House. What we will see is a ton of new regulations and Executive Orders. And there won’t be anything to be done until Romney gets in and repeal them.


2 posted on 11/06/2012 6:39:55 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD
"Nothing will get through the House."

And the dems don't have a large enough majority in the Senate to ratify any of those extremist treaties.

3 posted on 11/06/2012 6:42:46 AM PST by circlecity
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To: HarleyD

treaties don’t need the House


4 posted on 11/06/2012 6:43:26 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Kaslin
If Romney does pull this off and win, 0bama is the sort of person who, already angry that he should be questioned on anything, will seek REVENGE on this country that didn't appreciate him,,( in his sic twisted mind) and do something really evil...
He himself in his recent whirlwind set of whistle stops used that very expression....vote...it is the best revenge...

In that unconscious moment, he told a great deal about himself...and his grifter wife is not a bit different..they are both full of hatred for this country..a country that has blessed them more than most...

5 posted on 11/06/2012 6:45:54 AM PST by celtic gal
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To: celtic gal

Yes, it is VERY clear that Obama has revenge in his mind. Once Obama is out and no longer has access to truly sensitive information, our security folks should assume that anything that Obama knew has now been compromised and take appropriate action to limit the damage as much as possible.

And I’ve very serious about this. In addition to revenge, I’m certain that Obama has treason in his hateful heart.


6 posted on 11/06/2012 6:57:19 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: Kaslin
I love Phyllis Schlafly.
God bless her still kicking butts at her age, and she still sounds sharp as a tack.
7 posted on 11/06/2012 7:02:53 AM PST by sickoflibs (Romney is still a liberal. Just watch him. (Obama-ney Care ))
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To: celtic gal

After Obama gets his @ss handed to him bigtime, I would love to see the FBI put him into custody for the criminal acts he has committed during his reign. Or, maybe a patriotic SS person will step up and hogtie him before he can do any more damage.


8 posted on 11/06/2012 7:37:11 AM PST by patriotsblood
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To: Kaslin
Dingy Harry and the Usurper will bombard us with EO's and crap to cram through before they're out on their asses.

HOPEFULLY, it can be limited and mitigated, but once in place, it's VERY hard to un-do. Likewise, getting rid of all the yahoo's and Czars won't happen; we'll be paying them to do NOTHING until they retire. BILLIONS wasted on Socialist Agenda is on the books, and will stay there.

9 posted on 11/06/2012 7:50:39 AM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Kaslin

I’m more concerned about what nobama has planned via EOs. Anything goes as far as he’s concerned.

We must be vigilant.


10 posted on 11/06/2012 7:52:48 AM PST by upchuck (Our margin of victory this November 6th MUST BE greater than their margin of fraud.)
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To: Kaslin

A very good point.

The country effectively doesn’t now have a senate and that condition will continue through the lame-duck.

Obama planned his destruction of our constitutional republic with a sixteen year agenda, saving the most brutal and dictatorial actions until he was free of any need to consider the effects of public opinion.

The stage whispered message to Putin was not a gaff.

As bad as Obamacare, Solyndra, the auto bailout, “quantitive easing,” the war on oil, gas and coal, and the replacement of every constitutionally established head of whatever with his “czars” seems - that is the “molasses.” The “sulphur” is supposed to come after today!

If Romney wins (as I think he will) then Obama has to complete the progressive agenda end game by either the first week in January (if we retake the senate) or the third week if the dems hold the senate.

“So much to do - so little time.”


11 posted on 11/06/2012 8:14:16 AM PST by LoneStarC
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To: HarleyD; Kaslin

After tonight’s Romney win they can freely and aggressively go after Barry on Benghazi Gate


12 posted on 11/06/2012 8:23:18 AM PST by danamco (-)
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To: LoneStarC
Not if Mitt Romney wins, but when Mitt Romney wins. Please be positive
13 posted on 11/06/2012 8:35:06 AM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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