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Cruz Explains Why Americans with Disabilities Will Not Benefit from U.N. Disabilities Treaty
Heritage.org ^ | November 7, 2013 at 2:43 pm | Steven Groves

Posted on 11/07/2013 12:27:25 PM PST by SoConPubbie

The United States is the world leader regarding the rights of people with disabilities. But a United Nations treaty seeks to use Americans’ concern for the disabled to undermine U.S. sovereignty.

It’s time for proponents of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to come clean about this treaty. They claim, falsely, that it would help Americans with disabilities who are traveling abroad. But as Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said at The Heritage Foundation recently:

"Ratification is not going to materially change the degree of compliance by foreign nations, but it is going to open avenues to undermine sovereignty and challenge U.S. law."

Cruz highlighted the treaty’s danger to American sovereignty and exposed as false the oft-repeated but completely empty promise made by the CRPD’s proponents to Americans with disabilities that the treaty will benefit them when they travel abroad. In fact, U.S. ratification of the CRPD would provide no benefit to disabled Americans, but would have a pernicious and lasting effect on American sovereignty.

The CRPD was the subject of a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on Tuesday, a hearing where this empty promise to Americans with disabilities was shamefully repeated by Democratic Senators and witnesses. It is untrue and unfair. U.S. ratification of the treaty would do nothing to improve accessibility in foreign nations that also ratify the treaty. No evidence to the contrary exists, nor will it ever exist.

The CRPD will likewise not benefit Americans with disabilities at home; existing U.S. laws and court decisions already protect and advance the rights of Americans with disabilities.

The Heritage Foundation recognizes the CRPD would actually degrade America’s position as the international gold standard on the rights and protections of persons with disabilities:

"Ratification does not enhance U.S. leadership on international disability rights—it squanders America’s exceptional position as the world’s preeminent protector of disability rights."

As Senator Cruz illustrated in his remarks, the CRPD would also imperil U.S. sovereignty by opening the nation up to litigation from international actors, who would seek to subjugate U.S. law and judicial decisions to international laws and precedents.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: crpd; cruz; disability; disabled; tedcruz; texas; undisabitiestreaty
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1 posted on 11/07/2013 12:27:25 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; DangerZone; castowell; JJHLH1; rhubarbk; Jotmo; Hamilcar_Barca; Amanda King; ...

Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!


2 posted on 11/07/2013 12:28:04 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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Anything the UN does is about enslaving peasants.
3 posted on 11/07/2013 12:28:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Anything the UN does is about enslaving peasants.

An UN-peasant prospect at that.

4 posted on 11/07/2013 12:46:56 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: SoConPubbie

It would allow a lot of ‘crats to decide if your kid had ‘special needs’ that would preclude their being homeschooled. Look for a lot of kids to be ‘diagnosed’ with some disorder requiring their regular presence in a public school.


5 posted on 11/07/2013 12:47:20 PM PST by Black Agnes
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6 posted on 11/07/2013 12:50:55 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: SoConPubbie

Cruz is an exTREEEEEmist who happens to be right about everything thanks to dumb luck.


7 posted on 11/07/2013 1:00:00 PM PST by alstewartfan ("If I had known last summer... I'd have never set my foot inside this bleak and bitter land." Al S)
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To: SoConPubbie
He explains issues SO WELL!!!.....so articulate, so intelligent....

..and bless his heart, I think he has my cold.
..that's exactly how I sounded all week....sniffing and dripping :(

8 posted on 11/07/2013 2:02:06 PM PST by Guenevere (....)
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To: SoConPubbie

Ted Cruz rocks


9 posted on 11/07/2013 2:06:47 PM PST by GeronL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yup! The UN has become a justification club for despotic tyrants.


10 posted on 11/07/2013 2:57:42 PM PST by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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As someone who uses a wheelchair when traveling, I have had zero issues traveling throughout the US. I can’t say that about my European travels.

Let the Europeans sign this treaty...


11 posted on 11/07/2013 4:22:59 PM PST by RginTN
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Thanks SoConPubbie.


12 posted on 11/08/2013 7:59:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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