Posted on 03/17/2006 8:17:21 AM PST by Jay777
Currently the ACLU are appealing to the U.N. Human Rights Committee with their cries of how evil the United States Government is.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Human Rights Network today urged the U.N. Human Rights Committee to hold the U.S. government accountable for flagrant and repeated violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
“Locally, nationally and globally, the United States has repeatedly failed in its responsibility to uphold basic human rights,” said Ann Beeson, Associate Legal Director of the ACLU. “We are appealing to the international arbiters to hold the U.S. accountable to basic human rights standards.”
As sickening as this is; it is only one step in the ACLU’s agenda to undermine America’s sovereignty and freedom that so many soldiers have sacrificed and died to preserve. The ACLU are obviously frustrated by their inability to advance their radical agenda more quickly under the U.S. Constitution, and are now determined not only to convince the American judiciary to look to international law, but also to use it as a means to their ends. They hold it as a higher authority than our own Constitution and are more than willing to sacrifice our sovereignty in their pursuit to radically force change on America to fit their own radical views.
The sad thing is that they don’t have to try very hard to convince our judiciary. Last month former ACLU lawyer, and current Supreme Court Justice, Ruth “Snoozer” Ginsburg gave a speech that argued explicitly for the relevance of foreign law and court decisions to interpretation of the American Constitution. She isn’t the only Justice that buys into this philosophy. FIVE Justices believe that international law should bear weight in interpreting our constitution.
The ACLU don’t hide this agenda, they are proud of it.
(Excerpt) Read more at stoptheaclu.com ...
All of this should concern you. You may think that it doesn’t directly affect you in your everyday life, but it will eventually. The ACLU’s embrace of international law seeks to hypocritically do the opposite of what the ACLU claim to protect, and the Constitution forbids; prohibit the free exercise of religion.
In spring 2003, a group from the United Nations Human Rights Commission, of which former ACLU officials Paul Hoffman and John Shattuck are a part, met and discussed a resolution to add “sexual orientation” to the UNHRC’s discrimination list. Homosexual activists at the meeting called for a “showdown with religion,” clearly intending to use international law to silence religious speech that does not affirm homosexual behavior. Source
It is a direct threat to our very freedom of speech, and religious exercise. In some countries, laws are being pushed, and in some cases, enacted that essentially criminalize forms of religious speech and activity that does not affirm homosexual behavior.
Ok, what nations law should we be looking to? Zimbagwa(sp)?
I believe they would look to whatever Country's law was in line with their personal opinions.
Agreed. This should concern Americans.
WE ARE NOT THE REST OF THE WORLD. We have our OWN government and our OWN constitution. If we had wanted a document that talked about the mating habits of caribou, then we would have adopted the EU Constitution.
To quote a very concise and relevant historical response under similar circumstances,
How many Divisions does the U.N. Human Rights Committee have to enforce anything?
...and if their only option is to expel us from the United Nations, I can't think of a more delicious and desirable irony!
The relevance of foreign law in our courts is NIL. These liberal morons and communists are using this lunacy to modify the definition of our legal system and its laws. It is total BS that must be stopped, not only from the ACLU, but from the communist/socialist activists on the SCOTUS.
They must be stopped.
LOL!! Thankfully, the EU Constitution has been binned (for now)!
I actually went and read the thing when it went online...what a joke that was.
It was a typical document written by committee...
The American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Human Rights Network today urged the U.N. Human Rights Committee to hold the U.S. government accountable
They don't need any. Not with the thousands of NGO nanny groups waving soft law under the noses of your county boards and city councils.
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