The 30 min movie is horrifying.




@Stash: Since your "OK" with Federal authority superseding State Rights, Are you OK with UN codes and regulations superseding US Law?

Every member of the United Nations has signed the convention on Children's Rights. Somalia and the United States have yet to ratify it. Somalia, the country that seems to have no government, plans to ratify it soon. This will leave the United States as the only member nation of the UN to not recognize the rights of children on an international level.

Now, I submit the USA probably stands firm on the child's right to work for a corporation anywhere in the world... even Newt has come out now condemn Child Labor Laws.

I know at least one fundamentalist Christian State Senator who has argued in committee that beating one's child is a parental right up and until the point of drawing blood and the state should stay out of parental non-bloody, beating policies. This statement was a while ago and he may have tempered and moved down to non-bruising by now. I don't know.

To answer your specific question, UN codes and regulations do not and should not supercede the US Law. But, if we as a nation choose to adopt the Convention, it would be melded into our laws. Like the Geneva Convention. The UN adopted it. The US adopted it. We support it. We don't torture our prisoners....

er... never mind that right now.

So, the quick and dirty answer is, if the United States ratifies this, I would expect the United States to uphold it.

I've read it. I'm wonder with what specific provision of Convention on the Rights of the Child do you disagree? Each nation has the right to ratify with reservations. Even Iran ratified it with reservations against anything going against Islamic Law.

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Seemed easier to quote a woman I agree with. Plus I don't feel like quoting Jefferson, ya know the one about localizing governments.

I was booed off the floor of the 1988 Washington State Democratic Convention for speaking against an amendment adding "age" to the rights clause for abortion. The proponents wanted a pregnancy councelor and my then 11 year old daughter to be able to make a decision regarding an abortion without telling her parents.

You'll note Ms. Ammons states, "supporters take to mean...".

I am a supporter that does not "take it to mean" parents need not be notified.

Bravo. Anybody booed by Democrats is a friend indeed.


Ms. Ammons "supporters take to mean...". was duly noted. And because of this notation I am a non supporter, should it ever be ratified you and I will be booed off another floor.

If you base your opinion of such a significant document from the writings of a summer intern, I submit your opinions would be fairly shallow. I inferred her opinion piece to mean, "the supporters I know take it to mean..."

I would probably fall into the catagory of "supporters she doesn't know."