the UN treaty on disability

Subject: Re: the UN treaty on disability


"Good heavenly days!: as Molly McGee used to say when she caught old Fibber
in one of his tall tales.
To attempt to reply to this article is more time and energy than I have. It
is so full of Half Truths and bare faced lies that I don't even know where
I'd begin.
What I do know from spending most of my adult life in the field of work with
the blind, is that these pompous Asses should spend a year or two of their
lives as a disabled person. In fact, I'd help find them housing in the
"affordable" rentals in the areas of town where most disabled folks live.
The Ghettos...the crumbling slums.
These morally bankrupt congress members give the Human Race a bad name.

Carl Jarvis

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From: "Alice Dampman Humel" <alicedh@verizon.net>
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Subject: the UN treaty on disability


Now here are two stellar examples of the idiots that do seem to populate the
fundamentalist, bible thumping, wacko fanatic branch of Christianity…and
that point I'll readily concede in our discussion…
If I had the content of this message by that odious creature Santorum to
spread on my garden bed, I'd be growing tomatoes as big as your head.
From Townhall.com

What the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Conceals
Rick Santorum Apr 07, 2014
The mainstream media are in full cry for the U.S. Senate to ratify the U.N.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPAID). Watch out.
When the United Nations starts talking about rights, the truth about what
it's really up to is often carefully concealed. There are always plenty of
people in Washington happy to go along with these charades, but the
supporters of the CRPAID are taking willful blindness to new heights.
Last December, Senator Bob Corker, the Republican leader on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, announced that he was unable to support CRPAID
because it threatens U.S. sovereignty and federalism. "Ultimately, I'm
unable to vote for a treaty that could undermine our Constitution and the
legitimacy of our democratic process as the appropriate means for making
decisions about the treatment of our citizens," Senator Corker wrote. This
treaty, he warned, doesn't govern relations between countries but orders
countries to change their domestic laws.
Senator Corker's fears are right on point, but CRPAID threatens more than
our sovereignty, liberty, and democratic system. It will also hurt the
American economy, small businesses, and families, which is the last thing we
need right now.
I have been warning for some time that the CRPAID borrows language from
other dangerous treaties, like the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the
Child, that will prevent parents from determining the care of their
special-needs children, and it endangers their right to home school any of
their children. CRPAID hits close to home for my wife, Karen, and me
because it could impact the care we give our own special-needs daughter,
Bella. Embracing the United Nations' "it takes a village" mentality, CRPAID
would empower the federal government to run roughshod over existing laws
that protect parents' and children's rights.
The treaty's supporters tell us that CRPAID simply mirrors the Americans
with Disabilities Act. Don't buy that. The ADA is very specific and
limited in its scope. Anyone who actually reads the CRPAID will see that it
is a blunt instrument. It has few specifics but a lot of question marks.
Consider the following:
- CRPAID states that its provisions "shall extend to all parts of federal
states without any limitations or exceptions." So much for American
federalism.
- The ADA carefully defines "disability," making the scope of the law clear.
The drafters of CRPAID, however, specifically rejected a clear definition of
"disability," asserting that "disability is an evolving concept." Really?
What will the U.N. consider to be a disability in the future, after we have
ratified the treaty? Drug addiction? Online gambling? Bad breath? And how
much will this endless re-definition of the concept of disability cost
employers and families?
- Repeatedly invoking "international cooperation," CRPAID includes a
provision that seems to require member countries to help each other with
funding and resources, including the "transfer of technologies." Will the
United Nations at some point decide to impose CRPAID dues on Western
countries to fund the treaty's implementation? Will it tell treaty
signatories that their patent laws discriminate against the disabled in poor
countries and therefore must be ignored?
And there are more question marks. Many, many more.
Those who appreciate the success of the ADA need to understand that CRPAID
would give the federal government the tools to undo important safety
features that Congress painstakingly built into that landmark disability
law. The ADA had three specific objects: improve the disabled community's
access to society at large, prevent discrimination against the disabled
community, and meet these goals in a reasonable, cost-effective way. Most
people remember the first two goals of the ADA and forget the third, but the
third is important. The ADA exempted small businesses and homeowners from
onerous building upgrade requirements and took a forward-looking approach to
improving disability access. CRPAID would remove these reasonable
accommodations. And an administration that has already demonstrated its
contempt for reasonable accommodations does not need another tool for
imposing costly burdens on small businesses and families.
Ratification of the CRPAID would be a severe blow to our already weakened
separation of powers. The Obama Administration would use its rulemaking
authority under the ADA to impose CRPAID on states, businesses, and
families. Secretary of State John Kerry admitted as much in testimony last
November, when he made it clear that the administration views the ADA as the
implementing legislation for CRPAID. Does anyone believe that President
Obama needs one more excuse to impose laws without Congress?
Supporters of CRPAID praise the ADA as the "gold standard" of disability
laws and then cite it as a reason to adopt the CRPAID. This is a non
sequitur; CRPAID has nothing to do with the ADA. If President Obama,
Secretary Kerry, and the rest of the American left want to see our gold
standard become the global standard, they can engage foreign governments
directly, right now, to help them improve their laws and modernize their
infrastructure. The United States is already the international leader on
the protection of disability rights. We don't need to ratify a flawed U.N.
treaty to prove it.
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