THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, May 24, 1995 TAG: 9505230003
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A10 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 39 lines
As a concerned grandparent, I am especially distraught over the United Nation Rights of the Child, which has enthusiastically been signed by President Clinton and been sent to the Senate.
This particular treaty is a favorite of Hillary Rodham Clinton. It is not about starving children in Bolivia; it is a ``power play'' in which the Clinton agenda is to drive a wedge between children and their parents and let the U.S./U.N. government instruct and manipulate the children.
If the contents of this document were introduce into federal legislation, it would never pass. It authorizes way too much govermental power over our children, families and schools. With only a two-thirds vote of the Senate, it becomes law, right along with the U.S. Constitution and according to Article VI of our Constitution, would become the supreme law of the land. There are those who say it is ``nonbinding.'' That has got to be the most superfluous statement I have ever heard.
Do the Senate and the president of the United States regularly go to the trouble and expense of participating in and voting on a United Nations document that is to be ``non-binding''? Of course it is binding, legal and bad for America.
This treaty would be the ``beginning of the end'' of parental rights and American rights. We could be sujected to a worldwide court system regarding these matters. We do not need a Gestapo policing our efforts to raise our children. We all should write our legislators today. It is of paramount importance. Tell them No to Rights of the Child!
SANDRA HUDDLESTON
Chesapeake, May 9, 1995 by CNB