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Treaties

You may have heard it said by some that International Treaties become the supreme law of the land superseding our Constitution. Truth or wishful thinking by Globalist and others. Read this article Treaties and the Constitution by George C. Detweiler from The New American Magazine and decide for yourself. Do treaties supersede the Constitution?

Due to all the recent news regarding the International Criminal Court we have moved it to another page for now. This will allow us to give it more coverage in order to give a more balanced view of this controversial treaty.

Since the founding of the United Nations in 1945, 514 multilateral treaties have been deposited with the Secretary-General, as of 15 May 2000, which cover the whole spectrum of human interaction. The majority of these treaties have been adopted by the General Assembly, concluded at plenipotentiary conferences convened by the organs of the United Nations, or have been drawn up within the framework of the United Nations regional commissions and are open for participation to their membership and to non-Member States. Below we have but a small portion. Click here to view the complete list.

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) - a new legal instrument that could address issues as diverse as tobacco advertising and promotion, agricultural diversification, smuggling, taxes and subsidies.

In May 2000, the World Health Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution which formally launched the political negotiations which commenced the 16 to 21 October 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland. At the first session of negotiations, Member States elected Ambassador Amorim of Brazil Chairman of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, as well as vice chairs from Australia, India, Iran, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States. Substantive matters were addressed in the Plenary and three technical working groups were established. A President's Draft of the Convention will be available in January 2001. The second session of negotiations will be held 30 April - 5 May 2001 in Geneva, Switzerland. More on the FCTC INB

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U.N. Kicks Off Anti-Smoking Drive Thursday, November 4, 1999, The Washington Post.

World Health Organization issues press release, NOWHERE TO RUN – NOWHERE TO HIDE WHO LAUNCHES GROUND-BREAKING GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO COUNTER TOBACCO INDUSTRY DECEPTION.

Convention on the Rights of the Child — This treaty claims to give every child the right to express its own views freely in all matters, to receive information of all kinds through the media of the child's choice, to freedom of religion, to be protected from interference with his correspondence, to have access to information from national and international sources in the media, to use his own language, and to have the right to "rest and leisure."

Based on the concept that a child's rights originate with the UN Treaty itself or with government, in contrast to the American ideology that rights are inherent, from Nature and Nature's God. This treaty will gravely interfere with parents' rights to raise and educate their children. The treaty assumes that the UN "rights of the child" will be enforced against parents who violate the treaty. Parents will be in violation of this treaty by spanking their own children, by requiring them to go to church, by reading their mail, by turning off programs the child wants to see, including pornography, etc.

Some people think this is going too far, others say that all children are the property of the State, and therefore this is the only logical conclusion.

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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) — This treaty claims to regulate and protect all women everywhere from the age-old problem of discrimination by men. Under the supervision of a committee of 23 experts, no nation could refuse to implement the decisions of this unelected tribunal to regulate our laws, customs, personal relationships, family education, textbooks, wages, etc.

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Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change — This treaty would require the U.S. to reduce our energy consumption to 7% below our 1990 levels, a tremendous reduction in our standard of living. Meanwhile, it would allow Europeans to evade reductions by averaging among the EU countries, and it would impose no limitations at all on 130 "developing" nations including China, India and Mexico. It would encourage U.S. fossil-fuel-burning plants to relocate to restriction-free countries, thus moving a million jobs overseas.

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Convention on Climate Change

Kyoto Protocol

It's only fair that the USA reduce its standard of living in order for the poor nations to be able to catch up with us. After all, we have exploited the poor for hundreds of years.
We got here by blood, sweat and tears, in a free nation. No one gave it to us, and we don't owe it to any one else. Let them try freedom, and earn it for themselves.
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Convention on the Law of the Sea— This treaty creates an International Seabed Authority which will control 75% of the earth's surface, including the authority to impose direct taxes on natural resources such as oil pumped from the floor of the ocean. This is to be one of the greatest sources of income to the World Government, where no national government may intervene, none may claim it hurts them, since it taxes oil and other resources not within in any national border, and it eliminates the need for the United Nations to come and beg from its Member States to pay annual assessments and dues. Each consumer will pay the tax, imbedded in the price of each gallon of gasoline, for instance, at the pump.

(Under Construction)

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World Trade Organization — This treaty favors "free trade," reducing tariffs and protectionism and isolationist measures taken by some nations to protect their own industries. It might be considered a type of government of its own, a world trade government by a supra-national body in Geneva that sets, administers, and enforces the rules. It includes a legislature called the Ministerial Conference, consisting of 135 nations each with one vote; an executive branch consisting of a Director-General and a multinational bureaucracy; and a supreme court of trade called the Dispute Settlement Board that decides trade disputes in secret and whose rulings cannot be vetoed by any nation. The WTO has already ruled against the United States four times. None of the people in these positions get there by being elected, nor may they be removed by the People.

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Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty — This treaty would forbid us to conduct all nuclear tests, including those underground, while we would not be able to verify other countries' compliance.

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Convention on Biological Diversity — This treaty is a plan to set aside half the land area in North America as "Wilderness" and much of the other half as buffer zones and corridors where human use by Americans would be severely restricted. It places huge tracts of U.S. land under federal control, managed according to UN land use policies. There are presently 357 biosphere reserves in 90 countries. Of these, 47 units are in the United States, of which 29 are managed by the National Park Service.

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The Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme
National Parks that are International Biosphere Reserves
Sovereignty International, Inc.
US Map of Wilderness areas

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World Heritage Convention — This treaty granted special powers to the UN agency called UNESCO to designate selected American treasures as World Heritage sites and to develop regulations and policies concerning their use. The 22 sites already marked by UNESCO include some of America's greatest treasures: Independence Hall, the Statue of Liberty, Jefferson's home at Monticello, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park and Yellowstone National Park.

World Heritage Sites

NOT THE TIME FOR THE UNITED STATES TO REJOIN UNESCO

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Chemical Weapons Convention — This treaty attempts to ban chemical weapons. The problem with it is that some of the countries most likely to use chemical weapons (Libya, Syria, Iraq, North Korea, China, Iran and Russia) either won't sign the treaty or have indicated they will not be bound by it. The treaty is unverifiable and unenforceable, and so it increases, not eliminates, the risk of chemical weapons use, while and seriously reducing the U.S. ability to use certain weapons that, in some cases, are more humane than bombs. It also may well reduce our ability to employ counter-measures by nullifying chemical warfare with other chemicals.

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NATO Expansion Treaty — This treaty admitted three new members into NATO — Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic — and commits the U.S. to go to war to defend their borders, which ethnic factions have been fighting about for a thousand years and most of which were established as a result of bloody battles or imperialism of larger nations.

What is NATO?
Supreme Allied Command Atlantic Homepage (SACLANT)
NATO Expansion and the Danger of a Second Cold War (from the CATO Instutite)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Articles from the New American Magazine

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United Nations Conferences

What are they?

For:
United Nations conferences are gatherings of diverse delegates from all over the world who hammer out their differences and agree on plans of action. They represent a new process of "consensus-building" which allows every nation and every culture a voice in the future of the planet, finding solutions and building a Future without war.

Against:
United Nations conferences are gatherings of gullible delegates from all over the world who hammer out their differences and agree on plans of action. The conference managers write the reports and recommendations ahead of time and then manipulate the delegates to call it a "consensus." UN conferences offer grand opportunities for tax-paid bureaucrats to connive at ways to implement their socialist, feminazi, radical enviro-wacko and wealth-redistribution agendas. They are a total farce.

United Nations conferences pretend to be democratic gatherings of diverse delegates from all over the world who hammer out their differences and agree on plans of action. On the contrary, the conference managers write the reports and recommendations ahead of time and then manipulate the so-called delegates to call it a "consensus." UN conferences offer grand opportunities for tax-paid bureaucrats to connive at ways to implement their leftwing, feminist, and wealth-redistribution agendas.

United Nations Millennium Assembly, New York, 2000 — The UN Millennium Assembly and Summit adopted the Millennium Declaration, which contains plans for far-reaching "reforms" designed to vastly increase the power and authority of the UN. These "reforms" include: creating a UN standing army, disarming nations of all conventional and nuclear weapons, forbidding the U.S. to build a missile defense system, encouraging the International Criminal Court to exercise "compulsory jurisdiction" over all states, setting up a UN Arms register of guns, imposing UN control over the manufacture and sale of all firearms, eliminating America's veto and permanent membership in the Security Council.