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Independence Forever! Don't Ratify the UN Disabilities Treaty

jclemons Wrote: Nov 29, 2012 6:57 PM

Thank you Ken Blackwell, from a disability advocate with a 20 year track record. American signing of a UN treaty of this kind would put blood on all of our hands, and take a horrible bite out of US sovereignty. Having said that, the specific rights and concerns of Americans with disabilities, have not had enough political attention in this past year. In rejecting this treaty for all the good reasons you mention, we must set the best example in the world for dignity, humanity, inclusion, integration, opportunity, and self-determination...working with, not FOR, people with disabilities and those advocates that they choose freely. Kudos

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Independence Forever! Don't Ratify the UN Disabilities Treaty

There’s an old story from the Jewish shetls of Eastern Europe. There was a singing contest among the animals. The Nightingale loses, despite her lovely singing voice. Looking down on the jury, she sees the grunting wild pigs. She weeps, not because she lost, she says. “But see who my judges are!”

America must feel like the Nightingale whenever she has to go before a UN panel.

I had the honor of serving our country as U.S. Ambassador to the UN’s Human Rights Commission. In those days, the UN body had such worthy respecters of human rights as Algeria, Libya, Syria,...

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