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Boutros Boutros-Ghail's guide to child-rearing
By Samuuel Francis
The Washington Times National Edition 3/20/95
The latest global gabfest sponsored by the United Nations in
Copenhagen last week seemed to be one of the less harmful conclaves
of the New World globaleers, but, as one of its architects remarked,
there was no issue on its agenda that did not overlap with the more
nightmarish invasions of national sovereignty and liberty that other
U.N summits have concocted.
The ostensible purpose in Copenhagen was to devise "solutions" to
world (excuse me, global) poverty, which solutions appear to consist
mainly in sneering at the successful economies of the Northern
hemisphere for not forking over more swag to the socialist
quadriplegics of the South. What the delegates really did is endure
an oration by Hillary Clinton, who had her usual store of wisdom to
impart. Mrs. Clinton expounded upon the need for "realistic
solutions to complex problems" and "putting people first." How did we
ever get along without her?
But quivering over Mrs. Clinton's cliches was not the only morsel on
the Copenhagen menu. The conference was the seventh in a series of 10
U.N. summits to plan our future for us. Their topics range from the
global environment (the Rio conference of 1992) to global population
(last year's Cairo conference) to global women (in, of all places
Beuing next year).
The plan, as U.N. Secretarv rrdlnil:~ General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
wrote in The Washington Times a few weeks ago, is to devise "a wholly
new kind of mechanism for international action.... Today the age-old
problems of poverty, unemployment and social dislocation, once
considered to be the exclusive business of national policy to solve,
now have become problems of global scale requiring global attention.
New forms of global conciliation and mutual progress are now
necessary and possible."
Translated from the opacity of Boo-Boo's globo-babble, that means
sovereign nations can't or won't do what the globaleers want, so a
transnational power (under the guidance of the wise and benevolent
Boo-Boo, of course) must do it for them. If you imagine this is
reading too much into his words, look at what the Boo-Boo-ocracy is
doing in Great Britain.
Back in 1991, the United Nations held one of its summits on "the
rights of the child." One of its fruits was the "U.N. Convention on
the Rights of the Child," which Britain (and 17~ other nations) made
the mistake of ratifying.
This year a U.N. report on British compliance with the convention
scalded England's green and pleasant land for failing to get with the
New World program. It faults the British because they don't do enough
to prevent family and school disciplining of children. The U.N.
report demands that Britain under the U.N. Child Convention, outlaw
both corporal punishment in schools and "chastisement" of children at
home by parents and "childminders" (which is British for
baby-sitters).
The report also orders Britain to raise the age of criminal
responsibility so children can't be imprisoned or tried as adults and
calls for a "childrens' ombudsman" and for consulting children on how
their schools should be run.
Thus, by signing onto the Convention, the British have opened
themselves to the charge of violating an international agreement, and
they've handed a stick to the child lobby with which they can be
beaten, even if their children can't be. At least one such lobby
group is threatening to sue the government to force it to abide by
the stupid convention its leaders signed and to make it implement the
U.N. agreement that is now the British law of the land.
That's the price you pay when you sign onto Boo-Boo's "new forms of
global conciliation and mutual progress": the erosion of national
sovereignty and the replacement of your own government, your own laws
and even your own social institutions (like spanking your own
children) by rules enforced by a transnational bureaucracy.
However harmless the gabble in Copenhagen seemed, Americans need to
remember that it was an organic part of the schemes for world
government that Boo-Boo and his transnational tribe are devising.
Sharing the world's wealth is as much a part of their plan as telling
us what laws we may pass or how we can raise our children, and if
Hillary and her husband have their way, it will show up on your
doorstep soon.
The United States in its wisdom did not sign the Child Convention in
1991, but shortly before the Copenhagen conference, Mrs. Clinton
announced that we would. Last month we did. If the Senate approves
it, kiss your kids good-bye, and welcome to global conciliation.
Samuel Francis, a columnist for The Washington Times, is nationally
syndicated.