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Republicans Defeat Ratification of the U.N.’s ‘Rights of Persons With Disabilities’ Treaty in Senate

Dec. 4, 2012 1:32pm Liz Klimas

The Senate failed to ratify a United Nations treaty that many felt could usurp parents’ rights after a big push Monday from conservatives to call senators and voice opposition.

Many Republican senators rejected the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities treaty, which was modeled after the Americans with Disabilities Act. Prior to Tuesday, a majority of Republicans had already said they would not take up the treaty during a lame-duck session.

With 38 Republicans casting “no” votes, the 61-38 vote fell five short of the two-thirds majority needed. See how each senator voted here.

U.N. convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities Defeated by Republican Opposition in the Senate

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) (C) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (R) participate in a news conference with persons with disabilities on Capitol Hill, December 3, in support of the treaty that was ultimately rejected by the Senate Tuesday. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The treaty urges nations to strive to ensure that the disabled enjoy the same rights as their fellow citizens. Those opposed to it, like former Senator Rick Santorum, said it would have the potential to trump the sovereignty of U.S. law. Santorum, who has a special needs child himself, had voiced opposition several months ago from a parents’ rights standpoint:

This means that the Federal government, acting under U.N. directions, can determine for all children with disabilities what is best for them. The second, the education provision of CRPD does not support the parental rights rules of past U.N. human rights treaties. Omission of these rules would potentially eradicate parental rights for the education of children with disabilities.

Santorum called into the Glenn Beck Radio Program Monday to continue spreading his perspective before today’s session.

Many pro-life groups, according to Life News, opposed the treaty as well for measures they felt could support abortion and sterilization:

Bradley Mattes, president of the International Right to Life Federation, stated, “This is a misleading measure in that it does nothing to protect life. It is disguised as a way to ‘help’ the disabled. Instead it intentionally sacrifices the most vulnerable – the disabled and the unborn – all in the name of population control.”

He continued, “Many don’t realize that this international treaty could potentially supersede future attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade.”

The language in Article 25 of the treaty that pro-life groups oppose reads that it would provide “free or affordable health care including in the area of sexual and reproductive health and population-based health programs.’” Life News reported Tony Perkins, the head of the Family Research Council, translating this to mean “the global community could force America to sanction sterilization or abortion for the disabled–at taxpayer expense.”

Supporters said the treaty would ensure that the United States remains the world leader in promoting rights for the disabled. Among them was former Majority Leader Bob Dole, who was disabled during World War II, and Sen. John McCain, who suffered disabling injuries in Vietnam.

The 89-year-old Republican sat in a wheelchair in the well of the Senate on the GOP side of the chamber, his wife Elizabeth nearby. Dole recently had been hospitalized but came to the Senate to push for the treaty.

“It really isn’t controversial,” Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said in defense of the treaty. “What this treaty says is very simple. It just says that you can’t discriminate against the disabled. It says that other countries have to do what we did 22 years ago when we set the example for the world and passed the Americans with Disabilities Act.”

“I am frankly upset,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., “that [Republicans] have succeeded in scaring the parents who home school their children all over this country.” He said he said his office had received dozens of calls from homeschooling parents urging him to vote against the convention.

The treaty has been signed by 155 nations and ratified by 126 countries, including Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia. Supporters like Kerry said that the treaty requires no changes in U.S. law, that a committee created by the treaty to make recommendations has no power to change laws and that the treaty cannot serve as a basis for a lawsuit in U.S. courts. Opposition had voiced concern that the states would need to report to this committee to show they were in compliance with the treaty.

“I do not support the cumbersome regulations and potentially overzealous international organizations with anti-American biases that infringe upon American society,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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vnachi77
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:15pm
What’s lost in this discusions is this, the US has the most progressive and effective disability laws in the world. Why then, do we need to make ourselves subject to an extra international law oveseen by the UN. The Republicans didn’t vote against the substance of the law, but rather the unnecessary oversight that comes with it.

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- encinom
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:24pm
  What’s clear is that the majorityof the GOP are fools voting on the basis of Conspiracy theories instead of facts. What is clear is that the Tea PArty fringe will destroy the GOP with their insanity.
  
  The GOP just voted against disabled childern, Beck damned his child that he claims to love, because he could use her to control his paranoid sheep.
- oldguy49
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:27pm
  but……as a one world government it is best to get rid of those that are a drain on society……………agenda 21 ………………..
  
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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:47pm
  Enc I hope you don’t have or won’t have children. Especially a disabled child as they would deserve better
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:49pm
  @Encinom… Well your Encinom, so nothing you just said is true. The SS disability fund bucket of Social Security will be 100% depleted in 4 years. This is a little off topic, but if you want to defraud the gov’t and go file a false disability claim so you can get a lifetime paycheck from uncle Sam, then you better get out and hurt that toe or hit yourself in the head. What is so sad is that there are people that are really disabled, but these Obozo supporters have eaten up all the disability money.
  
  A month before your birthday the Social Security Dept will mail you a letter that shows how much your approx. SS benefit will be when you hit 62 or 65. The statement also shows you how much your lifetime disability payment would be if you had a hurt toe today. Say your forty years old, and you can’t find work. Would you rather make up a false disability claim and get a lifetime amount that will be the same as your social security, or would you rather make equal to or less money working?
  Duh….is something in the air that causes an inordinate number of people with hurt toes, bi-polar, and hurt shoulders? Made up claims that keep the real disabled from getting valid claims paid. Obozo’s all approve fellow Obozos claims first and deny the Fat White people claims first. Bar none. Who’s Racist?
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Obozo song supporters are driving around like crazy with handicapped placards on their rear view mirrors. Get out of their cars and go to the courts and mess around and get a tipple double.
  
  Obozo handicapped placards with no real handicap have continued to increase ad nauseum under Obozo.
  
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- Gill O-Teen
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:57pm
  What is clear is that ENCINOM is a kommie tool dissatisfied with the rate at which his poster-boy is trashing OUR country and wishes to call in the you en’s paramilitary forces to finish the job ASAP.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:58pm
  @doomytram
  
  Yeah Doomy off topic and false. Nothing new from a brain dead Beckerhead.
- 000degrees
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:59pm
  The Christmas toll is here….
  
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- DontStopBelieving
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:02pm
  encinom get your head out of your a$$ and snap back to realty. I’m guessing you voted for HUSSEIN.
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:02pm
  Did I miss something? Do we not have enough laws in the US? We need more? In 2006 US code was over 200,000 pages long. There are over 5,000 federal crimes. Add to this the layers of state, county and local code and it’s almost incalculable.
  
  So to be clear…you’d argue that this is somehow insufficient and that we need MORE laws and to suggest that we have enough (or too many) is heinous and disgusting. Makes total sense. /sarc
  
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- doublee
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:03pm
  ecinom (YFI, you _____g idiot), whatever you think about Beck, he is generally correct, he predicted exactly the outcome of the egyptian “arab spring” 2 years ago, however noboby seems to remember that.
  
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- gsplgtr
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:04pm
  Encinom do you really know how stupid you sound? The system that will kill millions is rising right before your eyes and you say it doesn’t exist. They are out in the open with what they believe and have even published it in their own words. But you go right on spouting your drivel and keep drinking the cool aid.. When they come for you it will be too funny. the first people they will purge are the useflu idiots that helped them get their power……THAT’S YOU MEAT HEAD !!!!
  
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- Rokytop
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:09pm
  Encinom, You are a troll of limited intelligence. Agenda 21 is not Glenn Becks idea, it comes from the financial geniuses of the world. The nazi, socialist, commie, or whatever you want to call people that believe they should control the world and everything in it. Agenda 21 has a history, which if you were anything but a troll, you can look up on the internet. You just go to the United Nations web site and search for Agenda 21.
  
  As far as any modern day UN treaties or iniatives; the one that the progressives tried to get through was for the disabled. But, it meant that the nation with the best program for aiding the disabled would turn over their rights to countries that believe the mentally deficient should either be put to death or locked up in institutions. Do you really want the Iranians making rules for the handling of the disabled? You liberals need to wake-up, some of these countries think YOU are mentally challenged. You liberals are so afraid of Christians you have forgotten that Muslims would put you all to death if they had the chance. Iran has NO homosexuals. The penalty for this in Iran is death.
  
  Remember folks! Treaties become the Law of the Land in the US after ratification by the Senate. They will try for the UN Small Arms Treaty, The UN Law of the Seas Treaty (good ol’ Jesse Helms stopped that one in the 90′s) . Nothing . . . .nothing out of the UN is good for America. US out of UN, UN out of the US. Remember Jesse Helms!!!!!!!!
  
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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:10pm
  Encino pray tell how you came to be judge, jury and executioner? How is that you know what Beck has sent his daughter to hell?
  
  Actually I’m pretty sure her life is pretty good. She’s got money to go to the best universities of her own free will. She is set for life, and will won’t of nothing. She is also quite willing to do things herself, and doesn’t want the gov deciding how she lives her life.
  
  So please explain how and why she is going to hell, and why Beck is sending her there?
  
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- Rokytop
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:14pm
  John Kerry says it is not a law to change the US’s law. Only until we have one more Supreme Court Judge who believes that International Law should trump the US’s Constitution. Part of our supremes are on record of saying they can and should take international law into consideration when making interpretation of our laws.
  
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- samurai2112
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:17pm
  “It really isn’t controversial,” Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said in defense of the treaty. “What this treaty says is very simple. It just says that you can’t discriminate against the disabled. It says that other countries have to do what we did 22 years ago when we set the example for the world and passed the Americans with Disabilities Act.”
  
  Ok we already have the ADA. If the UN wants to set up a model of our ADA for other countries to pass then go for it. Why do we have to pass this further bill to continue supporting the ADA that we are already supporting in our sovergn country? It is not that simple Kerry and we ratted you out. Agenda 21.
  
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- Partyof1
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:37pm
  This vote is what Librals call bipartisan. 100% OF the Dems voted for it and and 5 Repubs voted with the Dems. No Dems voted with the Repubs. So much for bi-partisanship.
  
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- Pearsontech
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:40pm
  @Encommie Do you even have a disabled child??? I suggest you sit down and shut the hell up and stop dictating to other people how they should take care of their children. If you love this treaty so much there are plenty of other countries to live in that voted for this crap go find one of them.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:47pm
  Yes that’s a good little statist ENCIDIOT/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO/KREGNEVA/ad nauseum….work torwards giving the U.N. influence over the United States. The party approves of your efforts tovarich.
  By the way you creep…if I was Glenn Beck I’d track your IP address…all of them….call you out and give you a time and venue and Queensbury rules for what you said about his child. Cur.
  
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- OldVet
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:54pm
  Whats not being said is that once we sign on to this treaty, we are bound to it. The treaty can be amended at will by a simple majority of the co-signers into anything they want. We exceed the current standards of the treaty already. Why set us up for real surprises later on.
  
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:54pm
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  There are fewer disabled people working now that the ADA passed.
  How can that be?
  Employers know if they hire a disabled person, they will never be able to fire them.
  So, they don’t get hired.
  
  Plus, defeat anything the UN wants. The UN only wants a money grab.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:55pm
  PERSONTECH…ENCINOM IS a disabled “child”. The wretch has at least four or five screennames here at the blaze (likely more)…MONICNE (how clever..he merely reversed the spelling of his name to post with), SLEAZY HIPPO and now KREGNEVA (he’s so obsessed with me that he reversed my own screenname also) are just some of his other screennames here. Some posters here like GHOSTOFJEFFERSON, WALKABOUT, RJJING…, and THE MONK simply refer to all of his screennames here no matter which one he’s using as ENCINOM… more out of tedium than anything else. You want to talk about intellectually stunted..ENCINOM fits the bill superbly.
  
  This is not the behaviour of a sane individual. ENCINOM/MONICNE/KREGNEVA/ad nauseum doesn’t really post anything worth reading..it’s always bile and bait. You’re talking about a very unhinged individual here.
  
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- flyoverbob
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:32pm
  Supporters like Kerry said that the treaty requires no changes in U.S. law, that a committee created by the treaty to make recommendations has no power to change laws and that the treaty cannot serve as a basis for a lawsuit in U.S. courts.
  Then why do we need to sign
  
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- westtitus
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 5:22pm
  Encinom has to be the craziest person I have ever seen post. I don’t know if this person has a disabled child but I DO and do not want the UN to have anything to say about my child’s education or anything for that matter! We live in the greatest country in the world and if you don’t like it go live somewhere else….what ignorance and arrogance this person shows on every post they make.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 6:37pm
  Look the Beckerheads are repeating the same old, debunked canards about the UN, quick get your tin foil hats.
  
  The GOP has allowed the ignorant a$$es of the base control the party.
  
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- Cataclysm
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 7:09pm
  Encom have you heard of the Americans with Disabilities Act….
  
  We already have the laws in place……
  
  Why then do we need more laws that do same thing as the ADA.
  
  Its just more RED tape clogging up our laws.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 7:41pm
  I read the whole treaty. I have an autistic son and I am very interested in legislation concerning disabilities. Santorum and Perkins are full of crap on this one. Doesn’t differ from current US law one bit. Perkins and Santorum see the word ‘reproductive health care’ and have an evangelical hissy fit. Same language in the ADA and Santorum supported that in the Senate. It was an opportunity for the US to share some moral leadership in the world. 38 Senators said ‘no, let China and Russia and France stand up for the disabled, after all ratifying the treaty would have required us to do nothing, and apparently that’s too much sacrifice for some.’
  
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- KenshinDragon
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:04pm
  AMEN!!!!!!! Finally some common sense has come to the front in the Senate…
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:09pm
  Marine25 – No surprise that you Marxists hate our national sovereignty and want to be ruled by the UN.
  
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- bumpkin
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 9:09pm
  As a parent of a disabled (adult now) child I am totally certain that America does NOT need to “sign on” to anything UN. The ENTIRE point of signing anything from the UN is to validate the UN as having a say over us as Americans, which is absolutely something we neither want nor need. Furthermore, their idiotic treaty with America over our special needs people, as most things generated from the Socialist Democrats, will morph into something we TRULY regret. Imagine, if you will, once the treaty is signed, if it had passed, the UN deciding that they now have a say in my son’s healthcare- and THEY decide he has to be sterilized, and if he refuses, they can find him at some sort of fault and say he no longer has the capacity to make his own healthcare decisions, since he OBVIOUSLY made a wrong one, and they toss him into a public facility to be monitored.” They will FIND the ability to do it. To, essentially, take him away from his home, and his mother’s happily-given lifetime care, which will absolutely terrify and torture him. Do NOT give the stinking UN ONE bit more control over Americans.. We don’t need them, and don’tt want them meddling! substitute the word “intelligent” for the word “Republicans” in the article and in the comments, and you will then have the truth. Democrats are trying to demonize Republicans/ intelligent folk who can read trail sign r/t experience from the Nation’s past.
  
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- ExperiencedPatriot
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 9:31pm
  Marine25 – How is it that you don’t mind having to register your child with the United Nations (or it’s governmental body in the US)? If you’ve read the entire treaty, then you know that Article 18.2 requires that “Children with disabilities shall be registered immediately after birth…..”. What possible explanation could there be that would make this okay with ANY parent? Why do they need to know who and where all the disabled are in the world? Too creepy… can’t help but conjure up those Agenda21 population control plans. We should be concerned about our children’s privacy, disabled or not.. and we don’t need some council of non-elected foreign bureaucrats to advise us on the future of disability law in America.
  
  As with most intiatives from the UN, this is about power and money. If they want to study and emulate US disability standards/law, they can easily do so. The information is readily available.
  
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- mikerupp1986
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 9:53pm
  @Enicom if you want to live in a communist country then I suppose you ought to live in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, and any other country that has power over it’s citizens. You wonder why people still try to cross our borders for a better life? The very things these people say are very well set in motion by biblical prophecy. You want to open your yapper but you don’t even know your hand from toilet paper to wipe your **** on. I suggest foot in mouth, the U.N. is being recognized as the power for the ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT. Anything from them should be scrutinized. That goes for anyone reading this post. The One World Government will happen and prophecy will be fulfilled whether you believe the word of God or the Devil.
  
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- Gorp
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 1:38am
  Well that figures. Both of our IDIOT senators in MN voted for the treaty. It just goes to show how stupid some from MN are.
  
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- December5
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 6:08am
  Thank God. They should defeat every UN treaty that comes down the pike, none of them will benefit the U.S. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 12:29pm
  There has been NO REPUBLICAN MAJORITY IN THE U-S-SENNATE FOR MANY YEARS!! Sooo. where is this “majority-R” you see there??
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on December 6, 2012 at 1:41pm
  Whats clear is ENCINOM is a total moron with no ability to think. He’s so locked up in his little liberal world that he has turned into a complete joke. Its obvious he’s disconnected from reality. To defend this INSANE UN treaty PROVES what a MORON he really is.
  
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taintso
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:14pm
As we seem to elect, and then they appoint other UN puppets / parrots we can expect of treaties from the UN. Obama, Holder and Hillary all UN puppets.

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Rob Tacoma
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:13pm
We American’s creat our own laws to reflect our philosophy and freedoms. If the other countries feel that they need to mimic our laws they should have the courage to do this on own.
We are a free and independent nation! No UN forum or treaty measures up to the U.S. laws or standards.
Shame on all the senators for voting on this treaty!
Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell need to be voted out NOW!

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- normalmom
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:23pm
  You at least are on the west side and can spread the word over there. I am on the east side and we just get pissed on by the politicians who are supposed to represent both sides of Washington.
  
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- Small World
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:30pm
  Great how do we do that now along with B**er???
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:34pm
  “We are a free and independent nation! ”
  
  I think you need to be careful in how you define “free” or “independent”. By my definitions we are neither free or independent.
  
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sta
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:12pm
Thank you Holy Lord and thanks Glenn for bring this to our attention.

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GodGunsandFreedom
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:10pm
Thanks to Glenn Beck and The Blaze for having Rick Santorum on the radio yesterday talking about CRPD. I took action yesterday and this morning informing family friends, emailing and calling Senators. Watched the vote live and tweeted and hit social networks sites and informing family that it did not pass.

Now the backlash on some of my accounts, have been called a bigot, racist and how dare i support bigotry against disabled people.

“The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army” General George Washington July 2, 1776.”

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- doomytram
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:19pm
  The UN wants to turn the USA into Pyongyang thanks to Obozo class war.
  
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- common cents
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:21pm
  Thank God Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty (C4L) sent out the message to many many people with contact info for your specific rep. numbers, we all did the same, Too bad Rick Santorum didn’t join hands with the millions of Paul supporters instead of insulting them, see what we can accomplish together!
  
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- Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:05pm
  @Encinom,
  
  You mad bro?
  
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- endthemindlessspending
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:08pm
  @ENCINOM
  
  I’m a paraplegic and I don’t want my life in the hands of Washington. To hand my life over to the UN and their Agenda 21 world plan is the worst move America could make. I know, I know, in your small mind Agenda 21 is nothing to worry about, but for my as a disabled American I am deathly afraid of it. My fear of Agenda 21 doesn’t come from Glenn Beck, it comes from my own homework.
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:12pm
  GOD is in His Holy Temple – We His People are NOT Alone!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:01pm
  You know ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO/KREGNEVA/ad nauseum? Usually you’re just a foul odor on these boards, a weird lefty that no one really takes all that seriously… but it seems your spite has mined new depths with this latest outburst of yours.
  
  I know your game little fella..you’re trying to provoke..you’re trying to get people heated but all you succeed in doing is demonstrating how vile and contemptible you truly are. You have my pity..cur.
  
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COFemale
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:08pm
Here are the traitors of this bill:

Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Not Voting
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea He is a Liberal posing as a Republican.
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea – She is a Liberal posing as a Republican
Snowe (R-ME), Yea

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- endthemindlessspending
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:19pm
  There is no surprise to see Mccain’s name in that mix. I’m a paraplegic and in now way shape or form do I want my present and future life in the hands of the UN.
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:21pm
  Snowe is also a RINO….oh wait, they all are RINOs
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:26pm
  And
  
  Ayotte (R-NH)
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:27pm
  @END
  
  McCain knows he is protected … not under Obamacare or other things they put on us.
  
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- Gill O-Teen
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:47pm
  Brown (R-MA), Collins (R-ME) and Snowe (R-ME) at minimum have strong liberal tendencies. Brown’s are so blatant that the voters of Massachusetts saw no difference between him and the indian princess and gave him early retirement. Sanders (mentioned by other posters) is an avowed socialist. Nonetheless, he has done more to advance freedom than all the RINOcrats on this list combined. Yep. If I were forced to pick between the avowed kommie or anyone of the others in an election, the kommie would be the lesser of two evils. Considering I’m a fourth quadrant kind of guy, that’s a very troubling assessment of the current political environment.
  http://www.politicalcompass.org/
  
  Lugar (R-IN)
  McCain (R-AZ)
  Murkowski (R-AK)
  
  Ayotte (R-NH)
  
  Sanders (I-VT)
  
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- THE BECKMEISTER
  Posted on December 5, 2012 at 2:29pm
  No surprise to see McCain’s name in the mix.(or Luger’s, for that matter) He is nothing more than a Rino in Republican’s clothing, and I’m tired of seeing him reelected, term after term. It’s people like him that make me long for term limits. I was badly injured in a hit and run car accident seven years ago. It left me with a broken back that will never heal, and now I’ve lost all the cartilege in my knees. Neither the government, NOR the UN, has any business deciding my future healthcare. I am a mature intelligent adult who can make that decision for myself. I live in fear of Agenda 21, ever since ODumbocare was passed. Who are THEY to decide I’m no longer a useful member of society? I have four nieces who would disagree pretty violently with that!
  
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taintso
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:07pm
Any senator that votes for treaty by the UN should be shot for treason, and then tried to make his family happy.

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- cessna152
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:11pm
  ***Supporters like Kerry said that the treaty requires no changes in U.S. law, that a committee created by the treaty to make recommendations has no power to change laws and that the treaty cannot serve as a basis for a lawsuit in U.S. courts.****
  ______________________________________________________________________
  
  If it does nothing, Mr Potato head, then why even consider it? It obviously does something you m0ron.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:13pm
  IF JOHN McCAIN IS SO ASHAMED OF BEING A REPUBLICAN WHY WON’T HE CHANGE PARTY?
  
  McCain should be expelled from the GOP by vote of the GOP Senators.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:18pm
  Don’t worry, the US already complies with terms of this treaty.
  
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- taintso
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:25pm
  @ themuff McCain gets confused thinks the democraps are his Cong captors.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 4:02pm
  You’re an idiot “SENDTHEMETORS”.
  
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Stelex
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:06pm
Roll Call….

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00219

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Until...Never
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:03pm
Roll Call…

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00219#position

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COFemale
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:03pm
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00219

Here is the votes.

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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:34pm
  Thanks for the link guys !!!!
  
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Flag-Man
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:03pm
Who are the 3 rebubs that voted yes.
I think there are still 41 repub senators

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- CatB
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:08pm
  Ayotte (R-NH)
  Brown (R-MA)
  Collins (R-ME)
  Lugar (R-IN)
  McCain (R-AZ)
  Murkowski (R-AK)
  Snowe (R-ME)
  
  Sanders (I-VT)
  
  Not one Dem voted Nay
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:13pm
  There were about 8 who voted Yea that are Republicans. Time to vote them out.
  
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- sta
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:14pm
  Murkowski in Alaska and the lib twins of Maine.
  
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- cessna152
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:15pm
  Collins, Snowe (no surprise there) and Murkowsky. No surprise there either.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:25pm
  missed …
  
  Barrasso (R-WY)
  
  and non voting
  
  Kirk (R-IL)
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Ayotte has been influenced by McCain, they are always together. I had hope for her.
  
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deeberj
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:00pm
Well thank God, something was defeated that ought to have been. So many bills that appear on the surface to be a good thing are really a way to take away our Constitutional rights.

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- cessna152
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:08pm
  Correct. These are BS bills that dissolve our sovereignty. Oh, BTW… I am disabled but I don’t want to have a “label” that “disses” me….making me “dis-labeled”. I just need to try harder and complain less….there, I just passed a bill to help those (like me) who are disabled.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:37pm
  If you believe the BS Beck is selling you about Agenda 21 and this bill, than you are mentally handicapped.
  
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- coachsmac
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 3:00pm
  Encinom there is no way you actually believe what you spout on here and do it with a strait face!! At no time should the US agree to be under the direction of any group, union, or pact. We are leaders not followers,or at least we were til Obama was put in power. The rights the Constitution grants the citizens of the US supercede any thing any other Group or country try to impose. The UN was as bad an idea s the League of Nations, only now it is more corrupt than ever! The US needs to boot the UN out of America, tell them they have gotten their last dime from us and don’t call us the next time a disaster strikes some where in the world. tell them Adios and good luck!
  
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mrunner
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:57pm
United States Sovereignty trumps United Nations overreach. This is a good thing. Anytime the United Nations wants to put any requirements on individual US citizens it should be fought. On the rare occasion the UN has a good idea- our Legislative Branch can massage it into a bill that fits the concept, without binding us to some BS UN treaty.

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- Favored93
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:12pm
  Agreed … Govt. has already gotten to far away from the people and no longer cares about it’s citizens. I can’t imagine having to deal with a govt. were we are ruled from across the pond.
  We know best how to take care of our own and don’t need or want the wicked UN criminals telling me how I am to live my life.
  
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toiletclogga
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:51pm
Are there any doubts on the push towards a one world government now? How is it that this matter is even split along party lines? Are the Democrats so entrenched with Socialism that they are willing to concede the soveriegnty of the United States? I never thought we’d be witness to a civil war, but the possibilities are definitely there.

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doomytram
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:50pm
Get out of the UN and end Global Governance…. otherwise will be slaves of the Nanny/Police State. A smart meter in every home. No private property. Gullogs etc.

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- KevINtampa
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:57pm
  Is it coincidence or irony that “nanny/police state” and “Nancy Pelosi” are phonetically similar?
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:50pm
We narrowly dodged that bullet. These sinister serpentine devils will stop at nothing with their smooth speech to deceive everyone but they got found out and I am glad! We need to keep after them. “Evil persists because Good Men do Nothing!” Edmund Burke.

Good Men keep fighting Evil! Fight them to the last ounce of oxygen in your lungs!

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Robert999
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:47pm
It’s very disappointing to find out one of your heroes is a potential traitor willing to sell out the nation. That’s what happened with me when I saw Bob Dole supported this attempt by the UN to gain a further foothold in America. I wonder how many of those medals he really earned.

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- NancyBee
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:49pm
  I agree!!
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:10pm
  THESE REPUBLICANS VOTED TO FORCE DISABLED PEOPLE TO BE REGISTERED WITH UN
  
  VOTED YEA
  
  Ayotte (R-NH)
  Barrasso (R-WY)
  Brown (R-MA)
  Collins (R-ME)
  Lugar (R-IN)
  McCain (R-AZ)***
  Murkowski (R-AK)
  Snowe (R-ME)
  
  Are any of these Senators really Republicans? Has John McCain ever voted against Democrats.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:12pm
  I have understood something in my brief time on this planet. When people get up there in age they cave on many issues, both moral and fiscal and are easily deceived especially when they are weak and old and in need of care. I have seen it over and over. Beware of old age and feebleness!
  
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- TEARS FOR AMERICA
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:19pm
  Bob Dole, like John Kerry and John McCain, and the president, are willing to diminish America to raise up the U.N. in order that the new world government will be implemented. It is pure evil. They will continue on until inch by inch America has been completely undermined.
  
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Red Meat
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:45pm
It would be very helpful Blaze if you provided a list of the traitorous Republican’s that voted to approve. As usual, we’ll have to do the research…you just keep printing the ridiculous headlines.

Hey, is there another clown video up for this afternoon?

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- Stelex
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:52pm
  I’ve asked this of the Blaze before, post a link to the Roll Calls of the House and Senate.
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:57pm
  Here…..
  
  http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00219
  
  Remember Benghazi
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:59pm
  What are you too lazy to go look it up yourself. If you want to know how the votes went do it yourself. The Blaze is not the Government and will not wipe your **** for you.
  
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- Until...Never
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:02pm
  Here’s your roll call on this vote.
  
  http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00219#position
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:03pm
  Ayotte (R-NH)
  Brown (R-MA)
  Collins (R-ME)
  Lugar (R-IN)
  McCain (R-AZ)
  Murkowski (R-AK)
  Snowe (R-ME)
  
  Sanders (I-VT)
  
  Not one Dem voted Nay
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:04pm
  @CoFemale………..Pi$$ OFF
  
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- dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:15pm
  Looks like the usual progressive RINOs.
  
  @Stelex, no the blaze won’t hold your peepee for you either. you have to be a big boy and hold your own peepee.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:25pm
  “Republican Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Scott Brown (Mass.), Susan Collins (Maine), Dick Lugar (Ind.), John McCain (Ariz.), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) voted with Democrats in favor of the treaty.”
  
  Also that RINO Bob Dole went to DC to lobby for the treaty.
  
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- MadJuan
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 7:06pm
  “With 38 Republicans casting “no” votes, the 61-38 vote fell five short of the two-thirds majority needed. See how each senator voted here.” link provided by THEBLAZE 3rd paragraph down from this article.
  
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Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:44pm
“Supporters like Kerry said that the treaty requires no changes in U.S. law, that a committee created by the treaty to make recommendations has no power to change laws and that the treaty cannot serve as a basis for a lawsuit in U.S. courts.”

Then why ratify it, unless there is something more insidious in it, like registering your child, upon birth, if they has a disability as defined by the U.N.?

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- NancyBee
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:52pm
  They want the United Nations in every corner of our lives……that is their goal.
  
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RoDogg
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:44pm
you think with every country having to bail each other out that they would start getting some common sense and stop thinking internationally and globally

The UN needs to go away entirely

Hey, I can dream ….. lol

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war7412
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:43pm
Thank’s to ”GLENN BECK” I called ” Both Senator’s”

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- MadJuan
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 7:12pm
  Called my Rep Senator yesterday, very kind lady told me he was voting nay. Called my Dem Senator and got an answering machine. Go figure…
  
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war7412
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:41pm
“Thank’s to ”GLENN BECK’……………I called ”BOTH ‘ Senator’s yesterday……………………….

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:51pm
  UN TREATY MANDATED REGISTRATION OF EVERY DISABLED PERSON ON EARTH. WHY?
  
  Parents right to raise child would be become the right of Government. Most of the UN Treaty would force women to abort defective babies or face law suits. Its a law that could never pass Congress but was an attempt by Obama the Killer to bypass the Constitution.
  
  Treaties cannot be repealed.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:52pm
  Same here, and if one of them voted for the treaty, I will strive to see that the traitor is defeated in the next re-election. (Read: McCain)
  
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hi
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:40pm
Why can’t we put any every Senator who voted for this on trial for treason? I am not kidding. What the heck!

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- vaman
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:50pm
  Wow we can tell you’re not kidding with such harsh language…Heck!! Be an adult and just say hell*. “he” will forgive you no doubt.
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:14pm
  Vaman – Don’t be upset that patriotic Americans like me don’t want Marxist thugs like you killing off Americans.
  
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Pork_Anvil
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:37pm
Oh those whacky, ever-paranoid and insecure Republicans!

LOL @ “Santorum,” by the way.

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- floridaborn
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:41pm
  Thank God for them!
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:47pm
  For what, for swatting at imaginary ghosts?
  
  Anything to keep you tuning in, I suppose!
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:51pm
  Tick tock, tick tock…. EtchySketchy
  
  Your 5 pm deadline is approaching…. only 3 more hours left to troll. LOL
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:56pm
  So Pork if you had a child who was disabled you want the U.N to tell you can’t send your child to school, that you have to put him/her in a home for disabled children forever or tell you your child is not worth keeping alive, so they are not going to provide any health coverage. Therefore if your child gets sick oh well too bad. Sucks to be you.
  
  Or your wife discovers she is pregnant and the child is discovered to have the down syndrome gene or some other gene that would cause a disability, so the U.N. tells your wife she must abort that child. He/she would not be good for the collective.
  
  You might think I am kidding, but go read up on Agenda 21 you idiot. It is getting implemented now and has been around since Clinton.
  
  Clueless Liberals will get a lot of people killed, because they are blind to what is happening.
  
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- Pork_Anvil
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 2:30pm
  @COFemale, congrats to you! You’ve won first prize in the Wild Extrapolation category!
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 8:15pm
  Pork Anvil – Don’t get upset that we won’t help you achieve your Marxist “utopian” society.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:36pm
Take that you UN loving liberal progressives!!!!

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:40pm
  Hi MONK, I second that!
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:48pm
  Don’t get be fooled….there are several U.N. treaties still coming down the pipeline that I hope the Senate rejects….because all of them will hurt the U.S. But that is the goal of the U.N.to tear down the U.S. Afterall they have to tear down the U.S in order to have the one world government.
  
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- NancyBee
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:48pm
  I third it!!
  
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- CatB
  Posted on December 4, 2012 at 1:50pm
  Amen MONK .. and good job Patriots .. it was the pressure put on the Senate that stopped this .. we CAN prevail .. if we are STRONG .. hear that Boehner (we need the HOUSE to stand strong!) ? But remember they will try this again and again .. we must keep the pressure on. NO U.N. in the U.S. Uphold U.S. sovereignty.
  
  Remember Benghazi
  
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