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Dec. 8, 2012 9:39am Christopher Santarelli

Republicans in the Senate surprised some earlier this week when they voted down a United Nations treaty for the “Rights of Persons with Disabilities.” Republicans have said that they do not want to disparage disabled people, but they are concerned about provisions in the treaty that they believe will trump state laws and make the government at U.N. direction–not the parents–the one who ultimately decides what is best for children with disabilities. During an interview on CNN Friday, Anderson Cooper and Senator Michael Lee got into a heated discussion over why the Utah Republican opposed the treaty.

Lee argued on CNN that the treaty would undermine American parents decisions for their children with special needs, possibly obligate the U.S. government to pay for abortion services, and may set in place ”international entitlement rights.”

“You’re just interpreting things,” Cooper said. “It never uses the word abortion, it basically says that disabled people should have the same access to health care that other pople have, that non disabled people have overseas.”

Cooper and Lee went back and forth on how the treaty would change U.S. law.

“Can you name any other U.N. treaty that has forced changes in U.S. law,” Cooper asked.

Lee responded ”I didn’t come prepared to cite Supreme Court precedent on this point but it’s a well known fact that once you ratify a treaty–”

“But what you’re saying is totally hypothetical” interrupted Cooper.”You’re using a bunch of hypotheticals saying they’re going to–this is going to force abortion rights for disabled people overseas, some groups are saying children with glasses are going to be taken from their parents, you’re using all these very scary hypotheticals–you cant even cite one case where a U.N. treaty has impacted U.S. law?”

“You can’t assume that because something hasn’t happened already that it couldn’t happen in the future,” Lee went on to say. Lee also took issue with the U.S. getting involved in non-international relations treaties.

“Typically Anderson we use treaties to deal with international relations, to deal with the law of nations, acting on the world’s scene,” said Lee. “This deals with a lot of issues that are distinctively domestic in nature.”

Watch Cooper’s full interview with Lee on CNN below:

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Comments (213)

MGrilla
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:31am
Type and shadows ,(# 45) “Current Communist Goals,”Congressional Record-Thursday, January 10, 1963.

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- Libertarian
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:59am
  Liberals obsession with big government. The meaning of law or a treaty is to administer, impose, change or govern; if this treaty does not accomplish one of these objectives then there is NO purpose for this treaty? Bring awareness through education not pretend regulation.
  
  US out of the UN.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:25pm
  Looking at the name of the bill says it all, Disability Treaty. It means they want legislators to vote with their emotions. They want the title to tug at your heart, “oh the poor disabled!”
  
  If that’s how you rationalize legislature, the only one disabled is you.
  
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- PubliusPencilman
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:10pm
  Libertarian,
  
  “The meaning of law or a treaty is to administer, impose, change or govern”
  You don’t know what you are talking about. Non-binding treaties, declarations, etc. are a very common aspect of diplomacy.
  
  Cabrito,
  So… your argument against the treaty is that it aims to help people?
  
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- NeoFan
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:18pm
  Where is my UN vote? I don’t have one? Then why would I want to give that body control over anything that affects my liberty? Is Anderson Cooper ready to embrace the laws promoted by that body? He really should give that some more thought.
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:52pm
  no publius
  
  he’s saying that even if the bill has bad ideas, at first glance it looks like it’s helping a disadvantaged people. Most people don’t read such bills, then just believe anything the left says about what’s in it. So ignorant people will probably be all for it, cause they think it “helps” disabled people in some way. Many people who have read the entire treaty and see the need to vote against it will look like monsters who don’t care about disadvantaged people. It’s making you think the U.N. cares about disabled people, when in reality they just want the ability to take disabled kids away from “unfit” parents. If you don’t know how little the U.N. cares about human life(especially those unable to contribute) compared to nature, then you need to go to un.org and educate yourself.
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:57pm
  but cabrito could’ve meant something else i guess, it seems pretty obvious he’s making fun of the irony. you tell us goat, am i right?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:18pm
  PubliusPencilman
  
  You know how you join 2 nations together without much stress & without war? The same way you put 2 generators on the same grid. The 2 generators have to be with a few degrees of each other or there are major problems such possible equipment destruction.
  
  You don’t put 2 or more countries together via top down commands. Our laws are different. It is not that nations do not adopt foreign ideas, it is that they adopt want they find useful & discard the rest.
  
  One does not force a law onto people by hook or by crook by a group of intellectuals that have been in government all their life & are now in the executive branch & a plurality of 100 senators. That is not they way to implement things.
  
  What does the UN do well? Peacekeeping in Somalia, Darfur, The Middle East, Korean Peninsula, solving the Vietnam Conflict, preventing the Iron Curtain? Does the UN prevent rockets form being fired into Israel from UN bases in Lebanon? Are you the one firing rockets into Israel from the UN bases?
  
  What has the UN done about malaria. they abated it a little. Other people or organization would have done much better.
  
  Has the UN resolved the problem in Western Sahara after 37 years of trying. Are you on the clock?
  Don’t worry, the native population will be dead or bred out before the UN declares that they have their 99th comprehensive peace deal.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:39pm
  “Current Communist Goals,” was nothing more than a paranoid Congressman read a list into the record and is only evidence that that same paranoia continues to inflect the simple minds of the reactionary right.
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 3:08pm
  @ENCINOM
  
  you mean there aren’t any Communist goals..
  
  How about an account from a KGB agent one of many that explains the strategies to subvert the US…
  http://www.scribd.com/doc/6922376/Kozak-And-Not-a-Shot-Is-Fired
  
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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 5:47pm
  Can’t we simply say….
  
  “Get the UN the hell out of the USA and get the USA out of the UN!”
  
  NOW!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 5:48pm
  @encinom
  
  And you know what the communist goals are because you have access to the KGB archives how?
  
  I have access; you do not. Figure that one out
  
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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 6:06pm
  Ooooh, Anderthon. That thertainly wath a ‘hard-hitting’ interview.
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 7:03pm
  US out of UN. Why do we even care what these clowns say. In fact move the UN to Angola and lets see how many want to remain Ambassadors to their country when there are no Broadway shows, no Sardi’s no exemptions from criminal prosecution.
  
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- chingachgook
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:35pm
  It is all about one world order and the liberal Marxist Communist Progressives that want to control every aspect of your life. It is called world slavery. the Mass rules the individual loss of all freedom. It is time to wake up and speak up before you can not. UN is a disgrace it is run by a bunch of third world bureaucrats who make their living sucking off the UN.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:29pm
  The agenda is clear. Even the uber-liberal website Mother Jones has reported on this, saying, “President Obama is using a Cold War-era mind-control technique known as “Delphi” to coerce Americans into accepting his plan for a United Nations-run communist dictatorship in which suburbanites will be forcibly relocated to cities. That’s according to a four-hour briefing delivered to Republican state senators at the Georgia state Capitol last month.”
  
  http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/georgia-senate-gets-52-minute-briefing-united-nations-takeover
  
  The idea that the UN would use the ADA to set a standard for treatment of the disabled in foreign countries was Bush’s idea – he and his administration negotiated this treaty. Hello! Does no one but me understand the connection between Bush and the Saudi Muslims and the the Caliphate and Illuminati?
  
  This Bush initiative serves no purpose but one. Enslave Americans. There. I said it. This UN treaty has one and only one purpose: to take the first step toward a One World Government under the guise of helping the disadvantaged.
  
  I’ll be danged if the UN is going to tell me how to raise my crazy teenager! UN, keep your hands off of America!
  
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- glassbeadlady
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 11:03am
  That is my Senator, worked hard to get him there and glad we did. We need more like him. Our other Senator has written a bill to de-fund the U.N. but with prince Harry in charge still it will never see the floor for a vote.
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 11:25am
  @cabrito
  so supporting civil rights for disabled persons everywhere is an issue that appeals to one’s heart and not one’s intellect? What an a$$ you must be.
  
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- smv803
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 1:12pm
  @El Cabrito
  I would add mentally disabled! This is what liberals do, but we have caught on. They use the weakest among us for their gains by disguising their true intent. What despicable people they are! They are the selfish, greedy and careless for others among us.
  
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- Ohello
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 6:32pm
  AC is DC….. The lead CNN homosexual advocates whatever is most damaging to the Liberty, Freedom, and the morals of America (those are gone now). As a member of the fourth estate, Cooper is treasonous to his role. but as long as his right to put his pecker in another man’s anus is protected by law, anything the state wishes to do is fine by him.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 6:35pm
  @PubliusPencilman
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:10pm
  
  Libertarian,
  
  “The meaning of law or a treaty is to administer, impose, change or govern”
  You don’t know what you are talking about. Non-binding treaties, declarations, etc. are a very common aspect of diplomacy.
  
  Cabrito,
  So… your argument against the treaty is that it aims to help people?
  ***
  There are countries all around the world where children with disabilities are left to beg, and even known instances where healthy children have been injured by adults who want to use them as beggars. The u.n. should concentrate on helping these children and letting nations who have their own laws alone.
  
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- grannynurse
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 11:25pm
  The United States has laws for the disabled that should be a standard for all countries. Should the U.N. dictact laws for soverign countries? An emphatic NO. Every country has the right to run its government as it sees fit. Who died and made the U.N. ruler of the world? Their purpose was to stop wars. After taxpayers have pumped in trillions of dollars since their beginng, how has that worked out?
  
  As far as I can see they have wasted more money than they are worth. All the U.S. employees at the U.N. are funded by our federal government (read you and my dollars). I can think of better ways to stop wars than giving our money to yet another failed idea of the elite.
  
  One is making the U.S. a might to be reckoned with. We should leave all muslim middle eastern countries and let them kill each other. But if one of them messes with Israel or us, glass parking lot.
  Once we found out that the perpetrators of 9-11 all came from Saudi Arabia, bye bye. It is the only way they respect.
  
  And why in the world is our state department allowing muslim immigrants into our country? It would be different if they were persecuted Christians from Muslim countries but no, they are inviting pure muslims as students and immigrants. Does this make sense to you?
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:07am
  Words of wisdom from our resident idiot ENCINOM. What a joke this jerk has become!
  
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DZ-015
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:30am
Afterwatching the clip, two things stood out. First, Mr Cooper used the comment made by Mr. Ferris regarding children with glasses in an unfair manner by playing it after concluding his interview with Senator Lee, thus insuring that there would be no rebuttal. Even then, the comment about taking such children away from their parents was not made by Mr. Ferris on the clip, but came from the mouth of Mr. Cooper. Second, it is apparent that Mr. Cooper approves of Nancy Pelosi’s policy in which you are supposed to vote something in first to find out what’s in it afterwards. If the UN treaty had been intended to simply extend our ADA law to the rest of the world, then there would be no need to ratify it at all, right? Oh yeah, Congress can amend the ADA, but what happens when it is found to conflict with a ratified treaty?

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- dmforman
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:53am
  I agree. Having UN laws become the law of our land is not what I want for our country. If this treaty is indeed based on our ADA than there is no reason for us to ratify it. There are too many unknowns about what this treaty actually covers and means. I don’t want to have to register my child with a disability with the government. It’s not the government’s business and there is no definition of what a disability is with this treaty, so it could mean anything that anyone wants. I don’t want the government in my parenting decisions and telling me how I can/cannot parent for any of my children, and I am willing to fight this when it comes up again for a vote in the new year, so are many others.
  
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- Mimimi
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:08am
  The biggest problem with the UN treaty (excluding any idea of whether and how it might impact our national sovereignty) is that the UN sends its bureaucrats to live in poor countries in a manner that most reminds me of the extremely rich. UN aristocracy has large ideas made in wealthy Geneva such that it addresses problems that are not the important ones. For example, they might try to enforce a wheel chair access regulation without realizing that people don’t have wheelchairs, and when the UN tries to get the wheelchairs, there are no elevators in buildings where people live on the 12th floor. And more importantly those people don’t have heat and enough to eat. The UN still wants compliance to the wheelchair access rule so the bureaucrat seems successful back home in Geneva. The UN sucks as a charity provider. Anybody who buy UNESCO Christmas card is a dupe.
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:02pm
  i knew i wasn’t the only one that noticed that, liberals can’t ever win with the truth alone. they always have to sugarcoat it with at least one lie. So was it only hypothetical that a black man could become president? Was it only hypothetical that we could turn our backs on israel? Was it hypothetical to think we would lose our rights to free speech/expression? Wasn’t it hypothetical when Glenn made all those predictions about the middle east? So we must all live in the past like this guy?! We shouldn’t worry about what’s happening? what a load of crap. You learn from the past, so that you can do your best to assure yourself and family a better future. Saying that this treaty is for the well-being of any disabled people is hypothetical. Cooper here doesn’t even understand what Lee is saying. If either party fails to uphold their obligations per the treaty, they will be held accountable under international law. This Treaty applies to ALL disabled people, not just foreign. So we are giving the government and the U.N. the power to tell people all over the world, including our own people how to rasie their child if they have disabilities. I’m sorry, but i could sit here all day telling you how many times the government has been wrong as hell about what is “best” for us. We all know how the U.N. feel about disabled and elderly people, the U.N. think they are a waste of resources. So why help give them power over ANY disabled person?
  
  proof: un.org
  
  find agenda 21
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:39pm
  An unfair manner? The GOP guys was lying.
  If only the MSM when reporting lies would say,
  What Mr. Kyl said was NOT a factual statement.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 7:40pm
  That “UN Law’ is already the law of OUR land.
  It was the model.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 7:41pm
  Cooper tape at the end WAS the rebuttal.
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 8:07pm
  CHARLES116
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 7:40pm
  That “UN Law’ is already the law of OUR land.
  It was the model.
  ————————–
  
  Really, is it the law in the US register the disabled… if so, there are some Marxist Trolls that need to be registered
  
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UseTP2wipe
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:29am
As usual the far right nuts here can only respond to this interview with homophobic jabs at Cooper’s sexual orientation. Speaking of responding, Lee couldn’t respond to basic premise of Cooper’s questions about how this treaty takes away rights of Americans.
Spouting “Agenda 21!” and “its a conspiracy of the UN!” isn’t going to cut it anymore. Americans are sick and tired of all the Alex Jones garbage. Get some facts, read some varied sources and learn about what you’re talking about once in a while.

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- ron2win
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:04am
  Your name says all there is to know about you !
  
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- grannyinfla
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:08am
  Article 9
  1. States Parties shall ensure that a child shall not be separated from his or her parents against their will, except when competent authorities subject to judicial review determine, in accordance with applicable law and procedures, that such separation is necessary for the best interests of the child
  Article 43
  Article 43
  1. For the purpose of examining the progress made by States Parties in achieving the realization of the obligations undertaken in the present Convention, there shall be established a Committee on the Rights of the Child, which shall carry out the functions hereinafter provided.
  
  3. The members of the Committee shall be elected by secret ballot from a list of persons nominated by States Parties. Each State Party may nominate one person from among its own nationals.
  
  4. The initial election to the Committee shall be held no later than six months after the date of the entry into force of the present Convention and thereafter every second year. At least four months before the date of each election, the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall address a letter to States Parties inviting them to submit their nominations within two months. The Secretary-General shall subsequently prepare a list in alphabetical order of all persons thus nominated, indicating States Parties which have nominated them, and shall submit it to the States Parties to the present Convention.
  
  There is more in the convention that you should maybe read! Duh.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:11am
  Well Mr Wipe…..why don’t you enlighten all us nut jobs as to how having the UN making US laws benefits the US. Show us all the good the UN does for the world.
  
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- grannyinfla
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:19am
  usetp2wipe Since you’re not smart enough to have read this thing, lets walk through some portions, shall we. Art. 9, par 1 says children cant be removed from their parents EXCEPT when “competent” authorities say so. Who are these “competent” authorities? Art. 43, par 1 establishes the “competent” authorites. Dont we already have competent authorities here in the US? Why do we need authorities working in conjunction with the UN – who have NO authority in the U.S. to tell us what child should stay with the parents and what child should be removed? We have many laws in place right here in the good ole U.S. of A. that dictates AMERICAN law. I do not live under the authority of the UN. If you want to, THEN MOVE!
  para 3 of art. 43 further states that this committee shall be elected by secret ballot and 4 says the Sec. General of the UN handles that election. para 5 which I couldnt fit in my post says “The elections shall be held at meetings of States Parties convened by the Secretary-General at United Nations Headquarters” Again, I do not recognize the authority of the UN where it supercedes the law of the United States. If you dont like our law, again you are very emphatically invited TO LEAVE THIS GREAT COUNTRY FOR ANY 3RD WORLD POS HOLE YOU’D LIKE. BUT DONT FORCE THIS CRAP DOWN AMERICANS THROATS. ITS LUDICRIOUS AS ARE YOU.
  
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- ExTex
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:26am
  All anyone needs to know is that the UN serves no good interest to the United States of America and it’s Constitution and Bill of Rights. We should pull out of the UN and send the headquarters to Dubai or Bangladesh. UN Resolution 1618 is reason enough, coupled with Agenda 21, Small Arms Trade Treaty and now this garbage. It’s all about NWO and slowly taking away our sovereignty and US citizen’s rights. But, of course, Barry needs the UN to carry out his sinister plans of treason.
  
  How’s that for “right-wing” crazy talk? You want something to read? Google, “Communist Goals 1963″ written 50 years ago, and see if any of that sinks in.
  
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- OutOfTheAether
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:37am
  Hey Wipe, I agree with Stelex, do enlighten us on what good the UN has done. and good luck with that
  
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- Dkoonz
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:39am
  Screw the UN. Thats all.
  
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- ROOTY_KAZOOTY
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:33pm
  WIPE…. GRANNYINFLA turned your post into the equivalent of a major-fail skateboard youtube where your nuts just got racked on the stair-rail and your head slammed into the sidewalk. Nice job GRANNY!!
  
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- MadJuan
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:42pm
  Looks like grannyinfla just wiped your A$$ usetp2wipe…
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:17pm
  Dude just go to un.org and look up agenda 21, are you unable to read? If you don’t trust the U.N. to explain their own agendas, then what could you possibly bring to this conversation? Lol i love how you’re telling us to learn about what we’re talking about XD the difference between you and me is that I DO listen to the other side.
  
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- JeffersonsPen
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:33pm
  Upset The UN has “NO” relevance in this country…..”PERIOD !” The majority of the members are far down the line on being governed by thier people……America is sliding down with them. I don’t care what Vanderbilt Boy has to say……………SCREW THE U.N. !
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:41pm
  ANd Ron now, insult you.
  It’s all they have. Really.
  
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- Leader1776
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:53pm
  @UseTP2wipe
  The so-called right-wing nut jobs you so easily denigrate are quite well versed on these subjects …… more so than trolls such as yourself. The troll business must be so difficult these days.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:44pm
  The paranoid extremists of the John Birch Society, that once upon a time ago William F. Buckley cast out of the GOP, have returned like a cancer. There are no facts to support blocking the UN treaty. The treaty itself is toothless, yet these fools in the Senate, in stead of making America a world leader in equal rights for all, are returning to a isolationist position.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:47pm
  @ROOTY_KAZOOTY the only fail is Granny. Her senility is setting in. She has no idea what she is reading, cherry picking tersm and putting a paranoid spin on them.
  
  The problem is that brain numb fools like her vote.
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:57pm
  ENCINOM
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:44pm
  The treaty itself is toothless, yet these fools in the Senate, in stead of making America a world leader in equal rights for all, are returning to a isolationist position.
  
  —
  
  If it is toothless then what is its purpose…
  
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- savagenatn
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 5:10am
  facts? you liberal moron idiots don’t know the first thing about facts. you commies love to mock Christians, Tea Partiers and believers in the Constitution, but if anybody mentions a word about a **** fruitcake political hack like cooper, you have to break out the tired old “homophobe” garbage. We’re not phobic about homos or your beloved islamic terrorists, but we ARE disgusted by the pathetic creatures
  
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- Westerner51
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 5:04am
  Mike Lee is going to be the President one day(I Hope). So you commies thought conservatism was dead. He is wise beyond his years.
  
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COFemale
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:26am
Not only are Liberals idiots they are gullible. We can show definitive proof of something someone said and they will still deny it will ever happen. Muslim Brotherhood comes to mind. Mursi and Obama are kindred brothers. Liberals are just too trusting and can’t see the bigger picture. They work in the hear and now and in their book just because it is not happening now, they say it will never happen. 99.9 % of the time they are wrong. You’d think they’d learn. Remember, we are dealing with people with NO COMMON SENSE and LOGIC.

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- TurboCat
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 5:36am
  @USED-To-WIPE: If the U.N. has no influence on the U.S., then why did the NAACP run to tell them about our so-called “voter suppression”? Then they send their thugs here to “observe” our voting polls? Oh, lets see now……maybe the NAACP knows (from Barry and Holder himself) that they will get some back-up from the control freaks at the U.N. Sounds about right to me.
  
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- soisay
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 10:41pm
  @Turbocat, do you really believe what you just wrote?
  
  Election technical analysts (college professors, parlimentarians, and the like) visit election sites for dozens of government at the invitation of the governments. The US has been inviting such independent observation and feedback for decades. It is a great idea, if only to show off to Russia, China, et al, that OUR elections are untainted, and to learn from the report written by the experienced observers.
  
  from http://osce.org
  The United States is a founding member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a 56-country international organization focused on human rights and security. More than 100 parliamentarians from Europe and Central Asia will travel to the United States in the coming days to observe the November elections “We are not coming to judge a result but to report about the process,”
  
  I read the USA report, and a handful of others at random. Good technical information, especially when a country is slapped down for favoritism or trickery.
  
  Go read the USA report. It will surprise you in its agreement with many of our positions. Your nonsense rants make us look like idiots and will continue to cost us elections.
  
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:24am
Come on Anderson you HAVE to be smarter than that. Do you mean to say you don’t see the bigger picture here? Be a real journalist! Look for the bigger picture instead of picking at ridiculous things: “you can’t cite one case? you mean you can’t cite one case? What? you can’t cite one case?” hammering that one question… even AFTER the Senator gave you a reasonable response to it?
Seriously Anderson? You want to waste time picking… instead of having a real conversation that explores the ramifications of a treaty like this? Kudos to Senator Mike Lee for trying to have a mature discussion with a deaf, dumb and blind “reporter”.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:35am
  While Cooper was deflecting with his cherry picked questions, Lee was just not prepared. Considering that he is a Constitutional Attorney, he did seem lame. His best point that corrected Cooper was once the treaty is signed and ratified by the Senate, IT DOES BECOME LAW OF THE LAND. No, it will not be UN personnel telling Americans what to do or not do with their children. It will be libs here in this country backed by the ratified law and the lunatic courts. This will be more leverage for them to do the whacky things they have been doing for decades as progressives. The other part is that the U.S. will be required to pay more for even more of the wacky programs going on around the world.
  
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Back To Reality
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:23am
Anderson Cooper’s “benchmark” on this issue makes about as much sense as refusing to treat a new disease because no one has ever died from it.

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jungle J
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:21am
To allow someone so deeply mentally ill that they don’t even know their own sex is inviting an interview based in hate.

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- COFemale
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:27am
  huh?
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 11:27am
  Yeah, what?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 2:40pm
  He is referring to to the fact that Cooper is gay & doesn’t know that he should really be heterosexual.
  
  To be interviewed by someone like that is just asking for it.
  
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Fellow_Citizen
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:18am
Why do Republicans keep going on liberal “news” shows? What’s the sense? The only people watching are diehard liberals.

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- neverending
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:23pm
  My thoughts exactly – and the libs are so indoctrinated it is impossible to get through the thick skull.
  
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Capt_Gregg
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:17am
The UN of today is nothing like the UN at its conception, when it was meant as a neutral forum where nations could negotiate and iron out their differences, making war a last resort. It has become a Frankenstein’s monster — nobly created but eventually running amok.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:31am
  Man has waged war since the beginning of time and will until the end of time and it’s pure folly to think some agency can prevent war. The UN needs to be abolished since they’re just a den of spies bent on our destruction.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:32pm
  The UN has become a Marxist/Fascist dream. I don’t think we will ever get out of the UN until we replace the GOP and the and the other Socialist party (dems) with a real alternative constitutional party.
  
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MGrilla
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:15am
I thought ObamaCare took care of disabilities, what do we need the UN for.

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- encinom
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 5:17pm
  The better question is why do need a racist, ignorant Tea Party?
  
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MGrilla
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:12am
The new Palestinian state observer status show’s use what the UN does with treaties and law’s, politics’s trump’s all.

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riker01
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:12am
I have one. Isn’t agenda 21 a precedent of the uni nitions to try to control America. Everytime I see mr blonde i can’t help but wonder where his mouth has been. lickityspit. yech!

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jungle J
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:09am
and the smell of feces hung heavy over the interview.

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- MGrilla
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:19am
  That’s gross!
  
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stopprintn
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:07am
Look how their Agenda 21 has krept into over 600 cities around the country just from Bush 1 signing on to the KP in 92. The UN only exists to some day put itself into a position to Tax and Govern. We need not sign anything they have to offer. Stop Funding The UN

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- THORS_BIG_HAMMER
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:22pm
  lets just throw the UN out of the country. The primary goal of the UN is to tear down this Nation through Agenda 21. This treaty sounds like a step in that direction!
  
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silentme63
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:03am
only a fool would TRUST U.N. if you do some research on this body they NEVER do the right thing..

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:20am
  TO ANDERSON COOPER: What part of “THE U.N. SHOULD have -0- (No) RIGHTS over ANYTHING done in the USA” don’t you get?
  
  The U.N. is supposed to be a place where all the nations of the world can come and discuss problems, seek treaties among themselves and volunteer member nation’s soldiers to stop violence (like Syria – good job with that, eh?) IT IS NOT, SHOULD NOT BE, WILL NEVER BE as far as most Americans are concerned, a GOVERNING BODY in control of Individual nations. Operative word is CONTROL.
  
  WE, THE PEOPLE, DO NOT GIVE UP OUR RIGHTS of SELF-GOVERNMENT to any entity other than ourselves. GOOD GRIEF!!! You bloody liberal, know-nothing/do-nothing MSM creeps just won’t be happy until you are enslaved, will you? You silly sheeple use OUR HARD FOUGHT FOR FREEDOM of SPEECH to strangle us. WTH is wrong with you? You communist idiots!!
  
  PATRIOTS: Tweet your Senators/Reps (we should all have our own TWEET LIST of those people to make communication fast and easy for us – it will take about 40 minutes to set up but then you have it. Get their names on line first (copy, paste, save on separate page), then go to Twitter and establish a List of YOUR SENATORS AND REPS -Name it SEN/REPS. Then do the search. The name will come up and a small square with a ‘head’ icon and a down arrow. Click on down arrow and then Add to List) You now have your permanent SEN/REPS Contact List!) Good project for today!!
  
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- Winedude
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 1:09pm
  @PATTYHENRY: Whenever I see someone going wild emphasizing the word “patriot” or “patriotism ” I am reminded of the Samuel Johnson quote “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” In these times it is more true than ever. I’m curious if you still think Romney is an honorable man?
  
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RIGS
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:01am
Anderson Cooper is another PANTY WEARING LIBERAL PUNK………………..

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:04am
  Mr Giggles…..
  
  http://youtu.be/SiO-WPZ912Q
  
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RED_JOHN
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:00am
The white haired clown is such a maroon. So wanting parents to have supreme decision over their own children and not the government or God forbid the progressive America hating U.N. is crazy talk. I hope the first person denied health care by Obama’s death panel is someone Anderson loves.

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- COFemale
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:31am
  Why are you calling Anderson a color? Did you mean moron?
  
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- booger71
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:41am
  maroon
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  Now he is a maroon, a phase coined by the nitwit Occupy crowd.
  
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- RED_JOHN
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:30pm
  Occupy my ass
  maroo
  A term of derision often uttered by Bugs Bunny when referring to an interaction with a dopey adversary. It is a mispronunciation of the word “Moron”
  “What a Maroon!” “Will ya get a load of this maroon”
  
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- RED_JOHN
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 12:38pm
  Please don’t ask me who Bugs Bunny is.-
  
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- Sgt_Rock
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 4:19pm
  @Red_John:
  
  No sweat brother, I got it…the wascally wabbit would have no doubt agreed with your assessment. Even Elmer Fudd what have called Cooper out on this one.
  
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gyro
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:59am
Who runs the UN ?
Do you trust them ?

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- barber2
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:02am
  Can elephants fly ?
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:56am
Little gay cooper is just like the rest of the liberals. He cannot understand sovereignty. He does not understand the rights of a nation and the fact that the UN should have NO say so in the US internal law making or anything else. The UN has no rights here. Little Anderson just cares about biting his pillow.

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DZ-015
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:55am
Always err on the side of caution when dealing with the UN.

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- TurboCat
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 5:58am
  Exactly right. All you have to do is remember that very recently Ban Ki Moon tried to talk Bashar Assad out of killing his own people by “talking” to him and you can see the abject EVIL of BOTH Ban Ki Moon AND Bashar Assad! TALKING to that evil man as if he could REASON with him! For God’s sake the guy even LOOKS like a descendant of Hitler! But then again, LOTS of U.N. members frequently mix with evil people like that! Anderson wants to TRUST any of them with anything? No way in hell, Anderson. Be a good boy now and mind your own business.
  
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- soisay
  Posted on December 9, 2012 at 10:44pm
  So if the UN was unable to stop Syria, and all the other examples listed elsewhere (Rwanda, Korea, Isreal, etc), why are we so afraid that this toothless paper tiger will rise up and take children from our homes?
  
  Which is it? Is the UN all-powerful or impotent. We should unfund it and not trust it because it will try to steal sovereignty, and it is simultaneously unable to act in any sovereign territory.
  
  Let’s decide already.
  
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randy
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:54am
Listen idiots…… We’re the US, not the UN.
Throw the UN out of the US now!

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Stelex
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:53am
Just keep saying no to the UN. The new world Mafia

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Jenny Lind
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:52am
Well done, Mr Lee. Cooper seemed ignorant of what treaties mean.

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barber2
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:52am
Good for the Republicans in our Senate. Keep up the good work to keep us operating as a sovereign nation. As for Cooper, he is doing the usual media ” job” : promoting the White House / International Left agenda. So strange to have an American Administration which does not act to protect the best interests of AMERICAN citizens’ rights. Obama II…..

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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:50am
Since the ADA was a disaster and opened the floodgates for every ambulance chaser in the country to file frivolous lawsuits this ‘disability’ treaty by the UN should be opposed. In fact every treaty cooked up by the UN should be opposed.

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 9:58am
  I think “they” will be “revisiting’ the UN arms treaty proposal this March if I’m not mistaken…
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 8, 2012 at 10:20am
  The UN is nothing more than a collection of anti-American parasitical freaks who shouldn’t be allowed to step foot on U.S soil. They’re an abomination,vile pustules bent on our destruction and the sooner they’re booted out of this country the better.
  
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