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| Date: From: Subject: | 4/4/2007 12:16:47 PM Home School Legal Defense Association Hawaii--Urgent: Your Calls Needed on Dangerous Resolutions! |
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====================================================================== From the HSLDA E-lert Service... ====================================================================== April 4, 2007 Hawaii--Urgent: Your Calls Needed on Dangerous Resolutions! Dear HSLDA members and friends: Thank you for your swift action on the U.N. Resolutions making their way through the House. After your calls and the presence of several homeschoolers at the hearing on Monday, three members of the House Human Services and Housing Committee voted against the resolutions. However, enough of the members of the Committee voted for the resolutions that they have been passed out of committee and will likely go to the full House today or tomorrow. We need your calls and emails to your own representative as well as some key leaders in the House to help defeat this resolution. Christian Homeschoolers of Hawaii will also have a number of individuals at the Capitol today when the session begins at noon. Your presence could help defeat these resolutions. Please call now and urge your representative and the House leadership identified below to defeat this resolution. If your representative is Rep. Rida T.R. Cabanilla, Rep. John Mizuno, or Rep. Gene Ward you can thank them for their vote against these resolutions. ACTION REQUESTED: 1) Please call and email your state representative below immediately and respectfully give him or her this message in your own words: "Please oppose H.R. 48 and H.C.R. 69. Hawaii should not adopt the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child nor should we urge Congress to ratify this treaty. This treaty would undermine parental rights in the upbringing and control of their children that are foundational to this state and our nation. Adopting this treaty would elevate it to the same level as the U.S. Constitution. Please ensure that both of these resolutions are defeated." You do not need to identify yourself as a homeschooler; instead you can identify yourself as a constituent and concerned citizen. You can use HSLDA's legislative toolbox at http://www.hslda.org/toolbox to find the name and contact information for your state representative. You can also find your representative here: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3988 . 2) Please contact the House leaders listed below and give them this message in your own words: "Please oppose H.R.48 and H.C.R. 69. Hawaii should not adopt the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child nor should we urge Congress to ratify this treaty. This treaty would undermine parental rights in the upbringing and control of their children that are foundational to this state and our nation. Adopting this treaty would elevate it to the same level as the U.S. Constitution. Please ensure that both of these resolutions are defeated." You do not need to identify yourself as a homeschooler; instead you can identify yourself as a concerned citizen. Speaker of the House Representative Calvin K. Y. Say Phone: 808-586-6100 Email: repsay@Capitol.hawaii.gov House Majority Leader Representative Kirk Caldwell Phone: 808-586-8475 Email: repcaldwell@Capitol.hawaii.gov Majority Floor Leader Representative Blake K. Oshiro Phone: 808-586-6340 Email: repboshiro@capitol.hawaii.gov Minority Leader Representative Lynn Finnegan Phone: 808-586-9470 Email: repfinnegan@Capitol.hawaii.gov Minority Floor Leader Representative Colleen Rose Meyer Phone: 808-586-8540 Email: repmeyer@Capitol.hawaii.gov 3) Please visit the Capitol today at noon when the session opens. Your presence alone could be a powerful voice to let the House know that there are grave concerns about the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. Christian Homeschoolers of Hawaii will have several people there and a number of other homeschoolers should be there. If you would like more information about parking or visiting the Capitol please see http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?id=3989 . BACKGROUND: The House Human Services and Housing Committee voted 4 to 3 in favor of H.R. 48 and H.C.R. 69. However, this is a positive step forward since just a little over a week ago the House International Affairs Committee voted unanimously to pass the resolutions with a few minor changes. House Resolution 48 and House Concurrent Resolution 69 state that "each child needs to be brought up in the spirit of the ideals of the United Nations Charter." These resolutions urge the president to request that Congress ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Additionally, H.R. 48 and H.C.R. 69 urge the State of Hawaii "to adopt the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child as a guideline addressing concerns relating to Hawaii's kieki." As many of you are aware, the U.N. Convention of the Right of the Child is a treaty that is one of the most dangerous attacks on parental rights ever. Some of the contents of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child include a child's: > Right to Freedom of Expression: This right shall include the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through any other media of the child's choice. > Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion: The state would only need to respect a parent's "rights and duties...to provide direction to the child in the exercise of his or her right." Thus, a child could join a cult and prevent the parent from interfering with his or her "right" to do so. >Right to Freedom of Association: A child could determine who his or her friends are against parents' wishes. > Right to Privacy: A child could not be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence. This could include a right to abortion or sexual activity. > Right to Mass Media: This right would ensure the child has access to information and material from a diversity of national and international sources. In order to enforce these "rights" a child would simply have to call a social worker to report their parents for violating their rights. If this treaty becomes binding on the United States, the government would have the power to intervene in a child's life "for the best interest of the child." Currently, the government can intervene in this fashion only by going to court and proving that parents have been abusive or have neglected their children. (This standard also applies in divorce cases on the presumption that the family unit has been broken.) This means that whenever the U.N.-dominated social services system thought that your parental choices were not the best, the government would have the power to override your choices and protect your child from you. If this treaty becomes binding, all parents would have the same legal status as abusive parents, because the government would have the right to override every parental decision if it deemed the parent's choice contrary to the child's best interest. The ability to homeschool one's children would become not a right, but a U.N.-supervised activity that could be overturned if social services personnel believed that it would be "best" for your child to receive another form of education. Spanking would be banned under the express terms of the UNCRC. Moreover, children would be required to be taught in a religiously "tolerant manner". (The American Bar Association, which supports the treaty, has already opined that teaching children that Jesus is the only way to God violates the spirit and meaning of the UNCRC.) These are not idle speculations, but the proven result of the U.N.'s own interpretation of the treaty as they have reviewed other nations' compliance with the treaty's provisions. For more information about the concerns with the U.N. Convention of the Rights of the Child please see: http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000000/00000020.asp . HSLDA will be faxing a lengthy explanation of the reasons why the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child would be harmful for Hawaii and our nation to each House Member throughout the day. Please call now and help defeat these resolutions. We need your help! If you are not yet a member of HSLDA and would like to help us fight for greater homeschool freedom in Hawaii please visit http://www.hslda.org/join/apply.asp . Thank you for your part in fighting for freedom in Hawaii. Sincerely, Thomas Schmidt HSLDA Staff Attorney ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -> Can you call your attorney at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning? Our members can get in touch with their attorney even after business hours, when they have a legal emergency. Wouldn't you like this level of service? 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