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Show THE SCOTT REPORT PAGE 8 USING TV TO CLEANUP CASTROS IMAGE Vol. 8, No. 26 PAGE 11 25C Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 DEFEAT THE ANTI-AMERI- June 30, 1977 GENOCIDE TREATY! CA HERE ARE THE F ACTS In pursuing his 'human rights c rusade. President Jimmy Carter on March 17, 1977, when addressing to the United Nations General Assembly, pledged to work closely to get the United with our Congress States to adopt the controversial U.N. Genocide Convention (treaty). Ever since the Genocide treaty was first submitted to the U.S. Senate on June 16, 1949, the Senate has refused to ratify humanitarian treaty. But this with Carter's now, backing, the treaty will come once again before the Senate. Should, the treaty be ratified, all Americans would be at the mercy of the United Nations and the World Court. The Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantee-- : individual freedom, would be destroyed. But, you rtiay ask, how can this be? Because the writers of the Constitution never envisaged that the day would come when the leaders and representatives of this nation would want to . destroy the Republic they, the Founders, had fought so hard to establish. ed so-call- Consequently, Article 6, Clause 2, of the U.S. Constitution states that all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding. It is this loophole which could provide the noose to strangle the individual freedom of all American citizens if the United Nations Genocide Convention is ratified by the,U.S. Senate. The real significance of this sinister Genocide treaty is being kept from the American people by the Leftwing-controllpress; hence this pamphlet. ed WHAT IS GENOCIDE? The Genocide Convention was approved the U.N. General Assembly on December by es 9, 1948. It grew out of the trials of Nazi leaders following World War II. Ostensibly, these trials proved that war-crim- EXPANDING THE By Paul Scow 57 Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Pddat Ida City, Utsh Cdt L t- - O H r CO f- o - H O U l- - c o 3 W . 04 H sD M 't .- -I S- - 3 oJ I part... Continued on pfe 6 BATTLE N pushing for Congress to adopt an Amendment to the Constitution which is designed to protect this God-give-n right to life. THE issues including the explosive question of the massive killing of more than 1,300.000 of our future citizens each year. Should the Human Rights Treaty be sent to the Senate arid ratified by the necessary two-thirprovisions vote, its far-reachi- PRESIDENTS On the other hand, DILEMMA should the President decide to send the Treaty to the Senate with reservations abcrut the antiabortion or pro-lif- e provision, as now being advocated by some of his advisers, then the imagehe has created as being opposed to abortion would be shattered and a whole new can of worms would be opened. For example, the President's action would clear the way for other OAS signers of the Treaty to on other make - reservations in the Human Rights provisions document, something that the President would like to avoid. This presidential dilemma, caused partly by faulty staff work, has forced him to delay sending the Treaty to the Senate since his advisers are still deeply split on which course he should take. Before signing the document, no one thought to brief the President on the significance of the provision in the Treaty because of the hurried way the decision was made to use it to support the Presidents own . ds PS ut Organization in 1969, this little known Human " Rights Treaty contains a sleeper provision (Chapter 2, Article 4) rights Cl -- anti-aborti- on . Dceond Claes Postagn Pertinent excerpts from Article II of the Genocide Convention follow: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in an official including the one protecting the human rights" program and for set up a campaign to keep the human rights issue by signing the right to life of the unborn from the backing of his wifes recent trip to President from sending the Treaty to the Senate with reservations Latin America. of conception. long shelved American moment In effect, this would give proINFLUENCE OF A about the provision. Convention on Human Rights. him to are for 'What WOMAN are the advocates They campaigning happened victory they the life by Approved the send document without any of American States now seeking for the unborn in shows the influence that the First which reads as follows: " Every person has the right to have his life respected. This right shall be protected by law, only in general, from the moment of No one shall be conception. arbitrarily deprived of his life." The little publicized action of the President caught most pro and anti-lif- e officials and groups by complete surprise. Few still realize the significance of the President's decision in signing the long dormant document 'which both Ford and Nixon refused to sign. What isnt generally realized is that the President has in effect internationalized " the entire abortion battle as he has the human rights issue by linking it to U.S. foreign policy. Significantly ; the President has set the stage for a historic debate and vote in the Senate this year on the whole range of human UTAH INDEPENDENT DANGERS OF THE GENOCIDE TREATY fight anti-aborti- on Washington: The expanding battle to protect the unborn from the massive slaughter that is now going on throughout the country is taking a new and highly significant turn. With an unexpected stroke of his pen. President Carter made the ANT-ABORTIO- Nazis had murdered millions of Jews in an effort to eradicate Jews as a racial and religious, group. Presumably, the Convention is intended to prevent such atrocities in the future. However, a careful analysis of the provisions of the Genocide treaty reveals that it is directed against individuals not nations. ng j anti-aborti- on Lady is now having on foreign and domestic policies of the Carter administration. During her trip, Mrs. Carter cabled her husband, urging him to sign the OAS Human Rights Treaty as a gesture of good will toward those countries she was visiting.- - The President responded by approving the document for submission to the Senate without being adequately briefed on its content. As one White House aide puts it: The President would never have acted so swiftly if he had been briefed on the full impact of the pro-lif- e provision. He was just provided a general aanalysis oft he human T rea ty and its rights provisions." Since the signing ceremony in the White House, the President and his political advisers learned of wide-rangi- ng the explosive The provision. anti-aborti- on President immediately asked his advisers to agree on a course of action which they so far have been unable to do thus delaying the reservations. Catholics for Christian Political Action (CCPA) sent off a message urging the country's Catholic Bishops to use their influence so that the Treaty is to the Senate for presented ratification with its right to life section intact. Speaking on behalf of the activist lay organization, CCPA President Gary Potter told the Bishops: President Carter did not refer to the right to life section when he signed the Treaty on June I . But there ane persistent reports he intends that to ask the Senate to reserve' the section. In view of that, the Bishops, plus all other friends of human rights should do everything they can to urge President Carter to recommend ratification of the Treaty as it was written and as he signed it. For him to do otherwise would be to ask for ratification of the Treaty, except for the part of it that is being violated in this country, and that would be sheer hypocrisy. This is the human rights dilemma that President Carter now transmission of the Treaty to the faces. Senate. Note: The other LOBBY ACTS details of the OAS Human Rights Meanwhile, when leaders of the will be dealt with in afuture movement discovered their Treaty pro-li- fe PROI.IFE far-reachi- ng column because of unexpected windfall, they began to tremendous importance. their . |