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Obama's Reversal on 'Indigenous Peoples' Rights Stirs Concern Over Legal ClaimsPresident Obama's decision last week to reverse U.S. policy and back a U.N. declaration on the rights of "indigenous peoples" has touched off a debate on whether the move could boost American Indian legal claims over the ills they suffered dating back to the colonial period. The president announced his decision at the White House Tribal Nations Conference last week, making the United States the last nation to endorse the statement -- the Bush administration had opposed it since it was adopted in 2007. American Indian advocacy groups cheered the move, finalized after a months-long administration review.
Fox NewsThank you, President U.N.
Have you ever seen someone toss chum on the water in an effort to stir the smaller fish into a feeding frenzy in order to lure the big fish? It usually ends up a big, bloody mess.That’s what happened recently when the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a group of 47 nations, met in Geneva to hold its Annual Periodic Review wherein the members got to grill the United States about its human rights record.The U.S. was subject to this free-for-all attack thanks to Obama’s boneheaded move last year to join the UNHRC which had rightfully been shunned in disdain by George W. Bush. The U.S. State Department and the Obama administration insist this is a great opportunity for Washington to lead by example. The truth is, the only ones who gained any satisfaction were those countries who got to preen and posture without being held account for their own conduct.to For years the U.N. has been trying to cut America down to size by gobbling up pieces of our sovereignty. Think of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child which usurps parental authority by allowing children to retain a lawyer so they can sue their parents. Or how about Agenda 21, a program of sustainable development that would love to tell us what we can and can’t do with our own property.Jim Kelly, director of international affairs for the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies agrees that the U.S. was not the beneficiary of this process. “The fact is, they are demanding that the U.S. comply with rights that are already addressed by our own democratic system and laws. They are simply trying to get us to adopt U.N. standards instead of our own.â€Those countries with anti-American sentiments in the U.N. have grown bolder in encroaching on our long-established American freedoms now that Obama has allowed us to be cut up like so much fish bait.
