Another Chance to Be Human

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By Charles P. Pierce
The United Nations treaty regarding the rights of the disabled is back. It went through a Senate committee easily (again) and, therefore, the Congress has another chance to join the rest of the world in being humane to people in wheelchairs, like Bob Dole, who sat there on the Senate floor and watched the nutball paranoid fringe of his party sell him out wholesale.

The treaty is supported by leading U.S. military veterans organizations, advocates for the rights of people with disabilities and business groups. Opponents, including many socially conservative Republicans, worry it could expand abortion rights, threaten U.S. parental rights such as the ability to home-school children, and shift power to the federal government from U.S. states.

In other words, the flying monkeys declined to listen to Bob Dole, the 1996 presidential nominee of their party, a party elder in every sense of the word, and a man who came home crippled from World War II, and, instead, took their guidance from the likes of Michael Farris, founder of a Christianist diploma mill. Enough United States senators bought the argument that the treaty would allow the UN to control your kid, if the kid wears glasses, that they were willing to spit in Bob Dole's eye while he sat there on the floor of the Senate. This was the winning argument that kept the Senate from ratifying the treaty. Now, that body has another chance to be decent and humane. We have another chance to see if there are 60 votes in the United States Senate against being paranoid. I'm not betting on it either way.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Another_Chance_To_Be_Sane

[pscot]

1. Being human is starting to feel like

a major fucking embarrassment.

[el_bryanto]

2. What other options does one have? nt

[GeorgeGist]

3. Noticed the hyperlink ...

Did his editor disagree with 'Another Chance to Be Sane'? Probably because it implies those opposing this treaty are insane.