Eagle Forum of Wisconsin
Brookfield, WI 53008-0086
eagles@eagleforumofwisconsin.org
Dear School Board Member:
Eagle Forum of Wisconsin would like to bring to your attention proposed legislation concerning Human Growth and Development Curriculum which will negatively impact local control of school boards and place students unknowingly at risk of sexual predator laws. A link to SB324/AB458 (Healthy Youth Act), which was passed by the Assembly, is listed below and may be placed before the Wisconsin Senate as late as mid January when the legislative session resumes, or as early as a December 16th special session.
Ø Assembly Bill 458 (Full Text) - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/AB-458.pdf
Ø Assembly Bill 458 (Bill History) - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/AB458hst.html
Please review this letter by Representative Brett Davis confirming the dangers of SB324/AB458.
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Letter from Representative Brett Davis opposing SB342/AB458:
Thank you for contacting my office regarding Assembly Bill (AB) 458, tagged the "Healthy Youth Act" by its supporters. I appreciate hearing from you on this issue.
I share your concerns and did vote against this bill in the Assembly Education Committee.... I also voted no on passage of the bill on the floor of the State Assembly. Unfortunately, despite our bipartisan opposition, AB 458 was passed by the State Assembly on November 5th.
I believe there is no problem with current law regarding the development of sexual education curriculum in schools. Under current law, if a school district wishes to teach human growth and development classes they must create a community advisory committee comprised of parents, teachers, school administrators, pupils, health care professionals, members of the clergy, and other residents of the school district. This advisory panel assists the school district with the development of curriculum for sexual education.
However, AB 458 would negate the curriculum that school districts across the state have put considerable time and effort into developing, including abstinence-based curriculum. Instead, AB 458 would strip away local control and replace it with mandated curriculum from the bill. I feel this is wrong and believe local communities, not Madison, should decide what they feel is best suited for their local school districts.
Along with Representative Leah Vukmir, I did offer an amendment on the floor of the Assembly, but it was voted down. The amendment would have returned control of the curriculum back to local school districts ....
Sincerely,
Brett Davis
State Representative
80th Assembly District
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Following are common sense amendments to SB324/AB458, which failed to pass in the Assembly:
· Amendment 4 - has been tabled (defeated)
This amendment would have allowed for single-sex instruction.
Final Vote: Ayes-52, Nays-41 Not Voting-6
(Defeating this amendment will place young students in our state in a very embarrassing situation in the classroom.)
· Amendment 5 - has been tabled (defeated).
This amendment would have restored instruction on Marriage and Parental Responsibility back into the curriculum.
Final Vote: Ayes-50, Nays-43, Not Voting - 6
· Amendment 6 - has been tabled (defeated).
This amendment would have required kids at an age-appropriate level to receive instruction on Wisconsin's sexual assault laws and Sex Offender Registry.
Final Vote: Ayes - 51, Nays-40, Not Voting - 8
Background Info:
§948.02(2), Wis. Stats., states that it is a Class C Felony for anyone to have sexual contact or engage in sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 years of age. The penalty for this offense is “A fine of up to $100,000 or imprisonment up to 40 years or both.” {Source: Legislative Reference Bureau} To access Wisconsin’s State Statutes, see http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/stats.html
For many crimes, 17-year-olds are charged as adults under Wisconsin law.
· Amendment 8 - has been tabled (defeated).
This amendment would have required the presentation of fetal development information. "Instruction under this subdivision shall include showing a videotape recording or digital recording of a human fetus captured using ultrasound imaging technology during each trimester of a woman's pregnancy."
Final Vote: Ayes - 51, Nays - 42, Not Voting - 6
Eagle Forum of Wisconsin is urging concerned school board members and parents to contact their state senators to oppose SB324/AB458 by calling the legislative hotline at 1-800-362-9472. If you wish to receive an outline of specific changes in Wisconsin statues created by SB324/AB458, or would like to help in our efforts to defeat this bill, please contact us at eagles@eagleforumofwisconsin.org.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Contact congress requesting an investigation into the SPP.
The following letter has been sent to the Wisconsin congressional delegation. Please review the links beneath the letter before contacting your member of congress.
Re: SPP - The Security and Prosperity Partnership
Dear Congressman:
Enclosed please find copies of documents downloaded from the government website: www.spp.gov showing organizational charts of the SPP, the Security, Prosperity Partnership of North America. Also enclosed are the names of “working group” chairs and contact lists related to the agenda of the SPP.
The SPP website refers to more than 30 trilateral “memoranda of understanding” in the ”2005 Report to the Leaders” substantiating that more than dialogue is taking place. The report also shows the creation of the “trusted traveler” program for North America using biometrics which would essentially erase our borders. This may explain the current administration’s reluctance to build a fence to secure our borders and instead promote amnesty.
The SPP was first referenced in a press release following the 5/23/05 meeting of Presidents Bush, Fox and Prime Minister Martin in Waco, Texas. The leaders met again in Cancun, Mexico on the first anniversary of the SPP and announced the formation of the NACC, North American Competitive Council. The press release maintains that central regulatory agencies of the three nations will complete a trilateral regulatory framework by the year 2007. The NACC consists of 10 high level business leaders from each of the three nations indicating that private business and government officials are rewriting trade laws without congressional oversight or public knowledge.
By what authority have the SPP and NACC been created? The Mexican government website refers to the SPP as an alliance; what is the formal status of the SPP?
The NACC appears to be organizing itself after the European Common Market, the frontrunner to the European Union. (ministers, secretariat, etc.)
Please refer to the CFR, Council of Foreign Relations, website for a 59 page report entitled, “Building a North American Community” by Robert Pastor, Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University. Mr. Pastor is also known for orchestrating the Panama Canal giveaway in the Carter administration and has authored the book entitled, “Toward a North American Community” (a book calling for a North American Union as regional government with a common currency called the Amero.) According to documents, Mr. Pastor was an active participant in the Banff, Alberta, Canada NACC meeting held on 9/12-14, 2006. Enclosed is the attendance list which includes high level government officials and business leaders; however, it was closed to the media and public.
Where tax dollars used to fund any part of this meeting? Where is the work product published?
According to a 9/20/06 WND news article, CEO’s involved with the NACC include Michael Haverty, Chairman of Kansas City Southern RR, along with officials from Walmart, GM, GE, Campbell Soup, Chevron, Merck, Ford, Fed-Ex, UPS, NY Life, Lockheed Martin, and Whirlpool.
A Kansas City SmartPort brochure stated, “Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities with virtual no border delays.” Enclosed is a NASCO, North American SuperCorridor Coalition, map showing inland ports including Kansas City. The map also shows the Trans-Texas Corridor which obviously was not designed to alleviate traffic congestion, as its entry port is Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, a city known for drug wars. Many people refer to this route as the Nafta Superhighway beginning in the Mexican city of Lazaro Cardinas, a deep water port under construction by the Chinese company, Hutchison Whampoa ,and eventually continuing through Duluth, MN into Canada. It is a trade route to bring cheap Chinese products by either Mexican trucks or Mexican rail lines (recently purchased by Kansas City Southern) to inland ports of the United States bypassing American workers.
The Trans-Texas Corridor is designed to run parallel to Highway 35 and will be about four football fields wide to accommodate multiple rail lines, commercial truck lanes, passenger lanes, pipelines for oil, water, gas, and communication cables. Mexican trucks will be allowed to enter “fast lanes”, electronically checked by the new “Sentri” system at the border, and have a first customs inspection as far north as Kansas City. The TTC is a limited access toll way being built by the Spanish firm, CINTRA, which reportedly will hold a 50 year lease. CINTRA already holds leases on other US toll roads.
The SPP claims its purpose is to coordinate border security, health policy, economic and trade policy, and energy policy among Mexico, the United States and Canada. However, rewriting regulations to import cheap Chinese products, and erasing our borders to use low cost Mexican workers can only harm our nations security and prosperity.
We are urging an investigation into the actions of the SPP which have circumvented congressional approval and oversight.
Sincerely,
Dottie Feder
President Eagle Forum of Wisconsin
(view more links on the home site)
Re: SPP - The Security and Prosperity Partnership
Dear Congressman:
Enclosed please find copies of documents downloaded from the government website: www.spp.gov showing organizational charts of the SPP, the Security, Prosperity Partnership of North America. Also enclosed are the names of “working group” chairs and contact lists related to the agenda of the SPP.
The SPP website refers to more than 30 trilateral “memoranda of understanding” in the ”2005 Report to the Leaders” substantiating that more than dialogue is taking place. The report also shows the creation of the “trusted traveler” program for North America using biometrics which would essentially erase our borders. This may explain the current administration’s reluctance to build a fence to secure our borders and instead promote amnesty.
The SPP was first referenced in a press release following the 5/23/05 meeting of Presidents Bush, Fox and Prime Minister Martin in Waco, Texas. The leaders met again in Cancun, Mexico on the first anniversary of the SPP and announced the formation of the NACC, North American Competitive Council. The press release maintains that central regulatory agencies of the three nations will complete a trilateral regulatory framework by the year 2007. The NACC consists of 10 high level business leaders from each of the three nations indicating that private business and government officials are rewriting trade laws without congressional oversight or public knowledge.
By what authority have the SPP and NACC been created? The Mexican government website refers to the SPP as an alliance; what is the formal status of the SPP?
The NACC appears to be organizing itself after the European Common Market, the frontrunner to the European Union. (ministers, secretariat, etc.)
Please refer to the CFR, Council of Foreign Relations, website for a 59 page report entitled, “Building a North American Community” by Robert Pastor, Director of the Center for North American Studies at American University. Mr. Pastor is also known for orchestrating the Panama Canal giveaway in the Carter administration and has authored the book entitled, “Toward a North American Community” (a book calling for a North American Union as regional government with a common currency called the Amero.) According to documents, Mr. Pastor was an active participant in the Banff, Alberta, Canada NACC meeting held on 9/12-14, 2006. Enclosed is the attendance list which includes high level government officials and business leaders; however, it was closed to the media and public.
Where tax dollars used to fund any part of this meeting? Where is the work product published?
According to a 9/20/06 WND news article, CEO’s involved with the NACC include Michael Haverty, Chairman of Kansas City Southern RR, along with officials from Walmart, GM, GE, Campbell Soup, Chevron, Merck, Ford, Fed-Ex, UPS, NY Life, Lockheed Martin, and Whirlpool.
A Kansas City SmartPort brochure stated, “Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities with virtual no border delays.” Enclosed is a NASCO, North American SuperCorridor Coalition, map showing inland ports including Kansas City. The map also shows the Trans-Texas Corridor which obviously was not designed to alleviate traffic congestion, as its entry port is Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, a city known for drug wars. Many people refer to this route as the Nafta Superhighway beginning in the Mexican city of Lazaro Cardinas, a deep water port under construction by the Chinese company, Hutchison Whampoa ,and eventually continuing through Duluth, MN into Canada. It is a trade route to bring cheap Chinese products by either Mexican trucks or Mexican rail lines (recently purchased by Kansas City Southern) to inland ports of the United States bypassing American workers.
The Trans-Texas Corridor is designed to run parallel to Highway 35 and will be about four football fields wide to accommodate multiple rail lines, commercial truck lanes, passenger lanes, pipelines for oil, water, gas, and communication cables. Mexican trucks will be allowed to enter “fast lanes”, electronically checked by the new “Sentri” system at the border, and have a first customs inspection as far north as Kansas City. The TTC is a limited access toll way being built by the Spanish firm, CINTRA, which reportedly will hold a 50 year lease. CINTRA already holds leases on other US toll roads.
The SPP claims its purpose is to coordinate border security, health policy, economic and trade policy, and energy policy among Mexico, the United States and Canada. However, rewriting regulations to import cheap Chinese products, and erasing our borders to use low cost Mexican workers can only harm our nations security and prosperity.
We are urging an investigation into the actions of the SPP which have circumvented congressional approval and oversight.
Sincerely,
Dottie Feder
President Eagle Forum of Wisconsin
(view more links on the home site)
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