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Tim’s DVD Reviews

Overruled: Government Invasion of They have a right to any magazine they want, no
Your Parental Rights matter how inappropriate its content. They have
Written and produced by Tiana Wiles a right to access any website they want. Sweden,
parentalrights.org where home schooling is not allowed, has ratified
this treaty. The same is true for Holland, where
Parents in America historically have had sex education in public school starts at age four.
the right to rear their children as they see fit and If you have been subjected to a low-cho-
most assume that right to be inviolable. However lesterol, lowfat, iodine-deficient diet, this trend
these parents will be shocked to learn how that might make sense to you. For those who have
right is being steadily eroded by federal and state benefited from enough good nutrition to have
governments and courts today. a fully functioning brain, I probably don’t have
A medical case in Nashville provides the first to belabor why this legal craze might be a bad
example in Wiles's video. Parents take their sick idea. The future implications for overruling what
child to the doctor who runs tests to determine parents can feed their children should also be
the problem. The tests are inconclusive and the obvious. Great strides are being made to make
doctor recommends drug tests. The parents us all wards of the state and destroy the family.
authorize the drug tests. They pay for the tests. The thumb is UP for the film, not for the UNCRC.
But the doctor won’t give them the results unless (As of December 2011, this video can be accessed
their child gives permission first. The doctor says for free at www.OverruledMovie.com)
he has no choice. That is federal law.
In Massachusetts a kindergartener came Real Food Symposium 2011:
home with a book from school called My Two The Skinny on “Real” Fats
Dads. The child's parents did not wish to have Culture Club 101
sex education of any kind imposed on their child
at that age and met with the school principal to Culture Club 101 is a grassroots company
make that clear. The child's father ended up under inspired by the Nourishing Traditions cookbook
arrest and lost the court case that followed. which sponsors workshops, films, lectures and
In Washington, the nanny state, the state events such as this symposium on the theme
court decided that forcing a child to go to church of healthy food traditions. The main speakers
three times a week was excessive and ruled that were real foods activist David Barker; Rosann

Parents will his parents could only force him to go to church Volmert, DO; grass farmer John De Bruin; and
once a week. Just how they decided what level of Mark McAfee, of Organic Pastures Dairy. The
be shocked church exposure was adequate is not explained. second disk contains interviews with those
to learn how The United Nations has adopted the Conven- speakers plus David Wetzel of Green Pasture
their rights are tion of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) which Products and Joan Grinzi of Price-Pottenger
has been ratified by all but a few countries. The Nutrition Foundation.
being steadily United States has not officially ratified the treaty In this two-DVD set you get a good history
eroded by but many states have passed legislation compat- of how corporate “science” works. The aver-
state and ible with it. In general, while it superficially age malnourished American brain has a short
sounds good to be concerned about the welfare attention span and short memory. Most people
federal of children, it gives priority to the child over the probably don’t remember that back in 1962 the
governments parents in deciding what is best for the child. One American Medical Association declared that the
today. of the provisions specifies that children have the anti-fat, anti-cholesterol fad was not only foolish
right to access any media they want to access. and futile but also carried some risk. In 1965 the
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