Posted on 07/12/2006 3:08:20 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
OK, OK, I admit it — I'm not a great fan of the United Nations.
I've been there; seen it. I've witnessed the bloated bureaucracy first hand; sat through endless hours of arguments about inconsequential word changes to what the United Nations calls "non-papers." I've seen the way the United Nations ignores laws that apply to the rest of us mere mortals, and marveled at the hypocrisy of its leaders as they refuse to clean up their own house even as they criticize the United States for every manner of offense.
It is an organization completely lacking in fiscal discipline, but which fights tooth and nail any effort to add "fiscal responsibility" to its job description. The United Nations is in fact so inefficient, it makes the U.S. Congress look downright efficient.
All this is made worse by the fact that the United Nations is constantly searching the globe for new projects in which to meddle — cybercrime, the Internet, taxes and, since 2001, guns.
Since the summer of 2001, the United Nations has been involved in an organized "Programme of Action" in U.N. parlance, to limit the availability of firearms to civilians. Many of the world body's members who are the most vocally anti-firearm are leading this effort. There is nothing they'd like better than to do to our citizenry what they have done to theirs — disarm them.
At the kick-off get-together in 2001, then-Under Secretary of State John Bolton shocked many at the United Nations by boldly reminding them that in the United States we do have a right to possess firearms. Bolton caused further consternation when he told the gathering that the administration would not allow the international organization to diminish that fundamental right. The audience visibly gasped at the audacity displayed by this upstart diplomat.
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anyone who wants my gun can come and take it.
i am open 24-7.
I believe you and I are on the same page. If whoever they are comes to get my guns they won't like what they find.
Ain't gonna happen. Barr jumped the shark and is in bed with the moonbats.
Al Gore, Republican (Bob Barr) to Attack Bush 'Police State'
Leading conservatives call for extensive hearings into the Patriot Act
b2 bob is a good man, he was screwed by redistricting and about a million illegals who now cast ballots in what is essentially mexico.
I have a MAK-90, which is an AK-47 that was converted to get around the assault weapons ban. Mine is one of the early models that has interchangeable clips so I can use anything from a 5 round hunting clip to a 200 round drum. It also has a red dot scope on it, I use it to hunt hogs in south georgia.
Aren't you referring to "B-1 Bob" Dornan?
If it ever comes down to gun confiscation - don't be there. Hunt down the ones who sent them. You're going to die one way or the other - why not send a clearly understandable message to the ones responsible: the judges, legislators and politicians who made it happen.
That's the REAL purpose of the Second Amendment.
I agree. They will only get mine as Charlton Heston said, "FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS".
Ambassador Bolton and the NRA did good work here.
eternal vigilance (derided as a paranoia) and the lack of the individual will to submit to government is all that separates freemen from peasants eating poop in n korea and china and iraq and iran and ...
coming full circle, we are traditional liberals. and those we are told toady are liberals are communists.
they can only eat their young, they are helpless against the rest.
Are you saying there is a shortage of 7.62 X 39 ammo?
Is the '39 in short supply lately ?
err...? dornan is from ca, barr is from ga...? yep, i blew it. too much cspan and glenlivet.
I didn't know that was possible.
Noumenon wrote:
If it ever comes down to gun confiscation - don't be there. Hunt down the ones who sent them. You're going to die one way or the other - why not send a clearly understandable message to the ones responsible: the judges, legislators and politicians who made it happen.
That's the REAL purpose of the Second Amendment.
Well said!!
not really, just a lot of it is on it's way to various war zones instead of here in the US...
Nope, more of it would drive the price down.
I'm a supply and demand buyer. Like to stock up when it's cheap.
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