Posted on 09/17/2010 8:13:40 AM PDT by EdReform
OBAMA REVEALS ANTI-GUN U.N. INTENT; SENDS EX-SEATTLE MAYOR AS REP
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
BELLEVUE, WA The appointment of anti-gun rights former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels as an alternate representative to the United Nations has removed any doubt about the Obama administrations intentions regarding global gun control initiatives, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
Nickels, a founding member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the author of Seattles failed attempt to override Washingtons state firearms preemption statute, was sworn in Wednesday to help represent the United States in the UN assembly, according to the Seattle Times.
Putting an extremist gun banner in any position to represent this country at the United Nations amounts to renting a billboard for advertising against the Second Amendment, said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. While he was Seattles mayor, Greg Nickels supported every anti-gun scheme put forth by Washington CeaseFire, the Northwests most active gun prohibition lobby.
Nickels is a gun ban proponent, he continued, so his appointment as an alternate to the UN is a clear signal of Barack Obamas intention to rubber stamp the UNs global gun ban agenda. We had to sue Nickels while he was still Seattles mayor to overturn his illegal city parks gun ban. Now he gets to push his anti-gun philosophy on a world scale. It hardly seems a coincidence that Nickels has been appointed by the Obama administration at a time when the UN is considering treaties and initiatives that pose a serious threat to the Second Amendment.
Nickels was turned out of office in 2009, which was something of a feat in a liberal enclave like Seattle, Gottlieb recalled. His defeat in the primary demonstrated the degree of alienation voters felt from a politician who once epitomized the Seattle liberal establishment.
By naming Greg Nickels as an alternate representative at the UN, Gottlieb stated, President Obama has essentially told Americas 85 million gun owners that their firearm civil rights are in jeopardy. Nickels cannot be counted on to defend the Second Amendment because he would like to see it erased from the Constitution.
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With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nations premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.
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