From My Cold, Dead Fingers
Posted on 07/11/2012 6:54:00 PM PDT by EagleUSA
UNITED NATIONS – A treaty being hammered out this month at the United Nations -- with Iran playing a key role -- could expose the records of America's gun owners to foreign governments -- and, critics warn, eventually put the Second Amendment on global trial.
International talks in New York are going on throughout July on the final wording of the so-called Arms Trade Treaty, which supporters such as Amnesty International USA say would rein in unregulated weapons that kill an estimated 1,500 people daily around the world. But critics, including the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre, warn the treaty would mark a major step toward the eventual erosion of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment gun-ownership rights.
Americans “just don’t want the UN to be acting as a global nanny with a global permission slip stating whether they can own a gun or not,” LaPierre said. “It cheapens our rights as American citizens, and weakens our sovereignty,” he warned in an exclusive interview with FoxNews.com
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A quorum in the Senate is 51. A 2/3 majority vote is only 34 of those 51. Obama has those votes. All he has to do is figure when the other 49 will be out of town, and he’s smart enough to figure that part out. The Senate has done this before.
It infuriates me even more to know that our enemies have their headquarters in our country.
How can a self-respecting America even be a member of this anti-American organization?
From My Cold, Dead Fingers
The Constitution cannot be amended by treaty.
The Supreme Court has ruled on this many times.
IOW, any aspects of the treaty in conflict with the 2nd Amendment or other parts of the Constitution could not be enforced.
Of course, the court might refuse to make such a ruling, but if they decide to ignore the plain language of the Constitution and all precedent it seems unlikely to me they’d need the pretext of a treaty to do so.
When the Kenyan fraud is cast out of the Presidency, he and his minions should be tried for treason!
They took notice of the reaction, or the lack of it when they enacted the airline searches in the name of "security". The election of obama by a majority who rater live as Governmental slaves than free people embolded them further. And the final nail in the coffin was when bamacare was rammed down our throats without us doing anything.At that point in time, they realized that they could do anything they damned well pleased and no one would challenge them.
On November 4, 2008, the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America died of self inflicted wounds. At this point in time it is past a political solution.
The ones they haven't been keeping... because that would be against the law... just like not passing a budget is against the law, and the international gun-trafficking of Fast & Furious fame is against the law.
We all know that our government would never break the law, therefore all the things you hear otherwise must be false.
They will be very sorry if they do that, all of them. That's a statement of fact, not a threat.
FYI, I do not know a single gun owner who would abide by any restrictions. Travis McGee is right, such an act would invalidate our obligations to the feral.gov, and I can see a lot of folks making "machine tools" in their garage or basement...happy switches, supressors, etc. Further, being in Texas I haven't yet met the cop who's suicidally stupid enough to help the ferals out at all. I would hope that the governor and legislature would deputize all citizens and otherwise tell the ferals to fornicate themselves.
Molon Labe, motherphockers!
UN Arms Treaty Would Put UN in U.S. Gun Owners Sights, say Critics. - fixed it.
MOLON LABE; SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!
that needs to be reworded..It will put the UN in the sights of lots of guns....but they are stupid enough to try it...
Yeah, that was some trip! I lost everything including ammo. Gee, I wonder where that all wound up since the river was flowing pretty good that day .... :)
Please remember that it started in earnest with Bush Clinton Bush, Bush I signing the Rio Accord giving the UN permission to eliminate our property rights, and Clinton was the first I heard claiming ‘interdependence’ instead of independence. Bush II echoed ‘interdependence’ with every deed. And now Obama just has to finish what was already started.
If the Republicans bring in Condoleeza Rice as VP then there is no hope the Romney ticket will ever be anything more than a globalist agenda machine. Condi should serve time for her corrupt dealings in the Millennium Challenge Foundation.
The one problem I see, regarding whether or not our Congress would ever vote for such a bill, is that too many foreign countries own our debt. I imagine it would go like the Godfather movies....”one day I will call upon you for a favor...l” and the Chi-Coms will be calling that favor via the U.N.
I know...crazy talk.
Condi gave the commencement speech at Denver University graduation in 1996. It was a loooong speech about the US doing more globally for social justice. She is a major socialist with global agenda ideas. We still have that VHS tape of her speech.
The reason you cite is the exact reason many fear a large national debt held by many. They can use it to squeeze us for cooperation. I would expect it with this treaty.
Agreed. There are theoretical go signals, and I’d bet this would be one of the top 10.
It would be a declaration of war if he tried. Even he is smart enough to know that.
I’d say top 5.
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