Posted on 04/04/2013 3:37:18 PM PDT by raptor22
Global Gun Control: Despite a prior Senate rebuff, President Obama will likely sign and push a treaty embraced by the world's oppressors and thugs who fear armed citizens.
The treaty's prior rejection by the Senate 53-46 in a nonbinding test vote as part of the budget debate in a body where a two-thirds vote to ratify is required would seem to doom the United Nations pact endorsed by the Obama administration.
However, the president will likely sign it and, as is his custom these days, try to enforce key provisions by stealth, executive order and by "common-sense" regulations and restrictions.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that the White House was pleased with the outcome, but "as is the case with all treaties of this nature, we will follow normal procedures to conduct a thorough review of the treaty text to determine whether to sign the treaty."
It is doubtful the president would not sign a treaty he has pushed for through his past and present secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.
"The U.S. Senate is united in strong opposition to a treaty that puts us on level ground with dictatorships who abuse human rights and arm terrorists, but there is real concern that the administration feels pressured to sign a treaty that violates our constitutional rights," Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, said Tuesday.
Supporters of the pact say it doesn't really threaten our Second Amendment rights, regulates only international arms trade, and won't be ratified anyway.
But there is also real concern that the Obama administration still might use it as a pretext not to sell weapons to allies like Israel and Taiwan, or to restrict the import of firearms and ammunition for individual end users.
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Any U.S. Senators who vote for this should just go ahead and tattoo “TRAITOR” on their foreheads.
Because we’ll see it there anyway.
smells like 1859
If anyone wants to know where the UN lives, it is up on the East Side of Manhattan Island.
If that were true, they wouldn't be bothering with it.
Oenema needs to be impeached.
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Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"
~Patrick Henry
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One day this mother lover will push too far.
That day gets closer all the time.
Where and when will be the Fort Sumter Moment?
An executive order cannot trump a constitutional amendment.
No shock that Obama does what Obama does. What I cannot wrap my head around is the nearly complete lack of blowback by GOP pols at every level.
Leaders should lead. Where are the GOP governors telling the Dems outright their states will not comply? Where are the more local GOP people? They can all damn well get a hold of each other when funding is at issue.
Where is the threatened shutdown of govt?
I guess they really are Democrats themselves.
There seem to be some meeting rooms in need of a cleansing walk through, with a 34 oz. baseball bat.
Don’t be shocked when you really wake up and find nothing left to America.
“An executive order cannot trump a constitutional amendment.”
You wait and see...
Some here may not have read John Ross’ book “Unintended Consequences”. Others may have read it long ago, but may want to refresh their minds about the “gun culture”. Go here: http://www.zjstech.net/~ddixson/Unintended_Consequences.pdf
If it's close enough for the ol' fella to get there, I hope they don't start without me !
I don't wish it to happen....but I think it's going to happen.
We are at war.....
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