Posted on 06/01/2013 5:13:08 PM PDT by EXCH54FE
The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is scheduled to be signed by Barack Obama on June 4, this Monday. He has already said he will sign it. However, the United States Senate passed a resolution that they will not ratify the document. Now a letter has been sent to Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry by 130 members of the House of Representatives opposing the ATT.
On May 30 the 130 congressmen wrote to remind both Obama and Kerry that they are supposed to be “defenders of the sovereignty of the United States and as such the representatives wrote to “express…grave concern about the dangers posed by the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty.”
According to the letter, “Our country’s sovereignty, and the protections it affords our individual freedoms, including those recognized by the Second Amendment, must not be infringed.”
The letter then went on to cite three reasons not to sign the treaty:
The treaty as adopted by the General Assembly is deeply flawed. The treaty suffers from vagueness. The procedure by which the treaty was adopted violates a red line set out by Obama’s own administration.
The congressmen expounded on the flaws of the treaty. They wrote, “It includes only a weak preambular reference to the lawful ownership and use of, and trade in, firearms, and recognizes none of these activities, or personal self-defense, as inherent rights. It frequently employs the term “end users,” which can refer to individual firearms owners, and, in its sixth Principle, it creates a national “responsibility” to “prevent … diversion” of firearms, a requirement that could be used to justify the imposition of further controls within the United States.”
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the other 305 can KMA
'...The age of nations must end....The governments of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignities into one government to which they surrender their arms."
Interesting that the press has dropped the word “Small” from these reports and added a new acronym (ATT) to try to hide that change.
Propaganda pure and simple. Goebels wouldn’t be proud. He’d be envious.
Captain Johnny Parker said it best on Concord Green oh so many years ago, “If it’s war they want, let it begin here, let it begin now.”
Or rather the UN has made that change?
He is going to have the U.N. do it for him.
It's kind of like what the making of is , is
Both 0scumbag & Lurch should be charged, tried, convicted and stood against a stone wall, for treason, and ...
They can try.
Obama can try.
Reminding Obama of the Constitution and our Sovereignty is a waste of time.
He already knows, but he WILL sign the treaty, That’s the kind of CS he is.
Remember the names of all Senators who vote to ratify the treaty. They are Traitors, and will be guilty of Treason, and will need to be removed when the SHTF.
yes u have right answear
and toss the U.N. out of the U.S.!!!
You can thank the Rockefeller family for the fact the UN lives here.
The Supreme Court has already clarified the limits of the federal government's constitutonal authority to negotiate treaties in the favor of patriots.
More specifically, first note that the writings of Thomas Jefferson indicate that concern that the federal government might use its power to negotiate treaties to rob our constitutional protections is nothing new. In fact, based on his experience as vice president and therefore president of the Senate, Jefferson had officially clarified the limits of federal government power to negotiate treaties.
"In giving to the President and Senate a power to make treaties, the Constitution meant only to authorize them to carry into effect, by way of treaty, any powers they might constitutionally exercise." --Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793."Surely the President and Senate cannot do by treaty what the whole government is interdicted from doing in any way." --Thomas Jefferson: Parliamentary Manual, 1812.
Next, reflecting on Jefferson's expert understanding of federal power to negotiate treaties, the Supreme Court has already officially clarified the following. Essentially the feds cannot use treaties as a back door to force US citizens to comply with foreign laws based on powers which the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution.
"2. Insofar as Art. 2(11) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice provides for the military trial of civilian dependents accompanying the armed forces in foreign countries, it cannot be sustained as legislation which is "necessary and proper" to carry out obligations of the United States under international agreements made with those countries, since no agreement with a foreign nation can confer on Congress or any other branch of the Government power which is free from the restraints of the Constitution (emphasis added)." --Reid v. Covert, 1956.
Only 130 are on record for being in opposition to this foul treaty. Sad. I hoped that at least half of our Congresscritters would be opposed to this dung pile.
“The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is scheduled to be signed by Barack Obama on June 4..”
That’s fine. Let the racist MF sign it until his Nazi fingers fall off.
I’m especially looking forward to the traitorous secret service goons trying to implement the UN treaty.
Barry doesn’t care what the Senate and Congress think. He’s gunning for UN Gen Sec after he gets finished destroying Amerika.
“He’s gunning for UN Gen Sec after he gets finished destroying Amerika.’
The Nazi, racist goon obuma is not even close to destroying America.
He has a thousand daggers aimed at him and half have penetrated his black heart.
He’s going down hard and he’s going down fast.
Article of Impeachment #1: President Obama failed to uphold his sworn oath to defend the constitution in that he furthered an intention to impose unlawful restraints to the RKBA guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
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