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John Kerry Praises New UN Gun Treaty – Could Lead to National Registry
Gateway Pundit ^ | June 3, 2013 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 06/03/2013 12:40:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Secretary of State John Kerry welcomed the opening of Arms Trade Treaty for signature today.

The Obama administration plans on signing the treaty “as soon as the process of conforming the official translations is completed satisfactorily.”

The United Nations passed sweeping legislation in April that will regulate the international arms trade and could lead to a national gun registry in the United States.

No wonder Democrats love it!

There’s more… In March the pro-Second Amendment Senate Bill 139 passed 53-46. 46 Democratic Senators voted against the bill which would: “Uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.”

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To: LibLieSlayer
It has no force of law without the Senate ratifying it and no matter what anyone says... that is the truth. I do not think that they have nearly enough votes to pass it in the Senate.

Sorry to disagree with you, but in case you haven't noticed we are no longer a nation of laws - unless the law or the Constitution works for the left - e.g. Lois Lerner still believes in the 5th Amendment.

Baraq Husssen Soetoro will enforce this UN law and challenge anyone to stop him. Don't believe me?

Obama and Holder: “Stop us if you can!”
101 posted on 06/03/2013 10:52:51 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Carry_Okie

The Vienna Treaty did not supercede the ratification requirements of the Constitution, period. Most other nations join a treaty when their chief executive signs it. But we do not, and the Vienna treaty did not change the very structure of the constitution.

Our Republican structure requiring Senatorial assent to the Presidents signature is still firmly in place. The rest of the world, and despotic Presidents, love to imagine that a Presidential signature binds us as it does most nations, but it certainly doesn’t.


102 posted on 06/03/2013 10:54:46 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino
The Vienna Treaty did not supercede the ratification requirements of the Constitution, period.

Such authority! Uh, that would be "supersede."

In law, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties has no authority because it was never ratified. In effect, it definitely has authority, else the Senate would not have held a "sense of the Senate" vote on Kyoto in order to give cover to those who could not be seen to support it without officially rejecting it. Nor would Bush II have "unsigned" the ICC Treaty, as Clinton's signature would otherwise have no effect. The government has been dancing around it for decades. It's a fact.

The signature means something until a conservative President can get hold of the Department of State and stage a nice layoff. BTW, no less an authority than Henry Lamb (may he rest in peace) did not know that the Vienna Convention had not been ratified because of the degree to which its terms have been integrated into the fabric of international law.

The rest of the world, and despotic Presidents, love to imagine that a Presidential signature binds us as it does most nations, but it certainly doesn’t.

Hand-wave noted on the strength of said august authority. It's been respected for forty years as "customary international law." Given that, until conservatives have a solid hand on both the Senate and the SCOTUS, I don't foresee any substantive change in the government's propensity toward treasonous usurpations of power.

103 posted on 06/03/2013 11:17:37 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: Born to Conserve

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


104 posted on 06/04/2013 1:10:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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To: Forty-Niner

Quite true. However, you may note that 2A has gone forwards, not backwards, in the last 20 years.

There are probably fewer restrictions now on gun rights than at any time in the last 50 years, maybe longer. And there is most certainly less public support for “gun control” than in a very long time, regardless of what the libs say.

That’s why they’re reduced to emotional arguments after each atrocity. Without them, they have no argument at all.


105 posted on 06/04/2013 2:12:58 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Once a traitor always a traitor.


106 posted on 06/04/2013 3:15:29 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Cheerio
While I can't argue with you on how obama gets away with murder and mayhem I will say this... there are powers larger than obama and his dark lord and that power is always on the side of those that believe and love HIM. obama will not win... I read the book and know how this all ends. Have no fear... stand ready to fight but pray for peace.

LLS

107 posted on 06/04/2013 4:18:36 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: apillar
So Obama couldn't, say, direct an agency to create a national registry and then use this unratified treaty as a defense in court.

As we have seen in the past, activist courts (9th Circuit) and judges don't confine themselves to the constitution or written law when presiding over cases.

108 posted on 06/04/2013 4:50:51 AM PDT by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So much for the regime’s Lie that they aren’t out to push Universal Registration.


109 posted on 06/04/2013 5:40:40 AM PDT by Voice of Reason88 ( Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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To: Bibman
Bibman @54: "When I look in the dictionary under traitor, I see his ugly mug!"

The unabridged dictionary has a separate volume on the definition of "traitor," which includes pictures of Monica's ex-boyfriend and Satan's daughter, Traitorobama, including Kerry and other members of these regimes, along with Demonrat members of Congress, many SCOTUS members, abortion leaders, and the fifth-column media.

Volume II on the definition is also available covering earlier Demonrat administrations, union leaders, NEA officials, and BSA Council members.

110 posted on 06/04/2013 6:01:45 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: LibLieSlayer

You of course are correct.


111 posted on 06/04/2013 6:26:41 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: SatinDoll
It takes courage to follow your beliefs and uphold your God-given rights.
Some people just don’t have that courage.

Many people have been beaten-down and know that the beatdown would only be worse if they pushed it. I myself have had experience with trying to figure out how to challenge a plainly contraconstitutional "law" without acquiescing to that "law" -- it cannot be done: the system is [re]designed to disallow you from arguing the case w/o being in the position of 'defendant' after breaking the 'law' -- this means that you implicitly acknowledge the "law" as authoritative (and therefore valid) should you intentionally violate it.

112 posted on 06/04/2013 6:36:08 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Sherman Logan
The Constitution says that the Constitution and treaties are the supreme law. Which by logic says that the Constitution outranks a treaty. Otherwise the President and 2/3 of the Senate could amend the Constitution without involving the House or States.

The wording there makes it rather obvious that the Constitution outrankes the treaty -- but even a moment's thought on the nature of authority would reveal that it cannot be otherwise: the one who sends/authorizes/commissions is of a greater authority than the one sent/authorized/commissioned (SAC). If the SAC acts outside the constraints that they were bound by, then they are not acting legitimately, likewise the authorizer cannot grant unto the SAC greater authority/power than the authorizer has. Therefore, because the Constitution places limits on the government, the government cannot validly bind the people to a treaty that is contrary to the Constitution.

113 posted on 06/04/2013 6:40:48 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: upchuck
Right. But IIRC, it takes 2/3 of the members present.
I can see Dingy Harry pulling some shenanigan at 3am where there are just enough for a quorm, mostly Dems, of course, and then calling for the vote.
That would be no more of a dirty trick than the way he got nobamacare passed.

It says "members present", nothing about a quorum -- strictly speaking zero senators would fit the bill, or if you were to argue that at least some senators must be present then one of one is 100%.

114 posted on 06/04/2013 6:42:48 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sadly millions of uninformed Americans could not even explain this cartoon or certainly not write a coherent paragraph about it.


115 posted on 06/04/2013 6:43:04 AM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: laplata; LibLieSlayer
“To be a dim is to stand against GOD himself”.

Unfortunately, the Republican-party is bound and determined to be the same just look at how they stand by and do nothing on things like Fast & Furious, Benghazi, and soon to be The IRS Scandal — they are not incompetent, because incompetent would put up a better fight, they must therefore be complicit.

116 posted on 06/04/2013 6:47:25 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

I’ve talked about this on other threads, but there is no one who is going to save us from tyranny. We have got to do it ourselves.

We don’t have to be violent about it. Look at what happened yesterday in North Carolina. About 150 people were arrested protesting the Republican state government. Now, I don’t agree with why they’re protesting, but it is effective in attracting attention.

Will they succeed in returning NC’s government back to progressive nonsense? I don’t know, I sure hope not. But we’re certainly not going to change what is happening on the Federal level if we just post complaints on Free Republic.

150 People Arrested In NAACP Protest Against NC Republicans
http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2013/06/03/140-people-arrested-in-naacp-protest-against-nc-republicans/


117 posted on 06/04/2013 6:56:24 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: SatinDoll
I’ve talked about this on other threads, but there is no one who is going to save us from tyranny. We have got to do it ourselves.

You weren't listening -- I was talking about doing it ourselves. The authorities have made it virtually impossible to challenge their "law"/rules/regulations without being in violation thereof (i.e. the accused) and this means you have to argue from a position of weakness.

Given that you now cannot reasonably appeal to the higher-law to defeat the lower "law" what else is there? Violence.
This is why society has been brainwashed [via schools] that "violence is never the answer" and that anyone who resorts to violence is in the wrong. (Thus they invalidate any resistance to their unlawful powers in the minds of many.)

Is it possible to regain liberty w/o bloodshed? Perhaps, but I wouldn't bet on it because those in power are disinclined to give up that power.

118 posted on 06/04/2013 7:05:56 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Of course that's what Kerry would do.
119 posted on 06/04/2013 7:16:46 AM PDT by Drawn7979
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To: OneWingedShark

I agree.


120 posted on 06/04/2013 7:39:55 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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