Posted on 06/24/2009 7:55:22 PM PDT by neverdem
Vote Coming to Confirm Anti-gun Radical -- "Guns Kill Civil Society," says State Department Nominee
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a Wednesday vote on a State Department nominee who supports gun control on a global scale.
While advocates of the Second Amendment have come to expect that appointees of President Barack Obama would be hostile to the rights of gun owners, the president's nominee for legal advisor to the State Department reaches a whole new level of anti-gun extremism.
Harold Hongju Koh, who served at the State Department under the Clinton administration, is a self-described "trans-nationalist" who believes that our laws -- and our Constitution -- should be brought into conformity with international agreements.
"If you want to be in the global environment, you have to play by the global rules," Koh told a Cleveland audience.
Koh's positions treat our constitutional law as if it were a mere local ordinance on the greater world stage. This is of particular concern to gun owners at a time when the U.S. Congress is under pressure from President Obama to ratify an international gun control treaty with countries in the western hemisphere. That treaty, known by its Spanish acronym CIFTA, would likely serve as a forerunner to a more extensive United Nations initiative, the "Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its Aspects."
The Bush administration, under the leadership of UN Ambassador John Bolton, rejected the small arms treaty. Bolton plainly told the world that the United States will not accept a gun control document that violates our Constitutional right to bear arms. Harold Koh commented that Bolton was being "needlessly provocative."
In a paper entitled "A world drowning in guns," Koh maintains that a civil society cannot exist with broad gun ownership: "Guns kill civil society," he said.
Koh is eager to assume his post at the State Department, having lamented that there is only so much that can be done from the outside to push gun control treaties, and that ultimately we need people like him in positions of power. The chief lawyer for the State Department is just the position someone like him needs to put his agenda into play.
While Koh's nomination has been delayed largely because of Second Amendment concerns, Sen. Reid plans to force a vote this week.
It is imperative that gun owners contact their Senators and insist that they vote AGAINST this anti-gun extremist.
ACTION: Please contact your Senators immediately and urge them to oppose Harold Hongju Koh's nomination to the State Department. You can use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center to send your Senators the pre-written message below.
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator:
The Senate is expected to soon vote on a State Department nominee who supports gun control on a global scale.
Harold Hongju Koh, who served at the State Department under the Clinton administration, is a self-described "trans-nationalist" who believes that our laws -- and our Constitution -- should be brought into conformity with international agreements.
According to Koh, "If you want to be in the global environment, you have to play by the global rules." Well, I don't support global rules that contradict our own Constitution.
Koh supports international gun control treaties such as the United Nations initiative entitles the "Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its Aspects."
When former UN Ambassador John Bolton told the world that the United States will not accept a gun control document that violates our Constitutional right to bear arms, Harold Koh commented that Bolton was being "needlessly provocative."
And in a 2003 Fordham Law Review article entitled "A world drowning in guns," Koh maintains that a civil society cannot exist with broad gun ownership: "Guns kill civil society," he wrote.
I urge you to reject this trans-nationalist, anti-gun extremist who would place foreign laws and international agreements on equal footing (at minimum) with the U.S. Constitution.
Sincerely,
© 2009 by Gun Owners of America
The nutcases just keep coming out of the woodwork, and I wonder why??? (/s)
These fools always forget that CRIMINALS DO NOT OBEY LAWS, only law-abiding citizens do, so that is who they will come after. The framers put the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights for a reason. THIS reason.
Another idiot in America.Who raised these weirdo’s?
I hope enough republican senators with nads step up and block this appontment. This guy is just too far over the edge.
I agree with Koh. There are far too many guns in the world, and we can only wonder how many tens of millions of lives would be saved if governments were forbidden to have them.
“Ultimately, the only sure-fire maintainer of a civil society is the certain knowledge that the person you’re considering f*cking over can kill you.”
Wonder what Iranians would say to that???
“Civil society” means everyone obeys the supreme will of the Democrats. That means everyone needs to be helpless and almost everything needs to be a crime.
bttt
If these people don’t like guns then move to the UK.Don’t push your retarded agendas on a free gun loving society.Americans like guns and get use to it or move.
The framers also had a pretty good idea as to what constitutes American sovereignty. Surrender to a “global” decree and you can basically right off the USA as a nation state. Koh should crawl back to what ever communist dung hole that spawned him. John Bolton was right
Traitor! This is Treasonous.
Harold Hongju Koh is the 15th Dean of Yale Law School and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. On March 23, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Dean Koh to be Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State. His day-to-day duties are currently being assumed by Acting Dean Kate Stith, until a successor is chosen.
A Korean-American native of Boston, he holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and served as a law clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Tell that to the Iranians who are being butchered in the streets by their "benevolent" government.
Second Amendment Forever.
I never has been and never will be about controlling crime. In fact, they need violent criminals to advance their agenda. Because, it’s all about controlling YOU!
guns don’t kill people, drivers who are texting kill people.
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