Posted on 11/09/2012 12:21:58 PM PST by morethanright
By Mr. Curmudgeon:
Flush with a new sense of purpose after his re-election victory, President Obama signaled his administration's support for the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. What follows are two of the treaty's provisions:
That means every firearm, its various parts and ammunition will be regulated. And you, the "end-user," will earn the privilege of having your name recorded in an international registry.
"That can't happen here," you say, "The Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in District of Columbia vs. Heller denies the feds, the states and local authorities the power to restrict my 'right to bear arms.'"
If you believe so, you are dead wrong.
Most Americans believe the only way the United States Constitution can be revised is when Congress passes an amendment for the states to ratify. However, the president and Senate can do just that by signing and ratifying an international treaty. And just in case you have forgotten, Fast and Furious Democrats control the White House and Senate.
In 1920, the Supreme Court's ruling in Missouri vs. Holland said the Constitution's treaty-making provision (the Supremacy Clause) means that international agreements entered into by the United States are the "supreme law of the land." The issue in the case concerned the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. The U.S.-British agreement limited the hunting of certain endangered birds. The State of Missouri contested the treaty for violating their 10th Amendment state's rights.
Progressive Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for the high court's majority, established a line of legal reasoning that persists to this day: That changing times requires rethinking the interpretation of our dusty and antiquated Constitution.
"... We must realize that they [the Founders] have called into life a being the development of which could not have been foreseen completely by the most gifted of its begetters," wrote Holmes, "... We must consider what this country has become in deciding what that [10th] amendment has reserved."
In other words, the "Truths" the Founders declared to be "Self-Evident" are malleable clay. The Constitution is not a parchment containing the steadfast certitude of law but a living and evolving "being." More importantly, there is no need to exercise the constitutionally sanctioned remedies to amend the document when we have nine erudite high priests who are better suited to the task.
When President Obama signs the U.N. Small Arms Treaty, and if the Democratic Senate ratifies it, the Constitution's Supremacy Clause - as interpreted by Holmes - effectively removes our Second Amendment protection from the founding document.
It's more than a little ironic that an early 20th century treaty, designed to save birds, effectively renders us a nation of sitting ducks.
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Treaties are made to be broken, just ask any Indian. Still, we should get out of the UN and kick them out.
There still is not 67 votes in the senate for it. Obama can sign it a hundred times but it is not going to be ratified.
EXACTLY! Just like when Scott Brown was elected, there was no way they were going to be able to pass Obamacare.
Oh, wait......
I may die, but I'm taking one bastard with me.
You and me both .. proudly channeling Patrick Henry
“The Constitution supercedes treaties, not the other way around.”
WRONG! All native American treaties supercede it. Upheld three times by SCOTUS.
They're know that we would start shooting at them if they passed something like this so, it's a no-go.
US out of the UN, UN off US soil!
There are 20 dem senators who are up for re-election in 2014.
One would think that those not in heavily dem states would think twice before ratifying this so-called treaty.
> die on your feet in the face of whatever tyrant is beating on your door,
At your door is far too late; the secret of guerrilla-warfare, and indeed all warfare, is to make the enemy fight on your terms.
Remember that when you climb into your comfy familiar bed tonight.
>Remember that when you climb into your comfy familiar bed tonight.
Who said I would forget?
I’ve been accused of paranoia before.
Family all tucked away invulnerable somewhere ?
Resistance cells alerted to radio at first sign of enemy movement ?
Point is, we're all vulnerable somewhere/sometime, and that applies equally to the enemy.
But you already knew that's what I meant.
Correct. Because it takes 67% of the Senate to ratify a treaty.
So long as at least 34 (of 45) Republicans in the Senate stand their ground, all these UN-sponsored Treaties are dead in the water.
As previously noted, agree with you on the Senate.
However, the House has no voice in treaty ratification.
Ping for later
The Senate will never ratify that abortion.
>> I may die, but I’m taking one bastard with me.
You got a really bad attitude, pal. You should be thinking no less than two.
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