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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An agreement between US government officials and UN officials to subvert the Constitution is a conspiracy, not a treaty.
Sure and Obama can never be re-elected, it can never happen here, yada, yada, yada.
Our Constitution was @ZZ wipe to Earl Warren and it hasnt improved a bit since then, but we were saved by Roberts, riiiiiight.
To amend the Constitution, you need two thirds of both houses of Congress and three quarters of the states. Or a slimy justice or two.
Well they aren't trying to round up the illegals, in fact they can just hire them to gather up the guns, after all they know who you are, and where you live.
In a polite society such as ours, that would be deemed impolite.
They actually WANT to round up the guns?
On further reflection, I’ve decided my first reply to your post was rude and stupid, even if I had been right. I apologize.
See post 24. Read and learn.
Blunt, yes. Rude, eh. Stupid, no.
Apology, accepted.
I know this sounds like herasy to you an other FRs, but I lived it - as have many others.
To see the origin of this we must go back to the early 1970s and President Nixon.
You may or may not know that at that time Nixon was determined to resolve the Aboriginal status of the Alaskan tribes.
This was also at a time when US trade balances were in a high positive period; the major contributors were Timber, Commercial Salmon Fisheries - specifically in the Pacific NorthWest (PNW), and Boeing.
This story is long, twisted, and at times devious, but the result was the same.
Extremely high activism by PNW Treaty Tribes managed to bring a collection of lower court cases to the point of SCOTUS review. The Tribes collectively - using Federal funds and high priced lawyers argued that they were entitled to most of the salmon runs in the PNW.
Later they used the same arguments to gain most of the PNW shellfish industry as well as Whaling rights (each whale taken by the Makah is sold for one million dollars or more to the Japanese.).
I and others were responsible for bringing this issue to the SCOTUS in 1979, wherein SCOTUS upheld Treaty Tribes Rights. Those Rights were deemed to supersede non-Treaty citizens “rights”.
These non-Treaty citizens so-called “rights” were deemed for purposes of law the be “mere privileges, which can be revoked at any given time.” In short, only Treaty Tribes have Rights, and all others have privileges.
Constitutional gurus argued long and hard the pros and cons in various lecture halls, but the decision stood.
Thus was the Commercial Salmon industry destroyed, followed shortly by use of the Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet to destroy the Timber industry.
And so began the War on Natural Resource Harvesters which continues to this day - unnoticed and unreported by all media outlets.
You will be glad to know that any Treaty Tribe can, if it so desires, have a Special Master appointed to oversee whatever it is they want. If you protest, a Federal Marshal will pay you a visit - not pleasant, as I can attest.
If you are so inclined, see here for all the court cases involved - as well as the Treaties the decisions were based on:
Salmon Fishing in the Pacific Northwest (A general overview)
http://thepoliticallyincorrectfish.com/pif2/?page_id=400
and:
Fisheries Case Law Rulings
http://thepoliticallyincorrectfish.com/pif2/?p=553
and specifically:
Washington v. Fishing Vessel Assn., 443 U.S. 658 (1979)
http://thepoliticallyincorrectfish.com/pif2/?p=552
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