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Congress giving Obama 'blank check' for gun control (Trans-Pacific Partnership)
WND ^ | May 09, 2015 | Greg Corombos

Posted on 05/09/2015 5:35:14 PM PDT by Perseverando

Larry Pratt: Secret trade deal allows prez to 'stick it to 2nd Amendment'

Congress is being urged to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade plan even though most have not read it, and a leading gun-rights activist says the plan could give President Obama the power to limit the importation of ammunition and implement his political agenda in many different ways.

“Fast track authority in the context of this treaty means a blank check,” said Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt.

“By a majority vote, the Congress is preparing to give the president authorization to negotiate a treaty. When he brings it back, it would take two thirds of the Senate to vote it down because of the way they set up the parliamentary system,” Pratt told WND.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, debate is made even more bizarre by the intense secrecy surrounding the proposed treaty. A Politico article described the hoops lawmakers must jump through just to see the bill.

“If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door,” stated the article by Edward-Isaac Dovere.

“If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving,” Dovere continued. “And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2ndamendment; banglist; election2016; fasttrack; guncontrol; secondamendment; tpp
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Obama can only be trusted to do several things: betray the Constitution, the American people and anyone else who believes in God, freedom and family regardless of their race or nationality.

May God have mercy on America and may He give us to courage to stand firm and do that which is honorable and true.

1 posted on 05/09/2015 5:35:14 PM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

"Screw your stupid Constitution.
We, your Lords, support King Obama, who made us EXEMPT.
Any American who dares get in our way
will be attacked by the the IRS, as we did before".


2 posted on 05/09/2015 5:37:43 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Perseverando

honorable and true doesn’t mean much to way too many Americans these days


3 posted on 05/09/2015 5:37:49 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: Perseverando

And when people start realizing that he is not doing it alone then, you will see that their is no 2 party system. Your enemies are the 2 that allow these kinds of laws and back door deals to happen. The R’s are making easy to go the back door. They both want us disarmed and if this was 200 years ago, they all would be swinging.


4 posted on 05/09/2015 5:41:52 PM PDT by luv2ndamend (Same party, different letter)
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To: Perseverando

Obama is trying to get everything done on his list to end America before his term ends. Fast-track destruction.

And all of us sit and watch it happen. Phone-calls, e-mails to our Reps and Senators get answered with a middle finger.


5 posted on 05/09/2015 5:41:55 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: Perseverando

The more I read about this trade pact, the less I like it.
There’s potential for more mass immigration than we have now in addition to the potential damage to the 2nd Amendment.

It’s more Fundamental Transformation.

And the
Give
Obama
Power
party is helping.


6 posted on 05/09/2015 5:43:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Perseverando

This TPP thing, and the ‘Fast Track Authority’ that Barry wants for it so bad, is a horror show for America, almost as bad as The Patriot Act and the NDAA. No way any Conservative should support this nightmare.....but some are.


7 posted on 05/09/2015 5:46:20 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Perseverando
OK


8 posted on 05/09/2015 5:47:51 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Perseverando

“If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door,” stated the article by Edward-Isaac Dovere.

“If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving,” Dovere continued. “And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.”

UNBELIEVABLE

Smells to high heaven!


9 posted on 05/09/2015 5:56:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Perseverando

Kinda like Obamacare. We will have to pass it to find out what is in it. Makes sense. We are living the animal farm fantasy world.


10 posted on 05/09/2015 5:57:58 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: Perseverando

Don’t forget the relationship that, as within the EU, people from the various signatories can go to any other country and work. China is not yet thinking it will sign on to the TPP. Yet.

Then there are the provisions that eradicate US law where contractual and other business law applies to companies’ dealings.

American employment, business, and work-gone like cocaine powder in a windstorm.


11 posted on 05/09/2015 6:01:30 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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...”the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...”


12 posted on 05/09/2015 6:01:48 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“When the righteous are in authority, people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, people groan)
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To: Perseverando

Well, not to put it indelicately, but the guns I have will never be surrendered no matter what law they pass, or what treaty they sign with some Chinaman.

I suspect a lot of people feel the same.


13 posted on 05/09/2015 6:01:49 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: Perseverando

https://ustr.gov/tpp/outlines-of-TPP

Here is the outline of the agreement.....

Though I don’t trust the executive branch at all.....

I don’t see how the TPP will do what the article states...


14 posted on 05/09/2015 6:04:11 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: BenLurkin

“And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.”

What are they gonna do? Take away your decoder ring? Say something scornful? If the true details are incendiary enough, then the person revealing them will be protected.


15 posted on 05/09/2015 6:06:30 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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“And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.”

What are they gonna do? Take away your decoder ring? Say something scornful? If the true details are incendiary enough, then the person revealing them will be protected.

***************
Edward Snowden might disagree with that sentiment.
16 posted on 05/09/2015 6:29:56 PM PDT by Sylvester McMonkey McBean
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To: Perseverando; All
Only Two Republicans Admit They Actually Read Secret Obama Trade Deal—Both Unsupportive
17 posted on 05/09/2015 7:05:11 PM PDT by QT3.14 ("What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision" - Zero, 2007 campaign)
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To: Perseverando

It is even worse than I thought.


18 posted on 05/09/2015 7:51:09 PM PDT by jch10 (Obama, the first Muslim in Chief.)
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To: Perseverando
CHOKE 2
19 posted on 05/09/2015 8:53:07 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: faithhopecharity

Get your SKS’s while you can, and maybe a few Arisakas too! ;)


20 posted on 05/10/2015 12:01:00 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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