Posted on 10/10/2004 7:41:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Billionaire John Kerry supporter George Soros is working through the U.N. to negotiate a treaty that will ban private ownership of firearms on a worldwide basis, says National Rifle Association spokesman Wayne LaPierre.
Addressing the annual SAFE: Right to Carry Conference last Sunday on New York, LaPierre warned, "The U.N. is, I believe, the major threat that we're going to be dealing with."
"Under the umbrella of the United Nations, there are now more than 500 of these organizations working day and night trying to ban civilian ownership or firearms," he explained. Under the banner of IANSA - the International Action Network on Small Arms - Soros operative Rebecca Peters is working to capitalize on the success of her gun ban campaign in Australia, where firearms possession is now illegal and crime is going through the roof.
On Tuesday LaPierre is set to debate Peters on InDemand pay-per-view TV, where the two will lock horns over the upcoming UN global gun ban conference in the summer of 2006.
Peters is such an anti-gun zealot that she even argues that police should be disarmed. "When police begin to carry guns, that motivates criminals to carry guns," she complained recently, according to LaPierre.
In America, however, her efforts have been frustrated so far thanks in part to President Bush's UN appointees, like Undersecretary of State John Bolton, former Congressman Bob Barr and former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland Faith Whittlesey.
According to the NRA chief, last year the conservative trio "went to the U.N., looked them right in the eye and said, 'We will not sign off on any international treaties that touch the second amendment in the United States.'"
Rep. Barr, who was also on hand at the SAFE conference, recalled Undersecretary Bolton's address to the UN.
"He gave a very straightforward and very impassioned lesson to those UN bureaucrats who were there. And he basically told them, our second amendment is not for sale to the United Nations.
"They were shocked to hear that," Barr added.
Things will be different if Bush loses in November, warned LaPierre, especially given John Kerry's long record of opposition to second amendment rights.
"Can you imagine if President Kerry appoints the U.S. delegation to that conference - what we're going to end up with?" he said.
I'd like to see George Soros and Kofi Annan personally come to my house in an attempt to take my guns.
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Yeah, right, here we go again. The utopian leftists thinking they are going to create the land of Oz. Well, just for starters, let them begin in Communist China and North Korea, Cuba, Africa and the Middle East. Once they have confiscated all the guns there, then lets take another look at it all.
God, what lunatic idea are these liberal fools going to come up with next???
Banks robbers have been pushing this agenda for years.
Soros's mafia buds will rock in a world of sheep.
It's when they take my molotov cocktail bottles, rags, the gasoline and oil that I will have finally had it. ;)
When the state outlaws guns, we the people will take them from the state
Perhaps they should disarm their bodyguards first to prove good intention??
My 2nd Amendment right is NON-NEGOTIABLE! Especially to socialist surrender monkeys.
Time to throw the UN out if the US and revoke Soros' citizenship. Let France have both
Gee, let's think about this. What part of "When guns are outlawed, only criminals will have guns" do these idiots NOT understand?
(Apologies for insulting the real idiots out there)
I'll be happy to give mine to Soros and Annan if they come for them personally. I'd suggest that they notify their next of kin of their plans first, however
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Any treaty that violates the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, is null and void.
Should the UN, and traitors in our country, enact an edict to ban firearms, Americans will have neither a legal nor a moral obligation to abide by it.
The UN already has a program to disarm the world. It hasn't worked in the past, and it's NOT going to work in the future. We understand what surrendering our guns would mean. If Sorros wants to confiscate guns, let's see him go take them from the terrorists first. Taking their guns will be a walk in the park, compared to how difficult it will be to take ours.
I think this would end U.S.membership in the U.N. The EU in a prelude to a possible U.N. proposal has either already voted or will vote to ban citizen ownership of "large" dogs, those weighing over 30lbs. My brother-in-law`s family live in England, he told he hadn`t heard this, but it wouldn`t surprise him. "Things like that are why G.B. has fought entering into the EU" I own a 1 yr old 90+lb Rottweiler. He could probably defend himself, but, as with the gun issue, try and take him.
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