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
Someone needs to go “Henry Bowman” on this guy.....I would like to see the “Senator treatment” mentioned in the book ;)
No we can't. This leftist administration has redefined what patriotism is.
They now define terrorists as returning veterans and people who protest taxes and killing 8 month old fetus' babies.
No...methinks the boiling point is about to be reached and local patriots (old definition) will have to start reaching for the cartridge box, since Ben Franklin's soap box and ballot box don't seem to be working.
I know we have strong feelings about this, because we know the purpose and results of gun control. But calling for specific violent action against a named, specific senator is crossing a line.
The “Bowman effect” is what happens when an individual person is affected by the actions of a politician or bureaucrat, and, seeing no other way of redress, takes action himself.
That has not happened here. Yet.
Why in heaven or earth would any real American want the US to be in the "global environment" playing by "global rules"? The majority of the world's people live in fear and loathing of their own government, while most Americans believe that we are the only truly free people on earth. Or I should say we believed that until January of this year when a foreign-born closet communist took over our nation and began remaking it into a globalist/socialist nightmare that will soon engulf us and destroy what few liberties we still had after almost a century of assault by collectivist authoritarians.
We have, or had until recent years, by far the best form of government ever devised by man with the help of God. We still appear to have the that form of government, but now, thanks primarily to our globalist leftist government education establishment, the majority of Americans seem to believe it needs to be remade into the image of authoritarian socialist governments like those in Europe and Asia. The vast majority of the global population who the leftist/globalists want us to emulate live under a government in which the individual is a ward of the state who can not enjoy his/her inherent, unalienable rights, but only privileges bestowed by the state. Needless to say possession of firearms is not one of those "privileges", and the unalienable right to keep and bear arms is almost universally denied to the people of those nations that both "O" and his stooge Koh want the US to copy.
Privileges can be revoked at the will of the government or a dictator who granted them, but inherent, God-given rights are not subject to revocation by any human institution or individual. Inherent rights can be suppressed by tyrannical governments but not revoked. And IMHO that is why rebellion against an oppressive government is not the same thing as disobeying unjust laws, something that the bible forbids Christians to do. If Christians are wrong to try to free their nation and people from the clutches of a corrupt, tyrannical government with armed force, God would not have answered the prayers of the Christian men who rebelled against King George's oppressive rule and created the US with God's blessing and divine assistance.
“An armed society is a polite society”.
Robert A. Heinlein
“Screw throwing rocks, where’s the guns!”
Yes, I suppose when we have exhausted (and they have ignored) the law of the land, further action must be taken.
War is hell, but it beats hell on earth for the entire country and the world.
Guns in the hands of law abiding citizens keeps society civil.
Bookmarked that one.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
So hiving around is the only way to go, eh? Very liberal of you -- that why you call yourself LibTeeth? You are a river of chewed-up conservatives to your people? Er, your hive?
Political letters don't have to opus. They can be short and communicative.
This "just shut up and sign my form letter" stuff -- this "go along to get along" stuff -- is exactly what liberalism is all about.
Thanks for the "help". But I don't think so.
You should listen to yourself. You sound like Rahm Emanuel channeling Bella Abzug.
In the land of the disarmed, Chuck Norris is emperor, but the guy with the gun is God.
Bobby Lee from Mad TV, separated at birth?
Many people will start with good intentions, but never get around to a personal effort because the activation energy hump is increased considerably over the forms.
Don't listen to me. Just look at what the Bradybots say:
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