Posted on 11/20/2012 2:39:29 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Several dozen members of the House have introduced a resolution that calls on President Obama not to sign the United Nations's Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). It also demands that if Obama does sign it, the government should not spend any time or money on implementation until the Senate approves it.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I think the House members are just sending a shot over Barry’s bow. There are not 67 votes in the Senate for this POS. If politicians know how to do one thing it is stick thdeir finger in the wind. There is no desire for gun control in this country. It would kick off CWII.
Good job. I was going to reply and then saw your reply. This deserves its own thread. FReepers need to know and then they need to tell the people.
Well welcome aboard! Philman_36 and I have been trying to get FReepers to understand the threat of treaties for over a decade. I'm getting damned tired of dealing with "it takes 67 Senators" over and over.
Maybe that would be the "line drawn in the sand".
Just who do you think will stop him? I have little reason to trust the Senate and the house has no real say other than budget, and they have shown their true self by letting the administration operate without a budget for four years.
We have no clue where the money is going or how much.
Haven't we had some questionable Amendment ratifications as well?
No one should be shocked by this. It has always been Obama’s plan.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61942.html
Barack Obama’s gun control is ‘under the radar’
For an administration with a secretive itch for gun control, the situation is ideal. They can let the United Nations do the dirty work of drafting onerous new restrictions on civilian firearms, then package them inside a treaty with legitimate measures to control true military armaments.
The U.N. has scheduled the treaty to be finished in July of next year — just in time to go to the Obama White House for ratification.
That’s “under the radar” for you.
But one risk of operating under the radar is that you can’t see the moves of your opponents. This is not the first U.N. gun-control rodeo for my friends at the National Rifle Association. They know treaty ratification requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate. Thirty-four senators would have to vote no to block the treaty.
While the rest of Washington was fixated on the debt ceiling debate, the NRA quietly marshaled opposition to the treaty among pro-gun senators.
Fifty-eight senators have now called out the president on his plan. Led by Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), 45 Republicans and 13 Democrats have written two strong letters —one from members of each party — to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. All the senators have vowed to oppose any treaty that restricts civilian firearm ownership.
What’s ironic is that the United States already has the world’s pre-eminent system for regulation of true military arms sales. If the rest of the world merely adopted the U.S. regulatory regime, there would be no need for an Arms Trade Treaty.
Except from the article.
They (the NRA - CO) know treaty ratification requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate. Thirty-four senators would have to vote no to block the treaty.
I'll bet you a $1000 donation to FReerepublic that this is dead wrong. You have no idea how dangerous promulgating this error really is, at which you went on about it at unreasonable length. Nor did you even read the thread where that fact is explained before offering your inestimable opinion.
Either that or you can go and read what Article II Section 2 Clause 2 of the Constitution actually says. Given the language of that clause, a treaty can be ratified legally by as few as 34 Senators and (given the precedent of what constitutes a filibuster) conceivably as few as TWO (2) . If you want to understand how it got that way read this.
Harry Reid is a master of underhanded procedure. He knows how to get this treaty to the floor without a committee vote. He may know how to get it to a vote without a filibuster. And there you sit, confident in your comfort, because the NRA has your back. Oh, and I'm sure the NRA explained all of that to you, right?
One last thing, despite your blandishments about the United States' wonderful system for tracking military weapons sales, how does that explain Fast & Furious? Iran Contra?? Arms sales to the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria???
This treaty would end the practice of arming oppressed peoples to take down their tyrannical governments. How do you think we armed the resistance to fascism in Europe? How the hell do you think the colonists of this country got their weapons???? Is that what you want?
I guess there will be a lot of sleepless Republican Senators awaiting a quorum call to vote.
Are you listening Jim DeMint?
There is a similar lack of understanding of the Power Congress has to pass laws that the Supreme Court has no authority to review.
Of course we now have no need for Congress at all since legislation is regularly skirted with EOs.
You didn't, and you didn't say anything incorrect. It was a sort of cc to let you know why I get so blasted tired of this stupidity. It was a cry for help to one whom I know is capable of rendering aid. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Of course we now have no need for Congress at all since legislation is regularly skirted with EOs.
Or UN secretariats. Sigh.
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