Posted on 09/25/2013 4:18:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to sign the UN Arms Trade Treaty sometime Wednesday after opposition from Americans and the National Rifle Association. More from Reuters:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in a move that puts the Obama administration at odds with the powerful American gun lobby, will sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty regulating the $70 billion international conventional arms business, diplomats said on Tuesday.
A senior State Department official said President Barack Obama's administration would notify the U.S. Senate on Tuesday and Kerry would sign the treaty on Wednesday on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York.
In order to be put into full effect, the treaty must be ratified by the U.S. Senate, which won't happen, but that doesn't mean Second Amendment supporters don't have anything to worry about.
On June 29, 130 Republican House members sent a letter to President Obama and Secretary Clinton arguing that the proposed treaty infringes on the “fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms”. The letter charges that “…the U.N.’s actions to date indicate that the ATT is likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy, and economic interests as well as our constitutional rights.” The lawmakers adamantly insist that the U.S. Government has no right to support a treaty that violates the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Democrats have accused Republicans of making this a political issue, maintaining that the treaty poses no Second Amendment threat. Others, such as former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, caution gun owners to take this initiative seriously. He believes that the U.N. “is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control.”
The lawmakers adamantly insist that the U.S. Government has no right to support a treaty that violates the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Thanks - John Kerry - betraying the US since April 23, 1971!
I recommend that anyone from the UN who is planning on trespassing on my property to enforce this bogus “treaty” make peace with whatever god(s)/deity(ies) he/she worships/holds sacred, BEFRE they cross a property line.
A minor point, maybe, but an important one. The U.S. governments does not have rights, it has powers. People have rights.
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Let Freedom Ring,
Once a traitor, always a traitor. He has a history of selling us down the river. And I don’t mean the one he was on when he served in VN.
In the fwiw department, blue helmets are nothing more than targets, as far as I'm concerned.
5.56mm
“blue helmets are nothing more than targets”
In the 2.0 version of gun treaty enforcement, blue helmets are moving targets.
It's like these smug, elitist cretins want the world to rock with war. And if the U.S. succumbs to this naked power grab, it will. And it will deserve to burn right along with us.
Many people persist in thinking that it will be UN troops who enforce tyranny on us. This is not true. It won't be some UN types from some other country who come for your firearms. It will be your local police (those heroes who are ever at the forefront of protecting our constitutional rights) who will be kicking in your doors with their SWAT team,s killing your dogs and children and dragging you off (if they don't kill you for "resisting arrest." Why do you think police departments have been given all that federal money and all of those military weapons (denied to us serfs) if not in anticipation of the coming final solution to the gun owner problem? What better way to get rid of the bitter clingers than to suddenly enact a retroactive law making us all instant felons overnight and then sending out the boys in blue to kill us? I for one don't intend to go meekly.
Proving once again that this country is no longer a country Of the People By the People , and For the People.
We are now a country run by people who are selling us out piece by piece.
Traitors. Treason.
John Kerry-—Barrack Obama-—I call them guilty of TREASON.
Finally!
A law to bring manufacturing BACK to AMERICA!!
Absolutely Correct....it will be your local law enforcement that does the dirty deed....
We are rapidly approaching what some call the great tribulation.
Once it starts I suspect that there will be some of us who will take proactive measures.
Lexington & Concord II
al gore signed kyoto... meant jack and ****! Without the Senate it is meaningless.
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