The United Nations is putting the finishing touches on an Arms Trade Treaty that transcends borders and may even trample our Constitutional right to bear arms. Every indication is that the president will sign it.
Like the New Start and Law of the Sea treaties before it, as well as the Kyoto Protocol and Agenda 21, the Arms Trade Treaty being finalized at the U.N. this month is one of those feel-good, can’t-we-all-get-along pieces of parchment whose net effect is to accomplish little except to eat away at American sovereignty and freedom.
Just as the world’s worst human rights violators sat on and often chaired the U.N. Human Rights Council, Iran, arms supplier extraordinaire to America’s enemies, was elected on Saturday to a top position on the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty being held in New York. It began July 2 and extends through July 27.
This came right after the same U.N. found Iran guilty of illegally transferring guns and bombs to the murderous Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, currently slaughtering thousands of its own citizens as an impotent U.N. joins the U.S. administration in standing around and watching.
The mindset of the one-worlders preaches that guns cause crime and war and if we only get rid of those otherwise inanimate objects the evil that lurks in the hearts and minds of men will suddenly dissipate. Then we can buy the world a soft drink and sing “Kumbaya.”
We are assured by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who enthusiastically backs the treaty, that it only deals with international trade and trafficking and does not affect our Second Amendment rights. How the treaty would have dealt with Operation Fast and Furious, the administration program that walked guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, she does not say.
We don’t believe such assurances, given by an administration that has shown no respect for the U.S. Constitution and has a robust gun-control agenda of which Fast and Furious may have been a part. Its expansive view of its powers, recently ratified by a bizarre Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare, is supported by judges at all levels increasingly willing to incorporate international precedent and law in their decisions.
BS. If this ever happened Obama would be labeled a trader and drove out of the country.
Treaties must first be approved by the Senate. Of course, the Senate has its share of traders (sic).
Given the current popularity of Wall Street investors, it’s a better insult than calling him “Benedict”.
Fast and Furious – the Obama Administration passing guns over the Mexican border to the Drug Cartels. Let Obama sign it and then put him in jail.
Actually, the Prez signs the treaty and it becomes law, as I understand it, UNLESS the Senate actually votes to disapprove it. ( Ratification? )
If the Senate is deadlocked, and does nothing it remains law and actually eliminates 2nd amendment prohibitions.
( 2nd amendment doesn’t “give” us right to K&B Arms, it prohibits government interference with an acknowledged individual right. )
No. Pls read Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
Just like Gro he wants to radicalize the democratic peoples rights and freedom with overnational established agreements.
Get rid of him before he gets rid of you?
Here’s the relevant UN treaty language (current draft):
A. International, regional and subregional obligations of a State
1. A State Party shall not authorize a transfer of conventional arms from, to or through territories under its jurisdiction if the transfer would violate any measure adopted by the Security Council acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular arms embargoes.
2. A State Party shall not authorize a transfer of conventional arms from, to or through territories under its jurisdiction if the transfer violates any of its other relevant international, regional or subregional obligations or commitments regarding the control and regulation of international transfers of conventional arms.
Source: http://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/ATTPrepCom/Documents/PrepCom4%20Documents/PrepCom%20Report_E_20120307.pdf
Here’s some more:
C. Enforcement
1. Each State Party shall adopt legislation or other appropriate measures, including appropriate law enforcement and judicial mechanisms, to ensure its ability to enforce domestically the obligations of this Treaty and to prohibit the transfer of arms from any location under that State’s jurisdiction and control, unless authorized in accordance with the Treaty.