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Post by Far Rider on Jun 21, 2006 1:50:58 GMT -8
From Michelle Malkin:
In what can only be a carefully-timed, deliberate insult to the United States and its Constitution, the United Nations is hosting a conference on global gun control aimed directly at our Second Amendment, on dates that include our national holiday, July 4.
The U.N. Conference on Global Gun Control, scheduled June 24- July 7, poses a direct threat to our constitutionally-protected individual right to keep and bear arms, said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). Gottlieb will attend the conference, but he suggests that this may be an opportune time for Congress and the White House to reconsider this nation's level of financial support for an international organization that now wants to write a treaty that specifically attacks a cornerstone of our federal constitution, and the lynchpin to our liberty.
"Had it not been for our tradition of private firearms ownership," Gottlieb stated, "our citizens might still be subjects of the queen. Had it not been for America, all of Europe might be speaking German. Were America not the 'great arsenal of democracy' that President Franklin D. Roosevelt described in 1940, the world would be a far different place, and the sanctimonious bureaucrats at the U.N. might instead be working in labor camps.
"Not once, but twice in the past century, American citizens have risen to the challenge and quite literally saved the world," Gottlieb recalled. "From our heartland have come heroes like Alvin York, Audie Murphy, Joe Foss and others who grew up in a land of freedom and knew what it took to defend that birthright.
"Yet, as we celebrate our 230th anniversary, global anti- gunners, under the guise of reviewing a U.N. program of action on small arms and light weapons, want to create a binding international agreement that could supersede our laws and constitution," Gottlieb said. "We have done much for the U.N. and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself. And now comes an attack on our constitution, on our national holiday.
"America has always answered the call to help our international friends and neighbors," Gottlieb observed, "but when our very way of life is attacked, maybe it is time to find more worthy endeavors for our material and financial support."
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Post by MrDoublel on Jun 21, 2006 2:18:47 GMT -8
This statement says it all:
"We have done much for the U.N. and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself."
Those same despots, dictators and tyrants the who want gun ownership curtailed, after all, how can they hold on to power if the people they oppress have the ability to defend themselves? Just like their failed attempt to get control of the internet, the wish to end the threat of American freedoms to their regimes...
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Post by Far Rider on Jun 21, 2006 5:49:14 GMT -8
The UN is a fucking Joke. Bolton was a good start but it may be too little, too late.
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Post by AmericanEngineer on Jun 21, 2006 14:55:23 GMT -8
Gun owners accuse UN of conspiracy From: Reuters From correspondents in the United Nations June 22, 2006 AMERICANS mistakenly worried the United Nations is plotting to take away their guns on July 4 - US Independence Day - are flooding the world body with angry letters and postcards, the chairman of a UN conference on the illegal small arms trade said today. "I myself have received over 100,000 letters from the US public, criticising me personally, saying, 'You are having this conference on the 4th of July, you are not going to get our guns on that day'," said Prasad Kariyawasam, Sri Lanka's UN ambassador. "That is a total misconception as far as we are concerned," Mr Kariyawasam told reporters ahead of the two-week meeting opening on Tuesday. For one, July 4 is a holiday at UN headquarters and the world body's staff will be watching a fireworks display from the UN lawn rather than attending any meetings, he said. For another, the UN conference will look only at illegal arms and "does not in any way address legal possession," a matter left to national governments to regulate rather than the United Nations, he said. The campaign is largely the work of the US National Rifle Association, whose executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, warns on an NRA website of a July 4 plot "to finalise a UN treaty that would strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection". Advertisement: Mr Kariyawasam said, "The UN conference will not negotiate any treaty to prohibit citizens of any country from possessing firearms or to interfere with the legal trade in small arms and light weapons". Continued: www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19551015-38198,00.html |
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Post by Far Rider on Jun 21, 2006 15:38:08 GMT -8
Gun owners accuse UN of conspiracy From: Reuters From correspondents in the United Nations June 22, 2006 AMERICANS mistakenly worried the United Nations is plotting to take away their guns on July 4 - US Independence Day - are flooding the world body with angry letters and postcards, the chairman of a UN conference on the illegal small arms trade said today. "I myself have received over 100,000 letters from the US public, criticising me personally, saying, 'You are having this conference on the 4th of July, you are not going to get our guns on that day'," said Prasad Kariyawasam, Sri Lanka's UN ambassador. "That is a total misconception as far as we are concerned," Mr Kariyawasam told reporters ahead of the two-week meeting opening on Tuesday. For one, July 4 is a holiday at UN headquarters and the world body's staff will be watching a fireworks display from the UN lawn rather than attending any meetings, he said. For another, the UN conference will look only at illegal arms and "does not in any way address legal possession," a matter left to national governments to regulate rather than the United Nations, he said. The campaign is largely the work of the US National Rifle Association, whose executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, warns on an NRA website of a July 4 plot "to finalise a UN treaty that would strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection". Advertisement: Mr Kariyawasam said, "The UN conference will not negotiate any treaty to prohibit citizens of any country from possessing firearms or to interfere with the legal trade in small arms and light weapons". Continued: www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19551015-38198,00.html Here's the full story from this morning from Cybercast News Service: UN Push for Global Gun Control Viewed as Insult to USA
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 20, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - A push for global gun control gets under way next week in New York City, when the United Nations opens a conference intended to curb the international arms trade.
Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) are pushing for a treaty to "protect civilians from armed violence."
Those three groups -- which have formed a coalition called the Control Arms Campaign -- say their goal is to reduce arms proliferation and misuse -- "and to convince governments to introduce global principles to regulate the transfers of weapons." They are urging the United Nations to impose a "binding arms trade treaty."
According to Amnesty International, nearly 2 billion people live in deep poverty, a problem made worse by the "uncontrolled proliferation of guns and other weapons that also fuels human rights abuses and escalates conflicts." Amnesty International claims that weapons kill more 1,000 men, women, and children every day.
"It doesn't have to be like this," Amnesty International says on its website. The Control Arms Campaign believes a global Arms Trade Treaty is the solution.
But in the United States, defenders of the Second Amendment are insulted by what they see as a carefully timed assault on the U.S. Constitution.
They note that the U.N. Conference on Global Gun Control will run from June 26 - July 7 -- a time span that includes the Fourth of July, Independence Day.
The U.N. conference poses a direct threat to America's constitutionally protected individual right to keep and bear arms, said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).
Gottlieb, who plans to attend the U.N. conference, is urging the U.S. government to reconsider its financial support for the United Nations, given its effort to undermine the Second Amendment.
"Had it not been for our tradition of private firearms ownership, our citizens might still be subjects of the queen," Gottlieb said in a press release.
"Had it not been for America, all of Europe might be speaking German. Were America not the 'great arsenal of democracy' that President Franklin D. Roosevelt described in 1940, the world would be a far different place, and the sanctimonious bureaucrats at the U.N. might instead be working in labor camps."
Gottlieb finds it troubling that as the United States celebrates its 230th birthday, global anti-gunners "want to create a binding international agreement that could supersede our laws and Constitution.
"We have done much for the U.N., and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself. And now comes an attack on our Constitution, on our national holiday.
"America has always answered the call to help our international friends and neighbors," Gottlieb observed, "but when our very way of life is attacked, maybe it is time to find more worthy endeavors for our material and financial support."
At the United Nations' first small arms conference in 2001, the United States rejected the idea of global gun control.
John Bolton - the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations - in 2001 was serving as U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control. He told the U.N. conference in 2001, "The United States believes that the responsible use of firearms is a legitimate aspect of national life."
According to the United Nations, the upcoming small arms conference is intended to assess progress made since 2001 and actions needed to further stem illegal small arms trade. "Crush the illicit trade in small arms," the U.N. website says.
In a "Frequently Asked Questions" section, the U.N. says although the 2001 small arms conference did not define "small arms," the United Nations General Assembly issued a document in 2005 defining "small arms and light weapons" as "any man-portable lethal weapon that expels or launches...a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of an explosive.
Broadly speaking, the website says, "small arms" are weapons designed for individual use. They include revolvers and self-loading pistols, rifles and carbines, sub-machine guns, assault rifles and light machine guns.
"Light weapons," according to the website, include heavy machine guns, hand-held under-barrel and mounted grenade launchers, portable anti-aircraft guns, portable anti-tank guns, recoilless rifles, portable launchers of anti-tank missile and rocket systems, portable launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, and mortars of a caliber of less than 100 millimeters.
www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200606/INT20060620a.htmlThink I trust the UN? Not in this lifetime. |
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Post by AmericanEngineer on Jun 21, 2006 20:59:01 GMT -8
Think I trust the UN? Not in this lifetime. Look at it this way: What is more believable, there is a dark global conspiracy to take your guns away by the UN, or the UN is just holding a conference on Illegal Arms Trafficking (Think about the movie "Lord of War")? I personally think the NRA is being overly paranoid on this one. And if your curious, yes, I am a gun owner. I have several 1911A1s, 9mms, revolvers and rifles such as the Garand and the M1A in my collection. NRA unloads on U.N. Head of panel fighting illegal arms bombarded with form letters "The conference is reviewing progress on implementing a program of action agreed to by all U.N. member states, including the United States, in 2001 that seeks to clamp down on the illegal trade of small arms such as pistols, assault rifles and machine guns. It stems from findings that conflicts worldwide are often made more deadly and intractable by the availability of illicit small arms. Kariyawasam said the conference will focus only on efforts to ban the illegal sale of weapons and would have no impact on private ownership. "Contrary to what people say, especially in this country, this conference and program of action is not aiming to ban individual use of firearms if they are held legally," he said. "The U.N. program of action covers only illegal trade, illegal trafficking and illegal brokering."" www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/21/un.us.small.arms.ap/index.html |
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Post by MrDoublel on Jun 22, 2006 5:23:47 GMT -8
We'll have to see what the outcome of the conference is. They won't be able to pass a binding resolution without US backing so I'm not worried about it...I still don't trust the UN as they are sliding down the path of totalitarianism and corruption.
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