Knimrod
06-08-2006, 01:34 AM
Thoughts on the gun-ban treaty
June 7, 2006
Curtis Lewis
The Dickson Herald
To the Editor:
Our Second Amendment grants us the right to keep and bear arms. But two centuries after it was put into our Bill of Rights, the United Nations declares that this civil liberty is a cause of the world’s violence.
It claims jurisdiction over sovereign American citizens by crafting a global treaty that calls us to surrender our firearms freedom and accept whatever lesser standard of freedom, if any, the U.N. deems appropriate.
So insistent and insulting is the U.N. mandate that it chose to conduct its largest ever-global, gun-ban conference on U.S. soil on the fourth of July 2006.
The global gun-ban treaty is a ticking time bomb just a pen stroke away from U.N. gun laws being enforced in the United States. Any anti-gun president could call the U.N. document an “agreement” instead of a “treaty” and bypass needing two-thirds of the U.S. Senate for ratification. This is what was done to get the North American Free Trade Agreement passed in Congress with simple majorities.
The proclaimed mission of the U.N. is to endow themselves with global control of all firearms; long guns or handguns, military or civilian, illegally trafficked or lawfully possessed — for everyone.
If you study their words, you will find sweeping police powers offensive to the entire Bill of Rights. You will find that you are subject to record-keeping oversight, inspections, supervisions, tracking and tracing. You will read about surveillance, documentation, verification, paper trails and massive data banks.
But what you will not find are any provisions by which oppressed people may be liberated from tyrants and dictators. You will not find the barest mention of anyone’s rights to self-defense, privacy, property, due process of protection of personal freedoms of any kind.
Such gaping omissions expose the U.N. mission for what it is: a gang of governments led by unelected elitists who believe they should dictate how we live our lives. Yet none of the 100 countries backing the U.N. gun ban allows its citizens individual freedoms.
Instead, most of those countries openly flaunt the institutionalized anti-American sentiment so pervasive at the U.N.
Curtis Lewis
Dickson
Link to letter (http://www.dicksonherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060607/MTCN0205/306070056/1302/MTCN02)
June 7, 2006
Curtis Lewis
The Dickson Herald
To the Editor:
Our Second Amendment grants us the right to keep and bear arms. But two centuries after it was put into our Bill of Rights, the United Nations declares that this civil liberty is a cause of the world’s violence.
It claims jurisdiction over sovereign American citizens by crafting a global treaty that calls us to surrender our firearms freedom and accept whatever lesser standard of freedom, if any, the U.N. deems appropriate.
So insistent and insulting is the U.N. mandate that it chose to conduct its largest ever-global, gun-ban conference on U.S. soil on the fourth of July 2006.
The global gun-ban treaty is a ticking time bomb just a pen stroke away from U.N. gun laws being enforced in the United States. Any anti-gun president could call the U.N. document an “agreement” instead of a “treaty” and bypass needing two-thirds of the U.S. Senate for ratification. This is what was done to get the North American Free Trade Agreement passed in Congress with simple majorities.
The proclaimed mission of the U.N. is to endow themselves with global control of all firearms; long guns or handguns, military or civilian, illegally trafficked or lawfully possessed — for everyone.
If you study their words, you will find sweeping police powers offensive to the entire Bill of Rights. You will find that you are subject to record-keeping oversight, inspections, supervisions, tracking and tracing. You will read about surveillance, documentation, verification, paper trails and massive data banks.
But what you will not find are any provisions by which oppressed people may be liberated from tyrants and dictators. You will not find the barest mention of anyone’s rights to self-defense, privacy, property, due process of protection of personal freedoms of any kind.
Such gaping omissions expose the U.N. mission for what it is: a gang of governments led by unelected elitists who believe they should dictate how we live our lives. Yet none of the 100 countries backing the U.N. gun ban allows its citizens individual freedoms.
Instead, most of those countries openly flaunt the institutionalized anti-American sentiment so pervasive at the U.N.
Curtis Lewis
Dickson
Link to letter (http://www.dicksonherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060607/MTCN0205/306070056/1302/MTCN02)