Obama Pushes Anti-gun Treaty

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  • Fordracer2082

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    Jun 10, 2007
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    Glen Burnie
    I don't know about the source but I Girls mother found this
    After a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon last month, Barack Obama announced his support for the “Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms” treaty, also known by its Spanish acronym CIFTA. The gun-control treaty was signed in 1997 by former President Bill Clinton, but was not ratified by the Senate as required by the Constitution.

    Supporters of the Second Amendment have blasted the agreement as a dangerous infringement on the right to keep and bear arms and another attack on U.S. sovereignty. The agreement would create a national database of gun owners in America that could then be accessed by other signatory nations. It would even provide for the extradition of people found to be in violation of the terms.

    “It would clear the way for imposing a national gun registry [and] would overturn the current prohibition on keeping centralized firearms records by the federal government,” explained Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America. “It reflects a deep distrust that the government of the United States has had towards the people.” The National Rifle Association has also issued a statement indicating that it will “vigorously oppose any international effort to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding American gun owners."

    The treaty has already been ratified by 30 countries out of 34 in the Organization for American States (OAS), including the Dominican Republic, which signed on at the end of April. José Miguel Insulza, the secretary-general of the OAS, noted at the signing that the treaty “particularly stresses the needs for arms control; arms confiscation; regulating authorizations and licenses for export, import and transit; and strengthening controls at export points.” He added that “it was with great satisfaction” that he received the news about Obama prioritizing the treaty.

    "As President Calderón and I discussed, I am urging the Senate in the United States to ratify an inter-American treaty known as CIFTA to curb small arms trafficking that is a source of so many of the weapons used in this drug war," President Obama proclaimed in Mexico City last month. He also incorrectly repeated the errant statistic that 90 percent of guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels come from America. (In actuality, according to ATF special agent William Newell, about 17 percent of guns associated with crime in Mexico came from the United States. And this figure has not been broken down to see how many came from civilian gun shops and how many were purchased from the U.S. military by Mexico's government.) "We're going to be very focused on this. It's going to be a top priority." ABC News quoted an administration official who said that Obama "felt that it was important to push now for the ratification of this treaty because the question of illegal small-arms is of great concern to the countries throughout the hemisphere a it affects their safety.”

    Some U.S. senators are already preparing to fight the treaty, including Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming. “The President said it is a very high priority for him to get this treaty that takes away our second amendment rights ratified by the Senate,” Barrasso explained. “It is a very high priority for me to make sure that this treaty never gets ratified by the United States Senate, and we will find the votes to defeat it.” Other senators gearing up to oppose the treaty include John Cornyn of Texas and James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who said they will oppose the effort due to concerns about U.S. sovereignty and the rights of Americans.

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was relatively non-committal, saying; “We must work with Mexico to curtail the violence and drug trafficking on America’s southern border, and must protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights. I look forward to working with the president to ensure we do both in a responsible way.” According to reports, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry supports the treaty. But in order for it to be approved, it must be ratified in the Senate by a two-thirds majority vote.
    I got this from http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/1079
     

    INMY01TA

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 29, 2008
    5,816
    Isn't this part of the reason Obama went to Copenhagen or wherever last December, hoping to do this which turned out to be a disaster for him??
     

    4MDGunRights

    Gun Totin' Member
    Jul 28, 2009
    666
    Morris Co, New Jersistan
    Would it not be unconstitutioal for the President to sign such an agreement? I hope the Supreme Court announces its McDonald decision before Obama attends the conference at the United Nations in New York 14-18 June 2010 to review progress on the UN Program of Action on Small Arms.
     

    WeaponsCollector

    EXTREME GUN OWNER
    Mar 30, 2009
    12,120
    Southern MD
    This might be related....

    "Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality but that it needs to become weaker. States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.”
    - Richard Haass, President of the CFR(Council on Foreign Relations)

    "The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, One World Government."
    - Admiral Chester Ward, former CFR member and Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy

    During the 2008 presidential election, all the major candidates were members of the CFR except Ron Paul.
    Some notable members of the CFR include Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Joe Biden, John McCain, Bill Richardson, Fred Thompson, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Diane Feinstein, Janet Nopolitano, Henry Paulson, Robert Gates, Joe Lieberman, Tim Geithner, David Gergen, Newt Gingrich, Jesse Jackson, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Paula Zahn, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Jim Lehrer, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, George Soros, David Petraeus, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, David Rockefeller, Paul Wolfowitz, and thousands of other rich and powerful people including many more members of congress.

    The CFR seems to have complete control of American foreign policy in both political parties.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBaQikkyLIk
     

    zoostation

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    Moderator
    Jan 28, 2007
    22,857
    Abingdon
    Kind of says something about this administration, as well as the gun control movement in general, when they want to sign on to an arms control treaty endorsed by a bunch of banana republic despots who want to keep their own oppressed populaces unarmed and helpless.

    By the way, we might not have ratified CIFTA, but your tax dollars are most certainly paying for it.

    The United States Government will be making a contribution of $1.295 million through its Merida Initiative in support of the objectives of the OAS fund on small arms and light weapons (AG/RES 4422/05) and help member states reach full compliance with CIFTA. Specifically, the resources will assist the 7 Central American states (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama) in small arms collection, destruction, and related training programs. Programs will consist of legislative assistance, as well as training of national authorities in arms trafficking prevention and elimination. This initiative will begin implementation in mid-2009.

    http://www.oas.org/dsp/documentos/armas_de_fuego/Comite Consultivo/Decima/Informe_eng.doc
     

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