You need to research more thoroughly. I say we boot the UN out. Let them move their headquarters to one of these other countries and see how nice their coalition works out.
An Open Letter to U.N. Undersecretary-General for Disarmament, Jayantha Dhanapala
By Henrietta Bowman 07.11.01
Poor UN--it is catching flak from all sides! While claiming this conference is not legally binding, the UN actually thinks American gun owners will swallow their propaganda--hook, line and sinker! I quote from the UN website: "Delegations in Vienna agreed on 2 March 2001 on a legally binding Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition… the Protocol will provide an international law enforcement mechanism… it includes articles establishing internationally recognized standards and provisions regarding marking, record-keeping and import/export control of firearms."
At the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in Cairo in May 1995, it was proposed:
** "[A] strategy in favor of the general reduction in the number of firearms;"
** A ban on the possession of handguns by anyone except police and target shooters. Target shooters would be forced to store their guns at shooting ranges. In terms of self-defense, the Japanese representative in Cairo said that "In democratic countries people's lives and safety should be assured by the government . . .[so that] citizens should not need to possess handguns for self-protection." (emphasis added)
** Universal firearms licensing and the centralized computer registration of all firearms.
** Government control and mandatory registration of shooting associations.
The UN was created by socialists, communists and communist sympathizers, is composed in the majority of socialist nations. Its sole purpose of creation was an eventual socialistic one-world government.
In order to achieve this, the UN knows it must first gut our Second Amendment and disarm American citizens by means of registration, followed by confiscation. Mr. U.N. Undersecretary-General for Disarmament Jayantha Dhanapala, I am here to tell you, it just is not going to happen!
Just a few days ago, America celebrated her 225th anniversary of independence. Great Britain started the revolution when Governor General Gage decided he would confiscate our arms. Bad idea! The British got their tails whipped. Mr. Under-Secretary, we did not win the war by consensus--something the UN is so fond of. We won it by force of arms. Americans will never consent to registration, nor will we surrender our weapons--no matter what the UN or even our own government says.
It would be my fondest wish to be in New York at this time to join in the "special reception" the NRA, Tyranny Response Team, the Libertarians and the Constitution Party have planned for the UN. Instead, I will have to satisfy myself with sending you these snippets of articles--my comments will be in parentheses.
--Henrietta Bowman
Conventional Arms Branch, Department for Disarmament Affairs
un.org
Attention: U.N. Undersecretary-General for Disarmament Jayantha Dhanapala
Email: ddaweb@un.org
ap.tbo.com
U.N. Investigating Whether E-Mails From U.S. Gun Enthusiasts a Security Threat
By Edith M. Lederer Associated Press Writer
Published: Jul 5, 2001
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations is investigating whether irate letters and e-mails it has received from American gun enthusiasts protesting an upcoming conference on the illicit trade in small arms constitutes a security threat.
The world body has received about 100 complaints from Americans who erroneously believe the conference seeks to infringe on their right to bear arms, U.N. Undersecretary-General for Disarmament Jayantha Dhanapala said Thursday.
The gun-rights enthusiasts did not threaten physical harm to any U.N. official but their protests were strongly worded and were turned over to U.N. security experts, Dhanapala said.
"What concerned me was that there was a widespread campaign," he said. "It's essentially a U.S.-based phenomenon."
The letters and e-mails started arriving in recent weeks, some signed and some anonymous, alleging that the U.N. is attempting to take away guns from people, in conflict with the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens, Dhanapala told a news conference.
"I did not get the impression that they have been orchestrated. They are differently worded, but clearly they all labor under the same misapprehension about the conference," he said.
Dhanapala's office released a pamphlet called "Setting the Record Straight" to address the misconceptions they contained and explain what the conference hopes to achieve.
"The focus of the conference is on illicit trade in small arms, not the legal trade, manufacture or ownership of weapons," the pamphlet stressed. "The U.N. conference will have no effect on the rights of civilians to legally own and bear arms."
Delegates are expected to adopt a program of action, which is not legally binding, to curb and ultimately eliminate illegal trafficking in assault rifles and other small arms and light weapons that have become the weapons of choice in many internal conflicts around the world.
U.S. Takes Strong Stance on Arms
foxnews.com
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. officials circled the wagons against international critics at a U.N. conference on small arms, saying they would rebuff any intrusion into American domestic affairs or legal rights to own guns. (SNIP)
The United Nations calls the international arms trade a billion-dollar business that has flooded the world with 500 million small arms and light weapons, one for every 12 people on earth. (Hmmm--no WONDER the UN wants to disarm Americans since the estimated 90 million gun owners in America own approximately 300 million guns. That certainly doesn't leave many for the rest of the world. I have a sneaking suspicion their figures are way too low! --Henrietta)
Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., a leading foe of gun control and an observer to the conference, said any attempt by U.N. members to ``involve themselves in the domestic affairs of the United States or, indeed, of any nation .... would not be viewed with favor by the Congress.'' (Sic 'em, Bob!)
U.N. Effort to Cut Arms Traffic Meets a U.S. Rebuff
nytimes.com
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United Nations officials insist that this conference is not about taking guns away from Americans, but about keeping hundreds of millions of weapons out of the hands of child soldiers and pickup armies, often in the poorest countries.
But the meeting has set off a reaction in the United States among those opposed to gun control. The United Nations has received scores of angry letters and faxes and has collected some strongly worded press releases and posters from groups concerned about the issue.
Representative Bob Barr, a Georgia Republican on the House Judiciary Committee who is also on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association, rejected United Nations efforts to calm the gun lobby. He is attending the conference as an official observer.
"You look at this," Mr. Barr said, holding up a working paper at a news conference, "and there are a number of areas very explicitly set forth that could very well be used to directly involve the United Nations in domestic firearms policy."
The United Nations estimates that there are more than 500 million small arms in the world. It says 40 percent to 60 percent of them have been acquired illegally on the black market, by bartering commodities like diamonds or through deals that obscure or lie about the source or destination of the weapons. (Shades of the Million Mommies! Now I KNOW they are just throwing out figures. If there are only 500 million, law abiding American gun owners already own 60% of them legally. Oooh! Liar, liar--pants on fire! --Henrietta)
"End United Nations Tyranny Inside the U.S." Petition
petitiononline.com
This petition has been around a while, but it certainly shows what Americans feel about the UN in reading the signers' comments. |
