Thursday, April 10, 2014

Sovereignty

WE THWARTED THE U.N.
GUN GRABBERS LAST YEAR…
CAN WE DO IT AGAIN FOR 2015?
80 Reps Sign Letters against U.N. ATT
THANKS TO YOU more than 80 Congressmen signed Rep. Mike Kelly's letters demanding leaders of appropriations committees to use their power of the purse to slam the brakes on the United Nation Arms Trade Treaty in FY 2015.
But these letters are just one small step of many URGENTLY NEEDED to secure our Second Amendment rights as a sovereign nation!
ENSURE THAT JUST LIKE IN 2014, WE SUCCEED IN SLAMMING THE BRAKES ON THE U.N. GUN GRABBERS!DEMAND NO ATT THIS YEAR, NEXT YEAR OR EVER!
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), who led the successful letter effort, observed:
"Thanks to widespread alarm over the ATT in Congress and across our country last year, legislation was enacted to ban any spending of taxpayer dollars on this dangerous treaty for one full year. The efforts of those of us opposed to the ATT were able to make history by having the president approve the funding ban and, by doing so, undermine a treaty his own administration signed just two months prior."
He is referring to the ban on ATT funding for fiscal year 2014 approved by the House Appropriations Committee and later added to the Consolidated Appropriations Act temporarily funding the federal government between Oct. 1, 2013 and this past Jan. 15.
Though a great start, the letters are NOT ENOUGH – not with Congress right now putting together next year's appropriations!
Just like last year, we need to KEEP UP THE HEAT, and see to it that Congress sends ONLY appropriations bills that force Obama to use his "pen" to DEFUND THE U.N. GUN GRAB!
Rep. Mike Kelly's office is STILL sounding the alarm that we need to STAY VIGILANT, KEEP BATTLING in the latest round of appropriations, and RE-ENERGIZE our fight against the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty to STOP the anti-gun tyranny of the Obama administration.
"President Obama's apparent efforts are to engage in unilateral implementation of the ATT via executive action, without the advice and consent of the Senate and the passage of implementing legislation, as required, by the Congress."
It is as WE WARNED – and we need YOU to join the OUTCRY to CONGRESS, TODAY!
They need to hear YOUR resolve to prevent Barack Obama from destroying YOUR right to arms with the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty as well as YOUR rejection of any Congress-bypassing Executive Orders to implement this unconstitutional infringement of YOUR rights!
Remember, TOGETHER we CAN expose and thwart Obama's illegal "executive actions" – he has only the illicit power that We the People let him abuse with impunity!
STOP Obama's unilateral, universal disarmament schemes TODAY. Tell Congress – NO funding, NO appropriations, NO authorizations!
Four Democrat U.S. Senators already have sent a letter to Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and the United Nations that THEY WILL NOT RATIFY THE U.N. Arms Trade Treaty – "period"! Election season is the time for us to advocate hard, and sway more of their brethren; TODAY, help us put pressure on House AND Senate Members to BACK UP Rep. Kelly and co-sign his "NO ATT IMPLEMENTATION" letter…
Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT), Max Baucus (D-MT), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Joe Donnelly (D-IN), according to the letter, will be withholding their support. It states,"because of unaddressed concerns that this Treaty's obligations could undermine our nation's sovereignty and the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, we would oppose the Treaty if it were to come before the U.S. Senate."
As much as Obama may want it, winning 67 'aye' ratification votes for ATT is going to be tough if we can build and hold a bipartisan, pro-sovereignty, pro-Second Amendment alliance. Bypassing congress and implementing the U.N. gun grad through bureaucracy is perhaps a greater threat. Of course, cynical self-interest with a big election year looming is driving these Democrats, but working to expand an even bigger and better publicized bipartisan coalition against implementation is our best chance at securing our right to keep and bear arms from the globalists.
With an election just around the corner but the signed treaty poised to do our republic grave harm, we MUST continue pounding MORE Democrats to stand up for the American people against the anti-gun thuggery of this Obama administration, and MORE Establishment Republicans to stop their anti-Constitution betrayals and SHAPE UP!
Ever our vigilant pro-Second Amendment ally, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) is continuing to sound the alarm over six specific, undeniable problems with the U.N. ATT or Arms Trade Treaty, which he says should even concern the anti-gunners on Capitol Hill:
  1. The U.N. ATT was slammed through without consensus, in a dangerous precedent-making violation of the October 2009 pledge by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the U.S. supported the negotiation only by "the rule of consensus decision-making."

  2. There is no recognition of our fundamental Second Amendment right as individuals to keep and bear arms whether the right applies through ownership, trade or use of firearms in self defense or not, while at the same time creating a national "responsibility" to control firearms as dictated by the globalist treaty.

  3. The treaty can be amended (and made more restrictive by other nations) with a 3/4 vote circumventing the power and duty of the Senate to advise and consent on treaty commitments before being taken up as obligations or duties by the United States.

  4. As acknowledged by the State Department, the treaty is "ambiguous" thereby preventing the Senate from effectively advising on it, much less positioning the U.S. to implement its unclear commitments.

  5. The political nature of the treaty will restrict our foreign policy while increasingly subjecting the U.S. to international standards with no regard for our national sovereignty and the constitutional right of the American people to govern themselves.

  6. Country concerns throughout Asia and the Middle East would make the application of the treaty in accord with our national security interests difficult if not impossible.
Sen. Moran urges Barack Obama to make it clear to the U.N. that as the Senate does not intend to ratify the ATT, we are therefore not bound by its terms and obligations…
We must help our pro-Second Amendment Senators like Moran check Barack Obama and crush any implementation of this globalist, anti-American treaty!
Remember, so long as this treaty sits in limbo, our sovereignty as a nation and our gun rights as Americans are in jeopardy!
Last September 25, Obama minion Secretary of State John Kerry SIGNED the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. This treaty endangers our Second Amendment rights and freedoms as American citizens, as well as, our sovereignty in gun manufacturing and sales and even our national defense.
IF WE DO NOT TAKE VIGILANT,CONTINUOUS ACTION SO OBAMA AND KERRY CANNOT IMPLEMENT THIS TREATY, this anti-gun Obama Administration, by Executive Orders, will hold us bound not to violate the "object and purpose" of this globalist disarmament plot!
In fact, enforcement of the U.N. gun grab on American soil – could be only an executive action away… just like Obama's "gun control" safety ban on the importation of Korean War antique M1 Garand rifles.
No ratification required.
OR there's the Gun Control Act of 1968 and the Arms Export Control Act wherein Congress handed the Executive Branch unmitigated control over the import and export of firearms and other weapons. Obama would simply rule a firearm unsuitable for "sporting" purposes and use this Act to BAN IT.
WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN – NOT ON OUR WATCH!
Heritage Foundation's Ted Bromund rightly calls the U.N. Gun Grab a "menace for years to come," one with "far-reaching consequences" for our sovereignty and our foreign policy, especially as the Senate under Reid's leadership will likely not have an opportunity to reject it despite a majority of well-documented opposition to it!
"In other words, we obey in practice treaties that the Senate has never ratified,"Bromund writes.
… And which we NO LONGER CONTROL!
… And which in this case ratification hinges particularly upon the 2014 and 2016 election outcomes!
Bromund warns: "Since the U.N. has already defined gun control as a human right, they will not have to work very hard to make it part of the treaty."
Long-time Second Amendment patriots Sens. Jerry Moran (R-KS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) have sounded the alarm and are fighting Obama-Kerry-U.N. GUN GRAB.
Rep. Kelly's reminder urgently seeking co-signers TODAY raises again vital points contained in the Kelly-Moran Resolutions, which we are working to see revised and reintroduced to Congress.
They can use their positions to call for hearings exposing the truth about this "human rights" treaty… they can force Obama – or Kerry, rather – to UNSIGN THIS TREATY!
WE MUST TAKE ACTION BEFORE THE GLOBALIST GUN GRAB WELCOMED BY BARACK OBAMA HAS TIME TO FESTER AND DESTROY OUR FREEDOMS!
Please, help us stop the political games with our American citizens' natural rights and Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms!
PETITION CONGRESS TO STOP THE U.N. GUN GRAB IN ITS TRACKS
AND
BLAST-FAX OBAMA AND KERRY TO HALT ALL ARMS TRADE TREATY AUTHORIZATION, ENDORSEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OR FACE IMPEACHMENT FOR FAILURE TO UPHOLD OUR LAWS!
A State Department official said the treaty would "reduce the risk that international transfers of conventional arms will be used to carry out the world's worst crimes."
Washington says it won't hurt our gun rights here in the sovereign United States but they outright ignore the Pandora-esque nature of this bill that strips American sovereignty from every stage of the gun manufacturing, sales and even registration process with mandatory serial numbers, bullet labeling, bureaucratic paperwork, TAXES and ultimately an "international gun registry"!
After all, WHY would Obama settle for a national gun registry when he and his power-hungry globalist goons at the U.N. can have one for the WORLD and then work to systematically disarm us?!
Obama has already recently made clear that he would like no less than to implement Australia and Great Britain socialist-style anti-gun laws right HERE in the United States as a "common sense" solution to rampage shootings. And the U.N. Gun Grab – with Australia and Great Britain among the FIRST TO SIGN IT – provides a nifty globalist pretext for him to do it!
The New American's Joe Wolverton explains just how dangerous the ATT is:
First, the Arms Trade Treaty grants a monopoly over all weaponry in the hands of the very entity (approved regimes) responsible for over 300 million murders in the 20th century.
Furthermore, the treaty leaves private citizens powerless to oppose future slaughters.
An irrefutable fact of armed violence unaddressed by the UN in its gun grab is that all the murders committed by all the serial killers in history don't amount to a fraction of the brutal killings committed by "authorized state parties" using the very weapons over which they will exercise absolute control under the terms of the Arms Trade Treaty.
Article 2 of the treaty defines the scope of the treaty's prohibitions. The right to own, buy, sell, trade, or transfer all means of armed resistance, including handguns, is denied to civilians by this section of the Arms Trade Treaty.
Article 3 places the "ammunition/munitions fired, launched or delivered by the conventional arms covered under Article 2" within the scope of the treaty's prohibitions, as well.
Article 4 rounds out the regulations, also placing all "parts and components" of weapons within the scheme.
Perhaps the most immediate threat to the rights of gun owners in the Arms Trade Treaty is found in Article 5. Under the title of "General Implementation," Article 5 mandates that all countries participating in the treaty "shall establish and maintain a national control system, including a national control list."
We MUST continue to pound Washington into submission with our petitions to stop ratification and implementation!
Rep. Kelly has come to share our concerns about Obama's executive bypassing of Congress and implementation of the ATT by decree. Don't believe that the SEPARATION OF POWERS could be bypassed by a power-hungry Tyrant in the Oval Office?
Read Article 12 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, and understand that the U.N. ATT that KERRY SIGNED was negotiated by Barack Obama's representatives appointed through U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice:
Article 12
Consent to be bound by a treaty expressed by signature
1. The consent of a State to be bound by a treaty is expressed by the signature of its representative when:
(a) the treaty provides that signature shall have that effect;
(b) it is otherwise established that the negotiating States were agreed that signature should have that effect; or
(c) the intention of the State to give that effect to the signature appears from the full powers of its representative or was expressed during the negotiation.
2. For the purposes of paragraph 1:
(a) the initialing of a text constitutes a signature of the treaty when it is established that the negotiating States so agreed;
(b) the signature ad referendum of a treaty by a representative, if confirmed by his State, constitutes a full signature of the treaty.
The Constitutional requirement for ALL treaties to be ratified by our Senate to have formal effect never used to be in doubt, but in post WWII history, and particularly under the duplicitous Obama regime, trust in this process has seriously eroded as the New World Order has gained in ascendency and power via the U.N. and multilateral governing bodies…
WE CANNOT SIT BACK AND WAIT, keeping our fingers crossed that Obama's anti-Americanism and Harry Reid's backdoor dealmaking don't decimate our constitutional rights.
There is NO guarantee the 2014 Senate elections will go our way – we need to fight NOW and win Senators to our cause and away from the 2/3 threshold for ratifying treaties!
THAT'S WHY TODAY WE MUST MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR!
WE MUST demand Congress immediately:
  • Sign as Member co-sponsors Rep. Mike Kelly's latest letter flatly rejecting on constitutional grounds the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, and ACT to DEFUND all implementation and authorization appropriations for the ATT for FY 2015.
  • Reintroduce and pass The Second Amendment Sovereignty Act, S. 2205, which will BAN U.S. funding of the United Nations Gun Ban ATT ratification, promotion AND implementation, and specifically protect our Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms from ALL infringements by the ATT and Obama administration collaboration in the U.N. gun control process.
  • Pass a resolution demanding Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and our diplomatic corps DESIST in treaty implementation and U.N. gun control and demand UN Ambassador Susan Rice vote against all measures and treaties limiting American citizens' Right to Arms.
  • Pass the Kelly-Moran Resolutions opposing the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), bipartisan concurrent resolutions H. Con. Res. 23 by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and companion resolution, S. Con. Res. 7 by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS).
  • Pass the United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act of 2013 by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) to rein in the U.S. sovereignty-destroying United Nations.
TODAY WE MUST DEMAND A BIPARTISAN CONGRESS STAND FOR AMERICA TO SAVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT AND OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY – FILIBUSTER IS A WEAK SAFEGUARD AGAINST TYRANNY!
America can still act to preserve and protect our Second Amendment and our national sovereignty – but only if we unrelentingly DEMAND WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY OURS!
America needs YOU to contact state elected authorities, the Senate, the ENTIRE House of Representatives – EVEN Obama his administration itself – and tell them TO STAND UP FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT!
We MUST demand our elected officials ensure NO EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONAL NATIONAL AUTHORITY IS CONVEYED by Kerry's signature on the ATT, NO DEAL on this UNCONSTITUTIONAL 'treaty' is ever reached, and NO RATIFICATION IS EVER ACCORDED!
Rep. Mike Kelly and Sen. Jerry Moran are right; they are leading the charge to shut down the ATT and we MUST stand with them "and let us NOT be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not." Galatians 6:9!
OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS MUST BE UPHELD AND THIS TREATY NEVER FUNDED, NEVER AUTHORIZED, NEVER IMPLEMENTED, NEVER RATIFIED!

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