International assualt on 2nd Admendment
More of the blame America for the world ills continues with yet another assualt on the 2nd Admenment of our Constitution. This time aid comes from those on the left coast. Not surpriseing however with thier self delusional attitudes of better then the average person.
(EXCERPTS FROM NEWSMAX ARTICAL http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/20/170234.shtml?s=lh)
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006
NEW YORK CITY -- An international coalition of anti-gun groups called on Hollywood to convince a U.N. conference in New York to impose legally-binding United Nations controls over small arms and personal firearms.
Flanked by Hollywood director Andrew Niccol, advocates from ControlArms, SaferWorld, and the International Action Network on Small Arms, IANSA, hosted a cocktail party at the United Nations headquarters building Tuesday night
NOW FOR SOME TRUTH ON INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE
Brian Wood, a top arms trade analyst for Amnesty International and ControlArms, told anti-gun activists in New York that the arms dealers who have supplied Africa's most brutal war lords over the past decade were French, Russian and Ukrainian - not American.
"Only 30 countries in the world have laws that regulate arms brokering," he said. They include the 25 European Union nations, Nicaragua, Israel, Japan, South Africa – and the United States. "And that's it," Wood said.
Victor Bout, who became famous for running guns into improvised air strips in Africa in exchange for raw diamonds, is a Russian national. Leonid Minin, arrested in Milan, Italy on August 5, 2000 for selling arms to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone, is from Ukraine.
"Arms brokers use the weakest links in the system," Wood said. "A lot of the most damaging cases involve siphoning off surpluses, especially in Central Asia and certain countries in Eastern Europe."
He lauded two nations for "a high degree of extra-territorial application" of their national arms brokering laws, South Africa and the United States.
Nevertheless, anti-gun activists made clear at week-long meetings in New York to prepare this summer's UN Small Arms and Light Weapons conference, that their goal was to place legally-binding international restrictions on the possession of personal firearms and the international arms trade.
"I was in Sierre Leone," British activist Anthea Lawson, a spokesperson for IANSA, told Newsmax. "How can I explain to people who have gone through incredible suffering because of small arms that NRA [National Rifle Association] concerns are blocking an international agreement that would make lots of people safer?"
International gun control was necessary, she argued, "because the legal trade in weapons is where the illegal trade begins. The weapons themselves all come out of the legal trade."
(SEE HOW THE ACTIVISTS TRY TO PUSH THE BLAME ON AMERICA AND THE NRA. IF AMERICANS DID NOT HAVE HANDGUNS THEN NO ONE WOULD HAVE THEM. ITS AMERICAS FAULT. THE FACT OTHER PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES CAN NOT POLICE THEMSELVES AND HOLD REVOLUTIONS IS THE AMERICAN GUN OWNERS FAULT ... WHAT A LOAD OF EXCRIMENT!)
In Africa's worst killing spree in modern history, an estimated 500,000 Tutsis were massacred by rival Hutu tribesmen in Rwanda in 1994. But the weapons used were machetes, not firearms.
(LETS NOT FORGET THE FAVORITE METHOD OF RINGING ...WHERE A TIRE IS PLACED AROUND THE PERSON FILLED WITH GASOLINE THEN LITE ON FIRE BURNING THE VICTEM ALIVE.)
Former U.S. Congressman Bob Barr, who is serving as an unpaid advisor to the U.S. delegation to the conference, said that the goal of the non-government organizations and the countries supporting them "is to take away the freedom we possess in our country to possess firearms."
(HE HAS THIS RIGHT. TAKE AWAY THE AVERAGE AMERICANS WAY OF PROTECTING HIMSELF AND THIS COUNTRY IS MORE OPEN TO ATTACK)
Just as anti-gun control advocates in the United States, the international NGOs were "focusing on the instrument, not on the underlying problem," he told NewsMax. "It's relatively easy to get a handle on the true problem, which is how do you prevent military weapons from getting into the hands of rogue regimes and genocidal maniacs."
The Bush administration has set out several "red lines" that the United States would not cross, he said.
"We will allow no discussion, no negotiation, over civilian possession of firearms," Barr said. Nor will the U.S. agree to any U.N. effort to impose binding U.N. controls on what "non-state actors" a member state will supply with weapons.
"We feel it's the prerogative of the president of the United States to decide what groups to support," Barr said. "There could be freedom fighters in ‘Freedonia' we find it in our interest to arm."
Countries backing the effort to place legally-binding international restrictions on the trade in small arms include Canada, which hosted a presentation by Amnesty International at the United Nations, Britain, Mexico, Japan, the Netherlands, and Brazil.
(WHAT A SHOCK TO SEE MEXICO ON THIS LIST. JUST THINK TAKE AWAY THE AMERICAN RIGHT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND HOW MUCH EASIER IT WILL BE FOR THE INVASION OF DRUG RUNNERS AND ILLEGALS TO FLOOD THIS COUNTRY.)
(EXCERPTS FROM NEWSMAX ARTICAL http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/1/20/170234.shtml?s=lh)
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006
NEW YORK CITY -- An international coalition of anti-gun groups called on Hollywood to convince a U.N. conference in New York to impose legally-binding United Nations controls over small arms and personal firearms.
Flanked by Hollywood director Andrew Niccol, advocates from ControlArms, SaferWorld, and the International Action Network on Small Arms, IANSA, hosted a cocktail party at the United Nations headquarters building Tuesday night
NOW FOR SOME TRUTH ON INTERNATIONAL ARMS TRADE
Brian Wood, a top arms trade analyst for Amnesty International and ControlArms, told anti-gun activists in New York that the arms dealers who have supplied Africa's most brutal war lords over the past decade were French, Russian and Ukrainian - not American.
"Only 30 countries in the world have laws that regulate arms brokering," he said. They include the 25 European Union nations, Nicaragua, Israel, Japan, South Africa – and the United States. "And that's it," Wood said.
Victor Bout, who became famous for running guns into improvised air strips in Africa in exchange for raw diamonds, is a Russian national. Leonid Minin, arrested in Milan, Italy on August 5, 2000 for selling arms to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone, is from Ukraine.
"Arms brokers use the weakest links in the system," Wood said. "A lot of the most damaging cases involve siphoning off surpluses, especially in Central Asia and certain countries in Eastern Europe."
He lauded two nations for "a high degree of extra-territorial application" of their national arms brokering laws, South Africa and the United States.
Nevertheless, anti-gun activists made clear at week-long meetings in New York to prepare this summer's UN Small Arms and Light Weapons conference, that their goal was to place legally-binding international restrictions on the possession of personal firearms and the international arms trade.
"I was in Sierre Leone," British activist Anthea Lawson, a spokesperson for IANSA, told Newsmax. "How can I explain to people who have gone through incredible suffering because of small arms that NRA [National Rifle Association] concerns are blocking an international agreement that would make lots of people safer?"
International gun control was necessary, she argued, "because the legal trade in weapons is where the illegal trade begins. The weapons themselves all come out of the legal trade."
(SEE HOW THE ACTIVISTS TRY TO PUSH THE BLAME ON AMERICA AND THE NRA. IF AMERICANS DID NOT HAVE HANDGUNS THEN NO ONE WOULD HAVE THEM. ITS AMERICAS FAULT. THE FACT OTHER PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES CAN NOT POLICE THEMSELVES AND HOLD REVOLUTIONS IS THE AMERICAN GUN OWNERS FAULT ... WHAT A LOAD OF EXCRIMENT!)
In Africa's worst killing spree in modern history, an estimated 500,000 Tutsis were massacred by rival Hutu tribesmen in Rwanda in 1994. But the weapons used were machetes, not firearms.
(LETS NOT FORGET THE FAVORITE METHOD OF RINGING ...WHERE A TIRE IS PLACED AROUND THE PERSON FILLED WITH GASOLINE THEN LITE ON FIRE BURNING THE VICTEM ALIVE.)
Former U.S. Congressman Bob Barr, who is serving as an unpaid advisor to the U.S. delegation to the conference, said that the goal of the non-government organizations and the countries supporting them "is to take away the freedom we possess in our country to possess firearms."
(HE HAS THIS RIGHT. TAKE AWAY THE AVERAGE AMERICANS WAY OF PROTECTING HIMSELF AND THIS COUNTRY IS MORE OPEN TO ATTACK)
Just as anti-gun control advocates in the United States, the international NGOs were "focusing on the instrument, not on the underlying problem," he told NewsMax. "It's relatively easy to get a handle on the true problem, which is how do you prevent military weapons from getting into the hands of rogue regimes and genocidal maniacs."
The Bush administration has set out several "red lines" that the United States would not cross, he said.
"We will allow no discussion, no negotiation, over civilian possession of firearms," Barr said. Nor will the U.S. agree to any U.N. effort to impose binding U.N. controls on what "non-state actors" a member state will supply with weapons.
"We feel it's the prerogative of the president of the United States to decide what groups to support," Barr said. "There could be freedom fighters in ‘Freedonia' we find it in our interest to arm."
Countries backing the effort to place legally-binding international restrictions on the trade in small arms include Canada, which hosted a presentation by Amnesty International at the United Nations, Britain, Mexico, Japan, the Netherlands, and Brazil.
(WHAT A SHOCK TO SEE MEXICO ON THIS LIST. JUST THINK TAKE AWAY THE AMERICAN RIGHT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND HOW MUCH EASIER IT WILL BE FOR THE INVASION OF DRUG RUNNERS AND ILLEGALS TO FLOOD THIS COUNTRY.)
