http://www.infowars.com/united-nations-small-arms-treaty-not-dead/
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http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/07/28/mexico-slams-imposition-consensus-rule-on-un-arms-treaty-negotiations/
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http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/28/arms-trade-treaty-talks-collapse-supporters-rip-obama/
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19025542
Pro-treaty campaigners set up a mock graveyard for arms' victims near the UN building in New York
United Nations Small Arms Treaty Not Dead
Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones
Infowars.com
July 29, 2012
Infowars.com
July 29, 2012
Opponents arrayed against the United Nations’ anti-gun effort prematurely celebrated on Friday as the treaty stalled due to member states failing to reach an agreement on revised language in the text. The treaty went into limbo after the United States, Russia and China called for more time to consider revisions.
NGOs and gun-grabber groups portrayed the stall as “stunning cowardice” and a “staggering abdication of leadership” and attributed the supposed failure to the Obama administration. A nameless diplomat went so far as to claim the U.S. had “derailed the process” and complained that there is little hope the treaty will be revived after the U.S. election.
The U.S. State Department, however, said in a statement released at the conclusion of the negotiating conference that the effort will indeed be revived after the election in November. “While we sought to conclude the month’s negotiations with a treaty, more time is a reasonable request for such a complex and critical issue,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
The extended timeframe will give Second Amendment opponents time to ramp up their propaganda campaign in favor of gun control following the suspiciously timed mass shooting in Colorado.
A number of establishment intellectuals – with CFR member Joe Klein leading the pack at Time Magazine – are now pushing “sensible” and “moderate” approaches to disarming the American people. Klein’s Time article, set to roll out on August 6, features a photo of a 100-round ammo drum of the sort James Holmes supposedly used in Aurora. Gun-grabbers in Congress have set their sites on extended round clips and other firearm accessories.
Although Bloomberg in New York and Chuck Schumer in the Senate and others are talking up outlawing armor-piercing ammunition and semi-automatic weapons, the establishment has responded to the bureaucratic snafu at the United Nations by playing possum or playing dead.
After the election finale in November and the installation of Romney or the re-installation of Obama as chief teleprompter reader in January, not only will there be a push for a new round of restrictive gun laws in America, but the stalled United Nations treaty will be dusted off and the bickering between nations will finally end with a gun-grabbing consensus.
As Al Benson, Jr., notes, careerist politicians are reluctant to press forward on legislation for fear of their cushy jobs. “As for the Senators, this is, after all, an election year and if they antagonize their gun-owning constituency many of them will be in big trouble, so they have to try to placate us, at least for now, until they get back into office. Then all bets are off, especially if Comrade Obama gets a second term (notice I didn’t say “wins” a second term),” he writes.
The corporate media has portrayed those of us concerned about a United Nations treaty outlawing our guns as conspiracy kooks and paranoids. They insist the Constitution trumps any internationalist treaty and there is nothing to worry about, so we need to relax.
But as CFR minion Joe Klein knows, the one-world government crowd has no respect for the Constitution and works relentlessly to undermine it.
“For decades, apostles of one-world government have endeavored to convince the American people that treaties, rather than the Constitution, embody the supreme law of the land. In 1952, Secretary of State and Council on Foreign Relations member John Foster Dulles told the American Bar Association that ‘Treaty law can override the Constitution…Treaties, for example…can cut across the rights given the people by the constitutional Bill of Rights,” writes Doug Book.
Book notes that even if the courts decide against the treaty after it is ratified in the Senate, Obama will undoubtedly move to ignore any such decision as he has done with Fast and Furious and other laws enacted by Congress, in particular his decision to ignore a law to deport illegal aliens.
“If the president says we’re not going to enforce the law, there’s really nothing anyone can do about it,” University of Pennsylvania constitutional law professor Kermit Roosevelt told Politico in June. “It’s clearly a political calculation.”
Disarming America is undoubtedly a front and center “political calculation” for the globalists.
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http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/07/28/mexico-slams-imposition-consensus-rule-on-un-arms-treaty-negotiations/
The Mexican government criticized Saturday the inconclusive results of the U.N. diplomatic conference seeking to pass an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), and deplored "the imposition of the consensus rule" as a condition for reaching an agreement.
"The government of Mexico decries the U.N. diplomatic conference postponing the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty," the foreign ministry said in a communique.
On Friday, the 193 participating countries finished their United Nations meeting "after a month of intense negotiations" but unable to reach a consensus on the final text that would have created "new international standards" for regulating the trade in conventional arms worldwide, the foreign ministry said.
"Faced with the lack of positive results, Mexico regrets that the imposition of the consensus rule makes it impossible to reach agreement despite the wide and obvious support for the measure, which can thereby be made null and void by a small minority of countries," the foreign ministry said.
Negotiations were going well but were derailed when the United States asked for "more time" to study the last draft that had been agreed upon last Thursday, and due to the objections of other great powers like China and Russia.
Despite the fruitless result, "Mexico wishes to stress that the conference did make considerable progress on a draft of the text that should be improved and strengthened...within the United Nations General Assembly," the foreign ministry said.
For Mexico, a "strong, sturdy" international treaty is necessary to end "the lethal situation that many societies suffer on every continent from the irresponsible sale and shipment of arms and munitions."
At the international conference's final session, Mexico read a statement "in the name of 87 delegations from all regions, in which it urged that efforts not be abandoned to finish negotiating the treaty at the next U.N. General Assembly."
Finally, Mexico announced that "it will continue giving the greatest importance to this subject and will continue to work with like-minded countries, as it did throughout this conference and during the preparatory meetings."
"Mexico wishes the U.N. to pass the treaty that the international community needs: a strong, effective treaty that bans the trade of conventional weapons when they risk being used to commit grave violations of international law, and that establishes mechanisms to prevent arms from being shifted to the illegal market," the communique said.
Mexico is one of the countries most damaged by the illicit trade in arms, which are sold legally in the United States but frequently end up in the possession of drug cartels and organized crime groups operating in this country.
Combating these groups has been a priority for Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who imposed the strategy of all-out war on organized crime with the army in the streets, and who will step down from office next Nov. 30. EFE
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http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/28/arms-trade-treaty-talks-collapse-supporters-rip-obama/
Arms-trade treaty talks collapse, supporters rip Obama
POSTED AT 10:01 AM ON JULY 28, 2012 BY ED MORRISSEY
I doubt anyone reading Hot Air will mind this, but it looks like the UN won’t get a chance to dictate terms of the Second Amendment any time soon. Yesterday evening, talks on an international arms-trade treaty collapsed when the US and a few other nations demanded an extension of time before committing to a position. The rest of the participants suspended the entire effort — and activists pointed their fingers at Barack Obama:
The United Nations indefinitely suspended action on an international arms trade treaty Friday after the United States and several other countries asked for more time.The decision sparked angry reactions from human rights groups often allied with the Obama administration, who believed a treaty to regulate the export of deadly weapons to rogue regimes was within reach. The UN had spent the entire month of July hammering out a deal, and Friday was the deadline for an agreement on a treaty that has met with the staunch opposition of the National Rifle Association and bipartisan concerns in the Senate.“This was stunning cowardice by the Obama administration, which at the last minute did an about-face and scuttled progress toward a global arms treaty, just as it reached the finish line,” said Suzanne Nossel, the executive director of Amnesty International USA. “It’s a staggering abdication of leadership by the world’s largest exporter of conventional weapons to pull the plug on the talks just as they were nearing an historic breakthrough that would have required all nations to deny arms export licenses where there was an overriding risk that the weapons would be used to facilitate serious crimes against humanity.”And Scott Stedjan, Oxfam America’s senior policy advisor, called the failure “a tremendous loss for thousands of innocent civilians around the globe who die each year from armed violence fueled by the unregulated transfer of arms.”It wasn’t just a few activist groups that vented their frustrations, either. A statement put forward by the UK, France, Germany, and 87 other nations complained that the draft treaty was all but ready to be adopted. Without naming Obama, the nations pointed out their own “compromises” and had “overwhelming support of the international community” before the US demanded more time to consider it.Frankly, Obama didn’t have much choice. A majority of 51 Senators had already signed a letter promising to vote against ratification if the treaty covered “small arms” and/or “light weapons,” which the draft treaty does — in fact, it explicitly includes “small arms and light weapons” in Article 2, Section A1h. Obama could have signed this draft a hundred times, and it still would have had no chance of passing in its current form. Had the UN struck that provision, this treaty might have won the required 67 votes for approval in the Senate, and it still would have been a big step forward in arms control … at least on paper.The problems with this treaty mirror those of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty: it sets up a UN agency that has no teeth, where enforcement ends up being a game between the West on one side and Russia and China on the other. Meanwhile, North Korea has already gone nuclear, and Iran isn’t too far away, while Russia and China protect their client states and the West vainly tries to enforce the agreement. This would have put the US in the same position, only this treaty would have the force of law inside the US, which would mean we would bind ourselves to its terms while the rest of the world’s kleptocrats and tyrants would ignore it.For now, though, it’s a moot point. Obama will end up taking the blame for this “failure,” which might seem unfair — but Obama chose to participate in this folly in 2009 after the US had previously refused, so he only has himself to blame for the impossible position in which he now finds himself. That’s called smart power, apparently.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19025542
UN global arms treaty talks end without agreement
Pro-treaty campaigners set up a mock graveyard for arms' victims near the UN building in New York
Negotiations at the UN to achieve a landmark treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade have ended without agreement.
The US, followed by Russia and China, said they needed more time to consider the issues.
The BBC's Barbara Plett at the UN said it was a disheartening end to a month of intense negotiations.
However, the conference chairman said he was confident a treaty could be agreed by the end of the year.
Some delegates accused the US of bowing to domestic pressure from the powerful gun lobby in the run up to presidential elections, our correspondent says.
On Thursday, a bipartisan group of 51 US senators threatened to oppose any agreement that infringed on the constitutional right to bear arms.
Despite the setback, conference chairman Roberto Garcia Moritan said the eventual adoption of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) was inevitable.
"I don't have any doubt, because there is a need," he said.
"We need a treaty and we will have a treaty."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was disappointed at the failure to agree on a treat and called it "a setback".
But he said he was encouraged that countries had agreed to continue pursuing a treaty and pledged his "robust" support.
The negotiations were the result of a six-year campaign by a coalition of non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International and Oxfam.
Amnesty Secretary-General Salil Shetty expressed frustration at the delay.
"With one person dying every minute because of armed violence, there is an imperative for powerful states to lead," he said.
"President Obama has asked for more time to reach an agreement. How much more time does he want?"
The text of the draft resolution is now likely to be sent back to the UN General Assembly in the autumn.
The global arms trade is estimated to be worth between $60bn and $70bn (£40-50bn) per year.
Some 750,000 people are killed by illicit weapons each year.
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http://www.infowars.com/dems-sneak-gun-control-amendment-into-cybersecurity-bill/
Dems Sneak Gun Control Amendment Into Cybersecurity Bill
Democratic senators have offered an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would limit the purchase of high capacity gun magazines for some consumers.
Shortly after the Cybersecurity Act gained Senate approval to proceed to filing proposed amendments and a vote next week, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a sponsor of the gun control amendment, came to the floor to defend the idea of implementing some “reasonable” gun control measures.
The amendment was sponsored by Democratic Sens. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Bob Menendez (N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Schumer and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.). S.A. 2575 would make it illegal to transfer or possess large capacity feeding devices such as gun magazines, belts, feed stripes and drums of more than 10 rounds of ammunition with the exception of .22 caliber rim fire ammunition.
The amendment is identical to a separate bill sponsored by Lautenberg. Feinstein was the sponsor of the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.
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