It's What's Inside the Arms Treaty You Should Pay Attention To!

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Obama Urges Quick Adoption of Arms Trade Treaty by UN General Assembly


Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
New American
April 1, 2013

Despite failing to be adopted by consensus vote on last Thursday,
the Arms Trade Treaty’s (ATT) civilian disarmament agenda marches on.

In an interview with The New American in advance of
Thursday’s ill-fated final plenary session of the conference at UN
headquarters deliberating the Arms Trade Treaty, a member of the U.S.
delegation said the they were prepared to vote in favor of adoption of
the gun grab.

They never got the chance, however, as Iran, Syria, and North Korea objected to the treaty, declaring it to be too favorable to the interests of the United States.

That point is debatable.

As I reported from the conference, the text of the treaty mandates
several infringements on the right of people to keep and bear arms as
protected by the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

For example, the Preamble of the Arms Trade Treaty points to the
United Nations Charter as the source of guiding principles upon which
the agreement is based. Citizens of the United States, however,
recognize God as the source of all rights they enjoy. Not even the
Constitution claims to be the giver of rights; it is merely the
protector of them.

The ultimate American statement on the issue of the provenance of rights was written by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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The UN would see the Declaration of Independence replaced by the (link) Declaration of Human Rights and would have the Creator replaced with government as the source of rights.

Take, for example, the principle of the ATT declaring the “inherent
right of all States to individual or collective self-defence [sic] as
recognized in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations.”

States have no “right of self-defense.” In fact, states have no
rights at all. Men have rights and they may cede a portion of the
protection of those rights to government. This is a provisional grant,
revocable at the will of the people.

Ironically, moreover, it is in defense of tyranny of the government
that individuals typically need to collectively exercise their natural
right of self-defense.
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