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Welcome to the NWO. Most 'American' Politicians no longer represent American Citizens. These days, they seem to represent everyone but American Citizens. They're doing everything in their power to destroy our Constitutional Sovereignty. We now have a rogue criminal Government. But hopefully, some brave American Heroes will stand up and oppose this farce. I guess we'll see.
Secretary of State John Kerry will sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty on Wednesday, the State Department confirmed, setting up a Senate showdown over an international agreement many in Congress believe would usurp the Second Amendment.
The agreement would regulate international trade in conventional weapons, including small arms, in a bid to keep such equipment out of the hands of rogue regimes and terrorist groups. One hundred fifty-three nations, including the United States, voted in favor of the treaty during a U.N. vote last April.
But gun-rights activists have blasted the treaty as a threat to the rights and privacy of American gun owners, and Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe wrote to Kerry on Tuesday to accuse him of wasting precious time trying to sign away our laws to the global community and unelected U.N. bureaucrats.
The U.N. should not be deceived into thinking the U.S. will ratify a treaty just because it has been signed by the President or someone in his Administration, he continued, attaching a list of 53 senators who voted to oppose Americas ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty back in March.
Any international treaty signed by the administration requires the approval of two-thirds of U.S. senators before it becomes the law of the land.
Many lawmakers in the House have also expressed concern over the agreement. 130 representatives sent a letter to President Obama in May, urging him not to sign a treaty they worry could be used to justify the imposition of further [gun] controls within the United States....
Read more: Kerry set to sign 'gun-grabbing' UN treaty | The Daily Caller
Secretary of State John Kerry will sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty on Wednesday, the State Department confirmed, setting up a Senate showdown over an international agreement many in Congress believe would usurp the Second Amendment.
The agreement would regulate international trade in conventional weapons, including small arms, in a bid to keep such equipment out of the hands of rogue regimes and terrorist groups. One hundred fifty-three nations, including the United States, voted in favor of the treaty during a U.N. vote last April.
But gun-rights activists have blasted the treaty as a threat to the rights and privacy of American gun owners, and Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe wrote to Kerry on Tuesday to accuse him of wasting precious time trying to sign away our laws to the global community and unelected U.N. bureaucrats.
The U.N. should not be deceived into thinking the U.S. will ratify a treaty just because it has been signed by the President or someone in his Administration, he continued, attaching a list of 53 senators who voted to oppose Americas ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty back in March.
Any international treaty signed by the administration requires the approval of two-thirds of U.S. senators before it becomes the law of the land.
Many lawmakers in the House have also expressed concern over the agreement. 130 representatives sent a letter to President Obama in May, urging him not to sign a treaty they worry could be used to justify the imposition of further [gun] controls within the United States....
Read more: Kerry set to sign 'gun-grabbing' UN treaty | The Daily Caller