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Boge Quinn
The United Nations vs. Our Gun
Rights
by Geoff Metcalf
Monday, July 3, 2006
The first three battles of the American War for Independence
(our Revolution) were not fought over taxation without representation,
separation from an abusive, clueless king, or nationalism. The first three
battles of our American Revolution were fought to resist gun control.
General Thomas Gage, military governor of Massachusetts,
sent a force to confiscate weapons and capture patriot leaders.
When the British confronted Captain Parker and
his militia in Lexington, they arrived to confiscate powder and ball.
They met resistance and the negative consequences of collecting ammunition
(one round at a time ...).
Notwithstanding our faults, warts, blemishes, mistakes,
and habitual myopia, since its founding 230 years ago, the United States
of America has become and remains the best country on the planet.
Despite the persistent worst efforts of elected officials
to undermine, marginalize, and abrogate the essence of the very document
to which they all swear a sacred oath, the ghost of the republic lingers
still.
The NRA's Wayne LaPierre has issued a warning that
Kofi Annan is trying to "finalize a U.N. treaty that would
strip all citizens of all nations of their right to own guns and you of
your self-protection rights under the Second Amendment."
The United Nations is a dysfunctional collection of arrogant,
pampered bureaucrats who presume to dictate, legislate, and lecture anyone
who does not subscribe to the gospel according to them.
The U.N. has been mired in corruption and incompetence
for decades. Oil-for-Food abuses were merely a multibillion-dollar symptom
of the U.N.'s systemic problems, which, frankly, are unfixable.
The greatest threat to the U.N.'s ability to sustain bumbling
incompetence and corruption has been, and remains, the United States.
For decades the U.N.'s reach has exceeded its grasp.
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They want an International Criminal Court.
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They want a global taxation mechanism (so as not to
be dependent/accountable to dues-paying members).
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They want a standing army.
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They want to be a for-real world government, capable
of imposing their will on subordinate' member states.
LaPierre (understandably) has his jockeys in a wad because
"This summer at U.N. headquarters in New York City right here on
American soil these nations along with more than 500 gun-ban groups
worldwide will hold an international conference to draft a global "Treaty
on Small Arms."
Yeah, that is a bad thing ... however, we (as a nation)
have rejected previous overreaching by the United Nothing', and I suspect
we will continue to do so.
