The Gun Nut over at Field and Stream has printed an article from Fred Thompson concerning the United Nations and their demand for all nations to disarm their citizens.
Last year, the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights declared that international human rights law requires all nations to adopt strict gun control laws. These “minimum” provisions are much more restrictive than any of those on the books anywhere in the U.S. and would almost certainly violate the Second Amendment of our Constitution.
Besides concluding that all nations are obligated under international human rights law to control the small arms and light weapons to which its civilian population has access, the UN report remarkably denied the existence of any human right to self-defense, evidently overlooking the work of Hugo Grotius, the 17th century scholar credited as the founder of international law, who wrote, “It is to be observed that [the] Right of Self-Defence, arises directly and immediately from the Care of our own Preservation, which Nature recommends to every one. . . ,” and that this right is so primary, that it cannot be denied on the basis that it is not “expressly set forth.”
There are so many issues on the table in the upcoming elections, and so few citizens paying attention to them. The dinosaur media can keep a lot of the people focused on “baby bonds”, mortgage relief, global warming, and who has the most or least scary religious beliefs, but they never try to inform or educate anyone concerning where we are in the world and who is trying to take our rights and national sovereignty away. Don’t laugh… do you remember the flap over American troops answering to foreign commanders during the Clinton presidency? Do you think, after seeing Obama dancing with Ellen on TV, that he’s the one to defend our national sovereignty? Do you think Mrs Bill Clinton’s allegience is to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Kyoto Treaty, Law of the Sea Treaty, International Human Rights, disarm your citizens, Islamo-fascism… do you ever think to check out what a candidate says about the relationship between the United Nations and the United States?
So now the UN wants to disarm civilians? Where was the UN when the massacres in Rwanda occurred? What did the UN do to protect the victims of ethnic massacres in Bosnia? Disarming civilians under the guise of international human rights law will only lead to more such genocides by ensuring that civilians can never defend themselves! It would be funny if it weren’t so perverse.
Thankfully, the Framers of our Constitution recognized this potential peril to our liberty, and enshrined in our Second Amendment the more basic right of self-defense. The U.N. can say what it likes about other countries’ citizens’ possession of small arms being a violation of human rights law, but so long as the United States is a sovereign nation governed by its Constitution, its words will have no effect here. And I am glad for it.
Great, as far as it goes. I’m glad too. But I, as a citizen can’t do much about it except to vote for a candidate who WILL do something about it. Fred sounds like he gets it. But he didn’t say what he’d do about it. Fred, WHAT WILL YOU DO to ensure that “so long as the United States is a sovereign nation governed by its Constitution, its words will have no effect here”?
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