"Comrades! Turn in your weapons!" |
White House mouthpiece Jay Carney says that the Obama administration will “conduct a thorough review” of the UN’s newly enacted gun control pact “to determine whether to sign the treaty.” The suspense is hardly unbearable, given that the UN treaty would codify the proposition that national governments should have a monopoly on weapons.
The announced objective of the treaty is to regulate the
sale and transfer of small arms and light weapons, a category that includes all
civilian-owned firearms. According
to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, the treaty
“will help to keep warlords, pirates, terrorists, criminals and their like from
acquiring deadly arms.”
Well, actually, it would not. Nothing in the
dense and nearly unreadable text of the 15-page treaty will prevent member
states from arming terrorists and criminals. Article 2, Section 3 specifies
that nothing in the treaty will “apply to the international movement of
conventional arms by, or on behalf of, a State Party for its use provided that
the conventional arms remain under that State Party’s ownership.”
Article 11, which deals with “Diversion” of weaponry,
requires that parties to the treaty work to “mitigate the risk”
that weapons would fall into the hands of criminals or terrorists, and that
they “share relevant information … on effective measures to address diversion.”
But nothing in the language forbids such diversions from States to “non-state
actors” – a point that was made, ironically, by the Communist government of
North Korea when it opposed the treaty.
Each government that signs the UN gun treaty agree to create
“a national control system to regulate the export of ammunition [and] munitions”
(Article 3), which is described in the preamble as “the primary responsibility
of all States.” The document repeatedly refers to the “inherent right” of
States to arm themselves and to control the weaponry within the boundaries over
which they claim jurisdiction. Not a syllable can be found in the document recognizing
the innate right of the individual to armed self-defense. This omission was not
accidental.
For more than fifty years, the United Nations, with the
enthusiastic support of the U.S. government, has pursued a vision of “general
and complete disarmament” in which the world body, or its successor, would
claim a monopoly on the “legitimate” use of force. Within that global monopoly,
each national government would have an exclusive territorial franchise.
“Controlling the proliferation of illicit [that is,
civilian-owned] weapons is a necessary first step towards the non-proliferation
of small arms,” wrote former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in his official
2000 report, We the
Peoples. “These weapons must be brought under the control of states,
and states must be held responsible for their transfer.” (Emphasis added.)
It was in pursuit of that formula that UN “peacekeepers” were
deployed
in Rwanda in 1993. The peace treaty they were sent to enforce required the
collection of all civilian-owned weapons. Despite that country’s history of
bloody ethnic conflict, Rwandans were assured that they had nothing to fear
from a UN-approved government that claimed a monopoly on weaponry; after all,
the Blue Beret-wearing emissaries of the “international community” were there
to protect them, in the event their government turned feral.
In January 1994, Lt.
Col. Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian officer commanding the UN contingent in
Rwanda, learned that the Hutu-dominated regime was planning to massacre the
Tutsi population. He sent an urgent fax to UN headquarters requesting
permission to disarm the government-backed militias by raiding their arms
caches. He wasn’t allowed to take this pre-emptive action, because the UN’s
self-assigned mandate called for civilian
disarmament, not the disarmament of government operatives.
Less than three months later, the massacre began – a 100-day
orgy of bloodshed in which roughly one million people were slaughtered. Most
were hacked to death with machetes – but behind the machete-wielding goons were
government troops, police, and militiamen armed with guns. Dallaire’s troops
did nothing to protect the victims; indeed, many of them were butchered as
well.
The UN official who was given advance warning of the
massacre, and ordered Dallaire not to take any preventive action, was Kofi
Annan – who at the time was undersecretary general for peacekeeping operations.
In the finest tradition of Soviet career advancement, Annan was rewarded with a
promotion to Secretary General, and eventually received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Dallaire, who had done what he could to prevent the genocide, succumbed to
near-suicidal depression and alcoholism. He was eventually rehabilitated after
a reporter found him freezing to death under a park bench in Hull, Quebec.
Rwanda is a nearly ideal case of the UN’s model of “human
security,” which requires, among other things, the establishment of “norms of
non-possession” of firearms by civilians. That phrase was taken from the UN-approved
“Hague
Appeal for Peace,” which was unveiled at the 2000 “Millennium Summit” at UN
Headquarters.
According to the Hague Appeal:
“Full-fledged demobilization programs must reclaim and destroy
weaponry…. Steps toward stopping the flow of weapons include: controlling legal
transfers between states; preventing illicit transfers … collecting, removing,
and destroying surplus weapons from regions of conflict … [and] creating norms
of non-possession.”
Those objectives are woven into the UN’s new arms treaty –
but those threads run back to the late 1950s, when the world body first became
involved in the “arms control” process.
Barack Obama is a left-leaning corporatist from an exotic
background, but he is not the first U.S. president whose administration has
promoted a UN-centered gun grab. That distinction belongs to Dwight Eisenhower,
the conservative Republican whose State Department served as an incubator for a
proposal called Freedom from War:
The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful
World.
That program, also known as State Department Document 7277, was
introduced to the world in the fall of 1961 by Eisenhower’s successor, John F.
Kennedy.
Freedom
from War, and its follow-up Blueprint for
the Peace Race, outlined a three-stage global program in which the UN’s
machinery for “peace enforcement” – what honest people would call “warmaking” –
would be built up pari passu with disarmament of national governments. In Stage
III, national governments would retain only those armaments and establishments necessary
to carry out UN-ordained “global obligations” and to “maintain internal order.”
“All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to
peaceful purposes,” dictates the U.S.-created program. “Peaceful purposes,” in
the statist lexicon, include all acts of government-sanctioned aggression and
violence. “All other armaments” would, of necessity, include civilian-owned
weaponry. Those points were made with plangent clarity in a 1962 State
Department-commissioned study called A World Effectively
Controlled by the United Nations, which was written by MIT professor Lincoln
P. Bloomfield.
Dispensing with the utopian pretenses of many world
government advocates, Bloomfield observed that the pursuit of a world “effectively
controlled” by the UN would be to create a “stable military environment” for the
benefit of the U.S. government and allied interests. This would eventually
require the creation of a nuclear-armed UN “Peace Force” – a multilateral body
that itself would be effectively controlled by Washington – that would include
a “disarmament policing agency.” Each constituent member of the UN would be
permitted a military establishment that would be limited “to the right to
maintain sufficient police forces to ensure domestic security.”
One source frequently cited by Bloomfield in his study is World
Peace through World Law, a 1958 book
co-written by Wall
Street attorney Grenville Clark and Professor Louis B. Sohn. That book
unflinchingly endorsed the creation of “A World Police Force” that would
possess “a coercive force of overwhelming power.” It would initially be
equipped through “the transfer of weapons and equipment discarded by national
military forces during the process of complete disarmament.” However, it would
also benefit from a research and development program devoted to providing it
with a prohibitive advantage against any potential adversary.
Such an entity does not exist within the United Nations, of
course. But what Clark and Sohn envisioned looks a great deal like the military-industrial
complex that serves the interest of the de facto world government operated out
of Washington, D.C.
“Even in a world in which all national military forces were
abolished,” continued Clark and Sohn, “it is conceivable that … an aroused
nation with a strong grievance could marshal quite a formidable armed force
even if no on in it possessed any weapon stronger than a rifle.” This is why,
they concluded, “a strong and well-armed police force is part of the
indispensable price of peace and the sooner the world faces up to this
conclusion the better it will be for all peoples.”
Oh, sure, they acknowledge, the nuclear-armed world “Peace
Force” they envisioned “might be perverted into a tool of world domination” – a
concession they make without explaining how what they describe is something other than a plan for world
domination.
They then feinted in the direction of checks and balances,
insisting that “careful limitations and safeguards” would be incorporated into
the system – without providing so much as a hint of what they would be in a
world where everybody but UN-approved government bodies would be disarmed.
In his 1962 study, Bloomfield took note of one critical
complication: “In the United States, the people have the constitutional right
to `keep and bear arms’; the government monopoly is legally abridged to that
extent.”
Once we peel the propaganda and persiflage away from the new
UN arms treaty, it becomes clear that establishing that monopoly is the entire
purpose of the document.
Dum spiro, pugno!
11 comments:
Exquisite short piece Will.
Unfortunately, I must predict, and I also assume to be largely correct on this outlook, that the American people will raise some political ballyhoo and be sold out by their own local insiders, all the hand out chasers in their midst and their political whores.
"From my cold dead hands" is ironic, since we've been getting starved, broken financially and mentally demolished by intelligent, well organized scammers. And its been going on for a LONG time. Everyone waits for a saviour, and that's exactly why we have the saviour mindset and Messianic prophecies. As long as people wait for someone else to "do something," things will continue to work admirably well for the scammers.
Ironically, they attack religion, yet it is religion itself that gives them their power. You are taught that someone else will save you, that someone else will make it allright. That's why all attacks by the scammers against the belief based mind are always attacks against some of its beliefs designed to provoke indignation and the so called "clinging," but never attacks against using beliefs as knowledge and training into rational thought. These people are chess players, not fools, and they feint at a belief, but not at the real issue, because enshrining respect for knowledge would instantly devastate the astounding level of control which the scammers and criminals in power around the world, currently enjoy. Why would they do that? Why would the real chessmasters of the world, the manipulators behind the curtains, why would they lose to the masses, who on average can think strategically at least poorly enough to barely rival a typical factory farm chicken?
And to top off that irony, the real issue is that if you see it from the religious perspective, the Catholics might well have been right. Look around folks, WE, all of us, good and evil, are "God's hands on earth." Its people that change the world as we know it for better and for worse, and it is people who react to natural disasters and other "acts of God."
It is people who will complacently march into the camps, as ever they have in the past, and it will be people, who will unquestioningly obey orders to suicidally assail emplacements and pillboxes a month after their allies have won the war. It will also be people who will rebel. Its all about people, and the irony of it all is that people mostly exhibit magical thinking, expecting God to reach down and fix their ills.
As the old "joke" goes. The guy in the flood turns down 2 boats and a helicopter, drowns and questions God's benevolence, and God answers "Son, I sent you two boats and a helicopter, what more did you want?"
Nothing new under the sun, and I certainly am not holding my breath for the masses of Americans to suddenly develop balls AND brains (balls is a possibility, but brains, from the majority? Hah!)
Still, keep telling the truth, brother. Some are listening and feeling heartened that we aren't the lone madmen screaming in the woods anymore. By this point, "some" maybe even be "many."
I see this attempt to be completely illegal under the constitution, as if they care. I understand the senate does not have the votes to pass it, but Oblah - blah has stated he will enforce via executive order. This is a scary development and I still hold out some hope it will be struck down.
"Barack Obama is a left-leaning corporatist from an exotic background
You're being generous.
He's a Marxist, plain and simple!
Sadly, Americans are too poorly educated these days to remember their history. Our country was founded because we did not like bowing to a strong central government where the people had limited representation (sound a little like the UN?).
The second amendment was put in that rag we used to govern ourselves by to allow the people some defense again a strong central government.
Look how well it turned out for Germans after their government began to disarm people in the 20's (may have been early thirties)-they ended up with the nice "up with people" style government that laid waste to a quarter of the continent.
I'm not sure Americans have the sass anymore to rebel. I think they are too busy playing video games and watching American Idol.
The strongest weapons against American freedom have been television and the internet.
The only thing you can't pry from an Americans' cold dead hand is his remote control and Wii controller.
LC
Any U.S. Senator that signs this document might as well tattoo TRAITOR on his or her forehead, for we shall see it there anyway.
Why would the US even think of signing this? They're the largest arms exporter in the world, or were. Talk about cutting your profit margin to zero. Kind of like Jack Daniels signing another prohibition bill.
So it also tells you they, FedGov are lying through their teeth and have no intention of following any of the laws set forth in the treaty. And another reason why we shouldn't either.
70 million people applied for a background check to buy a gun during Obama's time in office.
And those purchases are just the ones we know of.
If 70 million isn't 'many', I don't know what 'many' is.
That number sure is reassuring when reading about plans like "they" have for us.
I seriously doubt that a single person who purchased a gun during this time period has any intention what-so-ever of turning them back in. They knew the score when they made their move.
Time marches on...
- One who waits AND acts.
Excellent blog post!
One reference I would like to give, comes from none other than CAMILO REYES RODRIGUEZ former President of "The United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade of Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects".
In July 2001, he stated:
"In addition, the Programme of Action includes a follow-up that states must put to use. We know that in the future, we will have to deal with two important matters: the transfer of SALW to non-state actors, and the restrictions on SALW ownership by civilians. We reached no consensus on the latter issue because of the position of one delegation."
That delegation was the US delegation under President George Bush.
Reference: http://www.watsoninstitute.org/bjwa/archive/9.1/SmallArms/Reyes.pdf
Great article. One accentuated by a chilling 2 word closing salvo: Peace Force. I’ve heard the term before but after reading the article, the reality of the term became so clear and disingenuous that I actually laughed out loud.
Peace Force. The penultimate oxymoron. Everything you ever wanted to know about the intent, dishonesty and fraud of all government collectively is neatly summed up by these two words and their undying efforts to make us swallow them. No doubt more such terminology will logically follow. Like maybe “Death Fun” or “Starvation Food” or “Ignorance Education”. Come to think of it, these things are already in place too. As I see it, either this is our inevitable future, or the shit is going to hit the fan real hard. Neither option is very appealing. And the mere existence and proliferation of governments are due all the blame.
Yet with the writing so plainly on the wall, what do so many ‘freedom loving’ Americans do…? Watch American Idol. To the point made above, regardless what our pols do in the future, we have already sold ourselves out to these shady agendas, by sitting idle. Is this 'treaty' really any more offensive than the twice renewed Patriot Act?
Maybe hope is already lost. But kudos to Will for keeping attention on these things for what it’s worth.
K, above, is absolutely correct. There is this mindset that goes "Oh, the calvary of pro-constitutionalist pols will some day ride over the hill and rescue us!" Not going to happen! The only ones who can "save" us IS us! And it doesn't mean it will be clean or pretty or even working withing "the system" that so many sheep bleat about.
Any attempt at enforcing this illegal contrivance at violating American civil rights must be resisted by all Americans with whatever force necessary to sustain their rights and Liberty and any who attempt to enforce or promote this illegal contrivance should be arrested and tried, by those same people, for treason.
There can be no middle ground in this nation for the corruption of civil rights and/or the advancement of totalitarian government at any cost.
Yank lll
Dear Leader will keep the kulaks out! They hate all of humanity and won't stop at any means or brutality to achieve their ends. Get the seeds of life with abortion, kill the elders with glorious socialized state run healthcare. Slowly poison the masses with synthetic foods that are time release poison. Distract the 'mundanes' with divide and conquer grievances and disposable pop culture trash. Disarm everyone before a mass waking up occurs. The true believers in statism worship the state, it is their religion. Total corruption and debasement of a society leads to total collapse every time.
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