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Attorney Stands Up to UN Arms Trade Treaty #N3
(NNN) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently took the apparent lead among state officials in rebuffing the Obama administration on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly on April 2.
Treaty approval came just after negotiations were conducted by national delegates in March at UN headquarters in New York. Objections to the treaty by Iran, Syria and North Korea, as well as Russia and India, were largely ignored.
Wasting no time, Abbott penned a sharply written letter on April 2 to Obama, which spotlights the deceptive treaty’s flaws and dangers.
Abbott wrote that the UN treaty:
1) “fails to recognize the fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms or the right to defend one’s family, person, and property;”
2) “empowers a new UN bureaucracy focused on firearms restrictions that will be run by international bureaucrats who are not accountable to the people of the United States;” and
3) “employs vague and sweeping language that could be used for any number of future restrictions on Second Amendment rights.”
Abbott added: “The treaty . . . contains a vague and open-ended call for heightened domestic regulation of imported firearms, which make up a large percentage of the market for new firearms in this country.”
Abbott’s letter continued, “As with most so-called international-law documents promulgated by the UN, the draft treaty is not written using the precise, unambiguous language required of a good legal document. Instead, the treaty employs sweeping rhetoric and imprecise terminology that could be used by those who seek to undermine our liberties . . .”
Abbott added treaties do not void the Constitution.
“Treaties do not trump constitutional liberties. Even if you, as the President, signed and the Senate ratified the UN Arms Trade Treaty, our Constitution remains the Supreme Law of the Land and would supersede any treaty provision that violated Second Amendment rights.”
And while Abbott urged Obama to stop the treaty before the Senate can even consider ratifying it, the Texas AG threatened to sue the Obama administration if it does not back down:
Strong words—but could this letter just be political grandstanding?
Abbott has, to be sure, collected millions in campaign funds and is potential candidate for Texas governor in 2014. “Abbott,” the Dallas Morning News believes “is wooing the party’s right wing by attacking Obama and promising to fight the U.N. treaty.”
At any rate, the Arms Trade Treaty will be open for initial signatures, merely a preliminary action, around June 3—though the Senate has yet to act on it.
The private Arms Control Association described the treaty as “an historic step forward in dealing with the unregulated and illicit global trade in conventional weapons and ammunition, which fuels wars and human rights abuses worldwide.”
But the U.S. and its key allies such as Israel fuel wars and human-rights abuses daily in a so-called “legitimate” trade and “accepted” usage of various armaments—under a foreign policy of constant interventionism in other nations’ affairs.
(NNN) – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott recently took the apparent lead among state officials in rebuffing the Obama administration on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly on April 2.
Treaty approval came just after negotiations were conducted by national delegates in March at UN headquarters in New York. Objections to the treaty by Iran, Syria and North Korea, as well as Russia and India, were largely ignored.
Wasting no time, Abbott penned a sharply written letter on April 2 to Obama, which spotlights the deceptive treaty’s flaws and dangers.
Abbott wrote that the UN treaty:
1) “fails to recognize the fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms or the right to defend one’s family, person, and property;”
2) “empowers a new UN bureaucracy focused on firearms restrictions that will be run by international bureaucrats who are not accountable to the people of the United States;” and
3) “employs vague and sweeping language that could be used for any number of future restrictions on Second Amendment rights.”
Abbott added: “The treaty . . . contains a vague and open-ended call for heightened domestic regulation of imported firearms, which make up a large percentage of the market for new firearms in this country.”
Abbott’s letter continued, “As with most so-called international-law documents promulgated by the UN, the draft treaty is not written using the precise, unambiguous language required of a good legal document. Instead, the treaty employs sweeping rhetoric and imprecise terminology that could be used by those who seek to undermine our liberties . . .”
Abbott added treaties do not void the Constitution.
“Treaties do not trump constitutional liberties. Even if you, as the President, signed and the Senate ratified the UN Arms Trade Treaty, our Constitution remains the Supreme Law of the Land and would supersede any treaty provision that violated Second Amendment rights.”
And while Abbott urged Obama to stop the treaty before the Senate can even consider ratifying it, the Texas AG threatened to sue the Obama administration if it does not back down:
Strong words—but could this letter just be political grandstanding?
Abbott has, to be sure, collected millions in campaign funds and is potential candidate for Texas governor in 2014. “Abbott,” the Dallas Morning News believes “is wooing the party’s right wing by attacking Obama and promising to fight the U.N. treaty.”
At any rate, the Arms Trade Treaty will be open for initial signatures, merely a preliminary action, around June 3—though the Senate has yet to act on it.
The private Arms Control Association described the treaty as “an historic step forward in dealing with the unregulated and illicit global trade in conventional weapons and ammunition, which fuels wars and human rights abuses worldwide.”
But the U.S. and its key allies such as Israel fuel wars and human-rights abuses daily in a so-called “legitimate” trade and “accepted” usage of various armaments—under a foreign policy of constant interventionism in other nations’ affairs.
