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Ignoring the UN's gun-grab program
But the U.N. has long urged that firearms must never be transferred to "non-state actors" -- that is, entities which are neither governments nor government-approved. [This rule would] make it a violation of international law to sell arms to Taiwan (according to the U.N., not a state). It would also make illegal arms sales to any and every current group resisting tyranny or genocide.
In the borderlands of Kenya and Uganda, joint military operations are burning villages, confiscating cattle from the pastoral tribes, torturing, murdering, pillaging and turning over 100,000 people into refugees, many of them starving. These atrocities are being perpetrated pursuant to the Nairobi Protocol, a U.N.-led regional treaty which obligates the signatory governments to eradicate unlicensed gun possession.
The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has under U.N. leadership banned the import of all firearms, except those for government use. Although human rights groups have warned that two Ecowas countries -- Ivory Coast and Guinea -- are on the brink of genocide, the U.N. seems determined to keep the potential genocide victims as helpless and defenseless as the genocide victims in Darfur.
Kopel observes that the UN bureaucrats and gun-prohibition lobbies were aware they would not reach their goal at this year’s conference, but aim to keep this line of discussion open in future years, looking forward to a time when a new President, such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore or Michael Bloomberg might be willing to sign on to an international gun-control treaty that would supersede the provisions of the US Constitution.
The gun prohibition lobbies are already working to claim that there is an
international "norm" against citizen gun possession. (An international
"norm" is similar to common law -- as opposed to international law created
by formal treaties.) Our own US Supreme Court, recently cited
unratified treaties as evidence of international norms which should guide
the interpretation of our Constitution.
“The U.N. gun control program, of which this week's small arms conference is
a part, has already caused massive suffering and the loss of civil liberties in many nations around the world. Americans would be foolish to imagine that they will always be immune.”