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2013-09-25 International-UN-NGOs

Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to sign an arms trade treaty opposed by the Senate and the gun lobby as early as Wednesday, and Republicans aren't happy about it.

Kerry's plan to sign the treaty on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week has sparked immediate criticism from GOP opponents.

This treaty is already dead in the water in the Senate, and they know it, said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services. The Administration is wasting precious time trying to sign away our laws to the global community and unelected U.N. bureaucrats.

A majority of Senators oppose the treaty because it covers small arms, making ratification impossible in the short term.

And makes it impossible for oppressed people to defend themselves from thugs. Thugs consider this to be a key feature in the new treaty...

Kerry had already announced in June that the administration would sign the treaty as soon as it was satisfied with its translations into the different official U.N. languages.

Did John do the French translation himself?

An Inhofe amendment to the Senate Budget resolution in March blocking the U.S. from joining the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty garnered 53 yes votes.

The National Rifle Association insists the pact is a U.N.-backed gun grab. Advocates of the treaty say it's only aimed at regulating international sales to prevent terrorists and other rogue actors from getting their hands on weapons.

Posted by Steve White 2013-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Odd, Kerry should know that our government stupidity doesn't wash in other lands, we get laughed at.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-09-25 01:28|| 2013-09-25 01:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Ratify, then implement by executive order?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-25 04:11|| 2013-09-25 04:11|| Front Page Top

#3 It seems to me that if the regime signs a blatantly unconstitutional treaty should be summarily charged with treason.

Posted by AlanC 2013-09-25 07:20|| 2013-09-25 07:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, but will he comply?

Posted by Iblis 2013-09-25 09:04|| 2013-09-25 09:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Gotta keep the peasants in their place. Or at least try...

Posted by tu3031 2013-09-25 10:55|| 2013-09-25 10:55|| Front Page Top

#6 John Fn Kerry should provide the example and forswear all armed secutity for himself, Terayzah, and all State Dept employees

Posted by Frank G 2013-09-25 12:07|| 2013-09-25 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 and all State Dept employees

They may have had an early start in Benghazi.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-09-25 13:40|| 2013-09-25 13:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Kerry to ban ex-Royal Marines with handguns from Malls.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-09-25 14:19|| 2013-09-25 14:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Orbit/Global/SpaceStrike + GMD-TMD + Conventional Arms treatises = SKYNET-MATRIX + RISE OF THE DRONES/MACHINES???

NOW WID DA-ARNUUULD-APPROVED, ENVIRO-CORRECT, ANTI-GWCC LUBE.

D *** NG, I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE, BUT WHERE???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-09-25 23:59|| 2013-09-25 23:59|| Front Page Top

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