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Subject: [smashthestate] Global Gun Grab
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 7:34 PM
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09Nov1999
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/11-22-99/vo15no24_gun.htm
The New American Magazine
Vol. 15, No. 24
November 22, 1999
Global Gun Grab
by Thomas R. Eddlem
It�s open season on the right to keep and bear arms as UN globocrats gear up
for international gun controls.
The United Nations is very troubled that the United States has retained its
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees that "the right of
the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." Radical new UN
proposals treat free people with the means to effect their own self-defense as
a vital threat to the United Nations and its quest for what it calls the
"peace-building process."
More troubling still is the fact that for the first time this radical UN
agenda represents a clear and present danger to our right to keep and bear
arms. This is in part because the Clinton State Department is collaborating
with the UN and its proposals. But another, perhaps more dangerous, prong of
the UN attack on the right to keep and bear arms comes from an insidious
quasi-private institution heavily funded by socialist Northern European
governments. This little-known, UN-backed organization charges itself with
developing "message strategies" and "campaigning and advocacy strategies" to
obtain a UN-managed global ban on the private ownership of firearms.
Anti-Gun Agenda
The United Nations "Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms"
issued on August 19th bitterly complains that "there are wide differences
among States [nations] as regards which types of arms are permitted for
civilian possession, and as regards the circumstances under which they can
legitimately be owned, carried and used. Such wide variation in national laws
raise difficulties for effective regional or international coordination." That
the UN "experts" are complaining mainly about the United States is made clear
from the concluding recommendations in the report. Among the "coordination"
proposals adopted by the panel � enthusiastically seconded by UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan in his foreword to the report � are the
following:
� "All States should ensure that they have in place adequate laws, regulations
and administrative procedures to exercise effective control over the legal
possession of small arms and light weapons and over their transfer...."
� "States are encouraged to integrate measures to control ammunition...."
� "States should work toward � the prohibition of unrestricted trade and
private ownership of small arms and light weapons...."
The UN report defines small arms to include just about every category of
firearms that exists: "The category of small arms includes revolvers and
self-loading pistols, rifles and carbines, sub-machine guns, assault rifles
and light machine guns." The United Nations call for banning even hunting
rifles and antique revolvers from civilian possession demonstrates the radical
and groundbreaking nature of the report.
Though the current United Nations attack on the Second Amendment fails to take
aim at civilian possession of shotguns, shotgun owners should find no security
in the current UN focus. The UN report in no way limits global firearms
restrictions to "military"-related firearms such as "revolvers" and "rifles."
The UN "experts" explain that the United Nations must deal with firearms on
social as well as military criteria: "Virtually every part of the United
Nations system is dealing in one way or another with the consequences of the
armed conflicts, insecurity, violence, crime, social disruption, displaced
peoples and human suffering that are directly or indirectly associated with
the wide availability and the use of these weapons."
To implement their gun control measures, UN officials plan to ignore the
reservation of national sovereignty guaranteed in the UN Charter the same way
that the U.S. Congress often ignores the 10th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution. The UN Charter bans UN intervention in "matters which are
essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state," but the UN is no
longer concerned with legal niceties. Annan explained in his September 22nd
address before the UN General Assembly that "state sovereignty, in its most
basic sense, is being redefined.... A new, broader definition of national
interest is needed in the new century [where] the collective interest is the
national interest." In Annan�s view, the "collective interest" mandates that
Americans and other peoples of the world should not own firearms and that the
UN should be the key organ charged with collecting them. Annan emphasized in a
September 24th speech that "controlling the easy availability of small arms is
a prerequisite for a successful peace-building process," which is why the
"United Nations has played a leading role in putting the issue of small arms
firmly on the international agenda."
UN control over a global movement to ban private firearms ownership has
already begun. According to a September 23rd UN press release, the United
Nations convened a two-day workshop to set up a test arms register and
"database" maintained by the UN for the entire continent of Africa. There have
already been calls to make this regional database binding on all nations.
Clinton Administration Assent
More troubling than the fact that a corrupt United Nations is seeking to
attack the U.S. Bill of Rights and confiscate firearms legally owned by
American citizens is the fact that the Clinton administration has been
actively conspiring with the United Nations to accomplish this subversive
goal. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan emphasizes in his foreword to the
"Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms" that it was
"prepared, and adopted by consensus" and was the product of "unanimity" among
the "expert" members of the group. Based upon Annan�s statement, we can
presume that none of the "experts" object to such a naked attack on the right
to bear arms. Yet among the "experts" who drafted the report was U.S. State
Department Senior Foreign Affairs Specialist Herbert L. Calhoun.
State Department assistance to the UN global gun grab agenda dates back to at
least 1994, when the Washington Times reported in its May 24th edition that
"the Clinton administration has agreed to participate in a discussion of ways
for the United Nations to control the manufacture of guns and their sales to
civilians.... The UN working paper declares that governments individually are
�impotent� to deal with global arms trafficking and proposes �harmonization�
of gun control standards around the world to make trafficking easier to spot
and prevent." The Times report noted that "any �harmonization� would
inevitably mean tightening controls on the loosely regulated U.S. gun
business."
State Department officials have expressed general sympathies with the current
UN proposals without mentioning the specific attack on citizen firearms
ownership. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told the first-ever UN
Security Council Small Arms Ministerial on September 24th that "the United
States strongly supports these steps," that we "welcome the important
precedent which the UN has set," and that the U.S. would work to "commit to
finishing negotiations on a firearms protocol to the UN Transnational
Organized Crime Convention by the end of 2000.""
The United Nations� call for gun control is an affront to our way of life and
our constitutional government," Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) told The New
American. "Mixing gun control with internationalism is certain to result in an
assault on American rights and liberties." Representative Roscoe Bartlett
(R-MD) pointed out to The New American that the UN�s escalating gun
confiscation campaign "fits the pattern of a UN that�s become a refuge and a
foundation for promoting socialism and undermining national sovereignty and
individual freedom." The eager involvement of the Clinton/Albright State
Department in that campaign illustrates anew the administration�s contempt for
the Constitution, the rule of law, and our national independence.
NGO Advocacy
Conspiring officials within the Clinton administration do not constitute the
only prong of the UN assault on the right to keep and bear arms. The UN has
established within its Department for Disarmament Affairs a department of
Coordinating Action on Small Arms (CASA). According to an August 14th UN press
release, CASA would be charged with coordinating all UN small arms control
efforts, including a responsibility "to encourage civil society involvement in
building societal resistance to violence." The reference to "civil society"
suggests that the UN is trying to mobilize private sector Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) and citizen pressure on behalf of its agenda.
The attempt to generate pressure from below as well as from above has already
obtained results. In November 1998 the UNESCO Courier suggested that "the
political tides may be changing. An international campaign is now underway
with non-governmental organizations of all stripes and colours � disarmament
and gun control groups along with development and human rights associations in
the North and South � building common ground with the active support of
governments like Mali, Canada, Norway and Japan."
This year the international campaign sought by the UNESCO Courier acquired an
organizational face, although there is very little "non-governmental" about
it. Annan specifically cited this new organization, as well as the
UN-generated "momentum" justifying this impending power grab, in his September
24th address on small arms: "The momentum for combating small arms
proliferation has also come from civil society, which has been increasingly
active on this issue. The establishment early this year of the International
Action Network on Small Arms [IANSA] has helped to sharpen public focus on
small arms, which has helped us gain the public support necessary for
success." IANSA is intended to "provide a transnational framework" for the
mobilization of a broad citizen movement in favor of gun control, according to
the organizational goals posted on its website. The services IANSA intends to
provide the UN-led global gun control movement include "campaigning and
advocacy strategies," "developing culturally appropriate �message�
strategies," "information sharing" among NGOs, and "constituency building."
Funding for this incipient propaganda campaign comes from the public trough of
the taxpayers of the European socialist nations. IANSA notes on its website
that its eight most significant financial donors include five government
agencies: The Belgian Ministry for Development Cooperation; the Swedish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the
United Kingdom Department for International Development; and the Finnish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (The remaining three are small, pacifist,
U.S.-based tax-exempt foundations.)
Clinton�s "Buy-back" Initiative
On September 9th, Bill Clinton unveiled a proposal that represents yet another
prong of the UN-directed global gun grab: A $15 million federal gun "buy-back"
initiative to be implemented by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD). Through subsidies from HUD, local police departments will
be awarded up to $500,000 to collect and destroy an estimated 300,000
firearms. The UN Centre for Disarmament Affairs (UNCDA) refers to such
"buy-backs" as a "practical method of micro-disarmament," which has been
field-tested by municipal governments in the U.S. � and by UN "peacekeeping"
forces in Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and other countries. A 1995 UNCDA
paper by Dr. Edward J. Laurance, a consultant to the UN Register of
Conventional Arms since 1992, notes that the UNCDA has studied both "buy-back
programs as practiced in many American cities" and those "conducted by the
U.S. Army in Haiti" � the latter being part of a "peacekeeping" mission
carried out on orders from the UN Security Council.
According to Dr. Laurance, government "buy-backs" of small arms "must be
conducted in parallel with other efforts," such as "seizure programs." He also
points out that "buy-backs" have a propaganda benefit, in that they focus
"attention on the link between weapons availability and crime" � thereby
preparing the public for more aggressive civilian disarmament measures. To
illustrate a UN-supervised civilian "micro-disarmament" program that worked,
he refers to El Salvador�s "new laws outlawing possession of military weapons
and requiring all citizens to register hand guns and personal weapons. A new
police force was created [and] trained under UN supervision � [which] received
specialized training in searching for, confiscating and destroying �
military-style weapons...."
Sami Faltas of the Bonn International Centre for Conversion, an international
"think tank" that has advised UN officials on civilian disarmament programs
around the world (and for which Dr. Laurance serves as a consultant), has laid
out the program with stunning candor:A subtle mix of rewards and penalties is
needed for a weapons [confiscation] program to succeed. Ultimately, the
ownership of arms should not be left to the personal choice of individuals.
The state needs to preserve its monopoly of the legitimate use of force. So
sanctions against the illegal possession and use of arms are necessary and
should be imposed. However, during a weapons collection program, an amnesty is
needed, and the emphasis should be on voluntary compliance and positive
incentives.
The equation is quite easy to understand: Gun "buy-backs" prepare the public
for uniform gun registration, which leads to universal gun confiscation and a
state monopoly on lethal force. This was the process that led to mass murder
of subject populations in Soviet Russia, National Socialist Germany, Communist
China, and other despotisms. With the covert aid of the Clinton
administration, the UN is now implementing this process on a global basis.
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