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  Dear fellow patriot, With willing one-world accomplices in Washington, D.C., gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made. In fact, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton just announced the Obama Administration would be working hand in glove with the UN to pass a new “Small Arms Treaty.” This is Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia. I’m writing you to make sure American citizens are prepared to oppose this assault on our national sovereignty and right to keep and bear arms. Disguised as legislation to help in the fight against “terrorism,” “insurgency” and “international crime syndicates,” the UN’s Small Arms Treaty is nothing more than a massive, GLOBAL gun control scheme. Ultimately, the UN’s Small Arms Treaty is designed to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms owned by private citizens like YOU. The National Association for Gun Rights has a Firearms Sovereignty Survey ready for you to complete, but I want you to understand just how dangerous this global gun ban is. Please bear with me for a moment. So far, the gun-grabbers have successfully kept the exact wording of their new scheme under wraps.But looking at previous versions of the UN “Small Arms Treaty,” you and I can get a good idea of what’s likely in the works. If passed by the UN and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the UN “Small Arms Treaty” would almost certainly FORCE national governments to: *** Enact tougher licensing requirements, making law-abiding citizens cut through even more bureaucratic red tape just to own a firearm legally;
*** CONFISCATE and DESTROY ALL “unauthorized” civilian firearms (all firearms owned by the government are excluded, of course);
*** BAN the trade, sale and private ownership of ALL semi-automatic weapons;
*** Create an INTERNATIONAL gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun CONFISCATION. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that this is NOT a fight we can afford to lose.Ever since its founding almost 65 years ago, the United Nations has been hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees. To the petty dictators and one-worlders who control the UN, the U.S. isn’t a “shining city on a hill” -- it’s an affront to their grand totalitarian designs for the globe. These anti-gun globalists know that so long as Americans remain free to make our own decisions without being bossed around by big government bureaucrats, they’ll NEVER be able to seize the worldwide oppressive power they crave.And the UN’s apologists also know the most effective way to finally strip you and me of ALL our freedoms would be to DESTROY our gun rights. That’s why I’ve decided to stand with the National Association for Gun Rights in their opposition to this assault on our Constitution! The truth is, there’s no time to waste. You and I have to be prepared for this fight to move FAST. The fact is, the last thing the gun-grabbers in the U.N. and in Washington, D.C., want is for you and me to have time to react and mobilize gun owners to defeat this radical legislation. They’ve made that mistake before, and we’ve made them pay, defeating EVERY attempt to ram the “Treaty on Small Arms” into law since the mid-1990s. But this time, time won’t be on our side. In fact, we’re likely to only have a few days or weeks to defeat the treaty. Worse, there’s no longer a pro-gun Senate to kill ratification of the treaty. There’s no longer a President in the White House who has stated opposition to the treaty.And you and I know good and well how Germany, Great Britain, France, Communist China or the rest of the anti-gun members of the United Nations are going to vote. So our ONE AND ONLY CHANCE of stopping the UN’s “Small Arms Treaty” is during the ratification process in the U.S. Senate. As you know, it takes 67 Senate votes to ratify a treaty. So rounding up 34 votes to kill this thing should be easy, right? Unfortunately, that couldn’t be further from the truth. First, you know just as well as I do how few Senators are truly “pro-gun.” Second, even with the partisan rancor in Washington, D.C., many Senators get “queasy” about killing treaties for fear of “embarrassing” the President -- especially with “international prestige” at stake. They look at ratifying treaties much like approving Presidents’ Supreme Court nominees. And remember how many Senators turned their back on us and voted to confirm anti-gun Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor? A dozen more only voted against Sotomayor after receiving massive grassroots pressure from the folks back home. So if we’re going to defeat the UN’s “Small Arms Treaty” we have to turn the heat up on the U.S. Senate now before it’s too late!Do you believe the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Second Amendment are the supreme law of the land? Do you believe any attempt by the United Nations to subvert or supersede your Constitutional rights must be opposed? If you said “Yes” to these questions, please sign the survey the National Association for Gun Rights has prepared for you. Your survey will put you squarely on the record AGAINST the UN’s Small Arms Treaty. The National Association for Gun Rights will immediately begin contacting Second Amendment supporters to turn up the heat on targeted U.S. Senators. Direct mail. Phones. E-mail. Blogs. Billboards. Guest editorials. Press conferences. Hard-hitting newspaper, radio and TV ads. The whole nine yards. Of course, if NAGR can raise enough resources, their goal is to expand this full program to ALL their target states.But that’s not going to be cheap, and we may not have much time. In fact, if we’re going to defeat the UN’s so-called “Small Arms Treaty,” we have to start NOW! So please put yourself on record AGAINST the UN’s “Small Arms Treaty” by signing NAGR’s Firearms Sovereignty Survey. For Freedom,  Dr. Paul Broun, M.D. U.S. Congressman (R-GA) | ||
I guess he really has decided to go the Jimmy Carter route - with an Iranian twist:
Mrs. Clinton said the [Israeli-Palestinian] talks are due to begin on September 2 and will be hosted by President Barack Obama. She said she hoped a comprehensive peace agreement can be reached within one year.
"There have been difficulties in the past, there will be difficulties ahead. .. I ask the parties to persevere, to keep moving forward even through difficult times and to continue working to achieve a just and lasting peace in the region," Mrs. Clinton said.
The leaders of Egypt and Jordan also have been invited to attend the first session.
In a statement, the Quartet - the EU, the UN, the US and Russia - said its members reaffirmed direct negotiations between the parties, "which can be completed within one year."
The historical parallel with the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, "hosted" by Mr. Peanut, couldn't be more obvious. Given that his foreign policy has been as inept and disastrous as its domestic counterpart, Red Barry is clearly looking for some actual accomplishment that will be generally acknowledged as such to give him something to hang his 2012 re-election hat on, especially since otherwise all he'll be seen as doing is obstructing the dismantling of all the unpopular garbage the GOP congressional majorities were elected to repeal, cut, and replace. A Rose Garden photo-op with Netanyahu and Abbas grinningly sharing a three-way handshake with His Majesty wouldn't necessarily be any magic electoral elixir, but it'd be a big step in the direction he wants to go.
But then there's the aforementioned "Iranian twist":
Coincidentally, according to today’s front-page administration-fed NYT story, one year is also the timeframe U.S. officials are now claiming Iran has before it achieves nuclear breakout capacity. The idea of this two-step media offensive, presumably, is to put pressure on Israel not to do anything “rash” before the new round of peace talks plays out, especially with news set to break tomorrow that the Bushehr reactor is ready to go. That’s consistent with the White House’s thinking all along: They’ve always believed that settling the Palestinian issue first will make it easier to deal with Iranian nukes by denying the mullahs an opportunity to exploit the great Muslim grievance. If a peace deal is struck, then theoretically the goodwill it’ll generate towards Israel and America among Sunni nations will neutralize the Muslim solidarity that Iran wants to exploit when the confrontation over its nuke program finally comes.
In plain, blunt terms, B.O. will be holding the Israelis hostage on the mullahs' behalf against the IDF doing what has to be done to at least buy time towards the Jewish State's very survival, which is only necessitated by our refusal to "disarm" Tehran ourselves.
Eeyore accurately previews the inevitable endgame:
Hamas will play no role in the peace negotiations and has no interest in ceding Gaza to its enemies in the Palestinian Authority in the event that a peace deal is hashed out. On the contrary, with Iran’s full support, they’ll inevitably accuse Abbas of having sold out the Palestinian nation in order to inflame the same sense of Muslim grievance and solidarity that the peace talks are meant to mute. In fact, if O shocks the world and the talks start making serious progress, I assume Iran and Hamas (and Hezbollah, of course) will simply precipitate some sort of crisis in order to derail them. Which is to say, how can you expect any deal to hold as long as Tehran and its proxies still have fangs?
And once they have nuclear fangs (again, as always, assuming they don't have them already) what Muslim entity will even heed, much less cooperate with any U.S. initiative once incineration from Tehran becomes the likely outcome?
Yes, triumphal photo-ops and re-election definitely are driving this umpteenth doomed-from-inception "peace process" wank. But the regime's strategic objective remains: Dismantle Israel as the implacable enemy of "Middle East peace," not Iranian Islamist theocratic apocalyptic fanaticism, which can be "won over" to "peace and friendship" with an "extended open hand.
You know, just like Imam Rauf and Park51 (and Barack Obama and the Pelosi Politburo) have been SO open to compromise on the site of the Islamic Victory Monument.
What could go wrong?
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Suing Arizona to stop them from doing for themselves the border control and enforcement that the Obamunists won't do for them:
Why are they gonna do this? Political desperation. The public at large is already two to one against the White House on this issue, so the only thing they can salvage from this politically is to at least try to rally the Donk base in general and Hispanics in particular. After the appalling demogoguery the Hussein administration has vomited in Arizona's direction, to not sue would be to kiss their last significant support in the entire electorate goodbye. If they weren't painted into a corner before, they definitely are now.
And yet, isn't it at least a little odd that the first public indication of this bonfire of the insanities is disclosed on Ecuadorian television by Hillary Clinton? Was the Empress following orders or was she freelancing, knowing that this would hit the blogosphere and go viral immediately, with predictable results? Will the White House remain silent on it or will they issue a "carefully worded" denial? Have the 2012 Donk presidential primaries already begun?
You remember the old Reagan quip about Big Government: If you subsidize something, you'll get more of it; if you tax something, you'll get less of it; if it stops moving, regulate it. After Red Barry opened up this "hands across borders" photo-hug with that nauseating, Reconquista-pandering bilge about the U.S. and Mexico being "defined by our bonds, not our boundaries," his Mexican counterpart and chief comprehensive beneficiary of American abdication of the core of what defines national sovereignty, "unexpectedly" displayed a robustly ravenous appetite for...more:
Oh, there's no question that this is a rage-blindness inducing spectacle. (1) A foreign leader coming to our own soil, or own nation's capital, and pisses in our faces; (2) presumes to not just meddle in our domestic affairs, but dictate to an American state what immigration laws it may pass; (3) does so in the stupendous audacity of being the source of the intolerable illegals problem against which Arizona has had to take action for the sake of its citizens' public safety and the equally towering hypocrisy of his own country treating "undocumented visitors" more harshly than any American poobah at any level of government has ever dreamed. And there stood B.O., grinning like an idiot as if Calderon's overbearing bad-handery was somehow vindicatory of his party's own inexhaustible demogoguery it echoed. This after spending inordinate time traveling the world bowing and prostrating to every foreign potentate and tinpot he could find.
The last is not Eeyore's take on it. And I would agree that Lucifer probably does know how horribly this will go over with the public at large. But, once again, since when has the L'il President EVER cared what the unwashed masses thought of his actions and decrees? He's governed for the last sixteen months as if on a political kamikaze mission to permanently "transform" as much of American society as he can before the window of Marxist-Alinskyist authoritarian opportunity closes. He agrees with every filthbag word that spewed forth from Calderon's mealy mouth. If The One is gritting his teeth inwardly, it's only because he was physically restraining himself from butting in and giving El Presidente's speech for him.
Exit quote:
I’m not sure which Mexicans Calderon’s presuming to speak for. If he means Mexican citizens who are in the country legally, fair enough. If he means illegals, i.e. if he’s actually complaining on behalf of people who aren’t even supposed to be here, his balls are even brassier than I thought.
Exit retort: "If"?
Seeing Andy McCarthy with his lower jaw on the floor about this is a lot of why I struggle so mightily to hold on to my cynicism, because if I let myself indulge in incredulity even once at the lengths of lunacy to which Barack Neville Chamberlain Obama is willing to go, I'll never close my mouth again.
And, you know, probably never sleep again, either:
The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up “moderate elements” within the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla movement and to diminish the influence of hard-liners, a top White House official said on Tuesday.
John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, met with Lebanese leaders during a recent visit.
“Hezbollah is a very interesting organization,” Brennan told a Washington conference, citing its evolution from “purely a terrorist organization” to a militia to an organization that now has members within the parliament and the cabinet.
“There is [sic] certainly the elements of Hezbollah that are truly a concern to us what they’re doing. And what we need to do is to find ways to diminish their influence within the organization and to try to build up the more moderate elements,” Brennan said.
He did not spell out how Washington hoped to promote “moderate elements” given that the organization is branded a “foreign terrorist organization” by the United States.
Um, dude, the Taliban had political elements to it, which is what happens when a faction takes over its country. Oh, wait, bad example. How about Nazi Germany? Any objections? Good. The Nazi Party had political elements to it. So did the Bolsheviks. And the Chinese Communists. That didn't mitigate in the slightest the fact that these were bestial, demonic, mass-murdering regimes that deserved to be eradicated.
The Hezbos are no different. And they're a wholly owned subsidiary of the Iranian mullahgarchy, remember? Their reason for existence is to serve as a puppet regime controlling Lebanon for Tehran, providing the mullahs a forward base bordering on the nation to its immediate south, which Adolph Ahmadinejad, speaking for those very same mullahs, has vowed to "wipe off the map". Applying fantasist parlor Kremlinologizing to a single-minded Islamic theocratic war gang is sheer ivory tower anthropomorphic five-knuckle-shuffling at its vile worst.
It's a pity the CIA isn't still an actual intelligence agency, as I would have no problem whatsoever with infiltrating Hezbollah with the goal of neutralizing it from the inside. Sending diplofanatics to mine the Hezbos for "moderation" sounds like a "We make/you take" hostage delivery service.
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