{"id":11215,"date":"2013-09-26T02:36:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2013-09-26T02:36:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:36:54","slug":"the-arms-control-treaty-that-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/the-arms-control-treaty-that-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arms Control Treaty That Isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Kerry signed an treaty purporting to control the international small weapons trade.  I think such a treaty is desperately needed to lessen the needless deaths from genocide and war crimes.  I have an article here, that explains the treaty quite well, but it fails explain that it\u2019s all for show.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"25John-Kerry\"US Secretary of State John Kerry will this week sign the first global treaty to regulate the $80 billion annual trade in conventional arms, seeking to stem the flow of weapons used in war crimes and genocide.<\/p>\n

A source familiar with the diplomatic maneuvers confirmed to AFP that Kerry would sign the treaty on Wednesday after it was adopted earlier this year by the United Nations to regulate trade in tanks, armored combat vehicles, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, missiles as well as small arms.<\/p>\n

The treaty, which has been years in the making, was only adopted after tough negotiations at the United Nations. The talks had deadlocked last year after the United States asked for more time to pour over the draft text.<\/p>\n

Kerry praised the adoption of the treaty in saying it was \u201cstrong, effective and implementable\u201d and insisted it would not infringe on the US Constitution and the Second Amendment right to bear arms\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s the problem.  In order to be ratified, it needs 2\/3 of the Senate or 67 votes.  If 34 Senators vote against it, it fails.  Unfortunately 35 senators have already signed a resolution to outlaw this treaty. They include 33 Republicans and two other goose-steppers: Max \u201cBARF\u201d Baucus (DINO-MT), who helped Republicans weaken ObamaCare, and Joe Manchin (DINO-WV), hostage to Gun and Coal manufacturers.  The current Republican conspiracy theory is that this treaty is socialist plot to take away their guns.  Of course the real reason is that the same gun manufacturers who insist that anyone be able to purchase guns, even those forbidden by law to do so, also demand the right of terrorists and militias, foreign or domestic, to buy guns.  It\u2019s all about blood money.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday John Kerry signed an treaty purporting to control the international small weapons trade.  I think such a treaty is desperately needed to lessen the needless deaths from genocide and war crimes.  I have an article here, that explains the treaty quite well, but it fails explain that it\u2019s all for show. US Secretary of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}