The Coming UN Gun Ban
By Tanya Metaksa
FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/19/00
www.frontpagemag.com/arch...19-00p.htm
HOW MANY AMERICANS living in America read the International Herald Tribune? My guess is not many and even fewer gun-owning citizens. Yet, on January 26th of this year an article authored by Mark Malloch Brown and Janyantha Dhanapala was required reading for American gun owners and those who believe in our national sovereignty. The point of view they expressed will surely affect Americans’ Second Amendment rights in the years to come.
The title of the article was, “Let’s Go Out Into the World and Gather Up Small Arms.” The authors are both employees of the United Nations. Mark Malloch Brown is the administrator of the United Nations Development Program and Janyantha
Dhanapala is the UN undersecretary-general for disarmament affairs: two influential people prominent in the global gun ban
movement.
The article tells the story of how the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs visited Gramsh, Albania to “help broker an agreement by which community services would be delivered in proportion to the volume of arms and ammunition turned in.”
In other words until the citizens of Gramsh turned in their firearms, medical services and other essential services would be
withheld by the great humanitarian organization, the United Nations.
Brown and Dhanapala call for, among other items, destroying surplus, confiscated or collected small arms, legislation to
monitor, trace, and police legal arms transfers, and international guidelines for tracing weapons and ammunition through serial numbers and transit guidelines.
If anyone thinks that Brown and Dhanapala are just whistling in the wind, they better think again. Next year the UN is convening its first international conference on the “illicit” trade in small arms and light weapons - a watershed event. As I
mentioned in my last week’s article on FrontPageMagazine.com, (“Global Gun Grab,” 9/13/00) the United Nations has been
slowly and steadily working towards this international conference since 1995.
A very large group of non-governmental organizations (NGO) are supporting these UN employees and diplomats in their effort to ban guns across the globe. Most of these organizations have worked in the disarmament movement for years and learned their political lessons in the successful effort to get a United Nations treaty that bans land mines. Although the United States has yet to ratify the land mine treaty, most of the other nations are signatories.
Most of these NGOs get their funding from organizations, foundations, and other groups that would be considered politically to the extreme left of center. They are a cohesive
group which has been meeting together regularly for years and have developed a well-connected and well-funded network, which
tends to meet most often in conjunction with UN workshops on disarmament and small arms at various venues.
Additionally, there is a US small arms working group (USSAWG), which includes such anti-firearms notables as Michael Bears of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Tamar Gabelnick of the left-wing Federation of American Scientists, and Natalie Goldring or some other designee of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC). I have copies of notes from several meetings of the
USSAWG detailing the incestuous relationship these groups have not only with UN personnel, but also with national government officials across the globe.
The anti-firearms NGO’s and other informal groups are supported by governments such as Canada, Belgium, and Japan. For example, according to the notes a meeting of the USSAWG was held in Canada “with support from the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” A BASIC press briefing held in Washington
featured Joost Hiltermann, an Organization of American States (OAS) official and the South African Ambassador.
According to meeting notes of a June 1998 meeting of these groups, the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms
“requested a meeting with a number of NGOs to discuss the next stage of the process.” The meeting was held at the Quaker United Nations Office and representatives from BASIC, Federation of American Scientists, and Center for Defense Information attended. Although the National Rifle Association’s Institute
for Legislative Action (NRA/ILA) was an accredited NGO, all requests for a meeting with the UN Group had been denied.
It is evident that even as early as 1998 the US NGO anti-firearms community was hard at work drafting strategy to include
more and more like-minded organizations in their push for global gun control. They were making overtures to the World Council of Churches, the Arias Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International and inviting their representatives to meet and discuss tactics.
This careful planning behind closed doors had an ultimate goal: the creation of a huge umbrella group to coordinate the
international global gun-control efforts in support of the UN conference in 2001. The leading anti-firearms and peace operatives across the globe met in Brussels, Belgium in October 1998 to develop the ground work, an international network with leadership and staff dedicated to this one issue:
elimination of the private ownership of small arms across the globe. Maybe we all should read the International Herald Tribune
- our rights are in the balance.
Tanya K. Metaksa is the former executive director of the National Rifle Association's
Institute for Legislative Action.
She is the author of Safe, Not Sorry, a self-protection manual, published in 1997.
She has appeared on numerous talk and interview shows such as "Crossfire," the "Today" show, "Nightline," "This Week with David Brinkley" and the "McNeil-Lehrer Hour," among others.
I wonder how the MMM'ers fit in?
By Tanya Metaksa
FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/19/00
www.frontpagemag.com/arch...19-00p.htm
HOW MANY AMERICANS living in America read the International Herald Tribune? My guess is not many and even fewer gun-owning citizens. Yet, on January 26th of this year an article authored by Mark Malloch Brown and Janyantha Dhanapala was required reading for American gun owners and those who believe in our national sovereignty. The point of view they expressed will surely affect Americans’ Second Amendment rights in the years to come.
The title of the article was, “Let’s Go Out Into the World and Gather Up Small Arms.” The authors are both employees of the United Nations. Mark Malloch Brown is the administrator of the United Nations Development Program and Janyantha
Dhanapala is the UN undersecretary-general for disarmament affairs: two influential people prominent in the global gun ban
movement.
The article tells the story of how the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs visited Gramsh, Albania to “help broker an agreement by which community services would be delivered in proportion to the volume of arms and ammunition turned in.”
In other words until the citizens of Gramsh turned in their firearms, medical services and other essential services would be
withheld by the great humanitarian organization, the United Nations.
Brown and Dhanapala call for, among other items, destroying surplus, confiscated or collected small arms, legislation to
monitor, trace, and police legal arms transfers, and international guidelines for tracing weapons and ammunition through serial numbers and transit guidelines.
If anyone thinks that Brown and Dhanapala are just whistling in the wind, they better think again. Next year the UN is convening its first international conference on the “illicit” trade in small arms and light weapons - a watershed event. As I
mentioned in my last week’s article on FrontPageMagazine.com, (“Global Gun Grab,” 9/13/00) the United Nations has been
slowly and steadily working towards this international conference since 1995.
A very large group of non-governmental organizations (NGO) are supporting these UN employees and diplomats in their effort to ban guns across the globe. Most of these organizations have worked in the disarmament movement for years and learned their political lessons in the successful effort to get a United Nations treaty that bans land mines. Although the United States has yet to ratify the land mine treaty, most of the other nations are signatories.
Most of these NGOs get their funding from organizations, foundations, and other groups that would be considered politically to the extreme left of center. They are a cohesive
group which has been meeting together regularly for years and have developed a well-connected and well-funded network, which
tends to meet most often in conjunction with UN workshops on disarmament and small arms at various venues.
Additionally, there is a US small arms working group (USSAWG), which includes such anti-firearms notables as Michael Bears of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Tamar Gabelnick of the left-wing Federation of American Scientists, and Natalie Goldring or some other designee of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC). I have copies of notes from several meetings of the
USSAWG detailing the incestuous relationship these groups have not only with UN personnel, but also with national government officials across the globe.
The anti-firearms NGO’s and other informal groups are supported by governments such as Canada, Belgium, and Japan. For example, according to the notes a meeting of the USSAWG was held in Canada “with support from the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” A BASIC press briefing held in Washington
featured Joost Hiltermann, an Organization of American States (OAS) official and the South African Ambassador.
According to meeting notes of a June 1998 meeting of these groups, the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms
“requested a meeting with a number of NGOs to discuss the next stage of the process.” The meeting was held at the Quaker United Nations Office and representatives from BASIC, Federation of American Scientists, and Center for Defense Information attended. Although the National Rifle Association’s Institute
for Legislative Action (NRA/ILA) was an accredited NGO, all requests for a meeting with the UN Group had been denied.
It is evident that even as early as 1998 the US NGO anti-firearms community was hard at work drafting strategy to include
more and more like-minded organizations in their push for global gun control. They were making overtures to the World Council of Churches, the Arias Foundation, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International and inviting their representatives to meet and discuss tactics.
This careful planning behind closed doors had an ultimate goal: the creation of a huge umbrella group to coordinate the
international global gun-control efforts in support of the UN conference in 2001. The leading anti-firearms and peace operatives across the globe met in Brussels, Belgium in October 1998 to develop the ground work, an international network with leadership and staff dedicated to this one issue:
elimination of the private ownership of small arms across the globe. Maybe we all should read the International Herald Tribune
- our rights are in the balance.
Tanya K. Metaksa is the former executive director of the National Rifle Association's
Institute for Legislative Action.
She is the author of Safe, Not Sorry, a self-protection manual, published in 1997.
She has appeared on numerous talk and interview shows such as "Crossfire," the "Today" show, "Nightline," "This Week with David Brinkley" and the "McNeil-Lehrer Hour," among others.
I wonder how the MMM'ers fit in?
