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From www.newsmax.com Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association defines why he dreads the thought of Hillary Clinton in the White House.
It is clear that gunowners cannot ever let Clinton ever occupy the White House, if the Second Amendment is to survive.
It is clear that gunowners cannot ever let Clinton ever occupy the White House, if the Second Amendment is to survive.
(Continued below)Wayne LaPierre Dreads A Hillary Presidency
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
FAIRFAX, Va. -- Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association, tells NewsMax that the United Nations is dead set on writing a treaty that will curb domestic ownership of guns.
He also says his worst fear is that a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency would allow such a treaty to severely damage Second Amendment rights.
"She has never cast a pro-gun vote in the U.S. Senate," advises LaPierre, author of "The Global War on Your Guns: Inside the U.N. Plan to Destroy the Bill of Rights."
"She will probably be the most anti-firearm Second Amendment candidate to ever run for President of the United States."
All this is not some vague future scenario, warns LaPierre. The world's governments will be attending the second world gun summit in New York City between June 27 and July 7, and the anti-gun factions are raring to go.
The 'Nightmare Scenario'
LaPierre says that while a formal treaty needs two-thirds of the Senate to get approved, the damage to gun ownership rights can be done with a simple agreement, which requires only a simple majority in the House and the Senate.
"That is how President Clinton passed NAFTA [the North American Free Trade Agreement]. The U.N. can do it with a simple agreement - if someone like Hillary Clinton ever becomes president.
"Here is the nightmare scenario on that: Yes, our Supreme Court has said the U.S. Constitution trumps treaties. But say Hillary Clinton becomes President in 2008 and gets a couple of Supreme Court appointments. The policy of her husband when he was president is that the Second Amendment applies only to the government and not individuals. Individuals have no right to own guns - only the government.
"If the U.S. Supreme Court, stacked with Hillary Clinton appointments, were to decide that the Second Amendment is only a government right and not the individual right, there would be nothing in the Constitution then to prohibit this U.N. treaty from taking effect," LaPierre said.
Making matters worse, adds LaPierre, is that in his opinion, Supreme Court Justices are increasingly looking to international custom and international law a phenomenon the U.N. is counting on.
The chief NRA spokesman also warns that in yet another wave of attacks, the U.N. will be preparing international lawsuits against American firearms manufacturers.
The George Soros 'Toxin'
For anyone who doubts that the U.N. could weasel its designs into the political and judicial fabric of the country, LaPierre gives a short course in reality.
He explains to NewsMax that the whole anti-gun movement in the U.S. is linked to the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) umbrella at the U.N.
IANSA's director, Rebecca Peters, who once famously debated LaPierre in London, is a great advocate of what she says is the "need to address the problem of guns circulating among civilian populations."
Another way anti-gun activists "have tentacles into the grass roots of this country" is through 527 committees, instructs LaPierre.
"One of the major funding people at the U.N. in terms of the gun ban movement and the NGOs [Non-governmental Organizations] is [billionaire activist] George Soros, who is putting tens of millions of dollars into 527 committees within the U.S. designed to manipulate our elections.
"George Soros is like a new toxin that is polluting American politics. These people consider themselves earthlings first and citizens of any other country second. They eat breakfast in London and dinner in New York and fly around the world in their jets.
"It is increasingly infecting American politics like a germ, and we are going to have to deal with it - including the national and international media."
'Dead Serious'
La Pierre goes on to explain how IANSA is further funded by the governments of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Norway, and by what he describes as many left-wing foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Samuel Rubin Foundation.
The Rubin Foundation is headquartered right at the United Nations Plaza in New York City and touts that its mission is to "search for an equitable reallocation of the world's resources."
"As I talk about in the book, Samuel Rubin was a member of the Communist Party. His daughter, Cora Rice, is now running that Foundation. There is a lot of money behind this effort and they are dead serious about writing a treaty that gives guns to the governments and takes the right to own a firearm away from any citizen anywhere in the world, including the United States."
When asked to comment on the sentiment of the severest critics of the U.N. 'that it is time for the U.S. to simply abandon the organization' LaPierre says he thinks everything ought to be on the table. LaPierre would like to see a serious overhaul that includes cutting U.S. funding in a very serious way and turning to other international organizations.
As to that funding issue, U.S. taxpayers last year put $3.8 billion in United Nations programs - $1.5 billion in directly assigned money and $2.3 billion in voluntary money.
Unfortunately, says LaPierre, "a lot of that has gone for all kinds of scandals and a lot of it is being misused on this U.N. gun ban effort. The U.N. is even trying to grab control of the Internet and take it away from the United States, and we need to step back and look at this whole thing from a prospective of whether the U.N. is doing anything these days to serve the interest of the United States of America or not."
'Freedom Grabbing Politicians Like Mayor Bloomberg'
In his free-ranging conversation with NewsMax, LaPierre reserved special vitriol for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently hosted a conference of fellow mayors from around the country. LaPierre points out that Bloomberg, in his opinion, wants to impose a New York City-style gun law on the citizens of Texas and Kansas and Wyoming and North Carolina - throughout the whole United States.
In LaPierre's view, the Big Apple is denying ordinary citizens the right to own a firearm and the right to self-defense.
"It's a misguided, wrong-headed, freedom-grabbing approach that our founding fathers wanted nothing of. It goes right back to the policies of King George and it is elitist.
"If you are rich, you can have your bodyguard," laments LaPierre. "If you are rich, you can live behind a security system. If you are rich, you get your carry permit and you get your gun because you are special. But the less special people, all the rest of us, are flat out of luck." LaPierre says Bloomberg doesn't want to impose gun bans on the "special people," who get gun permits.
But LaPierre evokes the what goes around, comes around attitude: "In election after election, citizens have shown that they will go to the polls and defeat freedom-grabbing politicians like Mayor Bloomberg in New York."
To the NRA spokesman's mind, any crime problem in New York City is best attributed to "the fact that it is not prosecuting criminals.
"The American public saw straight through Rosie O'Donnell, who wanted to be protected by bodyguards with guns and yet wanted to take guns away from the American people. People can see straight through this hypocrisy coming out of the Bloomberg administration and they choke on it."
In LaPierre's opinion the only thing that works is directly confronting criminals and taking them off of the street.
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