"Shot heard round the world"

[Bucks Owin]

Some of you may have noticed I've changed my signature to the words enscribed on the "Minute Man" statute in Concord Mass.

I've been closely following the attempts of the U.N. (who else? :roll: ) and some leftist whackos hoping to pass a GLOBAL ban on the private ownership of firearms. (Meeting on American soil no less!) www.stopungunban.org/

Those interested, (and you should be) can check out the NRA/ILA website at www.NRA.org....

Let us pray that we are being represented by loyal, freedom loving AMERICANS who, even in the face of these "anti-gun" dictators and extremists, believe in the 2nd ammendment and are not afraid to fire "The shot heard round the world"....

Dennis

[D.Mack]

Bucks Today on the news, it was "reported" that the french were going to raise airline fares from $2.50 to $50 for a new poor tax to be administerd by the U.N.,the same people who brought us "Oil for food". Secratary Anon is going to try to persuade more countries to follow suit. Who says crime doesn't pay.

[tom barthel]

I have not studied Govt. for a lot of years. Should we be concerned about UN treaties? Does treaty law supercede constitutional law? As for the poor. Give them a fish and they have a meal. Teach them to fish and they become self sustaining. I don't mind helping the poor but they NEED to learn to support themselves.

[Firebird]

Yes, I think that treaty law does supercede even the Constitution. Look at Article 6, second paragraph

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shell be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."

This paragraph is really saying that the Federal Constitution, treaties and laws passed by Congress supercede any state constitution or law. But I believe that the Supreme Court has used it to rule that a treaty, once approved by 2/3 of the Senate, can supercede any part of the Federal Constitution, just like a later amendment to the Constitution can supercede an earlier part of the Constitution. I wouldn't agree, since an amendment also has to be ratified by the states while a treaty doesn't, but I'm not a Supreme Court judge.

[Bucks Owin]

Well, personally, I hope to read that the U.S. fires a "shot" that proclaims "We will have no part in any effort to disarm American citizens, and furthermore hereby resign from the U.N."

What a great 4th of July that would make!

Dennis

[Lee]

While I agree, I do have a concern over what will happen to Kofi, his other brother Idi, his other brothers brother Osami and all the rest of the 3rd world despots and terrorists. A fat and flashy uniform, replete with gaudy medals and banners, will only satisfy these cretins for a short while. Then they will again turn their attention to business at hand; bringing the rest of the free, civilized world down to their level of filth and muck. Only then can they rule, only when the masses are as ignotrant as they. And only when they are unarmed. And it's a damn shame that the God mentioned in our Constitution doesn't currently punish them. Why make them wait? Send them all to Hell now, let the devil sort 'em out!.

For all it's mistakes, this is still the only truly free country on the face of this earth. God bless America.....................................Lee:)

[jballs918]

as one forum board said, "they can pry my smoking gun out of my dead hand". one must belive in that they fight for

[Buckshot]

...............What Firebird posted is true, ie: 2/3 vote by congress, etc, etc. However a treaty signed by America's ambasador to the UN is so much channel water so far as "Law of the Land" is concerned, and it's effect on us as citizens.

...............Buckshot

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
With all the cruption that has been uncovered in the UN the last few years, I really don't want any of my money going to it for anything. The funds seem to line officials pockets.
It also buggs me that the only nation to pay it' s yearly dues to support the UN is the US since the UN started.

[versifier]

I am of the opinion that the immortal words of Captain Parker, spoken just before the Battle of Lexington to the members of the Lexington Militia and now found upon a plaque at Lexington Green are a bit more appropriate, given the seriousness of the situation:

"Stand your ground. Do not fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, then let it begin here."

Even if the Second Amendment has virtually ceased to exist in today's Peoples' Republik of Massachusetts, we expatriates still remember its meaning.