Pg-#7-
So Who's Making These Laws Our Reality?
Have you ever wondered why gun control has become such a big issue the world over? Doesn't it kind of tug at you that everywhere, all at once, guns are the focus of our attention?
The reason is this: we don't write our gun laws - the United Nations does. In 1994, for example, "the Clinton administration has agreed to participate in a discussion of ways for the United Nations to control the manufacture of guns and their sales to civilians... The U.N. working paper declares that goverments individually are 'impotent' to deal with global arms trafficking and proposes 'harmonization' of gun control standards around the world to make trafficking easier to spot and prevent." (Source: Washington Times, May 24, 1994)
The U.N. dictates the agenda and we follow it. One coordination proposal, seconded by U.N. secretary Kofi Annan, reads, "states should work toward the prohibition of unrestricted trade and private ownership of small arms and light weapons..." (Source: U.N. Report of the Group of Govermental Experts on Small Arms, August 19, 1999). Only one month later, on Sept. 24, 1999, the U.S. was gushing about how wonderful it is. Secretary of State Madeline Albright told the first ever UN Security Council Small Arms Ministerial that, "the United States strongly supports these steps", and that, " (we in the U.S.) welcome the important precedent that the U.N. has set..."
And now, Charter 99 is in the works. It lists a number of Urgent Actions which are neccessary to save the world (yes but who will save it from them?). Urgent action #6 of the resolution, "Make the UN resgister of arms mandatory; ratify and implement the Landmine Ban Treaty; outlaw all weapons of mass destruction; initiate programmes to control the arms trade, convert the arms industry to peaceful production and cut military spending world wide; strengthen accountability to the UN of all international military action; and reduce the size of national armies as part of a multilateral global security system."