LEAKED Documents reveal the the UN Small Arms Treaty DOES Ban Guns for Americans!
You People Had Better READ THIS!!!
Treacherous wording upholds “States” gun rights but not individuals
The
text of the anticipated and hotly-contested United Nations Arms Trade
Treaty has been leaked, with the treaty itself set to be adopted and
signed by member States as early as tomorrow, July 27. President Obama,
today joining the chorus for gun control inside the United States in the
wake of the Batman massacre, has previously indicated that he would
sign the treaty, which would then have to be ratified by the Senate.
Masked behind the language of promoting peace in an international
world by preventing genocide, the UN has unleashed a great Trojan Horse
that calls upon States to enact national legislation sufficient to meet
the minimum goals outlined in this treaty– including gun registries,
background checks, import/export controls and more for arms of all
types, including small & conventional weapons. It makes specific
note that the treaty places no limit upon
greater gun control efforts within individual nations. The scope of this language proves the analysis by Infowars (
1,
2,
3,
4), writers at
Forbes
and many other publications that have been warning about this deceptive
encroachment to be correct– there is an effort to disarm America
underway.
The devil, as usual, is in the details.
“Each State Party shall adopt national legislation or other
appropriate national measures regulations and policies as may be
necessary to implement the obligations of this Treaty,” the treaty text states in part.
While the language of the treaty
appears to recognize the
legal right to keep such arms, the text actually recognizes the
“inherent right of States” to “individual and collective” self-defense.
The first “principle” outlined in the preamble reads: “1. The inherent
rights of all States to individual or collective self-defense;”
This is NOT the same as individual persons’ inherent right to keep
and bear arms as recognized and enumerated in the United States’ Bill of
Rights. Instead, it puts the collectivist unit known as the State above
the individual, in complete defiance of the system set-up in the United
States. Individual defense for a State, for instance, refers to what is
known on the international scene as “unilateral war,” while collective
defense is recognize in such actions as that of NATO or other allied
bodies.
NO SPECIFIC PROTECTION for individual persons is
contained in this dangerous treaty, though the same media who’ve been
demonizing critics of the UN’s effort as delusional and paranoid will
attempt to argue otherwise, clinging to deliberately inserted clauses
herein that look like stop-guards and protections for gun rights, but
properly read, do no such thing.
It does, however, advise States to keep within the scope of their own
laws, yet the end-run assault against the 2nd Amendment is
unmistakeable. These international goals will undoubtedly pressure
changes in the executive branches’ many policies, as we have already
seen with the ATF, who placed
greater reporting burdens on gun shops in the Southwest border states as a response to the Fast & Furious set-up by Eric Holder & co. to demonize and destroy gun ownership.
The text was
released
two days ago, but has received almost no attention in the press. The
International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights and
The Examiner have analyzed the treaty, pointing out that member states
like France have “let slip that their ultimate goal is to regulate
legitimately-owned ‘weapons.’”
The United Nations has a sordid history of pursuing “general and
complete disarmament,” and individual arms including legally owned arms
have always been part of that focus. The United Nations treaty from
2001, known as the “SADC Protocol: Southern African Development
Community” is, according to the UN’s own disarmament website, a
“regional instrument that
aims to curtail small arms ownership
and illicit trafficking in Southern Africa along with the destruction
of surplus state weapons. It is a far-reaching instrument, which goes
beyond that of a politically binding declaration, providing the region
with a
legal basis upon which to deal with both the legal and the illicit trade in firearms.”
As we have
previously noted,
U.S. troops have been trained to confiscate American guns, while the
confiscation in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has already set the
precedent. The deception over aiming for legal guns while pretending to
target “illicit” weapons is continued here in this 2012 monster treaty.
Below is the text in full, as it has been
proposed and released. Any changes in the signed version will be noted when that time comes:
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PREAMBLE
The States Parties to this Treaty.
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
Recalling that the charter of the UN promotes the establishment and
maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion
for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources;
Reaffirming the obligation of all State Parties to settle their
international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that
international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered, in
accordance with the Charter of the UN;
Underlining the need to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit
trade of conventional arms and to prevent their diversion to illegal and
unauthorized end use, such as terrorism and organized crime;
Recognizing the legitimate political, security, economic and
commercial rights and interests of States in the international trade of
conventional arms;
Reaffirming the sovereign right and responsibility of any State to
regulate and control transfers of conventional arms that take place
exclusively within its territory pursuant to its own legal or
constitutional systems;
Recognizing that development, human rights and peace and security,
which are three pillars of the United Nations, are interlinked and
mutually reinforcing.
Recalling the United Nations Disarmament Commission guidelines on
international arms transfers adopted by the General Assembly;
Noting the contribution made by the 2001 UN Programme of Action to
preventing combating and eradicating the illicit trade in small arms and
light weapons in all its aspects, as well as the 2001 Protocol against
the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in Firearms, their parts
and components and ammunition, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime;
Recognizing the security, social, economic and humanitarian
consequences of the illicit trade in and unregulated trade of
conventional arms;
Recognizing the challenges faced by victims of armed conflict and
their need for adequate care, rehabilitation and social and economic
inclusion;
Bearing in mind that the women and children are particularly affected in situations of conflict and armed violence;
Emphasizing that nothing in this treaty prevents States from
exercising their right to adopt additional more rigorous measures
consistent with the purpose of this Treaty;
Recognizing the legitimate international trade and lawful
private ownership and use of conventional arms exclusively for, inter
alia, recreational, cultural, historical and sporting activities for
States where such ownership and use are permitted or protected by law;
Recognizing the active role that non-governmental organizations and
civil society can play in furthering the goals and objectives of this
Treaty; and
16. Emphasizing that regulation of the international trade in
conventional arms should not hamper international cooperation and
legitimate trade in material, equipment and technology for peaceful
purposes;
Have agreed as follows:
Principles
Guided by the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United
Nations, States Parties, In promoting the goals and objectives of this
Treaty and implementing its provisions, shall act in accordance with the
following principles:
The
inherent rights of all States to individual or collective self-defense;
2. Settlement of individual disputes by peaceful means in such a
manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not
endangered;
3. The rights and obligations of States under applicable
international law, including international humanitarian law and
international human rights law;
4. The responsibility of all States, in accordance with their
respective international obligations, to effectively regulate and
control international transfer of conventional arms as well as the
primary responsibility of all States to in establishing and implementing
their respective national export control systems; and
5. The necessity to implement this Treaty consistently and
effectively and in a universal, objective and non-discriminatory manner.
Article 1
Goals and Objectives
Cognizant of the need to prevent and combat the diversion of
conventional arms into the illicit market or to unauthorized end users
through the improvement of regulation on the international trade in
conventional arms,
The goals and objectives of this Treaty are:
- For States Parties to establish the highest possible
common standards for regulating or improving regulation of the
international trade in conventional arms;
- To prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in
conventional arms and their diversion to illegal and unauthorized end
use;
In order to:
- Contribute to international and regional peace, security and stability;
- Avoid that the international trade in conventional arms contributes to human suffering;
- Promote cooperation, transparency and responsibility of
States Parties in the trade in conventional arms, thus building
confidence among States Parties,
Article 2
- A. Covered Items
- 1. This Treaty shall apply to all conventional arms within the following categories:
- a. Battle Tanks
- b. Armored combat vehicles
- c. Large-caliber Artillery systems
- d. Combat aircraft
- e. Attack helicopters
- f. Warships
- g. Missiles and missile launchers
- h. Small Arms and Light Weapons
- 2. Each State Party Shall
establish and Maintain a national control system
to regulate the export of munitions to the extent necessary to ensure
that national controls on the export of the conventional arms covered by
Paragraph a1 (a)-(h) are not circumvented by the export of munitions
for those conventional arms.
- 3. Each State Party shall
establish and maintain a national control system
to regulate the export of parts and components to the extent necessary
to ensure that national controls on the export of the conventional arms
covered by Paragraph A1 are not circumvented by the export of parts and
components of those items.
- 4. Each State Party shall establish or update, as appropriate, and
maintain a national control list
that shall include the items that fall within Paragraph 1 above, as
defined on a national basis, based on relevant UN instruments at a
minimum. Each State Party shall publish its control list to the extent
permitted by national law.
- B. Covered Activities
- 1. This Treaty shall apply to those activities of the
international trade in conventional arms covered in paragraph a1 above,
and set out in Articles 6-10, hereafter referred to as “transfer.”
- 2. This Treaty shall not apply to the international
movement of conventional arms by a State Party or its agents for its
armed forces or law enforcement authorities operating outside its
national territories, provided they remain under the State Party’s
ownership.
Article 3
Prohibited Transfers
A State Party shall not authorize any transfer of conventional arms
within the scope of this Treaty if the transfer would violate any
obligation under any measure adopted by the United Nations Security
Council acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,
in particular arms embargoes.
A State Party shall not authorize any transfer of conventional arms
within the scope of this Treaty if the transfer would violate its
relevant international obligations, under international agreements, to
which it is a Party, in particular those relating to the international
transfer of, or illicit trafficking in, conventional arms.
A State Party shall not authorize a transfer of conventional arms
within the scope of this Treaty for the purpose of facilitating the
commission of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes constituting
grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949, or serious violations
of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention of 1949.
Article 4
National Assessment
Each State Party, in considering whether to authorize an export of
conventional arms within the scope of this Treaty, shall, prior to
authorization and
through national control systems, make an assessment specific to the circumstances of the transfer based on the following criteria:
Whether the proposed export of conventional arms would:
Be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international humanitarian law;
Be used to commit or facilitate serious violations of international human rights law;
Contribute to peace and security;
Be used to commit or facilitate an act constituting an offense
under international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism or
transnational organized crime, to which the transferring State is a
Party;
In making the assessment, the transferring State Party shall apply
the criteria set out in Paragraph 2 consistently and in an objective and
non-discriminatory manner and in accordance with the principles set out
in this Treaty, taking into account relevant factors, including
information provided by the importing State.
4. In assessing the risk pursuant to Paragraph 2, the transferring
State Party may also take into consideration the establishment of risk
mitigation measures including confidence-building measures and jointly
developed programs by the exporting and importing State.
5. If in the view of the authorizing State Party, this assessment,
which would include any actions that may be taken in accordance with
Paragraph 4, constitutes a substantial risk, the State Party shall not
authorize the transfer.
Article 5
Additional Obligations
Each State Party, when authorizing an export, shall consider
taking feasible measures, including joint actions with other States
involved in the transfer, to avoid the transferred arms:
being diverted to the illicit market;
be used to commit or facilitate gender-based violence or violence against children;
become subject to corrupt practices; or
adversely impact the development of the recipient State.
Article 6
General Implementation
Each State Party shall implement this Treaty in a consistent,
objective and non-discriminatory manner in accordance with the goals and
objectives of this Treaty;
The implementation of this Treaty shall not prejudice previous or
future obligations undertaken with regards to international instruments,
provided that those obligations are consistent with the goals and
objectives of this Treaty. This Treaty shall not be cited as grounds for
voiding contractual obligations under defense cooperation agreements
concluded by States Parties to this Treaty.
Each State Party shall take all appropriate legislative and
administrative measures necessary to implement the provisions of this
Treaty and designate competent national authorities in order to have an
effective, transparent and predictable national control system
regulating the transfer of conventional arms;
Each State Party shall establish one or more national contact points
to exchange information on matters related to the implementation of this
Treaty. A State Party shall notify the Implementation Support Unit (See
Article 13) of its national contact point(s) and keep the information
updated.
State Parties involved in a transfer of conventional arms shall, in a
manner consistent with the principles of this Treaty, take appropriate
measures to prevent diversion to the illicit market or to unauthorized
end-users. All State Parties shall cooperate, as appropriate, with the
exporting State to that end.
If a diversion is detected the State or States Parties that made the
decision shall verify the State or States Parties that could be affected
by such diversion, in particulate those State Parties that are involved
in the transfer, without delay.
Each State Party shall take the appropriate measures, within
national laws and regulations, to regulate transfers of conventional
arms within the scope of the Treaty.
Article 7
Export
Each State Party shall conduct risk assessments, as detailed in
Articles 4 and 5, whether to grant authorizations for the transfer of
conventional arms under the scope of this Treaty. State Parties shall
apply Articles 3-5 consistently, taking into account all relevant
information, including the nature and potential use of the items to be
transferred and the verified end-user in the country of final
destination.
Each State Party shall take measures to ensure all authorizations for
the export of conventional arms under the scope of the Treaty are
detailed and issued prior to the export. Appropriate and relevant
details of the authorization shall be made available to the importing,
transit and transshipment State Parties, upon request.
Article 8
Import
Importing State Parties shall take measures to ensure that
appropriate and relevant information is provided, upon request, to the
exporting State Party to assist the exporting State in its criteria
assessment and to assist in verifying end users.
State Parties shall put in place adequate measures that will allow
them, where necessary, to monitor and control imports of items covered
by the scope of the Treaty. State Parties shall also adopt appropriate
measures to prevent the diversion of imported items to unauthorized end
users or to the illicit market.
Importing State Parties may request, where necessary, information
from the exporting State Party concerning potential authorizations.
Article 9
Brokering
Each State Party shall take the appropriate measures, within national
laws and regulations, to control brokering taking place under its
jurisdiction for conventional arms within the scope of this Treaty.
Article 10
Transit and Transshipment
Each State Party shall adopt appropriate legislative, administrative
or other measures to monitor and control, where necessary and feasible,
conventional arms covered by this Treaty that transit or transship
through territory under its jurisdiction, consistent with international
law with due regard for innocent passage and transit passage;
Importing and exporting States Parties shall cooperate and exchange
information, where feasible and upon request, to transit and
transshipment States Parties, in order to mitigate the risk of
discretion;
Article 11
Reporting, Record Keeping and Transparency
Each State Party shall maintain records in accordance with its
national laws and regardless of the items referred to in Article 2,
Paragraph A, with regards to conventional arms authorization or exports,
and where feasible of those items transferred to their territory as
the final destination, or that are authorized to transit or transship
their territory, respectively.
Such records may contain: quantity, value, model/type, authorized
arms transfers, arms actually transferred, details of exporting
State(s), recipient State(s), and end users as appropriate. Records
shall be kept for a minimum of ten years, or consistent with other
international commitments applicable to the State Party.
States Parties may report to the Implementation Support Unit on an
annual basis any actions taken to address the diversion of conventional
arms to the illicit market.
Each State Party shall, within the first year after entry into force
of this Treaty for that State Party, provide an initial report to States
Parties of relevant activities undertaken in order to implement this
Treaty; including inter alia, domestic laws, regulations and
administrative measures. States Parties shall report any new activities
undertaken in order to implement this Treaty, when appropriate. Reports
shall be distributed and made public by the Implementation Support Unit.
Each State Party shall submit annually to the Implementation Support
Unit by 31 May a report for the preceding calendar year concerning the
authorization or actual transfer of items included in Article 2,
Paragraph A1. Reports shall be distributed and made public by the
Implementation Support Unit. The report submitted to the Implementation
Support Unit may contain the same type of information submitted by the
State Party to other relevant UN bodies, including the UN Register of
Conventional Arms. Reports will be consistent with national security
sensitivities or be commercially sensitive.
ARTICLE 12
ENFORCEMENT
Each State Party shall adopt national legislation or other
appropriate national measures regulations and policies as may be
necessary to implement the obligations of this Treaty.
ARTICLE 13
IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT UNIT
This Treaty hereby establishes an Implementation Support Unit to assist States Parties in its implementation.
The ISU shall consist of adequate staff, with necessary expertise to
ensure the mandate entrusted to it can be effectively undertaken, with
the core costs funded by States Parties.
The implementation Support Unit, within a minimized structure and
responsible to States Parties, shall undertake the responsibilities
assigned to it in this Treaty, inter alia:
Receive distribute reports, on behalf of the Depository, and make them publicly available;
Maintain and Distribute regularly to States Parties the up-to-date list of national contact points;
Facilitate the matching of offers and requests of assistance for
Treaty implementation and promote international cooperation as
requested;
Facilitate the work of the Conference of States Parties,
including making arrangements and providing the necessary service es for
meetings under this Treaty; and
Perform other duties as mandated by the Conference of States Parties.
ARTICLE 14
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
States Parties shall designate national points of contact to act
as a liaison on matters relating to the implementation of this Treaty.
States Parties shall cooperate closely with one another, as
appropriate, to enhance the implementation of this Treaty consistent
with their respective security interests and legal and administrative
systems.
States Parties are encouraged to facilitate international
cooperation, including the exchange of information on matters of mutual
interest regarding the implementation and application of this Treaty in
accordance with their national legal system. Such voluntary exchange of
information may include, inter alia, information on national
implementation measures as well as information on specific exporters,
importers and brokers and on any prosecutions brought domestically,
consistent with commercial and proprietary protections and domestic
laws, regulations and respective legal and administrative systems.
4. Each State Party is encouraged to maintain consultations and to
share information, as appropriate, to support the implementation of this
Treaty, including through their national contact points.
5. States Parties shall cooperate to enforce the provisions of this
Treaty and combat breaches of this Treaty, including sharing information
regarding illicit activities and actors to assist national enforcement
and to counter and prevent diversion. States Parties may also exchange
information on lessons learned in relation to any aspect of this Treaty,
to develop best practices to assist national implementation.
Article 15
International Assistance
In fulfilling the obligation of this Treaty, States Parties may seek,
inter alia, legal assistance, legislative assistance, technical
assistance, institutional capacity building, material assistance or
financial assistance. States, in a position to do so, shall provide such
assistance. States Parties may contribute resources to a voluntary
trust fund to assist requesting States Parties requiring such assistance
to implement the Treaty.
States Parties shall afford one another the widest measure of
assistance, consistent with their respective legal and administrative
systems, in investigations, prosecutions and judicial proceedings in
relation to the violations of the national measures implemented to
comply with obligations under of the provisions of this Treaty.
Each State Party may offer or receive assistance, inter alia, through
the United Nations international, regional, subregional or national
organizations, non-governmental organizations or on a bi-lateral basis.
Such assistance may include technical, financial, material and other
forms of assistance as needed, upon request.
Article 16
Signature, Ratification, Acceptance, Approval or Accession
This Treaty shall be open for signature on [date] at the United
Nations Headquarters in New York by all States and regional integration
organizations.
This Treaty is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval of the Signatories.
This Treaty shall be open for accession by any state and regional integration organization that has not signed the Treaty.
4. The instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be deposited with the Depositary.
5. The Depositary shall promptly inform all signatory and acceding
States and regional integration organizations of the date of each
signature, the date of deposit of each instrument of ratification,
acceptance, approval or accession and the date of the entry into force
of this Treaty, and of the receipt of notices.
6. “Regional integration organization” shall mean an organization
constituted by sovereign States of a given region, to which its Member
States have transferred competence in respect of matters governed by
this Treaty and which has been duly authorized, in accordance with its
internal procedures, to sign, ratify, accept, approve or accede to it.
7. At the time of its ratification, acceptance, approval or
accession, a regional integration organization shall declare the extent
of its competence with respect to matters governed by this Treaty. Such
organizations shall also inform the Depositary of any relevant
modifications in the extent of it competence.
8. References to “State Parties” in the present Treaty shall apply to such organizations within the limits of their competence.
Article 17
Entry into Force
This Treaty shall enter into force thirty days following the date of
the deposit of the sixty-fifth instrument of ratification, acceptance or
approval with the Depositary.
For any State or regional integration organization that deposits its
instruments of accession subsequent to the entry into force of the
Treaty, the Treaty shall enter into force thirty days following the date
of deposit of its instruments of accession.
For the purpose of Paragraph 1 and 2 above, any instrument deposited
by a regional integration organization shall not be counted as
additional to those deposited by Member States of that organization.
Article 18
Withdrawal and Duration
This Treaty shall be of unlimited duration.
Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have
the right to withdraw from this Convention. It shall give notice of such
withdrawal to all other States Parties from this Convention. It shall
give notice of such withdrawal to all other States Parties and to the
Depositary. The instrument of withdrawal shall include a full
explanation of the reasons motivating this withdrawal.
A state shall not be discharged, by reason of its withdrawal, from
the obligations arising from this treaty while it was a party to the
Treaty, including any financial obligations, which may have accrued.
Article 19
Reservations
Each State party, in exercising its national sovereignty, may
formulate reservations unless the reservation is incompatible with the
object and purpose of this Treaty.
Article 20
Amendments
At any time after the Treaty’s entry into force, a State Party may propose an amendment to this Treaty.
Any proposed amendment shall be submitted in writing to the
Depository, which will then circulate the proposal to all States
Parties, not less than 180 days before next meeting of the Conference of
States Parties. The amendment shall be considered at the next
Conference of States Parties if a majority of States Parties notify the
Implementation Support Unit that they support further consideration of
the proposal no later than 180 days after its circulation by the
Depositary.
Any amendment to this Treaty shall be adopted by consensus, or if
consensus is not achieved, by two-thirds of the States Parties present
and voting at the Conference of States Parties. The Depositary shall
communicate any amendment to all States Parties.
A proposed amendment adopted in accordance with Paragraph 3 of this
Article shall enter into force for all States Parties to the Treaty that
have accepted it, upon deposit with the Depositary. Thereafter, it
shall enter into force for any remaining State Party on the date of
deposit of its instrument of accession.
Article 21
Conference of States Parties
The Conference of States Parties shall be convened not later than
once a year following the entry into force of this Treaty. The
Conference of States Parties shall adopt rules of procedure and rules
governing its activities, including the frequency of meetings and rules
concerning payment of expenses incurred in carrying out those
activities.
The Conference of States Parties shall:
a. Consider and adopt recommendations regarding the implementation of
this Treaty, in particular the promotion of its universality; TR
b. Consider amendments to this Treaty;
c. Consider and decide the work and budget of the Implementation Support Unit;
d. Consider the establishment of any subsidiary bodies as may be necessary to improve the functioning of the Treaty;
e. Perform any other function consistent with this Treaty.
3. If circumstances merit, an exceptional meeting of the State Parties may be convened if required and resources allow.
Article 22
Dispute Settlement
States Parties shall consult and cooperate with each other to settle
any dispute that may arise with regard to the interpretation or
application of this Treaty.
States Parties shall settle any dispute between them concerning the
interpretation or application of this Treat though negotiations or other
peaceful means of the Parties mutual choice.
States Parties may pursue, by mutual consent, third party arbitration to
settle any dispute between them, regarding issues concerning the
implementation of this Treaty.
Article 23
Relations with States not party to this Treaty
States Parties shall apply Articles 3-5 to all transfers of
conventional arms within the scope of this Treaty to those not party to
this Treaty.
Article 24
Relationship with other instruments
States Parties shall have the right to enter into agreements on the
trade in conventional arms with regards to the international trade in
conventional arms, provided that those agreements are compatible with
their obligations under this Treaty and do not undermine the objects and
purposes of this Treaty.
Article 25
Depositary and Authentic Texts
The Secretary-General of the United Nations is the Depositary of this Treaty.
The original text of this Treaty, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic.
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