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Rand Paul on Saturday accused President Obama of working with "anti-American globalists" to "plot against our Constitution."
On November 7th, his administration gleefully voted at the UN for a renewed effort to pass the Small Arms Treaty.
But after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut and anti-gun hysteria in the national media reaching a fever pitch theres no doubt President Obama and his anti-gun pals believe the timing has never been better to ram through the U.N.s global gun control crown jewel.
I dont know about you, but watching anti-American globalists plot against our Constitution makes me sick. Ever since its founding 65 years ago, the United Nations has been hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees. (Yeah, Rand. You guessed it. The UN was an FDR plot to bring the US to its knees at the hands of anti-American globalists. You can call Rand many things but you can't call his 'stupid'. On second thought, ...)
These globalists know that as long as Americans remain free to make our own decisions without being bossed around by big government bureaucrats, theyll NEVER be able to seize the worldwide power they crave. (Again, Rand, you are brilliant. The UN is the New World Order reality - not just a conspiracy theory any more - that you have to protect us against.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/11/rand-paul-obama-gun-control_n_3260890.html
And I thought Agenda 21 and the Law of the Seas were the only UN "plots" against our national sovereignty. It is funny that the rest of the world (well, except for those 'wise' folks on the far-right around the world) cannot see the threats posed by the UN). I am surprised that Paul did not mention these other UN 'plots' in this email. Perhaps he is saving those for his next fund-raising email.
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)If Obama is doing that, he's late to the party. Free marketeers (the ones you like) have been selling bits off for decades.
pampango
(24,692 posts)in my book. I strongly believe in the UN - flawed though it is. The world needs more international cooperation and coordination, not less.
To guys like Paul, it is all about national sovereignty which, not coincidentally, gives more power to the American far-right. They are confident that they can control, or at least hamstring, the American government. They worry about outside forces beyond their control.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Something along the lines of anti-American globalists are selling out the American PEOPLE in a one party corporate government.
GeoWilliam750
(2,519 posts)That the right wing accuses the left wing of what the right wing is doing.
pampango
(24,692 posts)There's a conspiracy to create a NWO: Very liberal: "NO - 69% to 12%", Very conservative: "YES - 45% to 26%."
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_ConspiracyTheories_040213.pdf
A post-treaty phase of American leadership
It probably wouldn't make much difference, since Senate ratification of treaties has gone from difficult to practically impossible.
After Senate Republicans killed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, Dan Drezner called the opposition "dumber than a bag of hammers," but added something that stuck in my head:I've blogged on occasion about the development of a sovereigntist lobby that reflexively opposes all treaties because they erode U.S. sovereignty. For these people, any infringement on American sovereignty is a death blow to freedom, regardless of the benefits from joining.
That's true, but what goes generally unsaid is that this sovereigntist lobby, coupled with the radicalization of Republican politics, has created conditions in which the United States may no longer be able to ratify any treaty for any reason on any issue.
By constitutional mandate, it takes 67 Senate votes to ratify a treaty, which means any measure that has even the slightest chance would need a significant chunk of the Senate Republican conference to meet the two-thirds threshold -- and by all indications, that's no longer a realistic option.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/12/14/15907173-a-post-treaty-phase-of-american-leadership?lite
Nationalism is the common thread uniting far-right groups.
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ChallengersFromtheSidelines.pdf
dotymed
(5,610 posts)to help the world deal with crisis, to prevent war through dialog and to have other nations decide what is fair policy.
Obviously, the U.S. has made controlling the UN a goal.
They condemn the US on MANY fronts and we ignore them and use our donations to prevent them from any US actions.
It was founded as a sound idea and made impotent by America.
pampango
(24,692 posts)This threat to our sovereignty is what motivates them to want the US to get out of the UN. Unable to achieve that to date, they consistently try to reduce and delay the amount that the US does pay to the UN.
libdude
(136 posts)As a shill of corporate interests ( transnational ) corporations, of course he would be opposed to any effort to curb the sale of small arms to small conflicts around the world. The U. N. Treaty on small arms is to do just that. It has nothing to do with U. S. sovereignty other than some corporation engaged in fueling small conflicts around the world by supplying small arms to both sides, in many cases.
Of course it helps to play upon the fears of many of his supporters.
Botany
(70,291 posts).... but Rand Paul knows that as long as we have our 2nd amendment freedoms aka
"we are packing some heat" the bad guys will not try to start anything.
OK that makes sense to me. Rand Paul has been hitting his bong again I see ...
this time with crack and crystal meth.
And Obama would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!
Rand Paul's idea is so batshit crazy that it is really hard to write it up in any sort
of sentence that has proper grammer and makes any sort of sense at all .... Has
he been sharing his crack pot-crack pipe w/Louie Gohmert again?
TheKentuckian
(24,949 posts)Tossing bombs at a toothless UN?
LAME
librechik
(30,663 posts)what a farce!