Concerned
with the Obama administration's alleged goal of controlling firearms
owned by American civilians coupled with Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton's support of international law, more than 125 members of the
U.S. House of Representatives took pre-emptive action on yesterday.
The
lawmakers composed an official
letter and sent it to President Barack Obama on Monday. The letter
details their strong oppositon to the United States being a signatory
of the United Nations' proposed arms trade treaty stating that they
believe it imposes restrictions on American citizens' Second Amendment
gun rights as well as U.S. sovereignty.
"While
many within the Obama White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill deny
it would impact on Americans' gun ownership rights, the fact is there
far too many U.S. judges -- including some on the U.S. Supreme Court
-- who believe in imposing international law into their court decisions
especially on matters involving the U.S. Constitution," said political
strategist and attorney Michael S. Baker.
Baker
points to Associate Justice Ruth
Ginsberg suggesting that Egyptians model their constitution after
South Africa's instead of the U.S. Constitution.
“I
would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution
in the year 2012,” Justice Ginsburg said in an interview aired
on the Arab-language broadcast network Al-Hayat TV last January.
“I
might look at the constitution of South Africa,” she
said. “That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental
instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent
judiciary.”
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