...or how I learned to stop worrying and come to love the new Globalist Utopia.
Folks, the UN has released the final version of it's international arms trade treaty.
I have read it and I have come to the conclusion that it, and a buck, won't buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. It's the UN's version of Busywork for Bureaucrats.
I'm no legal scholar, not an expert in treaties, but the Crazed American does actually possess a piece of paper here in BaseCamp Ponderosa that indicates a certain place of higher learning in a far off, flat land conferred upon me a degree in International Affairs. I wasn't a terribly good student, but I learned me some interesting knowledge.
Having read the firestorm of fear and paranoia coming out of the pro-gun press (of which I count myself part of, BTW), and having read the entire text of the treaty (twice), allow me to distill what I know about what this treaty means to anyone:
JACK-F---ING-S#!+
It has no teeth, can do nothing. Even if it did authorize the UN to build a force to go into the USofA and confiscate all of it's scary weapons, what would be the result? This will have zero effect on the global arms trade - legal or illegal. It merely creates a new avenue for bribes from arms merchants to bureaucrats! What do you think could happen? Some Belgian Blue-Hats would pour off of landing craft on the Atlantic Coast, and...? What could they do?
We (pro-2A media) all need to take a deep breath on this. This UN treaty is about the inter-State (national governments) transfer of arms. Even if G-d Himself blessed the NGO bureaucrats with a window of non-corrupt and efficient thinking, how the h-ll could they accomplish such a thing? They can't even come up with effective sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Peacekeeping in Africa? Israeli / Arab relations? The UN is utterly incompetent, and above all, powerless.
As Star Trek fans (again, I count myself as one) will tell you: we just ain't ready for global governance. The Federation wasn't set up as a galactic government - it was a Federation of allied worlds that agreed on specific, terms and guaranteed specific freedoms. As long as member worlds agree to protect the specific freedoms and play nice with the other members, they could do their own thing.
Some of you out there will wonder - What if they use the language of this treaty to further take away our Creator-Endowed Rights? My response - what, like our own clowns in Washington construing the Constitution to allow drone flights and military operations and surveillance domestically? Or the due-process-less incarceration of American Citizens? Or the targeted assassination of American Citizens?Those things could never happen because we have a piece of paper, right?
All this treaty does is set up a bureaucracy none of the member states can afford. So, they won't support it. They'll pay it some lip service, they'll extract some fines from some violators - but nothing will happen. It does not provide any mechanism, unless our own government does it, to restrict American's right to keep and bear arms. The only people who can take our guns away is: US. Not the UN, not scared teenagers from Europe wearing fetching sky-blue helmets.
The Constitution, Articles of Federation, UN Charter, treaties of all sorts - they're all pieces of paper - social contracts - codified agreements between people. They, like the people who sign them and the ideas they embody are not permanent, not immutable.
They all have to be renegotiated. Those negotiations can either be nice and civil... or bloody and terrible.
There is a foul portent of the future, of the "civilized" world. This treaty ain't anything to worry about.
There's much bigger fish to fry,
MOLON LABE,
Crazed American, Out.
28 March 2013
20 March 2013
Yep, I, the Crazed American...
...am a fan of Senator Harry Reid.
If the legions of loyal Crazed American readers will recall:
http://troaca.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-of.html
Now: The travesty that was Senator Feinstein's patently un-Constitutional gun-grab is pretty much, as promised DOA - it can be reintroduced as an amendment.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0319/Assault-weapons-ban-now-unlikely-to-pass.-What-happened
I stated that Senator Reid ain't such a bad guy. He has a solid record of defending the Second Amendment. Before I have stated that I disagree with 99% of everything he does. No longer true - we'll call it 75% (and that would go to 50% if he could get the Senate to start pushing to pass a budget). He is between a rock and a hard place. He is a politician, so there is that. I'll not say a bad thing about him and will now defend him in front of my "less than open minded" associates.
Today is a good day,
Crazed American, out.
UPDATE!!
I take it all back. He's an idiot. Throughout history - imagined tyranny has had a very bad habit of cropping up as quite real tyrrany, given the room to flourish.
REID: In the 1920s, organized crime was committing murders with machine guns. So Congress dramatically limited the sale and transfer of machine guns. As a result, machine guns all but disappeared from the streets. We can and should take the same common-sense approach to safeguard Americans from modern weapons of war.
That is why I will vote for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban – because we must strike a better balance between the right to defend ourselves and the right of every child in America to grow up safe from gun violence. I will vote for the ban because maintaining law and order is more important than satisfying conspiracy theorists who believe in black helicopters and false flags. And I will vote for the ban because saving the lives of young police officers and innocent civilians is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.
If the legions of loyal Crazed American readers will recall:
http://troaca.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-of.html
Now: The travesty that was Senator Feinstein's patently un-Constitutional gun-grab is pretty much, as promised DOA - it can be reintroduced as an amendment.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0319/Assault-weapons-ban-now-unlikely-to-pass.-What-happened
I stated that Senator Reid ain't such a bad guy. He has a solid record of defending the Second Amendment. Before I have stated that I disagree with 99% of everything he does. No longer true - we'll call it 75% (and that would go to 50% if he could get the Senate to start pushing to pass a budget). He is between a rock and a hard place. He is a politician, so there is that. I'll not say a bad thing about him and will now defend him in front of my "less than open minded" associates.
Today is a good day,
Crazed American, out.
UPDATE!!
I take it all back. He's an idiot. Throughout history - imagined tyranny has had a very bad habit of cropping up as quite real tyrrany, given the room to flourish.
REID: In the 1920s, organized crime was committing murders with machine guns. So Congress dramatically limited the sale and transfer of machine guns. As a result, machine guns all but disappeared from the streets. We can and should take the same common-sense approach to safeguard Americans from modern weapons of war.
That is why I will vote for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban – because we must strike a better balance between the right to defend ourselves and the right of every child in America to grow up safe from gun violence. I will vote for the ban because maintaining law and order is more important than satisfying conspiracy theorists who believe in black helicopters and false flags. And I will vote for the ban because saving the lives of young police officers and innocent civilians is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.
19 March 2013
Yesterday, Cypress...
Today: NEW ZEALAND
I'm telling you, folks. If you don't have tangibles, then physical cash becomes king.
They're talking that they can't figure out the mechanism to sidestep standard FDIC-style banking rules and insurance. Deposits under EUR 100,000 are safe, supposedly... For now. So the rich, investor class is going to get hit for 10% (at least, for now).
Someone want to clue me in on how 1) this helps, or 2) it ever gets better before complete default?
It ain't all us, Americans. As bad as we think we have it, the rest of the world is worse.
Ay Caramba.
Crazed American, out.
I'm telling you, folks. If you don't have tangibles, then physical cash becomes king.
They're talking that they can't figure out the mechanism to sidestep standard FDIC-style banking rules and insurance. Deposits under EUR 100,000 are safe, supposedly... For now. So the rich, investor class is going to get hit for 10% (at least, for now).
Someone want to clue me in on how 1) this helps, or 2) it ever gets better before complete default?
It ain't all us, Americans. As bad as we think we have it, the rest of the world is worse.
Ay Caramba.
Crazed American, out.
18 March 2013
Thread-bare...
When this happens... you're pretty much f---ed. Writing is officially on the wall.
All people in Western countries take note. When your government gets broke enough, you will be on the hook for the butcher's bill.
So understand what it means. The Cypriots are so broke, that in order for the other nations of the EU to continue to prop up their floundering economy, the banks in Cyprus have to impose a 10% "tax" on all bank holdings. That's right, if you had any money in the bank, gathering a criminally small amount of interest, over the weekend, the government ordered the banks to pony up a 10% haircut on all of it.
Hey, fellow Americans - before you get that Smuggy McSmuggerSmug look on your face, know this - when they do it here (and they will do it) they won't hit bank accounts first. They'll hit investments and especially 401K's and IRA's. Look for there to be an announcement of a new Federal 401K / IRA like plan to be announced shortly.
Me? I got out of the market and cashed out the 401K long ago - 2007, before the crash... best decision I ever made. Cash ain't bad. Old fashioned devices like CD's ain't bad.
Stay frosty, friends. This is not a good development.
Crazed American, OUT.
All people in Western countries take note. When your government gets broke enough, you will be on the hook for the butcher's bill.
So understand what it means. The Cypriots are so broke, that in order for the other nations of the EU to continue to prop up their floundering economy, the banks in Cyprus have to impose a 10% "tax" on all bank holdings. That's right, if you had any money in the bank, gathering a criminally small amount of interest, over the weekend, the government ordered the banks to pony up a 10% haircut on all of it.
Hey, fellow Americans - before you get that Smuggy McSmuggerSmug look on your face, know this - when they do it here (and they will do it) they won't hit bank accounts first. They'll hit investments and especially 401K's and IRA's. Look for there to be an announcement of a new Federal 401K / IRA like plan to be announced shortly.
Me? I got out of the market and cashed out the 401K long ago - 2007, before the crash... best decision I ever made. Cash ain't bad. Old fashioned devices like CD's ain't bad.
Stay frosty, friends. This is not a good development.
Crazed American, OUT.
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