-By Warner Todd Huston
Would you like to meet the Democrats that voted to destroy your Second Amendment rights? Would you like to meet those traitorous Senators that voted to give the power over your rights to the United Nations?
Fortunately, the odious, anti-American treaty was again voted down by the full Senate, but 46 Senators voted in favor of handing over our Constitutional rights to the UN.
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) offered Amendment 139 that was passed with a 53 to 46 vote. His Amendment contained language to affirm that foreign treaties would not trump the U.S. Constitution.
“Mr. President,” Inhofe said on the floor of the Senate, “I want to make sure that everyone understands what the United Nations trade treaty is. The trade treaty is a treaty that cedes our authority to have trade agreements with our allies in terms of trading arms.”
He went on to say, “I want to very briefly read this so nobody over there or over here misunderstands what this amendment does. This is right out of the amendment. Uphold the Second Amendment rights, that is one thing. And secondly, prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations arms trade treaties.”
But many Democrats simply didn’t agree with Inhofe’s insistence that the U.S. Constitution trump the UN.
Below is the list of Democrats that voted against the amendment and in favor of the UN being given the power to overturn the U.S. Constitution.
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Baldwin (D WI) Baucus (D MT) Bennet (D CO) Blumenthal (D CT) Boxer (D CA) Brown (D OH) Cantwell (D WA) Cardin (D MD) Carper (D DE) Casey (D PA) Coons (D DE) Cowan (D MA) Durbin (D IL) Feinstein (D CA) Franken (D MN) Gillibrand (D NY) Harkin (D IA) Hirono (D HI) Johnson (D SD) Kaine (D VA) King (I ME) Klobuchar (D MN) Landrieu (D LA) |
Leahy (D VT) Levin (D MI) McCaskill (D MO) Menendez (D NJ) Merkley (D OR) Mikulski (D MD) Murphy (D CT) Murray (D WA) Nelson (D FL) Reed (D RI) Reid (D NV) Rockefeller (D WA) Sanders (I VT) Schatz (D HI) Shaheen (D NH) Stabenow (D MI) Udall (D CO) Udall (D NM) Warner (D VA) Warren (D MA) Whitehouse (D RI) Wyden (D OR) |
You can read a bit more about this at The New American.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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