GOA Action Alert

[Guest oldfella]

Vote Coming to Confirm Anti-gun Radical

-- "Guns Kill Civil Society," says State Department Nominee

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled a Wednesday vote on a

State Department nominee who supports gun control on a global scale.

While advocates of the Second Amendment have come to expect that

appointees of President Barack Obama would be hostile to the rights of

gun owners, the president's nominee for legal advisor to the State

Department reaches a whole new level of anti-gun extremism.

Harold Hongju Koh, who served at the State Department under the Clinton

administration, is a self-described "trans-nationalist" who

believes

that our laws -- and our Constitution -- should be brought into

conformity with international agreements.

"If you want to be in the global environment, you have to play by the

global rules," Koh told a Cleveland audience.

Koh's positions treat our constitutional law as if it were a mere local

ordinance on the greater world stage. This is of particular concern to

gun owners at a time when the U.S. Congress is under pressure from

President Obama to ratify an international gun control treaty with

countries in the western hemisphere. That treaty, known by its Spanish

acronym CIFTA, would likely serve as a forerunner to a more extensive

United Nations initiative, the "Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and

Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its

Aspects."

The Bush administration, under the leadership of UN Ambassador John

Bolton, rejected the small arms treaty. Bolton plainly told the world

that the United States will not accept a gun control document that

violates our Constitutional right to bear arms. Harold Koh commented

that Bolton was being "needlessly provocative."

In a paper entitled "A world drowning in guns," Koh maintains

that a

civil society cannot exist with broad gun ownership: "Guns kill civil

society," he said.

Koh is eager to assume his post at the State Department, having lamented

that there is only so much that can be done from the outside to push gun

control treaties, and that ultimately we need people like him in

positions of power. The chief lawyer for the State Department is just

the position someone like him needs to put his agenda into play.

While Koh's nomination has been delayed largely because of Second

Amendment concerns, Sen. Reid plans to force a vote this week.

It is imperative that gun owners contact their Senators and insist that

they vote AGAINST this anti-gun extremist.

ACTION: Please contact your Senators immediately and urge them to

oppose Harold Hongju Koh's nomination to the State Department. You can

use the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at

http://gunowners.org/activism.htm to send your Senators the pre-written

message below.

----- Pre-written letter -----

Dear Senator:

The Senate is expected to soon vote on a State Department nominee who

supports gun control on a global scale.

Harold Hongju Koh, who served at the State Department under the Clinton

administration, is a self-described "trans-nationalist" who

believes

that our laws -- and our Constitution -- should be brought into

conformity with international agreements.

According to Koh, "If you want to be in the global environment, you have

to play by the global rules." Well, I don't support global rules that

contradict our own Constitution.

Koh supports international gun control treaties such as the United

Nations initiative entitles the "Program of Action to Prevent, Combat

and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all

its Aspects."

When former UN Ambassador John Bolton told the world that the United

States will not accept a gun control document that violates our

Constitutional right to bear arms, Harold Koh commented that Bolton was

being "needlessly provocative."

And in a 2003 Fordham Law Review article entitled "A world drowning in

guns," Koh maintains that a civil society cannot exist with broad gun

ownership: "Guns kill civil society," he wrote.

I urge you to reject this trans-nationalist, anti-gun extremist who

would place foreign laws and international agreements on equal footing

(at minimum) with the U.S. Constitution.

Sincerely,

[E4 No More]

Senators emailed

[oldogy]

Done, with a few additional comments RE Koh. LIke, "We still operate under the Constitution of the United States as amended. Don't worry about what the rest of the world does."

oldogy