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January 8, 2010

In October unbeknownst to most of us, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the Obama administration would reverse the Bush administration’s opposition to the UN’s proposed International Small Arms Treaty. This will clear the way for the treaty to reach a vote by the U.N. General Assembly. Seven countries, led by the British, are trying to restart U.N. efforts to restrict imports and exports of small arms. The goal is to “regulate the global arms trade” and “prevent the illegal transfer of guns.”

John Duncan, Britain’s ambassador for multilateral arms control and disarmament, describes the UN’s disarmament committee as launching point for a global treaty. The British believe their very stringent gun laws are the right direction for all countries. Now they intend to use the United Nations to bring their gun control model to the United States.

The irony of this effort is that since virtually banning guns in 1997, the UK has watched violent crime skyrocket by as much as 77% in some studies. The British Mail Online reports, “In the decade following [the election of the Labor Party] in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 percent to 1.158 million – more than two every minute.” As a result the U.K. now has the highest violent crime rate in the European Union.

So what could this treaty require of its’ signatories, here is a quick overview according to The National Association For Gun Rights:  

“If passed by the UN and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the UN “Small Arms Treaty” would almost certainly FORCE national governments to:

• Enact tougher licensing requirements, making law-abiding citizens cut through even more bureaucratic red tape just to own a firearm legally;
• CONFISCATE and DESTROY ALL “unauthorized” civilian firearms (all firearms owned by the government are excluded, of course);
• BAN the trade, sale and private ownership of ALL semi-automatic weapons;
• Create an INTERNATIONAL gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun CONFISCATION.

Disguised as legislation to help in the fight against “terrorism,” “insurgency” and “international crime syndicates,” the UN Small Arms Treaty is nothing more than a massive, GLOBAL gun control scheme. To the petty dictators and one-worlders who control the UN, the U.S. isn’t a “shining city on a hill” — it’s an affront to their grand totalitarian designs for the globe. These anti-gun globalists know that so long as Americans remain free to make our own decisions without being bossed around by big government bureaucrats, they’ll NEVER be able to seize the worldwide oppressive power they crave.  Ultimately, the UN’s Small Arms Treaty is designed to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms owned by private citizens like YOU.” So Patriots, here is yet another plan designed to usurp your rights which we need to defeat in 2010.

The gun-grabbers in the Obama administration and at the U.N. do not want us to have time to react and mobilize gun owners to defeat this radical treaty which if ratified steps on our 2^nd Amendment rights. They (the UN) have been unsuccessfully trying to ram the “Treaty on Small Arms” down our throats since the mid-1990s. But this time they have an administration that appears willing to play along. The risk is high and the stakes are higher!

Wake up, America! Attempts to thwart our freedoms should be no surprise the anti-gun attitude of the current administration. We must turn the heat up on the U.S. Senate now before it’s too late! It takes 67 Senators to vote to ratify a treaty. Every freedom loving citizen needs to contact their Senator and tell them to vote against any attempt to ratify this treaty. This is just another attempt to give the U.N. jurisdiction over U.S. policy. On the heels of Obama’s recent Executive Order to provide Interpol with diplomatic level immunity from U.S. law and Constitutional behavior this is another slap in the face to our sovereignty.

You can sign the NAGR’s internet petition at: http://www.nagr.org/UNpetition1.aspx?pid=n1a

Restore the Republic, Reject Global Governance!

“…to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them…” – George Mason

“The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press.” – Thomas Jefferson

http://www.lifenews.com/nat678.html
Shop Planned Parenthood's online store, and you'll find a collection of items promoting the organization -- everything from pins to posters, from condoms to "milk chocolate birth control pill packs."

But recently, Planned Parenthood's sales site tried to expand its merchandise line by touting a t-shirt proclaiming "I had an abortion."

The shirt offer has sparked an outcry from women who have had abortions, who believe that Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion operation, is sending the wrong message to young women.

"When I saw the shirt, I thought they are simply trying to mainstream abortion," said Georgette Forney, co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness campaign. The campaign was launched by women who have had abortions who regret their decisions and don't want other women to make the same mistake.

"But then I realized the T-shirt's message, 'I had an abortion,' is a response to the Silent No More Awareness Campaign's message, 'I Regret My Abortion,' so I guess I could look at it as a backhanded compliment," Forney explained. "They have noticed our campaign and they feel it needs a response."

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDI3N2I2MTE3NzNkNzA4YTExOWQwMTNjN2MzZDNkMmU
This is, by all reports, an actual billboard on I-35 in Wyoming, Minnesota:

Billboard

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/foxs-pro-muslim-influence/?awesm=50pFz&utm_medium=awe.sm-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=twitterfeed

From http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/hey-kids-be-the-first-on-your-block/

Obama Doll

http://open.nysenate.gov/openleg/bill/S4779B

ACTION ALERT NY PARENTS S4779-B Up for vote Tuesday
This bill will give any child under the age of 18 the right to medical
treatment including vaccines with out parental consent or knowledge for
sexually transmitted diseases. So YES your 9 year old will be able to
get drugs, medical treatment and vaccinations. PLEASE conta...ct your
legislator

This HPV vaccine is causing many side effects even
death--Gardasil is the Culprit, I'm sure there are Politicians pockets
getting filled with $$$Money$$$ to get this passed.

IF IT PASSES THE SENATE, IT WILL EASILY PASS THE ASSEMBLY- WE MUST ACT NOW!

OPPOSE BILL S4779/ A6702:

Here is why:

* Will your nine-year-old ask about the risks? Would a child know to ask?
* Does the medical establishment support Gardasil? Could your child be pressured? How would they react without you there?
* What do you do if your child has a bad reaction? How can you know what to do- you don not even know what happened!
* No age in the bill- your five year-old nods their head- that is consent?
* GARDASIL IS DANGEROUS! Check the reports- 1000s of reactions, dozens of deaths.

DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THE CHANCE?
AND THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE WANTS TO ADD GARDASIL TO THE MANDATORY LIST FOR SCHOOL- Bill A0778

WE OPPOSE THESE BILLS - LET YOUR LAWMAKERS KNOW
http://assembly.state...
http://www.nysenate.g...

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/02/08/watch-out-for-the-green-police/
In what was seemingly an outlandish Super Bowl commercial, the “Green Police” could become all too real.  Though the cap-and-trade legislation appeared to die in the Senate after the passing the House, that doesn’t mean the war of environmental regulations is over. Liberals could still force draconian environmental restrictions on us anyway. Tucked into the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency (run by unelected bureaucrats) is money to enact “laws” that will force us to comply with new emissions standards. This commercial would be funnier if it wasn’t so true.

You can find all your districts here (for Monroe County). Ontario County is here.

Look up where the incumbants stand on the issues here: http://www.ontheissue...

Town Legislative Districts: Link to more details: http://www.monroecoun...
1st District–Ogden, Parma, Sweden-Richard Yolevich (Incum)
2nd District–Clarkson, Hamlin, Sweden-Wayne Zyra (Incum)
3rd District–Chili-Mary A. Valerio (Incum)
4th District–Chili, Gates-Steve Tucciarello (Incum)
5th District–Greece-Mark J. Cassetti (Incum)
6th District- Greece, Rochester-Richard Beebe (Incum)
7th District–Greece, Rochester-Rick Antelli (Incum)
8th District–Webster-Carmen Gumina (Incum)
9th District–Penfield-Debbie Drawe (Incum)
10th District–East Rochester, Pittsford-Anthony J. Daniele (Incum)
11th District–Fairport, East Rochester, Perinton-Mike Barker (Incum)
12th District–Mendon, Pittsford, Rush, Wheatland-Jeff Adair (Incum)
13th District–Henrietta-Jack (John G.) Driscoll (Incum)
14th District–Brighton-Travis R. Heider (Incum)
15th District–Brighton, Penfield, Webster-Dan Quatro (Incum)
16th District- Irondequoit-Vincent J. Esposito (Incum)
17th District–Irondequoit-Ted O’Brien (Incum)
18th District–Perinton, Pittsford-Ciaran Hanna
19th District–Greece-Jeffery L. McCann (Incum)
20th District–Chili, Henrietta, Ogden, Riga-Robert J. Colby (Incum)
21st District- Rochester-Carrie Andrews (Incum)
22nd District- Rochester-Glenn Gamble (Incum)
23rd District- Rochester-Paul Haney (Incum)
24th District- Rochester, Brighton, Henrietta-Harry Bronson (Incum)
25th District–Rochester-Calvin Lee Jr. (Incum)
26th District–Rochester, Gates, Greece, Irondequoit-C. Stephen Eckel (Incum)
27th District- Rochester-Willie J. Lightfoot (Incum)
28th District-Rochester-Cynthia W. Kaleh (Incum)
29th District-Rochester-Jose A. Cruz (Incum)

NYS Assembly Districts
128th Bob Oaks (Incumbant)
129th Brian Kolb (Incumbant)
130th Joe Arrigo (Incumbant)
131st Susan John (Incumbant)-will not be running in November
132nd Joe Morelli (Incumbant)
133rd David Gantt (Incumbant)
134th Bill Reilich (Incumbant)
135th David Koon (Incumbant)

NYS Senate
49th Incumbant David Valesky vs. Jessica Crawford, Andrew Russo, Danny Liedka
50th Incumbant John DeFrancisco
51st Incumbant James Seward
54th Incumbant Michael Nozzolio
55th Incumbant Jim Alesi
56th Incumbant Joe Robach
59th Incumbant Dale Volker vs. Leonard Roberto
61st Incumbant Mike Razenholfer
62nd Incumbant George Maziarz

US Congress – NY Reps:
23rd Incumbant Bill Owens vs. Doug Hoffman
24th Incumbant Michael Arcuri vs. Richard Hanna
25th Incumbant Dan Maffei vs. Mark Bitz, Ann Marie Buerkle, Paul Bertan
26th Incumbant Chris Lee
27th Incumbant Brian Higgins
28th Incumbant Louise Slaughter vs. Bob Zimmerli
29th Incumbant Eric Massa vs. Tom Reed

US Senators from New York
Incumbant Chuck Schumer
Incumbant Kristen Gillibrand

Challengers:
Bruce Blakeman, lawyer and former legislator from Long Island
George Pataki, former NYS Governor
Larry Kudlow, CNBC Show and former Reagan Advisor
Mike Balboni, former state senator from Long Island
Harold Ford Jr., from Tennessee
Michael King, IT Consultant from Fairport, NY
Jacques Ditte
Carolyn Maloney
Fran Drescher
Brian Kolb, Assemblyman District 129
Susan Molinari
Marc Mukasey, lawyer from NY City
Liz Feld, from Long Island
Jon Cooper, Suffolk County Legislator & Manufacturing Executive
Scott Noren, Oral Surgeon & Army Veteran
Jonathan Tasini, progressive labor activist
Randy Credico, Comedian & Drug Legalization Activist

Governor of NYS
Incumbant David Patterson

Challengers:
Rick Lazio, Ex-Congressman, Attorney & '00 US Sen. Nominee
Ken Goeway, former auto dealership owner no longer running
Carl Paladino, Buffalo businessman and Tea Party affiliate
Emil Henry Jr.
Andrew Cuomo
Steven Levy, from Suffolk County
Warren Redlich, from Albany

http://infidelsarecool.com/2010/02/08/cnn-quietly-highlights-one-of-obamas-favorite-philosophers/

CNN did a piece a few days ago talking about how Obama’s favorite philosopher, Reinhold Niebuhr, helped shaped Obama’s first year in office.  It sure did!  Niebuhr was a Marxist who preached social justice in defense of redistribution of wealth.  In the 1930’s,  he was a prominent leader of the militant faction of the Socialist Party of America.

Funny how they couldn’t have done a piece like this in 2007 when we were all getting to know Barry, the chosen one.  Instead, all we heard about Obama was how great of a speaker and how cool and collected the guy was. Oh and he was a champ at reading a teleprompter. But what did he actually believe? What values did he hold? Which thinkers did he admire?

Finally CNN does some actual reporting:

Obama called Reinhold Niebuhr his favorite philosopher, but few know about the controversial pastor today.

In the summer of 1943, when Adolf Hitler’s armies marched unchecked across Europe, a pastor in a remote New England village decided to write a prayer.

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,” he began, “the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.”

It is now known as the Serenity Prayer. It’s been adopted by 12-step recovery programs and cited in numerous self-help books. Yet few people know who wrote it. His name is Reinhold Niebuhr, and he was a Protestant pastor in the mid-20th century whose words tended to unsettle people, not offer comfort.

“The greed of capitalism and the business class was huge in his mind,” Crouter says. “It had to be combated.” …

“He criticized Christian idealists who thought force was never justified and who believed that the law of love was a simple solution to social and political problems,” Copeland said. “At times, power must be challenged by power.”

Niebuhr distilled his view of human nature in his monumental book, “Moral Man and Immoral Society.” The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cited the book in his “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” Former President Carter is also an admirer of Niebuhr’s.

People are capable of doing good, but groups are driven by “predatory self-interest,” Niebuhr wrote.

“As individuals, men believe that they ought to love and serve each other and establish justice between each other,” Niebuhr wrote. “As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.” …

In a 2007 interview, Obama explained to David Brooks, a New York Times columnist, what he learns from Niebuhr.

He called Niebuhr his “favorite philosopher,” Brooks wrote.

“I take away,” Brooks quoted Obama as saying, “the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief that we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away … the sense that we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard, and not swinging from naive idealism to bitter realism.” …

Obama, a student of the civil rights movement, declared that he was a “living testimony to the moral force of nonviolence.” Yet force is necessary at times, he said.

“A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler’s armies,” Obama said. “Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda’s leaders to lay down their arms.” …

It’s interesting that Niebuhr urged the US to enter WW2 against the assertion of his fellow Christian pacifists who claimed non-violence was the only way to peace.  At least he got something right.

Sweetness and Light also points out this interesting nugget about Obama’s spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright from From p. 153 of ‘Dreams From My Father’

[E]ventually [Wright had] entered Howard, then the University of Chicago, where he spent six years studying for a Ph.D. in the history of religion. He learned Hebrew and Greek, read the literature of Tillich and Niebuhr and the black liberation theologians. The anger and humor of the streets, the book learning and occasional twenty-five-cent word, all this he had brought with him to Trinity almost two decades ago.

Should we not be surprised about Obama’s rhetoric and actions knowing that he followed the lead of people like Reinhold Niebuhr, Jeremiah Wright and Saul Alinsky? It paints a picture more clear than ever about Obama’s agenda for this country.

(Thanks to Kyle for the tip)