United Nations: You Have No Right To Self-Defense
Posted on September 1, 2006
Glenn Reynolds has been pointing to several people talking about a UN report that minimizes the importance of what many hold to be the most basic of all human rights, that of self defense.
20. Self-defence is a widely recognized, yet legally proscribed, exception to the universal duty to respect the right to life of others. Self-defence is a basis for exemption from criminal responsibility that can be raised by any State agent or non-State actor. Self-defence is sometimes designated as a “right”. There is inadequate legal support for such an interpretation. Self-defence is more properly characterized as a means of protecting the right to life and, as such, a basis for avoiding responsibility for violating the rights of another.
This is one of many reasons why it is so important to expose the dangerous call for the U.S. to recognize and obey international law from organizations like the ACLU. The Second Amendment is only one of many things that becomes threatened as our soverignty is undermined whenever we lean towards this dangerous direction. Of course the U.N. is not the only organization that argues the right to self defense is not a right at all. The ACLU, supposed defender of the Constitution, carry the same philosphy.
ACLU POLICY “The ACLU agrees with the Supreme Court’s long-standing interpretation of the Second Amendment [as set forth in the 1939 case, U.S. v. Miller] that the individual’s right to bear arms applies only to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia. Except for lawful police and military purposes, the possession of weapons by individuals is not constitutionally protected. Therefore, there is no constitutional impediment to the regulation of firearms.” –Policy #47
The ACLU and other’s push to adopt international law and the use of foreign law by judges interpreting the Constitution is a dangerous road. I could go on and on about this, but there is no reason when someone else does a much better job than I could ever do. Willisms does an excellent job explaining why an “armed society is a polite society”. I will add that it is also what ensures and defines a free one.
Here is a sample…
The UN is most eager to deny that self-defense is a right, because this would obligate the UN to defend the concept of individual self-defense. Since unarmed self-defense in a world full of weapons is too often meaningless, this puts the UN in the position of having to defend the individual right to bear arms. Quelle horror! Is there anything more vulgar to a silk-suited euroweenie diplomat than individual gun ownership? This should not baffle you - the UN and its supporters are proponents of a single world government, under the ludicrous belief that a unitary government would hold a monopoly on all arms throughout the world, thus abolishing violence. Then, once violence is abolished the UN may disarm itself and the glorious new age of peace, love and rainbows can ensue.
Much more where that came from. Go read the entire thing.
Rightwing Nuthouse also has some excellent thoughts on this one.
Once your finished, there are more excellent thoughts here.
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FOR years the United Nations attempted to cover up perverted and outrageous behaviour by uniformed and civilian personnel who have served in East Timor….
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Of course the UN doesn’t want the plebes percieving self-defeinse as a right- then the people living in third-world kleptocracies might think they can defend themselves from the depredations of their own government…
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Twisted UN Logic - No Right To Self Defense
Thanks to RRG for pointing this out to me and sending me a link to this UN report: Prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons Final report submitted by Barbara Frey, Special Rapporteur.
This report is a dangerous
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