Defend Thyself

You boys better be ready to give up your guns, according to a report called The Human Right Of Self Defense, a subcommission of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has declared that “there is no human right to personal self-defense and that extremely strict gun control is a human right which all governments are required to enforce immediately.”

The Human Right of Self-Defense
David B. Kopel,1 Paul Gallant2 & Joanne D. Eisen3

I. INTRODUCTION

“Any law, international or municipal, which prohibits recourse to force, is necessarily limited by the right of self-defense.”

Is there a human right to defend oneself against a violent attacker? Is there an individual right to arms under international law? Conversely, are governments guilty of human rights violations if they do not enact strict gun control laws?

The United Nations and some non-governmental organizations have declared that there is no human right to self-defense or to the possession of defensive arms. The UN and allied NGOs further declare that insufficiently restrictive firearms laws are themselves a human rights violation, so all governments must sharply restrict citizen firearms possession.

This Article investigates the legal status of self-defense by examining a broad variety of sources of international law. Based on those sources, the Article suggests that personal self-defense is a well-established human right under international law and is an important foundation of international law itself.

If you start reading this, you start to see that while the U.N. would have a very difficult time to get Congress to pass such draconian laws, it would be another thign to try and collect those guns. An interesting tidbit states, “…a variety of ways, discussed infra, in which purported international law mandates can be imposed on American citizens without legislative consent.”

It also reminds us of the Frey report, written by Barbara Frey, who was put on the HRC subcommission by the Clinton Administration, who strongly supported U.N. gun control efforts. Note to Hillary Clinton supporters; I bet she will also back draconian UN Gun control laws, and push to change our gun laws and I would not doubt even try for a possible grab IF she made it to office.

It goes on to show how completely incompetent and inept the U.N. is, that eventually the HRC was abolished in 2005, after it was shown that some of it’s memebers that promoted gun control were actually members that performed genocide, slave trading, strict control of their citizens, and state terrorism. The Human Rights Council was an oxymoron and actually an adversary of promoting human rights.

Incredibly, the HRC was resurected the next year as the exact same thing and fully embraced the Frey Report which says that all national governments are required by International law to implement various levels of gun control.

I am not liking this women, or the U.N. at all. It gets worse.

Of course the subcommission has little power to enforce its wishes directly, but the declaration gives national government officials, including courts, considerable support to promote restrictive gun laws which are, according to the UN, mandated by international law. The full Human Rights Council is scheduled to take up the issue, and indications at the time of this writing suggest that the full Council will ratify most or all of Frey’s report. The Chairman of the full Human Rights Council has already announced his enthusiastic support for the Frey Report, the subcommission’s adoption of the report, and the prospect of using the Human Rights Council to advance a worldwide gun control mandate.

The Frey Report, then, is not simply a scholarly paper that will be filed away in a United Nations library. It is an effort to establish a new norm of international human rights law, and this effort to establish the new norm is supported by the United Nations Human Rights Council, as one aspect of the UN’s far-ranging support for restrictive and confiscatory firearms policies.

The United Nations General Assembly began drafting an international Arms Trade Treaty in late 2006. A stated purpose of the Arms Trade Treaty is to prohibit arms transfers which violate human rights.51 As interpreted by the HRC and Frey, every firearms sale in the United States would be a human rights violation; this is because even the most restrictive jurisdictions in the United States—such as Washington, D.C., or New York City—do not meet the minimum Frey/HRC gun control standards.

Ok, that’s about all of this I want to write about as I am getting really, really sick. Read the report, understand the U.N. wants your guns, and ask Hillary & the gun grabber Obama if they support the Frey report and do they plan on implementing their gun control mandates?

If you are an elephant, ask Romney (gun grabber), McCain, or Huckster what are their positions on gun control? Lets start talking about real issues, instead of still talking about change. We need change, we need to get the hell out of the United Nations and not put a Socialistic gun grabber in the White house…

Comments?

Christopher Winkler
Provider of Self Defense Products
http://DefendThyself.com

I am watching the election results with amazement. While it’s far from over, Ron Paul does not seem to have any states locked up. This is sad, since a vote for any other candidate will be at least one, if not all of the following: higher taxes, more & more bigger government, Patriot Act III, IV, V, VI, and VIII, massive gun control, RF id chipping of fringe people, then YOU, increased surveillance, bigger & bigger government, nothing done about the bogus ponzi scheme called SSI, and include all the Medi stuff, and did I mention much bigger wasteful, sloth like Govenment that will force you to buy insurance, even if you can’t afford it, and well, you get the picture.

Toss in the trillions for our global wars on everything, and Ben Bernanke needs to keep the presses running 24/7. Just read that they printed up a “fresh” batch of paper to pass on to you. Hopefully we won’t end up like the Germans did in 1923…

The German Hyperinflation, 1923
Excerpt from Paper Money by “Adam Smith,” (George J.W. Goodman), pp. 57-62.

Before World War I Germany was a prosperous country, with a gold-backed currency, expanding industry, and world leadership in optics, chemicals, and machinery. The German Mark, the British shilling, the French franc, and the Italian lira all had about equal value, and all were exchanged four or five to the dollar. That was in 1914. In 1923, at the most fevered moment of the German hyperinflation, the exchange rate between the dollar and the Mark was one trillion Marks to one dollar, and a wheelbarrow full of money would not even buy a newspaper. Most Germans were taken by surprise by the financial tornado.

“My father was a lawyer,” says Walter Levy, an internationally known German-born oil consultant in New York, “and he had taken out an insurance policy in 1903, and every month he had made the payments faithfully. It was a 20-year policy, and when it came due, he cashed it in and bought a single loaf of bread.” The Berlin publisher Leopold Ullstein wrote that an American visitor tipped their cook one dollar. The family convened, and it was decided that a trust fund should be set up in a Berlin bank with the cook as beneficiary, the bank to administer and invest the dollar.

In retrospect, you can trace the steps to hyperinflation, but some of the reasons remain cloudy. Germany abandoned the gold backing of its currency in 1914. The war was expected to be short, so it was financed by government borrowing, not by savings and taxation. In Germany prices doubled between 1914 and 1919.

It’s obvious there is no clear leader in this race, and if Romney is tired of spending money, or the one of the other 2 drop out, Ron Paul will be able to hang in there until the end due to his money bomb raising ability. I have not hit my maximum yet, and while I would never push this on you, if you feel the same, toss him a few bucks, and maybe, just maybe, we can save what’s left of the Republic…

Christopher Winkler
Provider of Self Defense Products
http://DefendThyself.com

Violent gun crimes are on the rise in the U.K., the place that has banned hand guns; imagine that.

UK gun crime up more than 20% since handguns were banned 10 years ago

The number of people treated for gunshot wounds has reached a three-year high – and more than one in 10 of the victims are under the age of 14 – prompting fears that Britain is in the grip of an escalating problem.

The figures reveal the stark truth about the battle against gun crime taking place in many of Britain’s major cities. A total of 958 victims were admitted to hospital in England alone for gunshot injuries in 2006/07, according to official statistics seen by The Independent on Sunday. This was 10 per cent more than the previous year and an increase of 20 per cent on 1998/99, when records were first collected.

Despite the outlawing of handguns and clamping down on other firearms in 1997, after the massacre the previous year of 16 school children in Dunblane, the gun menace continues to escalate in the UK. Gun-related murders rose by 6 per cent to 53 in England and Wales, according to official figures for the year ending June 2007.

Just being awake in history class will tell you gun control won’t work. Now tell it to the politicans at the ballot box. We feel sorry for the people in the U.K., who can’t own a gun, and who’s government won’t let us ship them stun guns & pepper sprays to protect yourself.

There are a dozen different types of non-lethal alternatives that we have been showing you for months. Will you do something and prepare for the day you will be attacked, or will you do nothing, and then, after you are attacked, get some pepper spray & a stun gun? Get off your butt, pick up a tiny The One Million Volt Hot Shot Stun Gun, and we will toss in a 1/2 oz. Wildfire 18% Pepper Spray, guaranteed to scorch the eyeballs out of some punk for over 30 minutes.

Then put the Hot Shot up to him for 5-10 seconds, and you can safely walk to safety…

Defend Thyself!

Christopher Winkler
Author
Supplier of Self Defense Products
http://DefendThyself.com/HotShotStunGun