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To spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary. -- Jerry Pournelle

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Did I miss something?

(Via Survivalblog)

I damn sure looks like it. This is dated October 14:

The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.

The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would support the talks as long as the negotiating forum, the so-called Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, "operates under the rules of consensus decision-making."

Well, there's a handy way to get around that pesky Second Amendment--sign an international treaty!

Chains we can believe in.

Posted by The Freeholder at 11:07 PM  

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