Here Come the Black Helicopters!

arms-treaty-of-2012-elimination-of-the-second-amendment/.

13. “The treaty is”: Ibid.

14. “parties shall take”: Maxim Lott, “Proposed U.N. Treaty to Regulate Global Firearms Trade Raising Concern for U.S. Gun Makers,” FoxNews.com, August 5, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/05/proposed-un-treaty-to-regulate-global-firearms- trade-raising-concerns-for-us/.

15. “The UN’s actions”: Julian Pecquet, “Opposition to UN arms treaty heats up,” thehill.com, July 2, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/un-treaties/235999-opposition-to-un-arms-trade-treaty-heats- up.

16. “Any international Arms”: Chris Cox quoted in Julian Pecquet, “Opposition to UN arms treaty heats up,” The Hill, July 2, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/un- treaties/235999-opposition-to-un-arms-trade-treaty-heats-up.

17. “on behalf of”: NRA, “Beware Gun Owners, U.N. Moves Forward on Arms Trade Treaty,” July 12, 2012, http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/nra-fights-second-amendment-un-moves-forward- arms-trade-treaty.

18. “Americans should realize”: Ted R. Bromund, “The Risks the Arms Trade Treaty Poses to the Sovereignty of the United States,” Heritage Foundation, June 4, 2012, http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/pdf/i b3622.pdf.

19. “This is a fantasy”: Ibid.

20. “like the plague”: Peter Brookes, “A Bad UN Idea on Arms Deals,” nypost.com, July 1, 2012, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bad_un_idea_on_arms_deals_7lTtoMqhmKFD2U nyGLf5qO.

21. “The treaty will”: Ibid.

22. “[W]ho really expects”: Ibid.

PART THREE

1. “thirty years ago, President Ronald Reagan”: Donald Rumsfeld, “Why the U.N. Shouldn’t Own the Seas,” http://online.wsj.com/home-page, June 12, 2012, http://online.wsj.c om/article/SB10001424052702303768104577460890850883780.html.

2. “What this treaty proposes is nothing”: Ibid.

3. “But isn’t that what”: Ibid.

4. “no national interest”: Dr. Harold Pease, “Treaty to Give the Oceans to the United Nations, Now Before the Senate,” http://www.libertyunderfire.org/, June 11, 2012, http://www.libertyunderfire.org/2012/06/treaty-to-give-the-oceans-to-the-united-nations-now-before- the-senate/.

5. “The treaty’s provisions were”: Edwin Meese III, “Still lost on the Law of the Sea Treaty,” http://www.latimes.com/, June 5, 2012, http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-meese-law-of-the-sea- 20120605,0,6473043.story.

6. “the treaty would resurrect”: Doug Bandow, “Cato Institute Foreign Policy Briefing No. 32: Faulty Repairs: The Law of the Sea Treaty is Still Unacceptable,” Cato.org, September 12, 1994, http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb032.pdf.

7. “euphemistically called the”: Ibid.

8. http://www.filmsite.org/night.html.

9. “no fight was more important”: Doug Bandow, “Cato Institute Foreign Policy Briefing No. 32: Faulty Repairs: The Law of the Sea Treaty is Still Unacceptable,” Cato.org, September 12, 1994, http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb032.pdf.

10. “may be worth”: Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator John Cornyn, “The Law of the Sea treaty will sink America’s economy,” Foxnews.com, May 23, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/23/law-sea-treaty-will-sink- america-economy/.

11. “pursuant to the treaty’s Article 82”: Donald Rumsfeld, “Why the U.N. Shouldn’t Own the Seas,” http://online.wsj.com/home-page, June 12, 2012, http://online.wsj.c om/article/SB10001424052702303768104577460890850883780.html.

12. “Over time”: Ibid.

13. “This [treaty] would”: Ibid.

14. “these sizable”: Ibid.

15. “peoples who have”: UNCLOS Part XI, Section 2, UN.org, http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part11-2.htm.

16. “Has more than”: Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), Introduction.

17. “In fact”: Ibid.

18. “a kind of curse”: Ibid.

19. “nations with mining”: Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator John Cornyn, “The Law of the Sea treaty will sink America’s economy,” Foxnews.com, May 23, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/23/law-sea-treaty-will-sink- america-economy/.

20. “in other words”: Ibid.

21. “if the enterprise”: Law of the Sea Treaty, Un.org, ht tp://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/agreement_part_xi/agreement_part_xi.htm.

22. “the Enterprise”: Doug Bandow, “Cato Institute Foreign Policy Briefing No. 32: Faulty Repairs: The Law of the Sea Treaty is Still Unacceptable,” Cato.org, September 12, 1994, http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb032.pdf.

23. “take measures”: Ibid.

24. “as yet undetermined”: Ibid.

25. “if any”: Ibid.

26. “who would do”: Ibid.

27. “all the more”: Ibid.

28. “nations cannot”: Ibid.

29. “why risk sacrificing”: Edwin Meese III, “Still lost on the Law of the Sea Treaty,” http://www.latimes.com/, June 5, 2012, http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-meese-law-of-the-sea- 20120605,0,6473043.story.