Email: "Alert Alert Alert Obama About To Sign Treaty Ceding US Sovereignty To United Nations"

Alert Alert Alert Obama About To Sign Treaty Ceding US Sovereignty To United Nations

[note - all mistakes below are original to the text]

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: XXXXXX@msn.com
To: XXXXXXXXXX@hotmail.com
Sent: Wed, October 21, 2009 8:28:48 AM
Subject: Fw: ALERT ALERT ALERT Obama about to sign treaty ceding US sovereignty to United Nations

I HOPE THIS IS NOT HAPPENING...BUT STAND UP AND BE COUNTED...WITH YOUR REPS

Tell me the Devil has not arrived in the form of.....????? 

Call your senators and reps today on this one...or your rights and future of your families will be determined by the United Nations....not we the people.......which is hatefull/jealous  of us all........and would like to control our contry...

WAKE UP AMERICANS....elections are coming.  Make a call to your representatives and tell them....what you expect...they work for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40

My Fellow Citizens,

President Obama is going to Europe to sign a "Global Warming" Treaty. He will sign it. If the treaty is ratified by 2/3 of the Senate, our Country and our Constitution will be legally subservient to foreign powers. It's right there in the treaty. We will cede our sovereignty to others. View this video, read the treaty and send this to everyone on your email lists. We have to stop this. I don't know about you, but I will not recognize or obey and will actively resist any State power that attempts to inflict its will upon us under the claim of superseding our Constitution.  Make no mistake, Obama and his minions know exactly what they are doing.  The Road to Serfdom lies before us.

Martin G. Boisvert

Response

Yikes.  That is a scary email.  I watched the video, though, and something wasn't right so I checked into it.

If you look at the website PolitiFact.com (they critique both Democrats and Republicans), it's clear that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

First, PolitiFact says there's not even a treaty yet - so any conversation about what the treaty would do to America is probably not true because there's nothing to talk about yet.

Also, it takes a super majority in the Senate to pass ANY treaty.  The site says "The Senate would have to approve any binding agreement with a 67-vote supermajority. This means that a treaty only becomes binding after a supermajority of democratically elected senators, plus the president, consent. So if the United States decides to give up some of its sovereignty in the matter of carbon emissions, it will only do so after a significant amount of political consent is given."

Finally, PolitiFact says: "we find Monckton's claims to not only be unsupported but preposterous. First, it's impossible to know what agreement will come out of Copenhagen, and when. Second, the U.S. procedure for ratifying treaties requires consent by a supermajority of the Senate - a steep hurdle. Third, it's hard to envision anything coming out of Copenhagen that would change the United States' bedrock principles of freedom and democracy. And fourth, contrary to what Monckton says, the United States can leave an international agreement. So while it pays to be vigilant about threats to U.S. sovereignty, this one is not the threat that Monckton's rhetoric suggests."

If you have time, you should read the whole article, it's really good: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/oct/20/christopher-monckton/british-climate-skeptic-says-copenhagen-treaty-thr/

It's really sad that people (like the guy in the video) try to scare people like this.  The Constitution was written to ensure the United States would govern itself in all matters - you don't think the Founders would forget to make sure England couldn't take over again, do you?

Hopefully this email helps clear things up a bit.