Erittäin tärkeää; YK:n asepöytäkirjan vaikutukset

[Huomio!]

Uusimman ASE-lehden pääkirjoituksen mukaan Suomi on säntäämässä mukaan YK:n ns. järjestäytyneen rikollisuuden vastaiseen sopimukseen.
Tältä sivuilta ja sen linkeistä selviää (ainakin osittain) mitä se merkitsisi aseharrastukselle:

http://www.iansa.org/issues/marking_tracing.htm

"Essential elements for an international convention
on tracing of small arms and light weapons

The International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) warmly welcomes the decision of the UN General Assembly to convene an Open-Ended Working Group to develop an international instrument to assist States in the timely and reliable tracing of illicit small arms and light weapons (SALW). IANSA urges UN Member States to work towards a Convention on Marking, Registration and Tracing of illicit SALW that allows for the identification and closing of sources of SALW diversion. On the occasion of the first substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group in New York, June 14-25, IANSA calls on States to commit themselves to the following essential principles.

Comprehensive Scope
• The negotiated instrument must apply to both civilian and military SALW as well as private commercial and State-to-State transfers. Special consideration must be given to the tracing of illicit SALW recovered in the context of conflict situations as it is in this respect that currently existing mechanisms are in most need of strengthening.

National tracing infrastructure
• National mechanisms must be created that allow for the identification and verification of an individual SALW path while under a State’s jurisdiction.
• States should seriously consider the creation of specialised national agencies with a mandate to centralise information on the domestic paths and destinations of SALW.
• These agencies should physically control SALW shipments at points of import, transit and export, as well as verify information on SALW manufacture and possession.

Appropriate marking
• Every SALW and its essential components must be permanently marked so as to easily identify, at a minimum, the manufacturer, country of manufacture, a unique serial number, and the year of production.
• Best practice in certain States should be followed where SALW are marked upon import and SALW held by the armed forces, the police and other security forces receive additional marks identifying the relevant force.
• Unmarked SALW under a State’s jurisdiction may not be transferred and should either be appropriately marked or destroyed.

Accurate registration
• SALW manufacturers and dealers must keep complete records on produced or acquired weapons, as well as on who received transferred weapons and involved transport agents.
• Security forces holding arms must maintain complete records on the weapons under their authority and on who received transferred weapons.
• Civilian-held SALW and their transfers must be registered.
• Record-keeping systems for SALW must be maintained in electronic registers. Every effort should be made to nationally centralise and integrate record-keeping systems.

International co-operation in tracing
• States must ensure that tracing requests involving a large number of countries can be replied to in a timely and reliable manner. States should therefore seriously consider the creation of an international centre to assist States and their national tracing agencies in the implementation of the negotiated instrument."

Mielestäni tämän torjuminen vaatii välittömiä kannanottoja, sillä selvä tavoite näissä aloitteissa on lopettaa laillinen aseharrastus:

http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_5419.shtml

Miljardööri George Soroksen rahoittama IANSA-järjestö on aiemmin ollut Australian asekieltolakien takapiruna, hyvällä syyllä voi olettaa että ne ovat vasta pelkkiä sormiharjoituksia...

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Lainauksia IANSAn johtajan Rebecca Petersin mielipiteistä:

"Therefore, we, as members of IANSA, but also as part of civil society committed to stopping the deadly human cost of small arms proliferation and misuse, call for governments to take the following steps to reinvigorate their commitments under the PoA and move the small arms issue forward. States must:
...
Develop controls on civilian possession and use. Ban civilian possession of military assault weapons"

http://www.iansa.org/un/presentations/rebecca_peters.htm

Tuntien asevastustajien kielenkäytön tämä tarkoittanee myös puoliautomaattiaseita.

"We know that an increase in the arms trade also means a rise in black market sales, as many small arms are diverted to human right abusers, warlords, terrorist groups and common criminals. Control Arms is working to stop these black market diversions," said Rebecca Peters, Director of IANSA.

So far, the political leaders of countries including Brazil, Cambodia, Mali, Macedonia, Costa Rica, Finland and the Netherlands have given their support to Control Arms. The campaign was given another boost last week when Britain announced its support for the Arms Trade Treaty. Britain is the second biggest arms exporter in the world."

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/10972541339.htm

"To prevent harm from guns internationally, the most critical point for intervention is within the domestic policies and practices of individual countries. To re-state a point mentioned by the distinguished delegate of Canada and others: nations that allow guns to be freely manufactured, transferred and possessed within their borders are undermining the international community's efforts to prevent transnational gun crime."

http://www.tf.org/tf/violence/firearms/Intl/women5wp2.shtml

"LaPierre: Kerryite Soros Pushing Global Gun Ban

Billionaire John Kerry supporter George Soros is working through the U.N. to negotiate a treaty that will ban private ownership of firearms on a worldwide basis, says National Rifle Association spokesman Wayne LaPierre.

Addressing the annual SAFE: Right to Carry Conference last Sunday on New York, LaPierre warned, "The U.N. is, I believe, the major threat that we're going to be dealing with."

"Under the umbrella of the United Nations, there are now more than 500 of these organizations working day and night trying to ban civilian ownership or firearms," he explained.
Under the banner of IANSA - the International Action Network on Small Arms - Soros operative Rebecca Peters is working to capitalize on the success of her gun ban campaign in Australia, where firearms possession is now illegal and crime is going through the roof.

On Tuesday LaPierre is set to debate Peters on InDemand pay-per-view TV, where the two will lock horns over the upcoming U.N. global gun ban conference in the summer of 2006.

Peters is such an anti-gun zealot that she even argues that police should be disarmed. "When police begin to carry guns, that motivates criminals to carry guns," she complained recently, according to LaPierre."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/10/83928.shtml

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1220897/posts

http://www.thegundebate.com/vote.html


Entäs muistatteko vielä tätä:

"Physician Group Calls for Response to Global Gun Violence
10/3/2001

An international physicians organization is calling upon health professionals, scientists, and activists to bring the consequences of "the small arms pandemic" around the world to greater public understanding.

Nearly 200 conferees met in Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 28-30 at an event sponsored by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) to examine the medical implications of small arms and develop a response. IPPNW spokesman Brian Rawson told Join Together Online that this gathering, with its goal of fashioning an international medical response to gun violence, is the first of its kind.

"We're calling on medical professionals to consider this problem as something they have a role in solving, and that prevention is the most effective angle for us to take," he said. "It's a public-health approach -- that it's not just a medical person's duty to stitch up people once they've been wounded, but to take a role in preventing this from happening."

With hundreds of millions of small arms in the hands of armies, law enforcers, and civilians around the globe, and with large profits to be made by arms manufacturers and middlemen eager to exploit a lucrative black market, the task of preventing related death and injury is a daunting one. But a logical first step, Rawson said, is for medical professionals to push for improved data-collection systems worldwide. For instance, while there's general agreement that there are at least 500 million small arms in the world, nobody really knows. Also missing are accurate data on how many people they kill and wound and what indirect health costs they may exact.

Some accurate data are known, however, and point to a heavy American involvement in the global arms trade. A recent report by the Congressional Research Service showed that the U.S. was the world's leading arms merchant in 2000 with $18.6 billion in sales, 70 percent of the weapons going to the developing world, where small arms tend to be the weapon of choice in regional conflicts. Nevertheless, in July, the U.S. stonewalled a United Nations conference which examined the global small-arms trade on the grounds that it wanted nothing to with anything that might either restrict civilian gun ownership or allow governments to block arms sales to nongovernmental groups.

Rawson said that the American laissez faire position on arms -- both domestically and globally -- occupied much of the discussion in Helsinki.

First, he said, the lack of regulation in the U.S. combined with the international black market creates a powerful profit incentive to smuggle small arms where there's strong demand. (According to the UN, approximately half of the small arms in the world are illegal, and the annual trade in illegal small arms is estimated at about $1 billion.)

Furthermore, American efforts to undermine various governmental regimes by arming rebels has had broad consequences. "First of all, getting the arms to (insurgents) requires several middle men, who can siphon off arms and divert them to the illegal market," Rawson said. "Second, even when they do arrive to their intended recipients, those people may not be in our best interests in the long run. They may be extremists, like we're seeing in Afghanistan. The people who rose to power there benefited greatly from U.S. military aid."

Another consequence of arming one side or another is that after the conflict is finished, the guns often stay in civilian hands and continue to wreak havoc. Central America, for instance, has continued to suffer from gun violence even though the military conflicts of the 1980s have run their courses.

The timing of the Helsinki conference meant that it was overshadowed by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that have shocked the world. But as Rawson said in a statement at the conference's conclusion, "we recognize that the continued injury and loss that daily attends the deliberate or indiscriminate use of small arms is no less shocking to the affected individuals and their families."

One generally quoted statistic about the current state of the many small wars that continue to afflict the globe is that some 80 percent of casualties now are civilians -- compared with 14-percent civilian deaths in World War I. Rawson said the 80-percent figure is really guesswork; he cites it as a reason for calling upon medical professionals to mount a campaign for scientific data collection to better understand the costs of all the regional conflicts and the international arms trade that supplies them.

While the competing political, social, and religious forces that cause conflicts can be complex, the outcome of the Helsinki conference was to call upon medical professionals, scientists, activists, and government representatives to focus on global gun violence not as a law-enforcement or national-security problem, but as a broad, public-health challenge.

"Physicians are challenged by the immediate needs of victims and by the long and costly physical and psychological rehabilitation needed by so many," the concluding Medical Call to Action states. "We are called to describe the grim reality of mutilation and loss so that the human victim, rather than the bullet or the gun, is seen clearly as central to the issue -- We further recognize a continuum of violent conflict, from homicides and criminal violence to intrastate wars up to and including nuclear war that are all linked by the ways in which people justify meeting violence with violence."

According to IPPNW, small arms, light weapons, and firearms have claimed roughly a half million lives a year in recent years -- 200,000 of them not related to combat. In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., Americans are more acutely aware of the trauma that the killing of innocent civilians can cause an entire nation. Thus, perhaps, Americans might better understand the U.S. role in the international small-arms trade and the plight of countries that have suffered high civilian casualty rates as a result.

Physician Group Calls for Response to Global Gun Violence. Original feature article, Join Together Online (www.jointogether.org), October 3, 2001.

http://www.jointogether.org/gv/news/features/reader/0,2061,546008,00.html

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Ei noin pitkää jaksa hoonoenglantinen lukea. Jään oottelemaan tiedonannon käytännönvaikutuksia ...

[MM]

[Vieras]

Vähintään samaa mikä on jo toteutettu Englannissa ja Australiassa, se ainakin näkyy olevan tavoite.

[MM]

[turjake]

[MM]

Samaa mieltä. Siis siitä, että ampuma-aseista voi ja pitää säätää kansallisesti, Suomessa eduskunnassa.

Nykyinen laki on hyvä - ei estä harrastamasta, mutta toteuttaa riittävän kontrollin.

Oikeasti; kansainväliseen asekauppaan pitää kiinnittää valtioidenvälistä huomiota.

[Vieras]

[Lippis]

Pyrkimys on kiertää aselaki ja sen henki rikoslain avulla. Eli vaikka aselaki jotain sallisikin niin jos se on erikseen kielletty tai hyvin hankalaksi tehty rikoslain puolella niin lopputulos on sama kuin jos aselakia olisi muutettu. -Aselain kiristäminen kaikin keinoin tässä on taustalla.

Erikoista on että Suomessa ainoa keskusteluforum viranomaisten ja alan toimijoiden kesken on lamautunut kun sinne ei ole saatu 40% naiskiintiötä täyteen. Sitä, mistä juuri tuo 40% on keksitty ei ole tiedossa. Aika monia isompiakin asioita tässä maassa päätetään ilman mitään sukupuolikiintiöitä. Tässä haiskahtaa siltä että keskusteluforum halutaan pitää pimennossa ja poissa tieltä kunnes virkamiehet ovat saaneet leimautettua Eduskunnalla joitain uusia lakeja. Mielenkiintoista olisi kuulla mistä laeista on kyse.

[MM]

Ahas. Lehden pääkirjoitus olisi mukava nähdä. Jos copyright tai -left estää, voineeko joku referoida sitä perusteellisemmin?

[Vieras]

Lehti on myynnissä mm. kioskeissa ja marketeissa, hinta kuuden egen luokkaa! Jätä vaikkapa sikspäkki ostamatta!

[MM]

Referoiminen tarkoittaa sitä, että joku jolla kirjoitus on käsillä voisi kertoa kirjoituksesta tarkemmin.

[Vieras]

Ja näkeminen edellyttää sitä, että kyseinen pääkirjoitus nenän edessä nähtävissä ja luettavissa.

[Revolverimies]

Jaha ja annas kun arvaan: Jäljet johtanevat sylttytehtaalle eli Tuomiojan Ekiin ja Halosen Tarjaan.

Tämän siitä saa kun kansasta riittävän suuri osa on sikäli idiootteja että antavat äänensä sentapaisille puolueille kuin SDP, Vasemmistoliitto, ja Vihreät.

Esim. SDP ei ole pitkään aikaan ollut ns. kansan asialla vaan kuten muutkin nykyiset isot (erityisesti vasemmisto) puolueet on TÄYNNÄ kaikenlaisia kansanvihollisia.

Mutta mitäs siitä, äänestäkää vaan vaaleissa vakiintuneita isoja puolueita niin takaan että sama linja jatkuu ja jatkuu.

Minä en niin tee. Enkä jätä äänestämättäkään, vaan pohdin vaihtoehtoja.