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Kärjistäen:

Jos toisella puolella on AK-47:ja heiluttelevia lukutaidottomia maanviljelijöitä ja toisella puolella edes kohtuullisesti koulutettu high-tech -armeija niin ensinmainittu ottaa turpaansa ja huolella.

Poikkeuksia toki on kuten Vietnam, Afganistan 1980-luvulla jne. mutta niihiin on aina liittynyt se että alakynnessä olevaa low-tech osapuolta on aseisatanut joku tai jotkut supervallat isolla rahalla vuosikaudet. Nyt kun Irakissa alakynnessä oleva osa ei saa kunnon supporttia ulkoa niin toki se voi aiheuttaa vahinkoa mutta sillä ei ole mitään realistisia mahdollisuuksia lyödä USA:ta. Se voi päästä vain niskan päälle vain siinä tapauksessa että jenkit kyllästyy ja lähtee kotiinsa kuten Somaliassa kävi.

Irakilaisilla sen enempää kuin muillakaan sisseillä ei ole mitään mahdollisuuksia esim. ilmasodassa panna yksin jenkeille tms. hanttiin. Samaa koskee muitakin sissiporukoita.

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Police to destroy old Remington firearms

24.08.05
By Elizabeth Binning


Police will destroy $200,000 worth of firearms when they upgrade to semi-automatics because of a UN convention designed to prevent the illicit trade of weapons.

During the next 12 months police will spend $3 million replacing 880 Remington rifles with semi-automatics.

NZ First MP Ron Mark, and the Sporting Shooters Association have criticised the decision to destroy the Remingtons, saying it's a "politically correct move" that wastes taxpayers' money.

However, police say they have no choice because New Zealand, as a member of the United Nations, is compelled to abide by a convention designed to control firearm numbers and prevent illegal trade in them.

"This convention does not have force of law in New Zealand but it can be expected that New Zealand agencies will comply with it where they can," said National Operations manager Superintendent Tony McLeod.

Mr McLeod said even if police sold the Remingtons to licensed dealers they might get less than $200,000 for them - an amount that wouldn't cover the cost of the upgrade.

Sporting Shooters spokesman John Dyer said most of the Remingtons would be in pristine condition, as they were rarely used and well maintained, and would fetch a good price.

Mr Dyer said last time police upgraded weapons they sold their stock to a licensed gunstore in Auckland. Other organisations like the Army had sold firearms overseas where they got better returns.

He could not understand why things had changed, especially when police were in need of funds.

"The question is when police say they have to send a taxi to the Iraena Asher case because they haven't got enough staff on, well $200,000 would have meant perhaps another few officers on that night."

Mr Dyer said the rifles were not military-style weapons and were unlikely to end up in hotspots.

"Why are we slavishly destroying them? To make sure that somehow this is of some benefit to situations like Rwanda? The answer is it wouldn't make the blindest bit of difference."

NZ First law and order spokesman Ron Mark said the convention was not yet law here so there was no reason the rifles couldn't be sold to licensed dealers. "It's politically correct claptrap, the police are bowing to political pressure."

Remingtons, which are mainly used for shooting pests such as deer, are sold at licensed gun shops around the country and are legally imported.

"Where is the illicit trafficking in selling to licensed dealers. There is none," said Mr Marks.

"The Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Irradiate the illicit trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its Aspects" convention was ratified in New York in 2001.

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* Remington rifles are used by hunters and sold at licensed stores around the country.

* It is estimated licensed dealers would be able to sell police Remingtons for around $600 each, with an additional $400 to $500 for those that have scopes and mounts.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10342136

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DISARMAMENT:
Nations Urged to Create Gun-Free Zones

Thalif Deen

The widespread proliferation of small arms and light weapons can be curbed more effectively by reducing demand than by merely cutting off supplies, according to a new report on arms control released here.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17 (IPS) - "Unless the motivations and means for gun acquisition are understood, arms reduction interventions will fail," warns the 68-page study titled "Demanding Attention: Addressing the Dynamics of Small Arms Demand".

"Demand reduction must be taken more seriously than has hitherto been the case," the report says, pointing out that arms control programmes designed to reduce violence should adopt a demand perspective.

In South Africa and Solomon Islands -- two of the countries surveyed in the study -- demand for weapons has been successfully diminished through the promotion of gun-free zones established in villages, schools, bars and other communal spaces.

The study, a joint publication by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies and the New York-based Quaker United Nations Office, was released to coincide with the current two-week preparatory meeting -- due to conclude Jan. 20 -- for a landmark Review Conference on small arms in July.

The authors of the study were David Atwood, Anne-Kathrin Glatz and Robert Muggah.

The United Nations estimates that there are over 600 million small arms and light weapons -- including assault rifles, grenade launchers and sub-machine guns -- currently in circulation worldwide. Last year, small arms alone were instrumental in the deaths of over half a million people, mostly civilians.

Dr. Natalie J. Goldring, a visiting professor at the Security Studies Programme at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, says that achieving effective control over the international trade in weapons requires work on both the supply and demand sides of the equation.

"So far, most activities at the international level have been focused on the supply side. While we need more effective supply-side controls, we also need to focus much more seriously on demand-side issues," Goldring told IPS.

She said that "demand-side restraint" can be fostered through a wide range of measures, including ensuring that people are safe in their homes and that their basic needs are met, working to resolve conflicts before they become violent, and preventing easy access to weapons.

"Unfortunately, the deck is stacked against those favouring controls, because there are profits to be made from selling these weapons," she added.

As with drug dealers, arms dealers are often pushers, working hard to create markets for their goods and to prevent governments from exercising controls over their actions, Goldring argued.

The London-based International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), a coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that includes Oxfam and Amnesty International, is campaigning for an international treaty to curb the proliferation of small arms.

Although 43 of the 191 U.N. states and several regional blocs have clearly stated their support for an arms trade treaty, others do not yet have formal positions, according to IANSA.

Addressing the preparatory meeting last week, Cristina Pellandini of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that the upcoming July Review Conference on small arms should address four issues:

First, it was essential that an effective international framework was established to put an end to illicit arms brokering activities.

Second, the conference should define common standards for arms transfer decision-making, identifying the key elements of an effective transfer control system and the relevant international legal responsibilities of states.

Third, it was important that the conference recognised the need for increased efforts to address the demand for small arms and light weapons. Illicit markets were, after all, driven by an existing demand.

"Unless a reduction in the demand for such weapons could be achieved, attempts to better control their supply were likely to be only partially successful and might merely shift the source of supply to the weakest link in the control chain," Pellandini told delegates.

Finally, she said, the conference should support further measures to reduce the misuse of weapons in violation of international humanitarian and human rights laws.

Meanwhile, in its survey of Brazil, the study says the South American nation has one of the most unequal distributions of wealth and income in the world. In many of its cities, as in the case of Rio de Janeiro, residential areas of both extremes are found in close proximity.

While class differences have serious and predictable implications for access to public services, with wealthier citizens generally enjoying better provision, policing is considered inadequate across all income levels.

"Material wealth is a risk factor for armed violence, and property crime is widespread. As a result, private security manpower rivals that of the police, and demand for firearms is considerable," says the study.

In October 2005, about 64 percent of Brazilians who took part in a referendum to ban the sale of firearms to civilians voted "no".

The "no" vote reflected that the demand for firearms as a means of protection in Brazil remains strong. (FIN/2006)


http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31807

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DISARMAMENT:
Are Small Arms the Real WMD?

Thalif Deen

The United Nations argues that small arms -- including assault rifles, grenade launchers and sub-machine guns -- are primarily responsible for much of the death and destruction in conflicts throughout the world.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (IPS) - But despite the availability of over 600 million small arms in open and underground markets, there is no international treaty to control the reckless proliferation of these light weapons worldwide.

"Dinosaur bones and old postage stamps", yes, but a treaty on small arms, no, says Sarah Margon, director of Oxfam.

"No one but a criminal would knowingly sell a gun to a murderer, yet governments can sell weapons to regimes with a history of human rights violations or to countries where weapons will go to war criminals," she points out.

Currently, the United Nations is holding a two-week preparatory meeting -- due to conclude Jan. 20 -- preparing the ground for a landmark Review Conference on small arms in July.

"There is a growing awareness that the current loopholes in the arms export laws cannot be allowed to persist," Anthea Lawson of the London-based International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) told IPS.

Arguing that the global arms trade is "out of control", she said that every year thousands of people die at the barrel of a gun.

"We are reasonably confident that governments will recognise the need for some kind of global standard for small arms transfers at the Review Conference in July," she said.

In order to be effective, Lawson said, this standard needs to be based on international law. "This would then provide a vital stepping stone for negotiations on a treaty to begin later in the year," she said.

Although 43 states and several regional blocs have clearly stated their support for an arms trade treaty, others do not yet have formal positions, she added. The 43 supporters include Belgium, Cambodia, Denmark, Finland, the Vatican, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Iceland and Britain.

Until negotiations begin, those in opposition will not say so explicitly. However, among those expressing the least enthusiasm at the moment are India, Egypt, Iran and the United States, Lawson pointed out.

In 2001, the United Nations adopted a programme of action to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. This was considered a "major achievement" because it was the first time that arms proliferation was tackled at a global level.

"But the agreement was limited in scope, and progress since has been patchy," according to Lawson.

Addressing delegates Monday, Earl Turcotte of Canada said he was struck by the innocuous sound of the words "small arms" and "light weapons", since their collective impact on people was anything but small and light.

He said there were in excess of some 600 million small arms and light weapons in circulation worldwide. Last year, small arms alone were instrumental in the deaths of over half a million people -- 10,000 per week.

"The vast majority comprised civilians, and at least a third were struck down in countries at peace," Turcotte said.

The upcoming Review Conference in July is a seminal opportunity to set a clear timetable for continuing the U.N. process, increase momentum and produce substantial, concrete results over the next five-year period in the implementation of the programme of action, he added.

Sylvester Rowe of Sierra Leone, who was elected chairman of the current preparatory meeting, told delegates that one of the best credentials he had for his assignment was the fact that he comes from a country that has experienced -- and is still experiencing -- the agony and the devastating consequences of the illicit trade, circulation and use of "what were euphemistically described as small arms and light weapons".

There was an emerging recognition that small arms and light weapons were, in fact, the real "weapons of mass destruction", he added.

Meanwhile, there have been new case study reports from Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone focusing on "irresponsible arms transfers".

All three countries produce very few arms, but they have been flooded with weapons, "which have been used to kill, maim, displace and impoverish hundreds of thousands of people", according to Denise Searle, Amnesty International's senior campaign director..

"Time and again, peacekeeping efforts have been undermined by the failure of governments to introduce effective arms controls," he said.

"For the sake of millions of men, women and children who live in continual fear of armed violence, world leaders must seize this historic opportunity to begin negotiations on an arms trade treaty," he added. (FIN/2006)


http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=31738

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Movie Ad Part of Wider Campaign Against Guns

British moviegoers will be shown a spoof TV-shopping advertisement for an AK47 assault rifle as part of a shock campaign designed to increase awareness of the illegal arms trade.

The presenters glorify firepower and the merits of the AK47, and a young boy demonstrates how a Kalashnikov works.

Viewers are even told they will receive free ammunition when they call to place their orders with the phony advertiser, Teleshop.

The cinema ad is part of a much wider campaign. A glossy mail order "small arms catalog" will be sent to thousands of homes and will feature models posing with machine guns and automatic pistols. A viral e-mail campaign will surprise Internet users with fake special offers for weapons.

If that's not enough, a "roadshow" will tour shopping centers across the country, with people pretending to be company representatives demonstrating the ease with which an AK47 can be assembled and fired.

The mock advertisement will be shown in 300 cinemas, reaching an estimated 2 million people over a four-week period. The viewers are urged to text in their name as part of a petition to the British government urging tough control of the sales of deadly weapons.

"Some people might find our Teleshop advert disturbing. But what's truly shocking is that one person dies every minute from armed violence," Amnesty International U.K .director Kate Allen said.

Arms controls around the world are riddled with loopholes, allowing weapons to be sold to conflict zones and countries that repress and torture their people. The global arms trade is now worth $21 billion a year.

"Shock advertising" isn't a groundbreaking idea. Italian fashion retailer Benetton became synonymous in the 1980s and '90s, with campaigns that used images of a dying AIDS patient and a dead soldier's blood-splattered uniform.

But this time around, it is hoped that the shock tactic might coerce at least 1 million people to join the petition to put the arms control issue on the British government's agenda at a UN meeting in June.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=1544526&ad=true

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"Some people might find our Teleshop advert disturbing. But what's truly shocking is that one person dies every minute from armed violence," Amnesty International U.K .director Kate Allen said.


Tuohon voisi todeta vastaan vain seuraavaa: What is more disturbing is that five people starve to death or die in curable diseases every minute and we do not do anything to prevent it.

Put that 1 million in medical aid and you will save 100 times more people than by printign glossy gun catalogs that will end up in the trash can.

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Tuli vaan mieleen: Mistäs noita kataloogeja saa tilata, voisin ottaa keräilytarkoituksessa muutaman kappaleen. Ja Reserviläisliiton nimissä voisin pyytää ehkä 60000 kappaletta lisää shokkimainontaan jotta ressut oppivat miten hirveitä ne aseet, joita heidät lailla velvoitetaan käyttämään, ovat.

On hyvä asia että Amensty osallistuu aseista kiinnostuneiden valistamiseen. Jos he vielä laittaisi samantyylistä matskua valovanhvistimista ja äänenvaimentimista jakeluun niin minut saa laittaa postituslistalle vaikka heti.

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Taitavat olla ne kataloogin tiedot yhtä vankalla fantasiapohjalla kuin kyseisen tahon muukin kampanjointi, mutta eiköhän koko kansan presidentti tuo seuraukset syksyyn mennessä suomalaistenkin nautittavaksi.

Onhan siinä mukana YK ja IANSA (George $oros)...

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Muumimamma ei onneksi nykyään Suomessa päätä laeista oikeastaan mitään. Jos hänätä ei joku laki huvita niin se voidaan säätää silti mutta pidemmän kaavan mukaan. Jos Eduskuntaa ei huvita Mamman lakiehdotukset niin Muumilaksossa ei voida tehdä muuta kuin pyytää kauniisti.

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Harmi vaan että Suomen ulkoministeriö, jonka Tuomioja on miehittänyt pasifistikavereillaan, puuhaa kovin innokkaasti tuon edellämainitun porukan kanssa asekieltosuunnitelmiensa parissa. Kansanedustajia tuollaiset suunnitelmat eivät enimmäkseen haittaa, varsinkin kun niitten todelliset vaikutukset kerrotaan vasta jälkikäteen. Ja enemmistö kannattaa niitä vielä sittenkin. Vertaa maamiina-kieltoon.

"Tehtiin YK-sopimus joka estää aseviennin kehitysmaihin ja lopettaa sodat" (jyliseviä suosionosoituksia)

"Sopimuksen toteutus aloitetaan keräämällä pois kaikki Suomen yksityisaseet, ettei niitä viedä kehitysmaitten sotakäyttöön" (korviahuumaavia suosionosoituksia)

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Niin...kielloilla ja takavarikoilla saadaan paljon aikaan. Seuraavaksi pari esimerkkiä;

1. Kieltolain aikaan loppu juopottelu kuin seinään kun viinakset kiellettiin.

2. Huumeiden käyttö loppui kiellon myötä

3. Seksin myynti loppui kiellon myötä

(Kummastuttaa että nyt ollaan kieltämässä myös seksin osto, mutta eihän seksiä ole enään missään ostettavissa kun sen myynti on kielletty!!!!)
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The difference between a Socialist and a Communist? Socialist doesn't have all the guns yet.

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Väiskille: Ei seksin myynti ole Suomessa kiellettyä. Veronkierto sen sijaan on, samoin seksin häiritsevä myynti yleisellä paikalla.

Ruotsissa seksin myynti on sallittua mutta ostaminen ei. Aika loogista ruotsalaismeininkiä.

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