Dave Kopel picked up on it here.

I would never vote for that gun nut Fred Thompson, who wants people to blow away a poor innocent soul who is merely entering your house looking for food because of Bush’s tax cuts for the rich, Haliburton (uh, wait, Blackwater is the evil company of the hour), Blackwater, Big Oil, Big Gun, Big Tobacco, Big Tree Choppers, and Big Hamburger taking away all the money for themselves and their CEOs!!!!

LEON FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ ZAHAR (Mexico), aligning himself with the statement of the Central American Integration System, said that Mexico, as a country which had been strongly affected by the illicit small arms trade, attached the highest priority to that matter. It could only be solved by means of international cooperation, under the principle of shared responsibility, with the active participation of governmental and non-governmental actors. All States, together with producers, importers and exporters of arms, and non-governmental organizations must redouble their efforts towards achieving the objectives of the United Nations Programme of Action.

He said that the excessive accumulation and availability of small arms, as well as the weakness of regulation in several countries, had frequently led to a diversion of such weapons into the black market, leading to urban violence and organized crime . With that in mind, Mexico had consistently supported the resolution on the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons, which had been introduced each year by the delegations of Colombia, Japan, and South Africa.

However, he urged the adoption of binding measures in the struggle against that illicit arms trade. Further, the Programme of Action must take into account the multidimensional character of the issue, including its humanitarian aspects, in order to develop new means of achieving the effective control of commerce and transfer of small arms and light weapons, including their possession by civilians.

If you don’t think that the diplodunks at the

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/gadis3354.doc.htm

It is worse than what you responded with when referenceing the part about Article 51…

Report, bottom of page 2:

Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations applies to States acting in self-defence against armed attacks against their State sovereignty. It does not apply to situations of self-defence for individual persons.

Goldberg said that the Article 51 proves Thompson wrong when in fact what the report is trying to do is prove what Goldberg said about Article 51 is wrong. Which is that Article 51 is a (sovereign) state’s right to self defense and not an individual one.

Does that report’s argument/reasoning sound familiar to anyone else besides me?