[MegaSilver]

Keep up this fight, FReepers. Let's kill this thing once and for all.

And then, let's work on dismantiling the U.N.

[isom35]

here would be a good law of the sea treaty: "we The U.S. do whatever we feel like, everyone else stay out of our way." That would apply to land and space also.

[GeronL]

Anyone who would support this treaty is an actual traitor

[Redbob]

"A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step."

Or, in this case, a swift kick!

[yoe]

This treaty gives the United Nations" control of the sea. It compromises U.S. national security, siphons U.S. corporate and taxpayer dollars for global interests in the form of new levies, stifles U.S. development, and gives away hard-earned U.S. technology to even non- friendly nations.

The Law of the Sea treaty represents the largest transfer of sovereignty to a UN body ever. It MUST be halted before the United Nations is allowed to stretch its powers over 70% of the Earth's surface and control of the seas.

[Graymatter]

If the UN has sovereignty over the seabed, that's where I want their headquarters.

[hedgetrimmer]

Another LOST ping.

Let me know if you want on or off.

[Carry_Okie]

The big issue with LOST isn't about the ocean; it's about land use control.

This global bureaucracy will justify control of land use to "protect" the marine environment. It isn't hard to see. Many oceanic species breed in estuaries within the United States. Estuarine health isn't doing very well for a number of reasons (many of which politicized science will conveniently miss). The estuaries are fed by rivers. The rivers are lined with cities.

Marine sanctuaries and global biospheres are model for what is planned for LOST. If all we accomplish is to alter the treaty to gain protection for our military, we will have missed the point.

LOST is a straitjacket fully capable of crippling this nation (which certainly affects its ability to defend itself). That the White House says it knows nothing about it belies the fact that, according to the email I get from ALRA, the White House and Chuck Hagel are the instigators in pushing this treaty through in the dark of night after the Reagan Administration had rejected it out of hand.