LOST again...
Kill LOST
Sunday, August 29, 2004
Majority Leader Bill Frist has bottled up the Law of the Sea Treaty in the U.S. Senate. Keep it corked, Sen. Frist.
The one-worlders, including perhaps a majority of senators, contend LOST is a neutral codification of the law of the sea. It is not. It is ceding by the world's largest economy -- and, by far, most potent naval power -- freedom of the seas to the United Nations.
Where self-interested treaties between nations and maritime custom once ruled comes the new sovereignty of world government.
Consider this:
The Seabed Authority would regulate mining the sea bottom for "the benefit of mankind" under a redistributionist model.
The Seabed Authority itself could compete with private companies for rights to extract resources and thus encourage them to provide sufficient incentive for the authority to withdraw.
The United Nations authority could impose taxes on oil and natural gas extractions.
The power of taxation is the keystone of sovereignty. And so is the power of taxation the cornerstone of corporatism.
With the understanding that "private" business can profit by the government's power to grant and enforce monopolies or give relief from its power to impose crushing taxes, it makes sense for corporatists -- many in this country -- to seek a unity with government. Most efficiently, one-world government that will reward its favorites and punish the disfavored.
All for "the benefit of mankind," of course.
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