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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.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/archive/s_245267.html

"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."

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Well, I guess since we have no land border sovereignty there is no reason to have any sea or coastal land sovereignty either then. What a golden opportunity for the UN to finally get it's paws direclty into our back pockets (without having to filter our money through various congressional monetary grants and "loans").

COALITION AGAINST REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ

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"But it was the weasels who scuppered any return to business-as-usual. Messrs Chirac and de Villepin barely paused for breath before moving on from their pre-war sabotage programme to a revised post-war sabotage programme."

"Do you think his lawyers will speak French?"

Don't sweat it Saddam, your lawyers on his way, and your punk Chirac has already said he's willing to post the bail.

"Within France and its client states!!"

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The United Nations Wants to TAX you!

"Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali ... urged the [UN] to consider imposing its own taxes to become less dependent on the United States...."
-Washington Times, January 16, 1996

Are you concerned that...
...numerous taxation schemes to finance the UN are being considered?

Economist James Tobin proposed in 1972 that the UN be the recipient of a tax of 0.05% on foreign exchange transactions. In 1993, the Ford Foundation produced Financing an Effective United Nations, a report containing recommendations that the UN tax airline traffic, shipping, and arms sales. In 1995, the UN-funded Commission on Global Governance suggested that the UN collect levies from those who use "flight lanes, sea lanes for ships, ocean fishing areas, and the electromagnetic spectrum." Ultimately, of course, the burden of all taxation falls on consumers.

Are you concerned that...
...a State Department study specifically proposed giving the UN taxing power and, ultimately, control of the world?

In 1962, the State Department financed a study entitled "A World Effectively Controlled by the United Nations." The report outlined what would be needed for such a total world government: "a mandatory universal membership," an ability to use "physical force," and "compulsory jurisdiction" of its courts. One of the UN's "principle features," stated the report, would be "enforceable taxing powers." (Emphasis added.)

Are you concerned that...
...no matter how much our nation gives, the UN will never be satisfied?

In addition to hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid, our nation has provided the UN with tens of billions more for its programs since 1945. Currently, U.S. contributions make up 25% of the UN's annual budget. But, in his May 2001 speech at Notre Dame University, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan complained with a typical anit-American attitude, "It is shameful that the United States ... should be one of the least generous in terms of helping the world's poor."

Are you concerned that...
...taxing authority would fuel an unaccountable UN Superstate?

Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said of a UN tax: "We would no be under the daily financial will of member states who are unwilling to pay up." UN Founder Harlan Cleveland made the same point in Futures: Rather than relying on "the worn-out policy of year-to-year decisions by individual governments" (about how much to give the UN), "what's needed is a flow of funds for development which are generated automatically under international control." And there would be no Congress to limit the UN's appetite for your tax dollars!

The United Nations Wants to Take Your Land!
"Private land ownership ... contributes to social injustice.... Public control of land use is therefore indispensable."

- United Nations "Habitat I" Conference Report, 1976

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.

The United Nothing is not a sovereign entity. It's a bogus organization propped up primarily on the backs of the American taxpayer.

NO on UN sovereignty!!!

NO on LOST!!!

LOST would supercede our Constitution!!!

LOST turns control of American maritime business over to foreign governments within the UN!!!