Law of the Sea Treaty Doesn't Hold Water(Phyllis Schlafly)

worldnetdaily.com ^ | September 21, 2007 | Phyllis Schlafly

[NCSteve]

Yep, good ol’ Jorge isn’t happy with stabbing his political allies in the back, he just keeps on kicking them while they’re down. This guy is beginning to make Bill Clinton look like a class act.

[arderkrag]

That trend will not be reversed. It’s time to either adopt or forget this Convention. There is nothing out there worth mining anyway. The USA cannot dominate the high seas anymore and won’t try.

So we should stop trying, in your opinion. Beautiful.

[RightWhale]

• we should stop trying

  Trying what? Bashing Bush?

[arderkrag]

Ahem...your post read:

The USA cannot dominate the high seas anymore and won’t try.

The gist of your post was, simply, that we can't resist this resolution and shouldn't bother trying to resist it. I think that's an asinine opinion, personally. Of course we should resist, even if nothing comes of our resistance. I'd rather resist and have stood up for what's right than lay down because the odds are overwhelming.

[RightWhale]

• shouldn't

  Could as well have said won't or aren't. But to abuse the language by saying this is equivalent to saying shouldn't earns an F in reading comprehension. Asinine is an inappropriate term for this BBS.

[arderkrag]

The phrase

It’s time to either adopt or forget this Convention. There is nothing out there worth mining anyway.

is equivalent to saying we shouldn't try.

[attiladhun2]

This treaty will essentially make the UN sovereign over 2/3 of the earth’s surface at a time when the fecklessness and corruption of the organization is so obvious that only a fool or a Democrat see it otherwise.

[Publius6961]

Has there even been even an attempt to explain, clearly, to the American people, what this treaty accomplishes that is "necessary" to their welfare, comfort and safety?

I don't buy the notion that the people don't "need to know", that our elected representatives will read, learn and decide what is best "for the people who elected them".

As we have seen with "comprehensive" immigration reform, that is not only false, but a profound contradiction. For whatever reason, our elected representatives think us all too dumb to understand, and they can't be bothered to find a way to explain things clearly.

Clearly, we need to elect representatives who can do better.