Posted on 09/30/2007 4:04:51 AM PDT by Man50D
WASHINGTON – For the second time in three years, the Bush administration is putting on a major effort for Senate ratification of the United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of 70 percent of the planet under its oceans.
With Democrats in nearly unanimous agreement with the treaty and the Bush administration behind it, it will be up to a handful of determined Republican senators to derail it from getting a two-thirds vote in the upper house.
The treaty is currently under review by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and could be approved by the entire Senate in the next three weeks, before popular opposition has a chance to grow.
This is not the first time LOST has come up, of course. International negotiators drafted it in 1982 in an attempt to establish a comprehensive legal regime for international management of the seas and their resources. President Ronald Reagan, however, refused to sign LOST because he realized that the treaty doesn't serve U.S. interests.
In 1994, however, President Clinton signed a revised version of the treaty and forwarded it to the Senate. The record shows the Senate was not convinced the 1994 changes corrected the problems, and it has deferred action on the treaty ever since.
The Heritage Foundation warns the treaty would have unintended consequences for U.S. interests – including a threat to sovereignty.
The conservative think tank says "bureaucracies established by multilateral treaties often lack the transparency and accountability necessary to ensure that they are untainted by corruption, mismanagement or inappropriate claims of authority. The LOST bureaucracy is called the International Seabed Authority Secretariat, which has a strong incentive to enhance its own authority at the expense of state sovereignty."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Congress ping!
Even after may articles in the press, and many short threads right here on FR, there is but a glimmer of interest in stopping this ratification.
This thing is appalling. Its passage with Bush’s support would pretty much all by itself negate any good that Bush has done.
We encourage all on these threads to keep writing, emailing and telephoning your Senators to oppose the treaty.
How in the world can any rational, thinking person in the U.S. ever support anything that the U.N. favors?? If the U.N. and it’s gaggle of petty tyrant members are positive about anything...anything at all...it’s got to be bad for America. The headlong rush to adopt this “Oh, I’m a Good Guy, Too” liberal twaddle is absolutely disgusting. “Oh, but everybody else is doing it...Oh, nobody will like us if we don’t do it” whine and snivel the bed-wetters and hand-wringers. “To Hell with them all”, I say. AMERICA FIRST.
I agree with you 100%. Fight it! Write your senators! Write to the WH! The last frontier of freedom is taken over by the dictators in the UN.
What has happened to him?
Lugar, Bond, Grassley, etc., all need to go.
This will be the final hearing.
I’m pretty much convinced Bush has always been in favor of turning the US over to be controlled by super-national socialist dictators. Sometimes he just says things that make people who aren’t paying close attention _feel_ good for cover.
thanks for the link....
has anyone had the time to research the “Myth” and “Fact” claims that were told to the committee?
I know that the “Myth” and “Fact” propaganda listed at the SPP government site is PURE LIES....I research all that...heck- the LIES listed are exposed as lies in the very material they provide on their site...they just know that most folks won’t take the time to read all of it...
I just don’t have the time to research this one.....
Please keep me posted...ping me- Freepmail me....but, please keep me informed on this....
THANKS!
Here is why:
When the "largest popular uprising" of the last 20 years hit the phones against illegal immigration amnesty, it was because the people KNEW it to be a personal issue: The illegals were taking our jobs (or jobs of those we know), were causing local crime, not learning our language, protesting against us, etc. It was very PERSONAL. Everyone saw it on a daily basis.
For the law of the sea treaty, it has to be made personal for people to care. How does it affect them PERSONALLY? If that message could be made, then you will have an uprising. Otherwise, people don't care.
Its sad, but true.
I missed the Iowa/Iowa State game. What was the score?
Go Cyclones :)
They haven't listened before why would they listen now?
We have a bunch of traitors up there and they need to be gone.
Just an fyi.
EC. It took me forever to find the full text on the thing. People are going to have to get radio hosts interested in highlighting this issue in order to wake conservatives up as to what is going on right under our noses. Finding data on the thing is like pulling teeth.
Ambassador John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: “The administration has submitted the Law of the Sea Treaty as one of its priorities, and I support that.” (2004)
15/13 ISU. Some damned dairy science major kicked a field goal at the last minute...
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