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Fox news article
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301279,00.html

In 1982, Ronald Reagan, concerned about the treaty’s implications for our sovereignty and national security, formally rejected LOST because it did “not satisfy the objectives sought by the United States.” In 1994, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, anxious to appease One World Government advocates in his own party and at the United Nations, negotiated a parallel “Agreement” that purported to address Mr. Reagan’s concerns — and urged ratification. Since then, LOST has gathered dust in the bowels of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. All that may be about to change. The deeply flawed, Soviet-era agreement giving unelected, unaccountable international bureaucrats control over 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is now on a fast track to ratification.

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Before casting a vote to ratify LOST, all 100 U.S. senators should read Article 314 of this onerous treaty and Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The U.N.-crafted document specifies that amendments to the treaty can be adopted — and therefore enforced — without the consent of any signatory. Yet our Constitution requires that two thirds of our Senate concur in any treaty. Do 67 members of this Senate now want to surrender that authority to foreign governments?

For what it's worth:

Notwithstanding concerns raised about the Law of the Sea Treaty - and there have been many - the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended U.S. accession to the treaty in a unanimous vote in March 2004.

Six years later, a vote of the entire U.S. Senate has yet to be scheduled.

"Do 67 members of this Senate now want to surrender that authority to foreign governments?"

Hell, most -- not ALL -- but far too many of these 535 cretins on that hill at the east end of the Mall have for decades been happily and merrily shipping their authority and responsibility for the accountability laden heavy lifting of ACTUALLY GOVERNING this country down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

If THAT was a good thing, SHIPPING/OUTSOURCING THAT RESPONSIBILITY FARTHER AWAY TO FACELESS BUREAUCRATS IN ANOTHER COUNTRY HAS TO BE WONDERFUL -- SIMPLY WONDERFUL!!

They could spend all that new free time doing what they've proven they do best -- having those 6 martini lunches with K-streeters at the Palm, visiting hookers (or local glory holes), napping in their offices, hitting on staffers, ignoring constituents, counting their daily pay-offs from those K-streeters, etc., etc.

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BE SURE TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH ON 11/2!