Posted on 02/28/2005 11:41:18 AM PST by iconoclast
"Sovereignty. The issue is huge. The mere mention of Kofi Annan in the U.N. caused the crowd to go into a veritable fit. The coalition wants America strong and wants the American flag flying overseas, not the pale blue of the U.N."
So George W. Bush confided to friend Doug Wead before he declared his candidacy. And, twice, President Bush has acted to defend U.S. sovereignty gainst the encroachments of global government.
He rejected both the International Criminal Court, which would have ceded power to prosecute U.S. soldiers, and a Kyoto Treaty that would have subjected our economy to the dictates of a global EPA.
Which makes astonishing Bush's apparent support for a Law Of the Sea Treaty that Ronald Reagan rejected as a great leap forward into global socialism. By 19 to 0, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved LOST. Unless 34 senators can be rallied to reject this historic power grab, it will go into effect.
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Norm Coleman hates the United Nations. How the hell did they get him to go along with it?
The UN is not sovereign. End of story.
Maybe they thought they were voting to stop Kerry from telling yet another Viet-Nam story?
A resounding NO!
Chairman
Richard G. Lugar
Ranking Member
Joseph R. Biden
Chuck Hagel
Nebraska
Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island
George Allen
Virginia
Norm Coleman
Minnesota
George V. Voinovich
Ohio
Lamar Alexander
Tennessee
John E. Sununu
New Hampshire
Lisa Murkowski
Alaska
Mel Martinez
Florida
Paul S. Sarbanes
Maryland
Christopher J. Dodd
Connecticut
John F. Kerry
Massachusetts
Russell D. Feingold
Wisconsin
Barbara Boxer
California
Bill Nelson
Florida
Barack Obama
Illinois
THE ENEMY IS WITHIN - WITHOUT A DOUBT
They cant even be lords of their own pants!
I have the same problem; two senators, one republican, one democrat but the republican is Lugar who's been pushing for passage fo this damn treaty. Of course the dimwitt Bayh will vote for it too, so just who the heck am I suppose to talk to?
How many carrier battle groups does the UN have? (How many divisions does the Pope have?)
No. I can hardly believe the idiocy of the Congress passing such a thing as the LOST. I know work was being done on the LOST as early as the 70s under that moron Carter.
I'm about to look up the members of Lugar's committee, and I'll pass them along momentarily.
I can't think of many Dems who might be helpful aside from Gene what's-his-name down south, and possibly (believe it or not) Byrd of W. Virginia.
Old-time conservatives are the answer here.
I was just about to post what I found when I spotted yours.
If we do not intend to pay tribute, why are we going to sign on?
If the president were to shit on your head I'm sure you'd find a way to shrug it off (no pun intended).
Now add the UN telling us what we can do (mineral rights, drilling, extractions - after we request permission and then pay a fee to them for a permit for our private companies to do anything) and then on top of it, do only as much and where the UN tells us to, and then in the end, pay the UN a portion of any profits to be redistributed to "other nations"...
Add to that rules the US Navy and military has to follow on how we use the oceans.
Don't forget the UN "Seabed Authority" gets to force 'advanced nations' to share their technology with other nations that don't have their own technology....
PLEASE send your STRONG opposition to your Senators here at the Liberty Committee site where you can read what scholars have said about it. You can also find your senator's offices at senate.gov.
PLEASE DON'T let them get away with this. Reagan threw the treaty in the wastebasket, where it belongs.
The Foreign Relations Committee has said that there have been changes made that make it "OKAY". If you believe that.....
The UN has been pushing this for some time as a revenue generating mechanism. Once it no longer needs to rely on dues to sustain itself, the beast can exert its own form of governance
*Excerpted from the UN Millennium Forum Declaration *
The Forum urges:
Governments:
3. To move towards creation of alternative revenue sources for the United Nations. The United Nations should set up expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions (i.e., the Tobin Tax) and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.
A couple of factoids about LOST:
A) The LOST provides TAXING AUTHORITY to the UN for the first time.
B) LOST not only gives control of the surface of the oceans, it gives control of the seabed and ALL THE AIRSPACE ABOVE IT!
C) The Reagan administration killed this socialist piece of garbage initially in 1982, under Jeane Kirkpatrick.
D) LOST is inexplicably but officially supported currently by the U.S. Navy and the Bush Administration.
E) Probably the foremost opponent currently for LOST is Senator James Inhofe. He attended the press conference at CPAC where a number of conservative leaders gathered to denounce it.
F) LOST has an openended feature that provides the UN panel overseeing it the power to make endless changes to its provisions.
Unthinkable!
It is imperative that every conservative expend maximum effort to make it clear to the administration and all of our Senators that a vote for LOST is unforgivable.
Assuming we continue on our present course, your "end of story" will be the U.N. (or something like it) as the ONLY "sovereignty".
A good ole copy of Blackboard Jungle would be appropriate! ;o)
19-0 for LOST. And a majority of the 19 are very stupid Republicans.
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