Big Media Demand Passage of U.N. Treaty

Canada Free Press ^ | November 1, 2007 | Cliff Kincaid

[Delacon]

As predicted, the big guns of the liberal media are unloading on critics of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty. After ignoring the story of growing opposition to the pact from the American people, the New York Times and the Washington Post both have editorials in their Wednesday papers urging ratification.

Since their arguments are full of holes, both papers resort to name-calling, with the Times editorial labeling the critics as “cranky right-wingers” and the Post declaring that opponents of the accord have “irrational fears about one-worldism.”

The liberal media establishment has spoken. Will the Senate listen to the liberal media or the people?

In the same way that the people let the media and the politicians know they did not want an illegal alien amnesty bill, members of the Senate and Republican presidential candidates are starting to get the message that this U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty must not be ratified. All of the Senate Republican leadership and all of the Republican presidential candidates have expressed opposition to the treaty, especially its provisions for new U.N. bureaucracies.

This “people power” is clearly one reason why Senator John McCain, who once supported the pact, now calls it a threat to U.S. sovereignty and says he would vote against it. An account of McCain’s flip-flop on this matter appears in a Washington Times story by Stephen Dinan. McCain, a much-decorated Navy veteran, should have been a natural opponent of the pact from the start. He must know in his heart that the only way for the U.S. to remain a superpower on the high seas is to have the strongest Navy in the world. A piece of paper from the U.N. will not suffice.

[Delacon]

"The Times goes on to say that the vote in the committee “is expected to favor the treaty” but the task facing the Democratic chairman, Joseph Biden of Delaware, and the ranking Republican member, Richard Lugar of Indiana, “is to produce not just a favorable vote but an overwhelming vote sufficient to persuade the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, to finally move on ratification.”

The Republican members will be making one of the most important votes of their lives. A vote in favor will cause conservative and Republican voters to abandon them in droves."

This treaty made it out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday and now can go to the floor for a vote. Call your senators.

[RC2]

Done. The people of this country want out of the UN....not give them more power over us.

[snowrip]

Call, email, fax... This treaty is as big a threat to the United States and American citizens as amnesty ever was!

[Da Coyote]

Hmmmmmm. I’m supposed to support this treaty because someone with a degree in journalism or communications tells me to? This is a joke...right? Those sly old bottom O’the SAT barrel reporters are at it again.

[Badeye]

Another disappointing decison by my President.

[saganite]

The treaty has a lot of powerful supporters including the US Navy and the oil industry. The only way to stop it is people power.

[wastedyears]

Our politicians are digging an ever deeper grave.

[snowrip]

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[nyyankeefan]

Another disappointing decison by my President.

jorge bush has become one big disappointment....

he is more and more on the side of the anti-american lib/dems ready to sell out the US in a heartbeat!!!!

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[magslinger]

cranky right-wingers

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[peeps36]

I want to get rid of more than just the UN. We need to rid ourselves of the anti American media and the greedy cowards who control our government. These two groups are doing more damage to this country than the UN or anyone else.

[wastedyears]

Hey, I’m part of the bottom of the barrel SAT group.

[snowrip]

You can start by calling your congressmen and senators RIGHT NOW, and telling them to not support this POS legislation.

[DustyMoment]

This is just delicious irony. “Big Media” also want this stuff when it will “stick it to the Republicans”, but decry it as soon as it limits THEIR ability to do what they want when they are in power.

Shortsightedness and partisan politics are not good reasons to play tit for tat games when it involves ceding American power and/or authority to the UN.

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Thank you, it does.

The only info I could discover about when it was headed to the full senate was this.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations voted to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) on Wednesday, October 31, by a vote of 17-4. With the committee's approval, the full Senate will now be faced with a final vote on ratification of the treaty.

As of October 31, there is no scheduled vote on LOST in the Senate. However, previous reports indicated that the Senate would vote on LOST prior to the end of the year.

I guess we'll find out soon enough, huh.