Posted on 09/06/2007 11:34:21 AM PDT by bs9021
Paradise LOST
by: Malcolm A. Kline, August 30, 2007
Where academia once tried to give us the best and the brightest, now academics seem to be in a race to be first with the worst, of public policy initiatives that is. Such widely disparate misbegotten federal adventures as government disability payments to active alcoholics and the sovereignty-killing North American Union that the chief executives of the U. S., Mexico and Canada deny promoting had their genesis in academic papers and conferences.
Add to this growing roster of ill-advised government policies and programs the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) that the U. S. Senate is getting ready to vote on next month. The appropriately named LOST would cede American sea bed rights to the UN in the hope that it would give them back to us.
Never mind that the list of favors the UN has done for the U. S. is microscopically short to begin with. Perhaps, in view of all of the above, it is not too surprising that academics love this monstrosity.
As Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid notes in investigating why the U. S. Navy supports voting for LOST:
• “My recent report on this matter noted that Navy Commander James Kraska, who handled oceans policy on the Joint Staff of the Pentagon, was among those who paid tribute to Louis Sohn of Harvard, a writer of UNCLOS who co-authored a book, World Peace Through World Law, outlining a plan for transforming the U.N. into a world government.
• “I also discovered a thesis written back in 1996 by a student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, on the subject of establishing a U.N. Navy.
• “British Professor Gwyn Prins, who served as a consultant in the Office of the NATO Secretary-General, has long advocated such a force.
Here’s the beauty part about dropping such schemes from the sanctuary of the Ivory Tower: When the theories, put in practice, prove a failure, you can still teach them as successes.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
Hey, up theirs! We can take it all, since we're the only ones strong enough to hold it!
Oh, and: U.N. OUT OF U.S., U.S. OUT OF U.N.!
The Bush administration is backing this. We will have to man the phones. I hope this is not a done deal.
Of course Bush is backing it.
World Peace Through World Law
uh huh, yeah, sure
Also, known as "Crazy Checks."
Freepers these days find it more fulfilling to berate Ron Paul supporters than to pay attention to what’s happening in the Senate.
I hope they take it seriously. This is a big step to loss of sovereignty and a UN controlled world government.
It may sound innocent..but it is a huge mistake and unconstitutional.
We will be surrendering to the UN. Truth is, I don’t think the US citizens are in it for the big fight.
Let me add this to what I just posted to you. Check out how many wanted to check out this thread other than the previous 8 FReepers.
What does that tell you?
Do you mean this? 8 replies · 227+ views
I notice the lack of pings. That’s what I find disturbing. Loss of national sovereignty doesn’t seem to be an issue amongst Bush supporters, does it? To them, the economy and Iraq is ‘everything’.
I guess its nothing, but it is really everything. It's the big ole pink elephant in the room, that no one wishes to acknowledge until its too late.
This is reason I have very little hope for the US future.
What is amazing is how few wish to talk about it. Its out there and about to pass under the radar. Is it we don't really care? Or is it that caring expends too much energy?
Baffles me.
Just thinking. Do you think the two of us could man the phones and make a difference? LOL.
>I guess its nothing, but it is really everything.<
Exactly, it is really everything because without it we are no longer an independent Republic.
>What is amazing is how few wish to talk about it. Its out there and about to pass under the radar. Is it we don’t really care? Or is it that caring expends too much energy?<
When I see people ignore or minimize issues as important as this, they are actually saying, “Oh, I don’t want to deal with this right now. Let’s talk about it when it becomes a well recognized and popular discussion subject.”
Sheeple do not want to graze away from the herd. They are afraid they won’t allowed back in.
We could probably round up a couple of dozen people to help but without the media, it will slip under the fogbank unseen until it’s time to pay the dues.
There was a thread over the weekend that got some attention.
I believe this is another one of those subjects that brings out the ostrich syndrome.
bump
Missing something? No, just that what happens in Las Vegas or Hollywood has higher priority amongst most FReepers.
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