Posted on 10/16/2007 12:06:35 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
In his 2004 State of the Union Address, President Bush said, “America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.” Members of both parties and Houses of Congress applauded. But if the U.S. Senate votes to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea — known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, or its appropriate acronym, LOST — he and his successors are going to need lots of permission slips. 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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We really do have traitors in Congress.
Beck is going to talk about this on his show tonight, CNNHN. I think he’s talking with Inhofe.
Reagan worried about this thing. That means it’s bad news in my book.
There’s no other conclusion to come to.
It is not patriotic to give away national sovereignty.
I've written to all three of my congresscritters strongly urging them to do all in their power to defeat this monster.
So far, they don't seem to be very concerned about it. They're relying on the analysis of others to tell them what to think. I wish they'd read the flippin' thing themselves!
Just another thing Bush and his hand picked global sock puppet Rooty are for.
It’s too bad that the election isn’t sooner. That’s the only time they listen.
DO SOMETHING. TELL LOST TO GET LOST.
SENATE SWITCHBOARD:
202-224-3121
We need to find a simple form letter online so that the average joe can write his representatives, and tell them to stick this crap you know where.
Unfortunately this is much more complicated to explain than the immigration fiasco, and folks won’t express their concerns even though they ARE outraged.
“LOST also opens the door to a long-sought U.N. goal: the redistribution of wealth by taxing Americans. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), a bloated, multi-national bureaucracy headquartered in Jamaica, has the mandate to distribute revenues and “other economic benefits” on the basis of “equitable sharing criteria, taking into account the interests and needs of developing States.” In addition to acting as a global IRS, the ISA also decides which companies from what nations will develop mineral resources on the seabed.”
- Socializes the resources on the seabed and gives it to an unelected UN agency. Bad idea.
How about President Bush?
After all, it is he who is pushing hardest for LOST.
The man has lost his grip on reality.
I think we would be more successful in defeating LOST if everyone recognized that it is the President who is pushing LOST and that he is the one who should be taking heat.
Translated, "U.S. does the work and makes money. Pizzant countries that are giving us the finger are given our money by commie UN thieves."
“Just another thing Bush and his hand picked global sock puppet Rooty are for.”
Bump that!
He is included and right at the top of the list.
I am so disappointed in him. I just can not believe how he betrayed the American people and is still doing so.
If the committee chairman gives it a hearing and it passes, then it goes to the floor for a vote, if the majority leader lets it onto the floor.
If the committee chairman gives it a hearing and it passes, then it goes to the floor for a vote, if the majority leader lets it onto the floor.
I'm retired now so it makes little difference, but it really hurts to see the liberals divest this great country of everything that makes it great.
If they hate The U.S.A. so much, why not move to someplace they like and leave the rest of us alone.
I have the same gripe with illegal immigrants, based on observation. They come here to escape the horrible conditions in Mexico, and when they get here they immediately start to reproduce the very same conditions the were escaping. They trash their house (18 people living in a two-bedroom house), neighborhood and community
The liberals have given the world the idea that you can come to the U.S. and demand that we change our ways to suit them.
Liberalism at work before our eyes.
Another result of this: There are South American countries who will sell you a master's license for the right dollar figure and all of a sudden you are an internationally-recognized "captain".
So much for actually working and studying for the license.
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