Posted on 11/01/2007 7:11:06 AM PDT by Delacon
At first blush, the treaty seems too good to be true, but there is a catch: the United Nations. The world body, under the treaty, has expansive powers to regulate international waters.
The United Nations has more than a dozen alphabet soup-designated agencies. Some do good deeds; others do not. A great many have served little more purpose than a soapbox for anti-American speeches. LOST already empowers yet another one of these U.N. agencies, this one called the International Seabed Authority, based in Kingston, Jamaica. If the Senate ratifies the treaty, the ISA could become one of the most potent organizations in the world, with the power that eluded the Spanish, the British, and the American navies over the centuries — unquestioned authority over international waters. LOST gives the ISA total jurisdiction over all the international oceans and everything in them, from mineral rights to fishing rights to environmental protection.
Moreover, the ISA's power would not necessarily be limited to international waters. Under LOST, American sovereignty over our exclusive economic zone may be illusory. Article 2(3) says: "... sovereignty over the territorial sea is exercised subject to this Convention and to other rules of international law."
Who would resolve disputes between individual governments such as ours and the ISA over sovereignty? The answer is obvious. The ISA not only has regulatory authority over a large surface area of the globe, but it has the power to raise money — lots of it. The ISA can obtain revenue through fees and royalties on the revenues of companies seeking access to oil, gas, and minerals in international waters. The tax structure begins at 1% in the sixth year of production with a 1% of production increase yearly up to 7%.
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Bush and his daddy want this treaty to pass. This will put us under the control of the UN. Fees and taxes, fees and taxes with closed door hearings. Tribuuuuuunals with closed door hearings. Ministers on the take. Is Bush going to name another CZAR? What a country?
Immigation, the election, Socialized Medicine, all of it becomes irrelevant when the Senate ratifies LOST this week or next. At that point it is all rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
I am calling and emailing daily. Cornyn has come out a definite no, but KBH is the fence sitter.
Once this is ratified ans supercedes the Constitution everything else is moot. We cannot win anything more again. It is hard to believe the Founders left that kind of a Constitution killer, putting treaties above the Constitution, as part of the Constitution itself.
I don’t trust KBH. She needs pressure as she is going to run for governor.
Bush, if he gets LOST ratified will have established himself as the most awful president the US could ever have have had, the killer of the United States of America.
How long from the time this is passed will it be until the US is, in fact, a third world nation?
His ass should be impeached and imprisoned.
I’ve had it.
Sure they do it’s part of the new world order!!!
The United Nations’ Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of the 70 percent of the planet
I SWEAR EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON NEEDS TO BE TRIED FOR TREASON!!!! SICK OF THESE BACKSTABBERS!!! SELLOUTS OF THIS COUNTRY!!!
BTTT
I just called both of my lousy senators from Virginia (Warner and Webb), and both are in favor of it. I told the staffers that I am opposed to the passage of it because it hands over our sovereignty to the UN. Also, all senators who casts a vote if favor of this are traitors.
I feel like I'm just pissin' in the wind.
Revolution is the Solution!!!!
BTT!
Stated as only an angel can.
Once ratified his can only be repealed with a Constitutional Amendment. In the 5-7 years that would take, if we could even get politicians to call for it, it will have finished us.
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