Lost and Found: Senate Moves Toward Ratification of U.N.'s 'Law of the Sea Treaty'

Fox News ^ | March 12, 2009 | Joseph Abrams

[antidemoncrat]

LOST and Found: Senate Moves Toward Ratification of U.N.'s 'Law of the Sea Treaty' The Senate is gearing up to ratify a decades-old U.N. treaty that critics warn could create a massive U.N. bureaucracy that could even claim powers over American waterways.

[antidemoncrat]

John is busy these days. Check out the Denver Weather Examiner article on his Cap and Trade policy. http://www.examiner.com/x-219-Denver-Weather-Examiner~y2009m3d12-John-Kerry--No-action-on-climate-change-is-a-suicide-pact. Makes me wonder when we changed our definition of treason.

[Star Traveler]

Awww shucks... for a minute there I thought he was in the hospital with a coma...

[avacado]

You’d think that with that hot wife of his he wouldn’t have time for this nonsense!

MORAL OF THE STORY: Don’t marry a rich dog-butt, marry a cute one you actually like.

[blackbart.223]

"John "Brain dead" Kerry"

You have to have a brain before it can be dead. All Kerry amounts to is a low life cheap hustling gigolo.

[Star Traveler]

Okay, who did it?!!

The headline changed... my previous post was in answer to this...

— John “Brain dead” Kerry —

Somebody ruined it for me... :-(

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[Blood of Tyrants]

Which describes 70% of the politicians in DC. Or any state capitol for that matter.

[OneWingedShark]

Yep. It’s like giving the ending to Sixth Sense away.

[Foolsgold]

I posted this earlier, but is as much truth as I can come up with.

Any Senator that votes to give up National sovereignty should be brought up on charges of treason and Sedition against the constitution.

[blackbart.223]

"Which describes 70% of the politicians in DC. Or any state capitol for that matter."

No argument here. What does that say for the populace who keep sending them back?

[Sequoyah101]

It never ends.

I keep praying I will wake up one morning to learn Washington is....

[WellyP]

We need the retired "Naval Aristocracy" to come out and directly challenge this! "Any Senator that votes to give up National sovereignty should be brought up on charges of treason and Sedition against the constitution." I agree completely!

[WellyP]

Bottom line, more money for the U.N.! (pun intended)

[lilylangtree]

Good God!

[WellyP]

Understand very well, this is not just about the sea, the open ocean. It establishes U.N. CONTROL over ALL TIDAL WATERS within the United States!

[Bhoy]

Contact all your reps in Imperial City & tell them NO. NO. NO.

[steelyourfaith]

From the link:

The treaty allows environmental groups to bring lawsuits to the Law of the Sea Tribunal in Germany, a panel of 21 U.N. judges who would have say over pollution levels in American rivers. Their rulings would have the force law in the U.S., according to a reading in a 2008 Supreme Court decision by Justice John Paul Stevens. "You've got an unaccountable tribunal that will surely be stacked with jurists hostile to our interests," said Chris Horner, author of Red Hot Lies, a book critical of environmentalists. "This would never pass muster if the Senate held an open, public debate about this."

Legal experts also warn that the treaty demands aid for landlocked countries that lack the access and technology to mine the deep seas -- and that it might not even benefit the U.S. at all.

"You have to pay royalties on the value of anything you extract (from the deep seabed), those royalties to be distributed as the new bureaucracy sees fit, primarily to landlocked countries and underdeveloped countries," said Steven Groves, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. American money would also go to fund the International Seabed Authority, which Groves warned "would have the potential to become the most massive U.N. bureaucracy on the planet."

'The whole theory of the treaty is that the world's oceans and everything below them are the common heritage of mankind,' said Groves. 'Very socialist.'"

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

We’re so screwed.

[antidemoncrat]

As I understand it, since the Mississippi River and Great Lakes support traffic from the oceans, this treaty will give the UN control over them. I also understand that the UN will have control over where our US Navy ships can go and what operations they can engage in. The real point here is why we should give away any of our soverign sea rights to a corrupt and incompetent organization like the UN. Likewise, most of the countries around the world have signed the Rights of the Child treaty the UN sponsered but the UN admits it cannot prevent African warlords from exploiting children to fight in their wars. It seems to me the UN comes up with all these great treaties that ultimately give it more and more power to control the world.

[steelyourfaith]

It's the thin edge of the wedge. I don't want the USofA to cede ANY sovereignty to the U.N. fleece agents.