[Coleus]

Action Alert:  Law of the Sea Treaty

[processing please hold]

When's the vote...4 or 5 weeks?

[Texas_Jarhead]

As I read this article something suddenly dawned on me. Treaties, such as LOST, when passed by the legislature are endowed with Constitutional force more or less. Liberals/leftists have hemmed and hawed and raised cane about the possibility of amending the US Constitution to define marriage and outlaw so-called gay marriage but never raise of peep when it comes to treaty ratification. Of course,if I give them the benefit of the doubt then one might say that they are just ignorant.

[RightWhale]

This anachronism should be rejected. There is no proper time for this, nor for its sister Treaty--the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty.

[LibertarianInExile]

Kyoto is a no-go, yet they're considering this $#@#@$@?!?!?!?!?!?! What is WRONG with these people!?!?!?!?!

[SuzyQue]

Who in Congress is sponsoring or supporting this? Do we know?

[SaltyJoe]

AND SUPPORT THE JONES ACT!!!!

[Still Thinking]

U.S. resistance to joining this new collective regime is being portrayed as contempt for "the world community" and disrespect for "the rule of law."

I don't see how US authorities can be accused of disrespect for the "rule of law" if they try to keep bad policy from becoming law in the first place, especially if the law in question would conflict with the ultimate legal authority they have SWORN to uphold. As far as "contempt for the world community" I don't take it as a given that that's a bad thing. Some elements of the world community are without a doubt worthy of contempt.

[Veto!]

You can read more about LOST including the senate foreign relations committee report at Sen Dick Lugar (R. Indiana) site:
http://lugar.senate.gov/sfrc/sea.html

“On February 25, 2004, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 19-0 to send the resolution of ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty to the full Senate for advice and consent. The Bush Administration said on February 7, 2002, that there is an “urgent need for Senate approval” of the Law of the Sea Treaty.

“The basic tenets of the treaty have been U.S. policy since first enunciated by President Reagan in 1982. Over the next dozen years the U.S. won in negotiations on the questionable aspects of the treaty, and signed on in 1994. The details are in the President's Message transmitting the treaty to the Senate that may be viewed using Adobe Reader. In October 2003, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar held two comprehensive hearings on the treaty. The full transcripts of those hearings are part of the 187-page committee report that may be viewed using Adobe Reader. “

[Carry_Okie]

I'll be sure to write letters to my Senators: Boxer and Feinstein. :-(

If Bill Frist wants to be President, he'd better pay attention.

[Seadog Bytes]

...Thanks to Liz

[shield]

Tell Condi that...in her confirmation she was asked if LOST would be ratified....CONDI SAID YES!!!

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

LOST is a kick ass show....oh wait....nevermind

[HitmanLV]

Liddy discussed this in detail last week. Very true.

[isom35]

I saw Lost tonight. good episode. More of Sawyer's background revealed.

[Txsleuth]

Did you watch any of the confirmation hearing of John Bolton today?

If not, you might be interested in knowing that he mentioned, when asked, if he would be in favor of the LOST treaty---he said that the administration was for it, so he would be also-

Bolton also mentioned, though, that he hadn't read it...

[isom35]

Lost? Lost rules! too bad about Boone being dead, but Jack is gonna open a can o' whupass on Locke.