The UN has been pushing this for some time as a revenue generating mechanism. Once it no longer needs to rely on dues to sustain itself, the beast can exert its own form of governance
*Excerpted from the UN Millennium Forum Declaration *
The Forum urges:
Governments:
3. To move towards creation of alternative revenue sources for the United Nations. The United Nations should set up expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions (i.e., the Tobin Tax) and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.
A couple of factoids about LOST:
A) The LOST provides TAXING AUTHORITY to the UN for the first time.
B) LOST not only gives control of the surface of the oceans, it gives control of the seabed and ALL THE AIRSPACE ABOVE IT!
C) The Reagan administration killed this socialist piece of garbage initially in 1982, under Jeane Kirkpatrick.
D) LOST is inexplicably but officially supported currently by the U.S. Navy and the Bush Administration.
E) Probably the foremost opponent currently for LOST is Senator James Inhofe. He attended the press conference at CPAC where a number of conservative leaders gathered to denounce it.
F) LOST has an openended feature that provides the UN panel overseeing it the power to make endless changes to its provisions.
Unthinkable!
It is imperative that every conservative expend maximum effort to make it clear to the administration and all of our Senators that a vote for LOST is unforgivable.