[hedgetrimmer]

Precisely the opposite

Where did the IMO come from? The people of the United States of America, or the United Nations?

All along I have said that international treaties are diminishing our sovereignty as Americans. The MTSA is another example of a rule that Americans should have created without ANY international interference whatsoever, especially since it was America that was attacked.

However, each of the security requirements in the MTSA have been made to align with SOLAS amendments and ISPS code. In other words, instead of acting unilaterally on behalf of the American people, the Coast Guard and our government created a security plan that conforms to the 'standards' of an international treaty organization. That indisputably diminishes US ability to act in individual self interest in time of war.

[1rudeboy]

Where did the IMO come from?

Don't you think you should find out before you go off on one of your raving moonbat UNESCO World Heritage Site the-black-helicopters-are-coming-for-my-vitamin-supplements tangents?

You don't even know how much input the U.S. had in establishing the ISPS guidelines.

Moreover, even if the guidelines came from the planet Zod, you haven't even started to establish that the legislative process in the U.S. was somehow influenced or compromised. All you've done is state how you feel about the process. I'm sure there are dollar-lot used-car salespeople out there who actually believe they are selling a fine product, but the rest of us know they are crap, much like the argument you are making.

Some last words: it is not unusual for countries to standardize functions that they have in common. Take international distress frequencies, for example. Another example of those eeeevillll globalists taking away your freedom to die in a flaming plane crash, or merely an example of making it easier?