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To: nicmarlo
The systemmic basis for all this becomes clear over time. From an important thread on the Law of the Sea Treaty:

Do we need any more evidence that Bush is a Globalist?

No.

Bush Trying to Revive Law of Sea Treaty
Human Events, May 21, 2007 by Schlafly, Phyllis

Time to Deep-Six UN Pact Reagan Rejected

Borrowing the famous words of Gen. Douglas MacArthur that "old soldiers never die, they just fade -away." we can now see that old treaties never die, they can be resurrected years or even decades after taking what we thought was a knockout punch.

Aggressive Lobbying

President George W. Bush is scheduled to announce any day that he will breathe new life into the old United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which President Ronald Reagan rejected in 1982. Bush's National security Adviser Stephen Hadley has asked Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden (D.Del.) to secure Senate ratification "as early as possible." To defuse expected opposition, the Bush Administration has been pursuing a most unusual lobbying campaign: inviting two or three prominent conservatives at a time to the White House without telling them in advance the purpose of the invitation or who will be present. After admission past executive office barricades, the conservatives are subjected to aggressive lobbying by administration heavy hitters: usually the chief counsel for the State Department and the judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy.

The 202-page Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) entered into force in 1994 and has been ratified by 153 countries. LOST created the International Seabed Authority (ISA), giving it total jurisdiction over all the oceans and everything tn them, including the ocean floor with "all" its riches ("solid, liquid or gaseous mineral resources"), along with the power to regulate seventenths of the world's surface.

Headquartered in Jamaica, the ISA has an assembly, a council, a bureaucracy and commissions, all drawing tax-free salaries. If the United States ratifies the treaty, we would have the same vote in the ISA as Cuba-an unprecedented surrender of American sovereignty, independence of action and wealth.

Real Purpose Behind LOST

Even worse, LOST gives the ISA the power to levy international taxes. We are not fooled by LOST's attempt to conceal this by labeling the taxes assessments, fees, permits, payments or contributions.

The real purpose of the taxing power is to compel the United States to pay billions of private-enterprise dollars to the ISA bureaucrats, who can then transfer our wealth to Socialist, anti-American nations (euphemistically called "developing countries") ruled by corrupt dictators. LOST piously asserts that this is for "the benefit of mankind as a whole."

The treaty gives the ISA the power to regulate "all" ocean research and exploration and to deny access to strategic ocean minerals, many of which we need for our national defense or industries. LOST also gives the ISA the power to impose production quotas for deep-sea mining and oil production.

The ISA can require us to share our intelligence, technology and even military information. The treaty puts restrictions on intelligence-gathering by our submarines, activities that are essential to our national defense.

LOST also created the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with the power of a super supreme court to decide all disputes and enforce its judgments. Of course, there is no guarantee that the United States would have even one judge on this 21 -member international court, and it's reasonable to assume inherent bias against the United States by the anti-American countries whose representatives will make all decisions.

There can be no appeal from this tribunal's decisions, even though they would affect our sovereignty, national security and economic interests. There is no restriction on the tribunal's jurisdiction. "

Administration lobbyists claim that the original problems with LOST have been fixed. That is not believable, because the text of the treaty can't be changed unilaterally.

Bush apparently expects conservatives to be mollified by the argument that the Navy supports LOST. But conservatives are smart enough to know that it's impossible for the Navy to oppose the Commander in Chief's position.

The notion that our great U.S. Navy needs approval from foreign bureaucrats in Jamaica in order to enjoy passage through international straits or for permission to do what our Navy is already doing (such as moving our ships to the waters near Iran) is offensive and insulting to U.S. sovereignty.

It's not only dangerous to our national security for the administration to promote the Law of the Sea Treaty, it is a stupid political move that will diminish the shrinking percentage of conservatives who still support Bush. Now a lame duck. Bush is ignoring his supporters and instead pushing the agenda of the globalists who are determined to erase our sovereign borders and integrate us into various multinational structures and tribunals.

Mrs. Schlafly is founder and president of the Eagle Forum and author of The Supremacists.

The COVERT and DECEPTIVE practices used to push the LOST passage by Bush, along with the same tactics for his AMNESTY and the SPP/NAU Open and Unsecure Border along with his trade policies make this clear.

He is not really a "U.S." President. He is a Globalist CFR henchman who has snuck into the Office under false pretenses, and regards the "Oathe of Office" as a mere scrap of paper whose meaning is relative and under the control of the office-holder.

If he was a legitimate, authentic patriot, as a President...he would not be so dedicated to accomplishing these legislative objectives by the fraudulent and secretive means he has ultimately chosen.

83 posted on 08/30/2007 2:28:26 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Paul Ross; joanie-f; B4Ranch; nicmarlo; Borax Queen; Harvey105
"Real Purpose Behind LOST

Even worse, LOST gives the ISA the power to levy international taxes. We are not fooled by LOST's attempt to conceal this by labeling the taxes assessments, fees, permits, payments or contributions.

The real purpose of the taxing power is to compel the United States to pay billions of private-enterprise dollars to the ISA bureaucrats, who can then transfer our wealth to Socialist, anti-American nations (euphemistically called "developing countries") ruled by corrupt dictators. LOST piously asserts that this is for "the benefit of mankind as a whole."

Bush is compiling quite a "legacy" -- the President who intentionally pissed away the national sovereignty of the United States. Of coures, he may be right--perhaps America would be better off under the dominion of the U.N. and it's cast of third world thugs, terrorists and thieves.

84 posted on 09/02/2007 12:05:00 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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