Like EVERY “treaty,” it is a voluntary contract between the various parties and SOME FUTURE LEGISLATURE CAN ABROGATE, CANCEL, RESCIND OR JUST AS VOLUNTARILY WITHDRAW FROM THE DAMN THING.
And, pray tell, just HOW would a toothless UN keep us locked in — especially if we kick these freeloading bums out of the US and stop letting them pick our pockets for 25% of their funding.
BTW, those cute blue helmets make great targets!
Fox news article
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301279,00.html
In 1982, Ronald Reagan, concerned about the treaty’s implications for our sovereignty and national security, formally rejected LOST because it did “not satisfy the objectives sought by the United States.” In 1994, William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, anxious to appease One World Government advocates in his own party and at the United Nations, negotiated a parallel “Agreement” that purported to address Mr. Reagan’s concerns — and urged ratification. Since then, LOST has gathered dust in the bowels of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. All that may be about to change. The deeply flawed, Soviet-era agreement giving unelected, unaccountable international bureaucrats control over 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is now on a fast track to ratification.
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Before casting a vote to ratify LOST, all 100 U.S. senators should read Article 314 of this onerous treaty and Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The U.N.-crafted document specifies that amendments to the treaty can be adopted — and therefore enforced — without the consent of any signatory. Yet our Constitution requires that two thirds of our Senate concur in any treaty. Do 67 members of this Senate now want to surrender that authority to foreign governments?