[backwoods-engineer]

I am a Palin supporter, as many of you know, but I am no expert in international law or treaties. There have got to be FReepers that are such experts. What do you think? Please help answer these questions:

1) What does this letter mean?
2) Is support for LOST all or nothing? Was there room for Congress to take out the sovereignty-threatening parts, and keep the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf?
3) Is this just a PDS'er red herring, or is this really something we should take up with Gov Palin?

[Hot Tabasco]

There have got to be FReepers that are such experts.

FR is filled with Palin experts, try pinging Pissant.........oh wait.....

[jla]

To 1 - Your honesty is admirable and you're to be commended for submitting this topic for discussion.
This is how matters are resolved. Not thru shouting down anyone and everyone who dares to merely ask a question, or proffer doubt, about Mrs Palin or a position she's taken on any particular issue.

And kudos to Al B for again being one of, if not the, most rational of Palin supporters here at FR.

[dforest]

A trip down FR memory lane.

Read the posts.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477780/posts

[calcowgirl]

Conservatives have been fighting UNCLOS/LOST for 3 decades now. Palin needs to gracefully reverse positions on this. That FReepers are actually trying to justify LOST as a good thing is nauseating and scary.

The assertion that UNCLOS improves mineral rights is just crazy and wrong. Establishing a new UN “International Seabed Authority” and declaring underwater resources the “common heritage of mankind” makes us no better off. But it does create a permanent revenue source for the UN through taxing authority and make us prone to international tribunals, which often act in blocs against U.S. interests.

Please educate yourself. It has little to do with Sarah and everything to do with sovereignty. There are years worth of articles here at FR to read, thousands of them. Read the comments and you will see almost universal opposition to this treaty, long before Sarah Palin was on the scene.

Here are a few that give some history:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390635/posts
Ed Meese: Reagan Would Still Oppose Law of the Sea Treaty
Human Events ^ | April 25, 2005 | Edwin Meese
Posted on Monday, April 25, 2005 7:56:31 AM by bigsky

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859216/posts
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: (Ed Meese opposes Bush)
The Heritage Foundation ^ | May 16, 2007 | Edwin Meese III
Posted on Sunday, July 01, 2007 10:13:28 AM by Founding Father

http://www.aim.org/guest-column/unclos-or-lost-a-bad-idea-resurfaces/

“UNCLOS” or “LOST” ? A Bad Idea Resurfaces
By Paul M. Weyrich | May 30, 2007