Posted on 07/01/2007 8:37:45 AM PDT by Founding Father
Should U.N. Broker Return of Alaska to Russia?
By Cliff Kincaid | June 29, 2007
At a recent Heritage Foundation symposium on the Law of the Sea Treaty....Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy calmly and methodologically delineated the problems with the treaty, and how U.S. national security could be adversely affected...
Gaffney had complained about the treaty, formally known as the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), creating a global tax mechanism. Under UNCLOS, now before the Senate, U.S. corporations would be required to pay taxes to an International Seabed Authority for the right to exploit ocean resources, including developing sources of energy for the American people.
In a release,(House Republican Whip) Blunt declared, "More than 25 years ago, President Reagan refused to commit this country to a treaty that would've weakened our sovereignty at home, and rendered American companies less competitive abroad…We need all the energy we can get, whenever and wherever we can get it. Submitting ourselves to an unelected, unaccountable international ocean bureaucracy when it comes to distributing what American companies rightfully mine doesn't strike me as a good thing to do 25 years ago, today, tomorrow, or in the future."
Yet the Bush Administration is vigorously pushing the Senate to ratify the treaty creating this global socialist entity.
Not surprisingly, the major media are backing ratification. The bias is evident in stories in the New York Times,... "the United States is on the sidelines for the moment, as conservatives in Congress delay ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, which governs all claims."
UNCLOS "governs all claims?" Since when did a U.N. bureaucracy acquire such power? And why should the U.S. acquiesce in this power grab?
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
Message to the WH: STFU and win the war.
Alaska was admitted to the Union as a STATE.
There is no giving back of sovreign territory.
As usual, it is not what it looks like, it's just the President playing Texas poker with a gullible world. It's another Rove masterpiece. Just because it appears that Bush is a globalist in all of his foreign and domestic policies doesn't mean it's so. Nothing to see here, move along and keep chanting "Bush is strong on the war on terror, Bush is strong on the war on terror, Bush is strong on the war on terror".
I worked for Bush, donated to Bush, and voted for Bush both times.
IMO he should be on trial for treason.
NO MORE BUSHES.
enough.
ditto and you may want to change your tagline
Russia would tell the greenies where to shove it.
Hurry up, 2009.
The ramifications, if this claim is given credence, are enormous.
-bflr-
Ditto. And remember part of the WOT includes keeping illegals out. Those pesky terorists just shave and take a swim across the Rio Grande.
Nothing.
The man has not changed.
We were sold a Rovian bill of goods.
It won't happen again
-—This guy can’t get out of office soon enough and I am sorry to say I voted for him BOTH TIMES.
Other than the WOT, my vote makes me look like a complete idiot!-—
Don’t feel so bad. People named their children after this man!
You’re correct about the Russian claims. I had to excerpt the article and that part was cut out, which was why I asked everyone to read the article. Frankly, Putin is more of a threat than Iran’s Imanutjob. The Russian claim has been made and rejected before and it will be rejected again, but there will come a point when Russia disregards and goes ahead with its mining and exploration (exploitation) programs.
Have any of you on the kangaroo court here considered the source of this information? I’d like to see a more legitimate source that confirms that Bush is actually pushing for this before I get all upset about it.
Hell no. The man has lost his marbles. I used to go to the bush-bot "dose" thread once in a while. Not any more. I don't want to see, or hear the man. Every time he opens his mouth, he disgusts me. In my mind, he and Kennedy are idealogical twins.
Yes it will. We’re a Nation of sheep and cheerleaders. The minority of us who aren’t are pretty much screwed.
I don´t think the American people will go along with this and as we saw from the failed immigration legislation the people have found a sure fire way to talk to their elected reps and make it clear how they want him to vote.
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