Senate Selling Out US Sovereignty - UN's Law of the Sea Treaty

by Chris Carmouche -GreassTopsUSA

posted 10/02/07

While illegal aliens continue to swarm across our border...

While our soldiers fight in faraway lands to protect our freedoms...

The Senate is preparing to hand over a huge portion of America's God-given freedoms to the UNITED NATIONS. Maybe you don't know about the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). LOST would give the United Nations -- which is run by third-world despots and dictators who HATE freedom and hate the United States of America -- the sole power to issue permits for fishing, drilling, and mining operations at sea.

So what's the big deal? Approval of LOST would mean Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria could gang up to prevent the US from ending its dependency on foreign oil. If the Senate approves LOST, our fishermen would have to go down on their knees and beg the UN for a license to catch fish in deep waters. In effect, all fish would belong to Africa and Asia -- because these continents ARE the United Nations. Americans will effectively and forever lose their freedom to sail the oceans and seas of the world and to develop our resources!

Some American politicians are simply too willing to sell the birthright of American citizens and increase the power of the United Nations over our government and our people just to please a few multi-national corporations. These betrayers of America are willing to give the Seabed Authority -- a United Nations agency -- COMPLETE CONTROL OF OVER 70 PERCENT OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE AND NATURAL RESOURCES!

Are you willing to do that? Neither am I. The United Nations is hostile to the United States and is run by a gaggle of third- world despots and dictators who hate freedom and hate America. Don't sell out America to the third world.

You Stopped LOST Once Before. You Can Do It Again. That's not all. It gets worse, much worse. The Seabed Authority would be organized like the General Assembly: one nation, one vote. That means that Zimbabwe would have as much power over the oceans and seas as the United States of America. If LOST is ratified, the Seabed Authority would have the power TO IMPOSE TAXES ON THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.

LOST would empower the agency to cripple the UNITED STATES NAVY - - one of the most powerful forces for good in the world today -- and leave us vulnerable to ship-based Cruise missiles. In 1982, when the Democratic Senate passed LOST, Ronald Reagan -- always looking out for America first -- VETOED THE TREATY. However, in 1994, President Bill Clinton signed it, with Hillary looking over his shoulder, and sent it to the GOP Senate for ratification. Heroic Jesse Helms -- long-time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- managed to bottle up the bill.

Then, for reasons only RINOs could possibly understand, Richard Lugar, Helms's replacement, put LOST on the front burner in 2004 and -- utilizing parliamentary tricks -- tried to sneak it through the Senate under the cover of darkness. He allowed only supporters of the treaty to testify in support of the treaty. Then he tried to ram this obscene surrender of United States sovereignty through the Senate -- WITHOUT DEBATE AND WITHOUT A RECORDED VOTE.

Why? So the American people would never know how their senators conspired to betray them! At least not until it was too late to stop it! But that didn't happen! Back then, we told you all about this plan and you deluged the Senate with Blast Faxes. You brought this sneaky plan to surrender United States sovereignty out into the open and YOU STOPPED LOST!

The Administration Wants LOST Passed Too. What does the current Administration think about LOST? Let's start with our Secretary of State -- the cabinet member most responsible for treaties, foreign relations, and the United Nations. During Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearing, Senator Lugar asked her about this traitorous treaty. Rice said in response that President Bush, "certainly would like to see it pass as soon as possible." Why? Because, she said, "[It] serves our national security interests, serves our economic interests. We very much want to see it go into force." (Giving amnesty to 12-20 million illegal aliens apparently serves our economic interest too... are we beginning to see a pattern here?)

According to Andy Fisher, a spokesman for Senator Lugar at the time, "This is a breakthrough, an indication that they are prepared now to move ahead with a Senate vote on the treaty and will make it clear, I think... that they want to have the vote now on the treaty sooner rather than later." Fisher also claimed that the Bush administration did not push the Senate's treaty ratification, so as not to "rile the activists." That was in 2004. and by "activists," Fisher meant you and me -- patriotic Americans. That time -- as Lugar and Fisher feared -- you stopped the United Nations Party dead in its tracks This time -- with the United Nations Party stronger than ever now that Democrats are in charge -- the battle will be even rougher, even bloodier. If we don't strike hard and strike fast, we could lose. We need every voice we can muster, so that our thundering "NO" can be heard all the way to the Oval Office!

Big Business Is Pushing LOST Too. Some multi-national firms -- companies that have no loyalty or love for any country, including the United States -- favor this legislation because they mistakenly believe that LOST is in their best interests. That's why they're pressing the Senate to ram LOST down the throats of the American people. They don't realize that government is like a cancer -- it kills healthy institutions and eventually destroys them -- no matter how rich and powerful they are at the moment.

Of this vicious treaty, the Heritage Foundation warns: "[B]ureaucracies established by multilateral treaties often lack the transparency and accountability necessary to ensure that they are untainted by corruption, mismanagement or inappropriate claims of authority. The LOST bureaucracy is called the International Seabed Authority Secretariat, which has a strong incentive to enhance its own authority at the expense of state sovereignty." In other words, once the Seabed Authority is established, it will be as irresponsible and out-of-control as the United Nations itself -- a monster loosed on the high seas. Think about Kofi Annan's son -- or some other tribal chieftain, despot or dictator -- taxing us for the right to drill off the coast of Louisiana... a right we already have unless we give it away to the United Nations...

Imagine this United Nations bureaucracy grabbing more and more power until it controls the movements of every ship that sails out of New York harbor or lands in San Francisco.

We Can Beat LOST. We can beat this latest assault on our country's sovereignty and freedom if we stand together. And here's the good news: In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings, Senator David Vitter is ripping the United Nations Party's witnesses to pieces. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte testified under oath that the International Seabed Authority Secretariat -- the United Nations bureaucracy created by the treaty -- has "no jurisdiction over marine pollution disputes involving land-based sources." Vitter immediately shot back: "Why is there a section entitled pollution from land-based sources?" Negroponte went glassy eyed. Senator Vitter also asked who decides what is considered "military activity" under the treaty, since that point is not covered. After some sparring, the treaty's defenders admitted the treaty was vague and imprecise on that subject -- a crucial section.

"We say it is up to us," Vitter said, his voice heavy with irony, "but nobody else in the world says it is up to us." He's clearly right. These sections were left deliberately vague so the Seabed Authority can haul us before the International Court the treaty would create and rub our noses in the dirt. Sen. Jim DeMint made the same point: that as the world's only superpower, it behooves us not to sell our sovereignty to the witch doctors and medicine men of the United Nations. He further acknowledged that many of the same concerns over loss of national sovereignty that surrounded the debate over immigration reform were surfacing once again in the Law of the Sea debate. "This is not a good time to be bringing something like this before the American people," he said. Bottom Line: This treaty gives the freedom-hating and America- hating dictators and despots of the United Nations the power to stick it to us as soon as the Senate ratifies the treaty. Our leaders are selling us out -- and at bottom dollar. WE MUST NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!