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If LOST is ratified, the Seabed Authority would have the power TO IMPOSE TAXES ON THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
"People get ready, there's a train a coming...." "Over my dead body" said President Reagan years ago in discussing the United Nations Law Of the Sea Treaty (LOST) hopes of passage. The Reagan-era "Law of the Sea" treaty was primed for its first-ever Senate vote, boosted by strong support from the Bush administration and an emphatic vote of approval Wednesday by the Foreign Relations Committee. Well, Reagan is gone and so is the supposed opposition to LOST in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee! Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., said the international pact, first proposed by Richard Nixon in 1970, offered the United States a simple choice. "Do we join a treaty that establishes a framework to advance the rule of law ... or do we remain on the outside, to the detriment of our national interests." National interests? Do our national interest align with the principles of other nations or with the Principles of Americanism? The committee vote was 17-4. The number needed to stop this nonsense is 34! There is hope....it ain't over. "I am absolutely convinced it undermines U.S. sovereignty," Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., told a recent news conference of GOP opponents. "This treaty will not be adopted," said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. "There aren't the votes to pass it." Treaties must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate. According to reports, the Committee did not take any testimony on this Treaty from those who oppose the Treaty! How's that for bipartisanship? How's that for open and honest government! The White House has urged the Senate to approve the treaty, and senior Pentagon officials have endorsed it, saying it would give legal clarity to U.S. naval operations. The oil and gas industry says failure to ratify could put it at a disadvantage in sovereignty disputes over Arctic continental shelf areas that may hold one quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and natural gas. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger III have been accused of lying about LOST to the Committee. As Cliff Kincaid recently wrote: In effect, Senate ratification of UNCLOS could serve as a financial bailout of a failing and dysfunctional U.N. bureaucracy. A major witness before the committee, Professor Bernard H. Oxman, told the committee on October 4 that the ISA was "a lean organization based in Kingston [Jamaica] that employs approximately 30 people and has an annual budget of some $6 million." Oxman called UNCLOS "the most comprehensive and far-reaching treaty for protection of the global environment yet achieved" and said that "…the development of international law benefits from more cases and decisions by the Court." However, during "this delicate interim period," when governments are considering ratification, litigation could threaten global ratification, he warned. Oxman also declared that "Experienced international lawyers know where many of the sensitive nerve endings of governments are. Where possible, they should try to avoid irritating them." a 1995 report by the United Nations Association on "Sharing the Burden of Financing the United Nations" noted that "only" the ISA "has authority today to directly collect international revenues to finance its activities." But UNCLOS supporters don’t like calling this a global tax. Under various provisions of UNCLOS, the ISA can distribute some of these funds to Third World countries and "national liberation movements," which are designated in Article 140 as "peoples who have not attained full independence or other self-governing status…" Could this mean that the South could rise again asserting itself as a "national liberation movement"? Does America need more experienced international lawyers involved in our affairs? Does America need another United Nations organization? Does America need another third world inspired organization that siphens off American tax dollars into third world dictator bank accounts? No, No and lastly NO! Kincaid remarks that by ratifying UNCLOS, the Senate could automatically make American taxpayers the largest contributors to the ISA, paying some 25 percent of the ISA’s budget. Who is exactly the International Seabed Authority? And what do they do? In a dramatic case, Sam-Thambiah against the Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), involves allegations of sexual harassment and pornography. One side charges "distortions and fabrications." The other side alleges "mismanagement and irregularities." The beat goes on. Haven't we seen this behavior before? Ahhh yes, at the United Nations Food For Sex Scandal! Some things never change. Peter Sterling of United Oil & Gas Consortium Management Corp. has noted: "It just doesn’t make any practical sense to subject U.S. companies to the proposed onerous imports, taxes, dictates and bureaucratic inertia of the International Seabed Authority." We have brought you the LOST Treaty information before and here they are again: The number needed to stop this nonsense is 34! 34 Senators saying NO stops LOST!
The power lies within Senate Republicans to BLOCK this treaty. We have four faxes ready to go. You hold the power to make it happen right now. "I am absolutely convinced it undermines U.S. sovereignty," - Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. Here, here... Senator Lott. The Law Of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is not needed and is no good for America. Put this treaty in the trash once and for all! And let Reagan rest peaceably! Housekeeping note: We offer you a Free Listing of all Congressmen and Senators here. Tune in Friday 11/02 at 10AM EDT/9AM Central as we discuss this weeks Power Letter on the LOST Treaty! If you missed it, listen to the archive. Click here to tell the Entire Senate to vote NO on the LOST Treaty by sending your ActiFax Blasts (that's 100 faxes for $25) to the entire SENATE. Join us as we join Senator Lott who says "I am absolutely convinced it undermines U.S. sovereignty." And let Reagan rest peaceably! Our October 4, 2007 Power Letter found here. This ActiFax blasts hits all Senators. Click here to tell the Entire Senate to vote NO on the LOST Treaty by sending your ActiFax Blasts (that's 100 faxes for $25) to the entire SENATE. Let them know that Americans aren't giving up anything to the U.N and we don't want or need the LOST Treaty! We join Mr. Kincaid and others who are shouting: "The Law of the Sea Treaty is the biggest giveaway of our sovereignty and resources since the Panama Canal Treaty." Tell the Senate to tell the U.N. lovers to get lost and to take LOST with them. Period. So, please, act now. Our August 16, 2007 Power Letter found here. This ActiFax blasts hits Senate Republicans. Click here to tell Senate Republicans to stop the U.S. give-away by voting NO on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) by sending your ActiFax Blasts (that's 50 faxes for $20) to the entire Republican Senate, PLUS the President. Tell them to get LOST regarding any U.N. treaty. We don't need LOST and we don't need the new world order it embraces! So, please, act now. Our May 24, 2007 Power Letter found here. This ActiFax blasts hits Senate Republicans. Click here to send the this ActiFax blasts telling Senate Republicans to stop the U.S. give-away by voting NO on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) by sending your ActiFax Blasts (that's 50 faxes for $20) to the entire Republican Senate, PLUS the President. Tell them to get LOST regarding any U.N. treaty. We don't need LOST and we don't need the new world order it embraces! So, please, act now.
Bryan Malatesta Exec. Director LaptopAmerica.net
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