[Galveston1]

The U.N. "Law of the Sea" treaty is dangerously close to being ratified. Americans, take action to preserve our national sovereignty.

[tomder55]

I have been posting about LOST for at least 4 years on this and other sites. It is a disaster that looks inevidible to me as the President ;Vice President ,and most of the Senate appears to support it. It is one more step in signing away our sovereignty to the UN.

It gives the UN power to regulate seven-tenths of the world's surface area, levy international taxes, impose production quotas (for deep-sea mining, oil production, etc.), govern ocean research and exploration, and create a multinational court to render and enforce its judgments. Some even aspire to giving the U.N. some of our warships so it can have "blue hulls" ? To go along with its "blue helmets" ? To ensure that the ISA's(International Seabed Authority ) edicts are obeyed.

China is already using provisions of the treaty to justify its seizing control over the South China Sea. They create and fortifies man-made islands near that sea's rich oil and mineral deposits,(see Spratley Islands dispute ) then asserts that LOST entitles it to exclusive economic control of the waters within a 200 mile radius ; including waters navigated by Japanese and American oil tankers to and from the Persian Gulf. A heck of a gamble on our part with the so called secure passage through international waters the treaty assures (no doubt with some of those blue hulls we will provide) .Finally ;our interdiction efforts of things like WMD on the seas would now become the province of the UN to declare the equivalence of piracy if they chose to do so .

[speechlesstx]

Douglas Stone wrote an excellent column on this subject in Human Events. I'm constantly perplexed at how so many are willing to entrust our future to such an inept organization as the UN.

[Galveston1]

Grassfire is currently collecting names on petitions against this. Is there anything else else the individual can do to fight this?