Bush Continues to Support UN "Law of The Sea" Treaty

William Norman Grigg writes:

"The Bush administration continues to support Senate ratification of the UN's Convention on the Law of the Sea, which would turn the oceans and their incomprehensible riches over to the world body.

"During confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice reaffirmed the Bush administration’s plans to seek ratification of the UN’s Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOST)...

"The bland assurances offered by Rice and Lugar should be considered about as reliable as the administration’s pre-Iraq war rhetoric predicting that the conflict would be a 'cakewalk.' As William F. Jasper, Senior Editor for The New American, has pointed out, LOST 'is not just a bad idea; it is a very dangerous, concrete thing, a revolutionary legal document that heralds a major step into world government and grants vast powers to the United Nations.'

"The LOST pact would 'create new jurisdictions and governing structures with real powers that threaten our national sovereignty,' continues Jasper. 'Among other things, LOST establishes an International Seabed Authority (referred to as ISA, or 'the Authority’), a new UN agency to control the minerals and other wealth of the sea floor. This also means granting the ISA control over two thirds of the Earth’s surface — no trifling matter. LOST designates this vast, watery commons as `the Area.’'

"Article 136 of the treaty declares: 'The Area and its resources are the common heritage of mankind' – 'common heritage' being a formulation long favored by international collectivists and other tax-fattened parasites eager to redistribute wealth. And Article 137 dictates: 'All rights in the resources of the Area are vested in mankind as a whole, on whose behalf the Authority shall act.'

"This means that the same UN that created the Iraq Oil-for-Food corruption scandal – described by some as the biggest swindle in history – would claim the right to control the unfathomable resources of the oceans and ocean floors, and apportion them as the world body sees fit.

"And the Bush administration, wrongly regarded in 'conservative' circles as anti-UN, enthusiastically supports the UN’s grab for the oceans.

"Concerned Americans must demand that the Senate refuse to ratify LOST. We must also get the U.S. out of the UN, and evict the squalid socialist organization from our shores. To learn what you can do to help, please visit www.getusout.org."

Bush Continues to Support UN "Law of The Sea" Treaty