michaelr

By JBS Staff Published: 2007-10-31 21:25


The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations voted to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) on Wednesday, October 31, by a vote of 17-4. With the committee's approval, the full Senate will now be faced with a final vote on ratification of the treaty.
As of October 31, there is no scheduled vote on LOST in the Senate.
Nevertheless, previous reports indicated that the Senate would vote on LOST prior to the end of the year.

The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) entered into force in 1994 and has been ratified by 153 countries (click here for a list of recent LOST developments). The treaty gives the UN complete jurisdiction over the oceans and everything in them, including the ocean floor with all its resources, along with the power to regulate 70 percent of the world's surface.

It is more important now then ever to contact your senators and urge them to oppose the Law of the Sea Treaty. To take immediate action, click here.

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I have asked for your help before, we and people across the nation have denied many bills that are just bad for us as a people and as a nation. I am asking again.

You do not need to be a member to send the email, I would never post spam! You do not have to sign up for anything to send the email.

Please take action as the sovereignty of this country is at stake, as is your money. Passing this garbage will increase taxes on any resource from the sea, the sea bed(oil and natural gas, seafood), and anything that flies over the seas.

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michaelr

So I guess that everyone is busy sending emails?

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I sent two. Ive not read up on this treaty, but the UN running
anything is just going to go to crap.

Colin

The agreement concerns waters beyond 200 nautical mile/continental shelf limit, within the 200 mile limit the coastal nation has the right to police, extract resources, regulate the flow of commerce etc.

There are a variety of specific rules in regards to various distances within this 200 nautical limit, however the rules reflect the current status quo. The agreement which has been nearly universally accepted creates global uniform regulations and policies in regards to the world's oceans.

It's all an evil internationalist conspiracy though.

kit

This is just another assualt on our soverignty and should be resisted to the utmost.

michaelr

Thanks kit, yes this must be shot down! It will allow taxes on every container ship, oil what ever, all going to the UN. Once they start they only want more.

michaelr

So I am thinking that the emails are flying, and this will get shot down.

Robodoon

When State Department Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger III gave a controversial June 6 speech on the subject of "The United States and International Law," he mentioned that the Bush Administration had "put forward a priority list of over 35 treaty packages that we have urged the Senate to approve soon, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea." The latter is now up for Senate ratification, with a vote scheduled on Wednesday, and one of its many controversial provisions is the regulation of land-based sources of pollution. This treaty covers the water and the land. But now we have discovered that the Bush Administration has asked the Senate to ratify a treaty that defines one of those land-based sources of pollution as toilet flushing. No kidding.
It is amazing but true. The Bush Administration wants the Senate to ratify a treaty that will invite international inspections of what you flush down your toilet.
We are talking about Annex III of the "Protocol Concerning Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities to the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, with Annexes." You can read it for yourself here.
Annex III is titled, "Domestic Wastewater," which is defined as including "all discharges from households, commercial facilities, hotels, septage and any other entity…" These discharges are defined as encompassing (1) toilet flushing, (2) discharges from showers, wash basins, kitchens and laundries, or discharges from small industries, provided their composition and quantity are compatible with treatment in a domestic wastewater system.

"...we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure -- one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
David Rockefeller QUOTE



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