Sunday, January 23, 2005
Will Bush Allow US Sovereignty to be LOST?
Law of the Sea Treaty—WTF?!?
CATO: The Law of the Sea Treaty originated in the 1970s as part of the United Nations’ redistributionist agenda known as the “New International Economic Order.” The convention covers such issues as fishing and navigation, but the controversy arose mainly over seabed mining. In essence, the Law of the Sea Treaty was designed to transfer wealth and technology from the industrialized states to the Third World.
Ronald Reagan vetoed this grab in 1982 as being detrimental to US security interests citing that the one nation - one vote principle put us in the extreme minority among a large bunch of third world, America hating nations which would make up the governing body of this UN outfit. Add in that the US would be required to fund almost 25% of this outfit’s exercises, as well as flat out give away mining and other technologies to other governmental and non-governmental agencies [ie: PLO] and the Reagan veto seems only sensible.
Mr Bush?
Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) wants the GAO to find answers to some tough questions, such as whether our accession to the LOST would “place constraints upon this country’s intelligence-gathering capabilities” and whether it would “undermine President Bush’s Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)?”
The Proliferation Security Initiative enables our Navy’s ships to interdict vessels thought to be engaged in terrorism or that are suspected of furthering the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
However, China, India and Russia claim that the PSI violates the LOST. If that is the case, our accession to the LOST could seriously undermine our ability to successfully wage the War on Terrorism and to stop the spread of WMD.
Again, I am forced to ask, what part of the concept of sovereignty is unclear to you, Dubya?
CLAIRE-ity UPDATE:
For her part, Rice maintained that the Bush administration “would certainly like to see [LOST] pass as soon as possible…. And we very much want to see it go into force."
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