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Friday, August 28, 2009 9:11 PM CDT
UN law would take control of waterways

The UN Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) has been in limbo for decades. President Reagan refused to sign it in 1982, but President Obama has made it a priority for ratification this year.

Even though 158 nations have already ratified LOST and it would appear to many to be a no-brainer for the U.S. to ratify it, there is one little problem. United States ratification of LOST would give our nation’s endorsement to UN control over everything that happens over, on, under, and in the world’s oceans and seas.

That would eventually mean control of wet lands, swamps, creeks, rivers, lakes, and any thing that would drain into the seas and oceans. You can see that LOST empowers the UN to regulate a whole range of activities on the continental land masses too.

That means the U.S. would have to relinquish its knowledge and technology of recovering all the minerals and trace minerals over to the UN. The U.S. is the only country with that knowledge. This would also mean that the UN would have the ability and authority to issue permits to traverse the waters of the globe and also the ability and the right to tax anyone and anything connected with the ocean.

Before it’s too late, contact your Senators and strongly suggest that they oppose ratification of LOST!

CHARLES FOWLER

Toledo

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father bob wrote on Aug 29, 2009 3:37 PM:

" Charles.....i think you're LOST. "

theproletariat87 wrote on Aug 29, 2009 5:48 PM:

" Ummm I'm the anarchist/social libertarian here and I say your a little out there Mr. Fowler. I'm sorry but (and this is the sad part) the U.S. will do what it will anyways for one. The UN doesn't have the military capability to enforce their on a whole nation such as ours to comply. Also the UN isn't a unified government it's a loose confederation of countries (not unlike our own country at the begining under the Articles of Confederation). All the countries will be arguing too long to take decisive action. Sadly its the world that should be afraid of their countries being taking over by us. Through, a combination of military, economic, and media cultural control. "

Locke wrote on Aug 31, 2009 1:44 AM:

" Anyone question why this country is so messed up? We have a vocal segment of the population who are... devoid of any cognative ability. Thanks Chuck. "

The Question wrote on Aug 31, 2009 2:52 PM:

" The right wingers spend decades applauding the outsourcing of good American jobs overseas, and NOW they're fretting about "sovereignty." It is to laugh.
Who cares? We have plenty of things to REALLY worry about in this nation.
For example, I see where line-em-up-and-kill-em Texas has executed another innocent person, Cameron Todd Willingham. What people dont get, or at least dont admit, is that the hard right wingers in this country actually ENJOY executing innocent people.
Like the use of torture, the ruthlessness of it gives them a pleasant tingle. They deal in fear, and that practice adds nicely to their stock. "

medic57 wrote on Aug 31, 2009 3:45 PM:

" For example, I see where line-em-up-and-kill-em Texas has executed another innocent person, Cameron Todd Willingham.

Uhh, yeah, in 2004, after burning down his house in 1991 with his children in it, and beating his wife to cause a mis-carriage. Also, the day of the fire, the refrigerator blocked the back door. "

The Question wrote on Aug 31, 2009 5:58 PM:

" You're behind the times, Meds. Forensic science that supposedly proved the fire was intentionally set was central to Willingham's conviction was, in fact, completely invalid-- which the experts who testified should have known in 1992. A state forensic science commission in Texas is officially looking into the case and selected a widely respected expert to analyze whether the forensic testimony was valid. Last week the expert filed a report confirming what five other leading arson experts have found -- what passed for arson analysis in the Willingham case had no scientific basis, and the scientific facts in Willingham's case were the same as the case of Ernest Willis. In an entirely separate case, Willis was sent to death row in Texas for an arson murder of family members but, luckily, in his the state recognized the arson analysis was wrong. Willis was fully exonerated just months after Willingham was executed.
David Grann's New Yorker article examines the entire case, including the jailhouse informant who plainly gave false testimony and the circumstantial evidence, flimsy in the first place, that was not what it appeared to be to the jury. After reading Grann's report, fair-minded people will know beyond a reasonable doubt that an innocent person was executed. "

lefty wrote on Aug 31, 2009 11:31 PM:

" First, to THEPROLETARIAT87, you don't help yourself when you basically label yourself as "out there" for having a totally legit POV.

Second, ya, the UN is a threat. Pfft! "