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Redstate…
Obama Wants to
Redistribute Our Sovereignty with the Law of the Sea Treaty
Posted by Jake Walker
Monday, May 28th
One of the problems we find in politics these days is the rash of bills
with rather Orwellian titles. The best example in recent years is the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (you know, Obamacare). But
fortunately, some things have titles that are all too appropriate. The
Law of the Sea Treaty is one of them, which is rather fittingly known
as LOST. Michelle Malkin, writing for the National Review, describes
just what it is:
The persistent transnationalists who drafted LOST favor creation of a
massive United Nations bureaucracy that would draw ocean boundaries,
impose environmental regulations, and restrict business on the high
seas. They’ve tinkered with the document obsessively since the late
Sixties, enlisted Presidents Clinton and Bush, and recruited
soon-to-depart GOP Sen. Dick Lugar to their crusade. Ignore the mushy
save-the-planet rhetoric. Here’s the bottom line: Crucial
national-security decisions about our naval and drilling operations
would be subject to the vote of 162 other signatories, including Cuba,
China, and Russia.
The current treaty at issue has been in existence since 1982, and as
she notes, President Reagan, in another display of his wisdom, rejected
it. However, that hasn’t stopped it from periodically rising from the
dead over the years.
Now, it seems to be back again. It’s bad enough that Obama wants to
redistribute our wealth. Now, he wants to redistribute our sovereignty.
Though the Wall Street Journal reports it apparently won’t be subjected
to a vote in the Senate until after the election (you can’t do anything
controversial in an election year, after all), that won’t stop the
Democrats from trying to line up support for it.
Luckily, we’ve got allies in the Senate. Orrin Hatch and John Cornyn
second Mrs. Malkin’s economic concerns. Meanwhile, Senators Inhofe,
Sessions, and Wicker explain the national security implications of the
treaty, chief of which is the fact that it impedes our Navy from doing
essentially the same thing the treaty proposes–protecting the high seas
and international shipping lanes. For an in depth breakdown of the
treaty, The National Center for Public Policy Research’s David Ridenour
has posted one here. You can read the treaty for yourself here. (See
link below).
We’ve got to stop this. Economically, we can’t afford it, and our
national security can’t bear it. Get in touch with your Senators and
tell them not to support this treaty. We need just one third of the
Senate plus one to defeat it. We can do this, especially if we take
back the Senate this November.
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