Just When You Thought the UN was Irrelevant

The U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, which gives the U.N. control over 70% of the earth's surface seems to have Presidential support. How unfortunate!

Ostensibly, the U.N. is at its weakest point; wrought with corruption, impotent to make any significant impact on problem spots around the world and guilty of heinous sex crimes with vulnerable West African girls they are supposed to be protecting. At a time when we should be demanding that the scandalous bureaucracy pack up and leave, the UN may have new life:

The Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, a U.N. agreement decried by U.S. sovereignty advocates who were able to prevent consideration by the United States Senate last year, appears to have new life after comments made by Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice at her confirmation hearings.

The international treaty, which gives a U.N. agency called the Seabed Authority control of over 70 percent of the earth's surface and natural resources, was thought to be a slam-dunk for approval in the Senate last year, but opponents pressured members of the body, including Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and no vote was held.

Bush administration officials have pushed for the treaty's passage, as has Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. Lugar held hearings on the legislation in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year, but failed to allow opponents of the treaty to testify.

Please read the entire piece. This is one of those matters that the old media would never mention and the new media may find boring. Matters of sovereignty, such as this, should trump the inane rantings of Ted Turner (who compares FoxNews with Hitler) or with the effete democrat senators who insist on holding up the vote as they oppose Dr. Condoleeza Rice. Those stories may be fun to cover and certainly are fun to read, but they do little to weaken our resolve. The U.N. and their corrupt member states wish to weaken the resolve of the United States by co-opting as much sovereignty as possible.

Paul Weyrich , of the Free Congress Foundation said,

"Conservatives who want to stop this treaty had better be prepared to be even more aggressive this time. Powerful interest groups, notably the oil industry, want to have this treaty ratified despite its fine print that would place their fate in the hands of a governing body called the International Seabed Authority and ultimately the United Nations."

If you're opposed to this encroaching treaty, now would be a good time to contact your representatives in Washington to politely encourage his/her opposition to it.