{"id":13902,"date":"2012-05-15T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T10:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13902"},"modified":"2012-05-15T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T10:37:17","slug":"what-would-lost-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=13902","title":{"rendered":"What Would LOST Mean ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Gaffney posted an article at Townhall.com<\/a>\u00a0about the Law Of The Sea Treaty<\/a> (LOST) which may come up in\u00a0the lame-duck session of the Senate<\/a> at the end of the year. The treaty essentially will give the United Nations control over all waterways and set up a justice system\u00a0at the United Nations that all nations would be under. In a few words, it is a direct threat to American sovereignty.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

First, as Senator Lott once warned, ratification of LOST would commit the United States to submit to mandatory dispute resolution<\/a> with respect to U.S. military and industrial operations. While LOST proponents argue that the United States will choose available arbitration<\/a> mechanisms to avoid legal decisions from the International Court of Justice (ICJ)<\/a> or the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea<\/a> (ITLOS), such arbitration panels are no-less perilous for U.S. interests as the decisive, “swing” arbiters would be appointed by generally unfriendly UN-affiliated bureaucrats. The arbitration panels can also be relied upon to look to rulings by the ICJ or ITLOS to inform their own decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Furthermore, while there is a LOST provision exempting “military activity” from such dispute resolution mechanisms, the Treaty makes no attempt to define “military activity,” virtually guaranteeing that such matters will be litigated – in all likelihood to our detriment – before one or another of LOST’s arbitration mechanisms. And the rulings of such arbitrators cannot be appealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t think this is what our founding fathers had in mind.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Of particular concern is the fact that LOST creates an international taxation regime. It does so by empowering the International Seabed Authority<\/a> (ISA) to tax Americans for the purposes of meeting its ownadministrative costs and of globally redistributing revenue derived from the exploitation of seabed resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a travesty to portray atreaty with such clearly sovereignty-sapping provisions as an enhancement to our national sovereignty. LOST should be rejected this time – as President Ronald Reagan<\/a> did thirty years ago and as Senator Lott urged twenty-five years later.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UN has shown a definite lack of wisdom in selecting members of its Human Rights Commission, do we really want them to exercise any control over America?<\/p>\n

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