The "Law of the Sea" Treaty

by John Stallings

The other evening while watching the Republican debates, I heard one of the candidates allude to “The law of the sea” Treaty, which is rattling through the halls of Congress. To be very honest I didn’t have a clue as to what it meant so I researched it.

A little goggling revealed to me that this Treaty if signed by an American President would be a mistake because it’s a “globalists’ dream bill.” It would put the United States in a de facto world government that rules the world’s oceans under the pretense that they belong to “The common heritage of mankind.” As you may know, Cuba is now drilling for oil not that far off the Florida coast with the help of China, Canada & Spain.

The Bill has been bouncing around for some time & here’s an interesting tid-bit; Ronald Reagan refused to sign it in 1982. Why? Because he felt it would put our nation at the mercy of a world body & would ham-string us to cow-tow to corrupt United Nations bureaucrats & subject us to a multi-national ruling clique.

The treaty has already been ratified by 155 countries because they know the riches at the bottom of the sea, which would be brought to the surface by United States technology & investment, would then be doled out to Third World dictators to support themselves in the lavish style to which they’d like to become accustomed.

The argument is being made that Reagan’s problems with the bill have been “fixed,” but that’s a sham because no one country could legally change the terms of a treaty that has already been signed & ratified by more than 100 countries with 25 others who haven’t agreed with the changes.

We should make no mistake; Ronald Reagan found this bill obnoxious & impudent for reasons which in a nutshell were—a loss of U.S sovereignty.

Ladies & gentlemen, we need to work & pray against the growing one- world mentality. If you stay abreast of the news you know that Russia recently put a symbolic claim on the North Pole regions & its oil riches. As it stands we don’t have to accept that but if Bush signs this treaty (And it looks like he’s partnering with Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del to try to get the Senate to ratify it) we’ll be at the mercy of a world body who would vote on any given issue; 1 for America & 155 for Russia.

The best protection for U.S interests in the worlds ocean’s is the U.S Navy, not a bunch of pencil-necked paper pushers ( sorry about that) in the International Seabed Authority of rulings of the International Court of Justice supported by a UN bureaucracy financed by a global tax.

I learned there are other treaties as bad or worse than the aforementioned one that are just waiting for an American President eager to fit in with a one-world-government to sign.

I quote the great man a lot; --“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,”& unless we’re ready to go back to horse & buggy days, we’d better stay as vigilant as we would be if we were sitting in the audience of a “cross-eyed knife thrower.”

EVERY BLESSING,

John