Friday, May 25, 2012
What's green and blue and grabby all over? President
Obama's new pressure campaign for Congress to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty
(LOST).
The fight over LOST goes back three decades, when it was
first rejected by President Ronald Reagan. He warned that "no national
interest of the United States could justify handing sovereign control of
two-thirds of the Earth's surface over to the Third World." According to
top Reagan officials William Clark and Ed Meese, their boss believed the
"central, and abiding, defect" was "its effort to promote global
government at the expense of sovereign nation states -- and most especially the
United States."
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 '60s,
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.
While our sovereignty would be redistributed around the
world, most of the funding for the massive LOST regulatory body would come from
-- you guessed it! -- the United States. Forbes columnist Larry Bell reports
that "as much as 7 percent of U.S. government revenue that is collected
from oil and gas companies operating off our coast" would be meted out to
"poorer, landlocked countries." This confiscatory act of environmental
justice would siphon billions, if not trillions, away from Americans.
International royalties would be imposed; an international tribunal would be
set up to mediate disputes. There would be no opportunity for court appeals in
the U.S.
LOST is just the latest waterlogged power grab by the
Obama administration. As I reported in 2010, the White House through executive
order seized unprecedented control from states and localities over
"conservation, economic activity, user conflict and sustainable use of the
ocean, our coasts and the Great Lakes." Obama created a 27-member
"National Ocean Council" by administrative fiat that is specifically
tasked with implementing ocean management plans "in accordance with
customary international law, including as reflected in the Law of the Sea
Convention."
The panel is chaired by radical green science czar John
Holdren (notorious for his cheerful musings about eugenics, mass sterilization
and forced abortions to protect Mother Earth, and for hyping weather catastrophes
and demographic disasters in the 1970s with his population-control pals Paul
and Anne Ehrlich) and White House Council on Environmental Quality head Nancy
Sutley (best known as the immediate boss of disgraced green jobs
czar/self-avowed communist Van Jones).
Other members include Dr. Jane Lubchenco, head of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a former high-ranking
official at the left-wing Environmental Defense Fund, which has long championed
draconian reductions of commercial fishing fleets and recreational fishing
activity in favor of centralized control, and fraudster Interior Secretary Ken
Salazar, who doctored the administration's drilling moratorium report.
It is not hyperbole to expose LOST's socialist roots.
Meddling Marxist Elisabeth Mann Borgese, the godmother of the global ocean
regulatory scheme, made no bones about it: "He who rules the sea,"
she exulted, "rules the land." LOST is a radical giveaway of American
sovereignty in the name of environmental protection. And it should be sunk once
and for all.
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