The Herald’s guest commentary of July 22, by University of Washington professors William Burke, Edward Miles and Warren Wooster, shockingly promoted the United Nations’ Law of the Seas Treaty (LOST) which President Ronald Reagan rejected because he recognized it as a very dangerous threat to America’s security, independent political authority and prosperity (“GOP creates rocky seas for critical treaty”).
The U.S. already abides by the international “rules governing uses of the world’s oceans” and our “country’s jurisdiction, rights and controls over activities off (our) coasts and (which) protects the freedoms of all countries to navigate and use the oceans without interference” – which LOST purports to ensure. We don’t need any additional “security on the high seas and in our ports.”
LOST is actually a power grab over the oceans and seas of the world – 70 percent of the Earth’s surface – a backdoor attempt by the globalists to surrender U.S. economic and military (Navy) independence to the socialist United Nations.
If ratified by our Senate, it would indirectly give the U.N.’s tyrannical “New World Order” the power over us that they have sought for more than 50 years through the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol and other globalist schemes. LOST grants authority for the sweeping powers to dictate what commerce or travel occurs on nearly all of the Earth’s waterways; and no nation is given a veto!
LOST can force American companies to pay fees for mining the seas off our own coasts and claims control of everything in and over the seas (meaning air travel and even space exploration). It will have the sole power to determine what ships can be boarded and searched, which would handcuff our Coast Guard.
In summary, this threatening Law of the Seas Treaty would give legitimacy to a global justice system, global taxes and global regulations over our commerce, travel and exploration. The U.S. Senate must be urged to vote against this major roadblock to our ability to secure our seaports, borders and airspace against terrorists.
WM. DUDSON BACON, M.D.
Lynnwood
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