Bush Embraces Law of Sea Treaty?

So President Bush is now for the Law of the Sea Treaty? Please remind me why I voted for him twice. LOST is the One Worlders wet dream. It was conceived as a means for funding the UN (read World Government), raises the spectres of international taxation, increased strength of the international courts, reduced sovereignty of nation states, as well as limitations on free commerce and navigation on the seas.

Those who scheme night and day to curb America's sovereignty never — never ever ever — give up. Such is the case with the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) — rejected in 1982 by President Reagan and stopped in its tracks in the Senate in 2004 and 2005. It is a Marxist-inspired document. (We'll get to that shortly, so stick with us.) Now LOST supporters — reportedly led by Vice President Cheney — have moved the Bush administration toward putting it once again on the front burner. That word comes to me from Frank Gaffney — President of the Center for Security Policy and a longtime LOST opponent.

Critics have charged and provided supporting evidence that LOST (an ironically appropriate acronym) is the product of the Soviet-backed so-called "non-aligned" movement agenda of the '60s and '70s. Among its most egregious provisions, LOST creates an International Seabed Authority (ISA) with unprecedented powers. The ISA could impose international taxes.

If you don't like the idea of international bureaucrats levying taxes without your say-so, too bad. Your congressman or senator would have nothing to say about it. You may have this quaint idea that if anyone is to impose a federal tax on you, it would be your elected representatives who need your vote in the next election. But LOST would toss that into the ash heap. One-worlders have been dreaming of this for years. And just to make certain that the LOST edicts are followed, the ISA would be empowered to create a multinational court system to enforce its judgments. ISA could also regulate seven-tenths of the world's surface area, impose production quotas for deep-sea mining, oil production etc., and regulate ocean research and exploration.

It turns out that one of the authors of LOST is one Elisabeth Mann Borgese, a socialist and key figure in the pro-world government World Federalists of Canada. Kincaid cites original source material for the first Peace in the Oceans Conference which the German-born Borgese (who died in 2002) organized. Out of the conference emerged the idea of an "Ocean Development Tax." Revenue derived from that source, according to Borgese, would help underwrite the United Nations.

Who in the UN would be qualified to implement the provisions such a treaty? May I suggest the delegation from Zimbambwe, recently chosen to lead the Commission on Sustainable Economic Development. If Robert Mugabe's henchmen are qualified for that role after destroying the Rhodesian economy, clearly as a land-locked country they're qualified to implement LOST.

Random Search Pays Off

Woking Heath has learned that the NYPD may have played a critical role in the identification of the would-be London Bombers.

Apparently the NYPD had briefly detained one of the convicted would-be London bombers during a random search in the New York subway system. Police officials, speaking anonymously as they were not authorized to talk to the media, would say only that they think it was the one at the right of the picture. The efficiency with which the London authorities rounded-up the suspects just goes to show the value of random searches during periods of heightened tension, our source told us.