Sirens in the Strait, 3-20-08

In ancient Greek mythology, the Sirens were beautiful sea-maidens, known for chanting sweet melodies to lure hapless sailors into dangerous waters, only to face their demise amongst the jagged rocks. Today's Sirens are similarly dangerous, using the promise of peace and stability on the oceans to lure various American constituencies into the perilous contours that make up the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (also known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST).

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UN-American

Today, the most serious threat to our nation's sovereignty and the republican form of government we cherish is the United Nations and other international organizations that work through ill-advised treaties and irresponsible bureaucrats to usurp the power of the American people to govern themselves.

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Law of the Sea Treaty: Tunnel Vision on the Oceans

Despite a sudden flurry of activity late last year, the rush to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) appears to have slowed -- at least for now. With the support of the Bush Administration and a largely somnolent Senate, the Treaty seemed to be -- excuse the expression -- a “slam dunk” that was only stopped following the outcry of a few respected voices from outside government.

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Throw out LOST, 12-21-07

We must protect United States sovereignty. We must not blissfully give control of 2/3 of the earth's surface to an unelected, unaccountable, unrepresentative, burdensome, taxing, regulating and adjudicating global bureaucracy. I am referencing the negotiations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). President Ronald Reagan rejected the efforts to create an international authority that would ultimately control the world's sea beds.

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Americans Pay for Emerging World Government, 11-28-07

In its new Human Development Report calling for another $86 billion in aid to the rest of the world, supposedly to fight the effects of climate change, the United Nations acts distressed that people in “rich” countries like the U.S. don’t take the theory of man-made global warming more seriously. Its answer—and this is actually spelled out in the report—is that too much “editorial balance” in the media has prevented “informed debate” about the need for “urgent action” in the form of higher taxes on energy. Read entire article, 11-28-07

Bush support for sea treaty affirmed, 11-16-07

'I understand there are concerns. We believe those have been addressed'

The president continues to support the pending Law of the Sea Treaty, but a spokeswoman isn't going to speculate on how it would have affected critical U.S. operations on the sea had it been adopted earlier.

The issue was resurrected recently in the U.S. Senate at President Bush's urging even though critics making up a wide-ranging chorus have concluded it would grant the United Nations control of 70 percent of the planet under its oceans, and undermine U.S. sovereignty.

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Defeat the Law of the Sea Treaty, 11-13-07

The Bush administration, together with several unlikely allies — including Sens. Joe Biden of Delaware and Dick Lugar of Indiana, and the majority of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — are attempting to impose a flawed international agreement on America. The U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty, known by its particularly apt acronym LOST, was wisely rejected 25 years ago by President Reagan and revived by the Clinton administration after several cosmetic changes. The "new" treaty was approved Oct. 31 by a 17-4 Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote. What was wrong with LOST 25 years ago is what's wrong with it now — it would undermine American sovereignty and risk national security by putting American efforts to counteract nuclear-weapons proliferation and international terrorism under the control of foreign judges.

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Sea treaty sparks rivalries, 11-12-07

Can the Law of the Sea restrain the race to the Pole?

An old-fashioned, flag-planting, claim-staking fight for the Arctic has broken out just as the Senate prepares for a difficult ratification vote on the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea treaty.

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SINISTER SECRETS OF THE U.N. SEA TREATY

The former editor of the New York Times editorial page says it is “crazy” to be opposed to the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty and she can’t understand why it has become a hot-button issue in the Republican presidential race. Gail Collins declared in a November 3 column in the Times that the measure simply clarifies “rules for navigation and mining in international waters” and sets up “a system for settling disputes.” Those opposed to it, she says, are spinning “conspiracy theories.” But Collins is doing the spinning.

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Sinister Secrets of the U.N. Sea Treaty, 11-05-07

The former editor of the New York Times editorial page says it is "crazy" to be opposed to the U.N.'s Law of the Sea Treaty and she can't understand why it has become a hot-button issue in the Republican presidential race. Gail Collins declared in a November 3 column in the Times that the measure simply clarifies "rules for navigation and mining in international waters" and sets up "a system for settling disputes." Those opposed to it, she says, are spinning "conspiracy theories." But Collins is doing the spinning.

What if there were evidence that the treaty was the product of those who believe in world government financed by global taxes? Hold on to your seats.

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A Sinkable Treaty

Why America doesn't need the Law of the Sea.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 17-4 Wednesday to approve the Law of the Sea Treaty, meaning it's now up to 34 Senate Republicans to send this giant octopus of a document back where it belongs. To wit, the bottom of the ocean.

The U.S. last disposed of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea--LOST to its critics--when Ronald Reagan was President. This May, however, the Bush Administration reversed course and declared that the Gipper's objections had been fixed by a 1994 amendment. We've since had a debate on these pages over that point, with former Secretaries of State George Shultz and James Baker in favor, while Ed Meese and William Clark, Reagan's Attorney General and National Security Adviser, remain opposed.

Read entire article, November 3, 2007

Fast-tracked LOST faces Senate vote

GOP battling plan to give U.N. control of 70 percent of planet

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote today on the ratification of the United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of the 70 percent of the planet under its oceans.

With Democrats in nearly unanimous agreement with the treaty and the Bush administration behind it, it will be up to a handful of determined Republican senators to derail it.

WorldNetDaily.com, October 31, 2007

The Halloween Treaty: Law of the Seas

Today, the Senate will consider a Halloween treat, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. More than 150 nations have joined the convention, which was signed by President Clinton in 1994, although the Senate has yet to ratify it. Although President Bush and his administration urge ratification, the Senate would do well to reflect before accepting treats — or treaties — from the United Nations.

Of course, parts of the Law of the Sea Treaty, appropriately titled LOST, make sense. LOST grants governance rights of "exclusive economic zones" within 200 nautical miles of shore. With sovereignty over islands throughout the Pacific, America would have strong claims on large swaths of oceans. Indeed, we would have the largest oceanic claims in the world. Thus it is not entirely surprising that the State Department and the Department of the Navy are ardent supporters of LOST.

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LOST runs silent, runs deep

In over 30 years of working in and watching the ways of Washington, I must say, I have never seen anything quite like it.

According to Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the entire Senate Republican leadership is now opposed to a controversial treaty supported by the president and an implausible alliance of special interests from the U.S. Navy to Greenpeace. At a joint press conference last Wednesday, he was one of several senators to declare that, as a result, supporters would be unable to muster the necessary 67 votes for ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). Yet, it seems not one of the "establishment" media organs felt moved to report these momentous political developments.

Read Frank Gaffney's entire article at the WashingtonTimes.com

LOST at Sea

The Law of the Sea Treaty threatens American sovereignty.
By John Fonte
10-29-07

Will Americans rule themselves or be ruled by others — this is to be a great question of the 21st century. An opening scene is currently being played out in the U.S. Senate concerning international courts and supranational institutions.

Read Fonte's entire article on nationalreview.com.

FOREIGN RELATIONS TO VOTE ON LOST!

Tell Your Senator to vote NO on the Law of the Sea Treaty!!

This Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote on the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). The committee is made up of 11 Democrats and 10 Republicans. If passed, the next step would be ratification vote on the floor of the Senate, which requires a two-thirds majority of Senators present (67 votes if all Senators are present).
Members of the Foreign Relations Committee: Biden, Boxer, Cardin, Casey, Coleman*, Corker*, DeMint, Dodd, Feingold, Hagel, Isakson*, Kerry, Lugar, Menendez, Murkowski, Nelson (FL), Obama, Sununu* , Vitter, Voinovich, Webb

* Designates top tier target Senators. Please call these Senators first!

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Law of Sea Treaty draws GOP focus

The Law of the Sea convention, a relic of the 1970s, could become the next fight of this year's Republican presidential campaign, with some of the candidates trying to push it to the front of the debate. WashingtonTimes.com, October 26, 2007

Media Bias Could Save U.N. Sea Treaty

The momentum on the issue of the U.N’s Law of the Sea Treaty seems clearly to be with the opponents. All of the Senate’s top Republicans have said they oppose it, with several saying it can’t or won’t pass. GOP presidential candidates are falling in line against it. Even Senator John McCain, previously considered a sure vote in favor of the pact, now says he has his doubts about it. But don’t underestimate the value of biased reporting in favor of the controversial pact. Media bias could turn the tide.
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Blowing the Whistle on U.N. Corruption, 10-18-07

On the eve of a Senate vote on the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, a former senior staffer in one of the key institutions created by the treaty says that U.S. senators should have the complete and honest truth about mismanagement and financial corruption there. The International Seabed Authority, which is one of the main organizations created by the treaty, stands to receive millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars if the Senate ratifies the pact. Accuracy in Media, October 18, 2007

Blowing the Whistle on U.N. Corruption

On the eve of a Senate vote on the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, a former senior staffer in one of the key institutions created by the treaty says that U.S. senators should have the complete and honest truth about mismanagement and financial corruption there. The International Seabed Authority, which is one of the main organizations created by the treaty, stands to receive millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars if the Senate ratifies the pact. Accuracy in Media, October 18, 2007

All is nearly LOST!

What could be wrong with a treaty governing the oceans championed by President George W. Bush, the secretary of the Navy and the overwhelming majority of the members of both political parties who make up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee?

Everything!

Just as the president was leading us down the wrong path on immigration, he is leading us down the wrong path by asking the Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST). WorldNetDaily.com, October 18, 2007

Reagan on LOST: "No national interest of the US can justify handing sovereign control of two-thirds of the Earth's surface over to the Third World."

Have the Bush Republicans ceased to be reliable custodians of American sovereignty? So it would seem.

Bush has signed on to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which transfers jurisdiction over the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans and all the oil and mineral resources they contain to an International Seabed Authority. This second United Nations would be ceded eternal hegemony over two-thirds of the Earth.

In 1978, Ronald Reagan declared, "No national interest of the United States can justify handing sovereign control of two-thirds of the Earth's surface over to the Third World."

Read Pat Buchanan's Oct. 12 column "George W. Bush, globalist" at http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58108

LOST: U.S. senators' spines

Call your senators (202-224-3121) and ask each of them for their position on the Convention on the Law of the Sea. Ten-to-one says that a young, well- tutored voice will say something like: "We don't have a statement on that," or "the senator has not taken a position yet," or "the senator is still studying the issues."

What happened to: "He opposes it," or "he supports it"?

This Convention on the Law of the Sea has been kicking around since Ronald Reagan kicked it out of his administration. Bill Clinton had the treaty reworked, and asked the Senate to ratify it. The Republican Senate refused. George Bush asked the Senate to ratify it during his first term; the Senate refused. Now, the administration is again pushing for ratification. Any senator who has not yet decided whether to support or oppose this treaty should not be in Washington. WorldNetDaily.com, October 13, 2007

Permission Slip for the Sea

WASHINGTON -- In his 2004 State of the Union Address, President Bush said, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Members of both parties and both houses of Congress applauded. But if the Senate votes to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea -- known as the Law of the Sea Treaty -- or its appropriate acronym -- LOST -- he and his successors are going to need lots of permission slips.

In 1982, Ronald Reagan, concerned about the treaty's implications for our sovereignty and national security, formally rejected LOST because it did "not satisfy the objectives sought by the United States." In 1994, William Jefferson Clinton, eager to appease One World Government advocates in his own party and at the United Nations, negotiated a parallel "agreement" that purported to address Mr. Reagan's concerns -- and urged ratification. Since then, LOST has gathered dust in the bowels of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. All that may be about to change. The deeply flawed, Soviet-era agreement giving unelected, unaccountable international bureaucrats control over 71 percent of the Earth's surface is now on a fast track to ratification. Townhall.com, October 12, 2007

SUPREME COURT CASE PREVIEWS DAMAGE OF LOST!

Tell Your Senator to vote NO on the Law of the Sea Treaty!!

Just this week, the United States Supreme Court gave us an important look into what kind of global power grabs we face if the Senate ratifies the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). On October 10, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Jose Medellin, an illegal alien rapist-murderer now on death row in Texas. Medellin, a citizen of Mexico who lived illegally in the United States, was convicted and sentenced to death after he confessed in 1993 to the brutal rape and murder of two teenage girls in Houston.

Long after Medellin had received the full due process of the American legal system, in 2003 the Mexican government sued the United States in the International Court of Justice (known as the "World Court"), an agency of the United Nations which sits at The Hague in The Netherlands.

In 2004 the World Court ruled in favor of Mexico and ordered the United States to give Medellin another hearing, or perhaps another trial, at which he could receive the assistance of Mexican consular employees.

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Another U.N. Power Grab

What would Reagan do? On the Law of the Sea Treaty, we know the answer.

BY WILLIAM P. CLARK AND EDWIN MEESE

It is an impressive testament to the abiding affection and political influence of former President Ronald Reagan that the fate of a controversial treaty now before the U.S. Senate may ultimately turn on a single question: What would Reagan do?

As we had the privilege of working closely with President Reagan in connection with the foreign policy, national security and domestic implications of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty or LOST), there is no question about how our 40th president felt about this accord. He so strongly opposed it that he formally refused to sign the treaty. He even sent Donald Rumsfeld as a personal emissary to our key allies around the world to explain his opposition and encourage them to follow suit. All of them did so at the time. OpinionJournal.com, 10-8-07.

The World Dictatorship Treaty: Does that get your attention? Many senators in the dark

Only three Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee knew what the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is, according to a recent survey. Only 3 out of the 12 GOP committee members. There was no known survey of Democrat members.

That reinforces this column's point last week ("What's the rush?" — Oct. 1, 2007) that there are 10 other Senate committees besides Foreign Relations (dominated by the bipartisan internationalist Biden-Lugar cabal) that need to hold open and (hopefully) well-publicized hearings of LOST to inform senators. Renewamerica.com, October 8, 2007

LOST at sea!

I awoke in a cold sweat to the familiar surroundings of my bedroom. The chain that had restrained me was a sheet wound tightly around my body. It was a bad dream.

I had seen an imposing figure in a long blue robe rise from the ocean, bearing a striking resemblance to Karl Marx. Neptune, the sea god, looked down on the subjects who were pleading with him to release our country from his grasp.

Among those poor souls groveling at his feet were George Bush, Harry Reid and Richard Lugar – the very men who gave Neptune the power to control us. Now, they were on the receiving end of the prongs of his trident bearing the U.N. logo.
WorldNetDaily.com, October 4, 2007

SENATE TO HOLD ONE MORE HEARING ON L.O.S.T.

Urge your Senators to Vote AGAINST the UN Law of the Sea Treaty!


This week, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be holding its second hearing on the UN Law of the Sea Treaty.

The Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST, created the International Seabed Authority (ISA), giving it total jurisdiction over all the oceans and everything in them, including the ocean floor with "all" its riches ("solid, liquid or gaseous mineral resources"), along with the power to regulate seven-tenths of the world's surface. The treaty remains highly defective, despite claims by both the Clinton and Bush Administrations that all Reagan's concerns have been "fixed." If the Senate were to ratify it, LOST would do the following:

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The ‘LOST 45’ UN Environmental Restrictions on US Sovereignty

During the past six months, a number of former and current administration officials have declared their support for the UN Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), the largest environmental regulatory treaty in the history of the world. Based on their recommendations, President Bush, as did his predecessor, former President Clinton, agreed to resubmit the LOST to the US Senate once again for ratification.

These officials, many of whom are giants in the conservative movement, have argued that LOST ratification would ensure America’s national security, economic and technological vitality and positive standing within the international community. Regrettably, these claims are very much overstated. Copenhagen Institute, September 27, 2007

What's the rush? Another back-stabbing treaty on a "fast track"

Every time Americans tune out the chattering political class, that's when the one-worlders rush in for the kill.

The Law of the Sea Treaty

As Americans are working to support their families, playing by the rules, paying their taxes, minding their business — forces are at work here in Washington to give them the business. RenewAmerica.us, Oct. 1, 2007

U.N. Law of Sea Treaty on Senate fast-track

Bush administration pushing for ratification in next 3 weeks

WASHINGTON – For the second time in three years, the Bush administration is putting on a major effort for Senate ratification of the United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty, a wide-ranging measure critics say will grant the U.N. control of 70 percent of the planet under its oceans.

With Democrats in nearly unanimous agreement with the treaty and the Bush administration behind it, it will be up to a handful of determined Republican senators to derail it from getting a two-thirds vote in the upper house. WorldNetDaily.com, September 30, 2007

Sea Sickness In The Senate

International Law: Time was, Ronald Reagan's 600-ship Navy gave us freedom of the seas. But if Joe Biden and the Senate have their way, we'll need the permission of 21 judges in Hamburg.

On Thursday, presidential wannabe Biden will chair hearings intended to lead to the ratification of the quarter-century-old Law of the Sea treaty (LOST), a document that would severely restrict our ability to use oceans to defend ourselves and would turn over control of 70% of the world's surface to a U.N. bureaucracy. INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY, September 25, 2007

Law of the Sea Travesty

Ronald Reagan rejected the United Nations' Convention on the Law of the Sea 25 years ago, but the 202-page treaty generally known by its acronym LOST will not die. Reagan didn't like LOST -- which its conservative critics say would compromise U.S. sovereignty and cede control of the oil, gas and mineral riches of the deepest seabeds to UN bureaucrats -- because it was so obviously collectivist, redistributionist, bureaucratic and antithetical to American economic and military interests.

But the Bush administration, the Pentagon and many large mining companies are pushing for the United States to join the 155 countries that have ratified LOST. As Sen. Joe Biden prepares to hold Senate hearings on the Law of the Sea Treaty on Thursday, Sept. 27, we called one of its chief opponents, Cliff Kincaid, president of America's Survival Inc. (www.usasurvival.org.) to find out why Reagan was right and President Bush is wrong about LOST: FrontPageMag.com, September 26, 2007

Dumped by Reagan, Sea Treaty Now Up for Passage

An international treaty that President Reagan vetoed in the early 1980s is being re-visited in the Senate this week where State Department and Defense Department officials are expected to push for its ratification.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was designed to establish rules governing military and commercial use of the world's oceans. The rights and responsibilities of each nation are outlined in the treaty text. To date, over 150 countries have signed on to the Law of the Sea. CNSNews.com, September 26, 2007

Rubber Stamp?

Come Thursday, the future of the United States Senate will begin to take shape. On that day, the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee will begin the first of two days of hearings on the ratification of one of the most momentous international agreements in memory: the United Nation’s Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).


If all goes according to the proponents’ plan, few Senators will have any idea what LOST entails before they are asked to vote for it. The working assumption is that many legislators will be inclined to do in this case what the Senate has done too often in the past with respect to arms control and many other, complex multinational accords: fail to read the text; forego serious deliberation, let alone debate, about it; and rubber-stamp its approval in a matter of days, if not hours. FrontPageMag.com, September 25, 2007

Will Senator McConnell Take on the U.N.'s Seasick Lawyers?

America celebrates Constitution Day on Monday, September 17, as we find members of the Bush Administration and liberals in the Senate working feverishly to get the U.S. involved in another international treaty, the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This pact, which would further erode the sovereignty and independence of our nation, authorizes foreign bodies and judges to decide our fate on the oceans, determining who gets access to vast deposits of oil and gas and precious minerals. A Senate vote on this pact is coming up soon, perhaps by the end of this month. Aim.org, September 14, 2007

U.S. Sovereignty Threatened by U.N. Treaty, Critics Charge

The U.S. is poised to turn much of its authority on the high seas over to international arbiters by ratifying a long-controversial United Nations sea treaty.

Approval of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), a 25-year-old international treaty regulating use of the world’s oceans, is steaming full speed ahead in the Senate, where committee hearings are set to begin Sept. 27. NewsMax.com, September 16, 2007

Putin's treaty trap

The Russian claim to the North Pole has started a panic among some politicians and the press, who think the U.S. response should be to dicker with the Russians over Arctic riches before a United Nations panel established by the Law of the Sea Treaty.
WashingtonTimes.com, September 2, 2007

Vetting LOST

Letters to the editor

I am pleased that both a former U.S. delegate to the Law of the Sea Treaty and a former Judge ad hoc of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea have come forward ("LOST at sea," Letters, yesterday) in response to my Wednesday Commentary "LOST and found," which, due to limited space, suffered the fate of many severely edited articles. WashingtonTimes.com, August 11, 2007

Big Business is LOST at sea

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Bush administration officials, the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill, and most Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) at the UN support it. So do the American Petroleum Institute, the Chamber of Shipping of America, and AT&T. With this cast of supporters, something fishy is going on.

It's the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, but its detractors still use its old name: the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST. LOST was originally drafted at the end of the Carter administration, but was scuttled President Reagan. Examiner.com, Aug 10, 2007

LOST and found

The Law of the Sea Treaty, a k a "LOST," the leviathan of all U.N. regulatory and environmental treaties, has again reared its ugly head, despite having been "deep-sixed" years ago by the Reagan administration.

A legacy-oriented White House is now shepherding it through a Congress whose majority enthusiastically embraces collectivist European-style environmental activism and multilateral treaty-making — at the expense of constitutionally-protected individualism and property rights. by Lawrence Kogan, Aug 8, 2007

LOST at seize?

Last week, Vladimir Putin's Russia used a bit of undersea derring-do to remind us that chess is its national sport. Two deep-ocean submersibles were dispatched to the Arctic floor ostensibly for the purpose of laying claim to the Lomonosov Ridge — and, more importantly, to the potentially vast oil, gas and mineral resources that may lie within a zone 200 miles wide on either side of that underwater mountain range. This move may have been a grandmaster's feint, however, masking another purpose: blackmailing the United States into ratifying the defective Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). by Frank J. Gaffney Jr., Aug 7, 2007

An Administration LOST at Sea

Once the scourge of goo-goo internationalism, the Bush administration is now desperate to appease the United Nations crowd, Europeans, and "transies," as the transnational progressives, or NGO gaggle, is called. The president's latest concession is pushing the Law of the Sea Treaty, appropriately known as LOST. spectator.org, by Doug Bandow, 7/31/2007

Defeat the Law of the Sea Treaty

Phyllis Schlafly talks about the Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST) and how the current administration is trying to bring it back to life. Watch

United Nations' control of the Sea Scuttle the Law of the Sea Treaty!

The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) is another grand scheme of the United Nations. LOST would give control of roughly 70% of the Earth's surface to the U.N., establishing rules which would govern the use of the world's oceans. LOST is back, and on a fast track for ratification because the Bush Administration is now calling for accession to this convention. We have stopped LOST several times in the past, and we should be able to stop it again, with enough outcry. By Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, May 24, 2007