THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VII, Issue # 73, April 6, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE LAW OF THE SEA TREATY:
UN PLAN FOR GLOBAL CONTROL & TAXATION
By Dr. Ron Paul
THE LAW OF THE SEA TREATY: A CORNERSTONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING A UN-DIRECTED
SYSTEM OF GLOBAL CONTROL, REGULATION, & TAXATION OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE -- SEEKING REALIZATION OF THE
LONG-TIME DREAM OF ANTI-SOVEREIGNTY GLOBALISTS: GIVING THE UN POWER TO TAX AMERICAN CITIZENS &
BUSINESSES & TO DIRECT THE INVOLUNTARY TRANSFER OF WEALTH FROM THE DEVELOPED WORLD TO THE THIRD WORLD --
THE NEVER-ENDING DRIVE OF UN BUREAUCRATS & THEIR POLITICAL ALLIES TO TURN THE UNITED NATIONS INTO A WORLD
GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING & DIRECTING A GLOBAL SOCIALIST ECONOMIC SYSTEM
FULL STORY:
Back in the 1970s, the United Nations launched its plan for a global program of taxation without representation, a scheme called the
“New International Economic Order.” However, the goal of this new economic order was not so new at all. It sought the involuntary
transfer of wealth and technology from the developed world to the third world under the direction of the United Nations. A
cornerstone of this dangerous attempt to loot the prosperous nations was the “Law of the Sea Treaty” (LOST).
Under the Law of the Sea Treaty, an “International Seabed Authority” would control the minerals and other resources of the oceans’
seabed. After taking its own cut, this UN body would transfer whatever was left to select third-world governments and
non-governmental organizations.
The Law of the Sea Treaty also would give the UN power to tax American citizens and businesses, which has been a long-time dream
of the anti-sovereignty globalists. LOST also would establish an international court system to enforce its provisions and rulings.
Imagine not being able to do business internationally without the approval of the United Nations!
It all sounds like something out of a science-fiction novel, but it is real.
Fortunately, when the treaty came before President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, he ignored untra-internationalists warning of
impending international chaos and refused to sign the treaty. It was the right thing to do. It appeared that the push toward global
governance was – at least temporarily – halted.
But that was not the end of LOST. Determined proponents of the treaty worked to “fix” its most objectionable parts, in hopes the
United States of America would become a party. The UN and its supporters know that, without the participation of the U.S.A.,
their globalist schemes are doomed to failure.
Satisfied with their efforts to alter the treaty in the 1990s, LOST supporters sent it to President Bill Clinton, who wasted no time
signing the treaty and sending it to the U.S. Senate for ratification. Fortunately, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then
headed by Senator Jesse Helms, concluded that, despite cosmetic changes, the treaty remained hopelessly flawed. In 2000, he
sent the treaty back to the President with no action on it.
It seemed as though this treaty would finally die. But it did not. Undeterred, LOST supporters in the U.S. State Department sent
the treaty back to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2003. This time, the Committee voted unanimously to send it to the
full Senate for ratification! LOST currently sits before the Senate, available at any time for a full Senate vote on ratification.
Therefore, despite President Reagan’s rejection and Senator Jesse Helms’ rejection, LOST is still very much alive.
Together with thirteen of my colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives, I sent a letter, at the end of March, 2004, to Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist urging him to reject this dangerous and foolish treaty. Should the United Nations succeed in its dream
of taxing American citizens when they do business abroad, how much longer will it be until they begin taxing us at home? In fact,
UN bureaucrats have been gathering in New York to look for ways to revive their dream of imposing UN control and a global tax
on the internet. Imagine a global policy on internet content dictated by nations such as Saudi Arabia and China – and paid for by
Americans! Let us hope that the U.S. Senate does the sensible thing and rejects LOST and any further UN encroachments on our
sovereignty.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, elected from and representing the Fourteenth
Congressional District of Texas. Congressman Paul is considered to be one of America's leading spokesmen for constitutional
government, the rule of law, liberty under law, the private enterprise system,, free market economics, sound monetary policy, and
fiscal restraint on the part of the U.S. national government.
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