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2005 Ron Paul Chapter 20
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Congressional Record [.PDF]
Sense Of The Congress Resolution That The United States Should Not Ratify The Law Of The Sea Treaty
10 February 2005
HON. RON PAUL
OF TEXAS
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 10, 2005
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Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to introduce a Resolution expressing the Sense of the
Congress that the United States should not
ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty (“LOST”).
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The Law of the Sea Treaty was conceived in the early 1970s by the “New International
Economic Order,” a United Nations political
movement designed to transfer wealth and
technology from the industrial nations to communist
and undeveloped nations. President
Ronald Reagan recognized the threat this
treaty would pose to America’s sovereignty
and economic interests and rightly rejected the
Treaty in 1982.
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Treaty proponents acted again in the 1990s, offering a separate “Agreement” that purported
to amend the Treaty. This “corrected
treaty” was also deemed unacceptable by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1994.
Now we are once again facing a terribly
flawed treaty that will hand over more of our
sovereignty to a corrupt United Nations — just
at a time when the extent of the United Nations’
corruption is becoming more evident
through the oil for food scandal in Iraq.
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What is specifically wrong with the Law of the Sea Treaty?
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The Law of the Sea Treaty will deem the oceans of the Earth as the “Common Heritage
of Mankind.” The Treaty dictates that oceanic
resources should be shared among all mankind.
The effect of this will be U.N. control
over the world’s seabeds — a full 70 percent of
the earth’s surface.
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The Law of the Sea Treaty will also create, for the first time in history, an international
body with the authority to collect taxes from
American citizens. It is truly a U.N. global tax.
This will come about as a fee on private enterprise
and nation states from seabed mining,
offshore oil platforms, and other raw material
recovery activities. These fees will first be paid
by the governments of the signatory states,
which will then have the burden of collecting
the monies back from the private enterprises
engaged in seabed mining activities.
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This treaty will create a Law of the Sea Tribunal, which will claim — and already has
claimed — jurisdiction over the onshore as well
as within the territorial sea or economic zones
of coastal nations. This U.N. Tribunal could
very well rule in a manner contrary to U.S.
military, counterterrorism, and commercial interests.
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Mr. Speaker, the Law of the Sea Treaty is a perfect example of “taxation without representation”
that our Founding Fathers rebelled
against. We should under no circumstances
surrender one bit of American
sovereignty or treasure to the United Nations
or any other global body. I hope my colleagues
will join me by co-sponsoring this
Sense of the Congress legislation and defeating
this destructive treaty.
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