In a new article appearing within the forthcoming issue of the Santa Clara Journal of International Law entitled, What Goes Around, Comes Around: How UNCLOS Ratification Will Herald Europe's Precautionary Principle as US Law, international attorney Lawrence Kogan calls upon all Americans to immediately exercise their constitutionally guaranteed 'right to know'. This article identifies the multiple pathways through which global environmental extremists, US trans-nationalists, and the 111th Congressional supermajority seek to use the highly complex United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as a loading platform from which to import into the American heartland very harmful UN and European-anchored environmental treaty and customary international law rules. "Unless the public demands due process of law from their congressional representatives," emphasized Kogan, "such rules, resembling rogue waves, will collectively override US sovereignty and the supremacy of the US Constitution and its accompanying Bill of Rights".

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ITSSD: Americans' Constitutional Rights Will Be Trampled Unless Congress Convenes Public Hearings on the UN Law of the Sea Convention

See also: How UNCLOS Ratification Will Herald Europe's Precautionary Principle as U.S. Law

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U.S. State Department Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger III’s recent letter to the editor (“LOST will benefit U.S.” – Washington Times 10/31/07)[1] reflects but another example of the true battle in which we are all, in one way or another, now engaged - namely, the battle against ignorance, apathy and bad ideas. - The letter to the editor proclaims that US ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) will provide “enormous national security...advantages to the United States, including clear legal rights of navigation for our military through and over the world’s oceans”. Yet it fails to mention the severe economic, legal and security-related costs associated with subjugating the US military’s absolute customary international law right to freedom of navigation to environmental concerns. Much to the contrary, the US military’s right to freedom of navigation has been steadily eroding since the1990’s as the result of the Clinton-Gore administration’s ‘enlightened’ “military operations other than war” policy [2] and the ‘lawfare’ tactics employed by other UNCLOS parties [3] with the help of environmental extremist groups.

Read more in UNCLOS Alchemy by Lawrence Kogan.

Part 1.

I oppose the ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty at this time. The Treaty threatens U.S. sovereignty and gives a U.N.-affiliated organization far too much authority over U.S. interests in international waters. The American people also deserve ironclad assurances that the problems with the treaty highlighted by President Reagan more than two decades ago have been fixed.

- Thus states US presidential candidate Fred Thompson according to Newsmax.com. Other candidates have expressed more interest in the treaty but show similar concern over the increased powers of the UN that a raticification of the treaty will imply.

Fred Thompson website

Fred Thompson: No to Law of the Sea Treaty

Read more in:

The US should reject the UN Law of the Sea Treaty

The ‘LOST 45’ UN Environmental Restrictions on US Sovereignty

‘LOST’ reality

LOST and found

Vetting LOST

Myths and Realities Concerning UN Law of the Sea Treaty*

Visit also The Institute for Trade, Standards & Sustainable Development at www.itssd.org.

See also Accuracy in Medias Cliff Kincaid (oktober 29): Bush's Toilet Bowl Treaty.

According to the World Conservation Union, the environmental community's goal is to utilize the [UN Law of the Sea Treaty] to employ the 'modern' Precautionary Principle globally to preserve the earth's biodiversity for future generations consistent with the United Nations doctrine of sustainable development.[...] And, this requires the development and promotion of:

..."a global framework or approach, building on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Fish Stocks Agreement, CMS and other relevant agreements, to facilitate the creation of a global representative system of high seas MPA networks consistent with international law, to ensure its effective management and enforcement, and coordinate and harmonize applicable international agreements, mechanisms and authorities in accordance with modern principles of precautionary, ecosystem-based and integrated management and sound governance as defined in the UN principles; including through: Requesting those countries which have yet to sign or ratify UNCLOS, and other relevant international agreements (e.g. Kyoto Protocol, [...] Convention on Biological Diversity,[...] UN Fish Stocks Agreement)[...] to immediately ratify and implement these agreements"...*

Comments on the UN LAW OF THE SEA TREATY (LOST):

The ‘LOST 45’ UN Environmental Restrictions on US Sovereignty

‘LOST’ reality

LOST and found

Vetting LOST

Myths and Realities Concerning UN Law of the Sea Treaty*

Visit also The Institute for Trade, Standards & Sustainable Development at www.itssd.org.

Danish readers see also: Star Trek og værdikampen.

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. - Read more in Another U.N. Power Grab By William P. Clark and Edwin Meese in The Wall Street Journal today.

See also articles:

The ‘LOST 45’ UN Environmental Restrictions on US Sovereignty

‘LOST’ reality

LOST and found

Vetting LOST

Myths and Realities Concerning UN Law of the Sea Treaty by Lawrence Kogan, and the announcement Abuse of constitutional powers.

"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:278

THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS IS SOON LIKELY TO APPROVE, WITHOUT ADEQUATE PUBLIC DEBATE, RATIFICATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION (UNCLOS), THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPREHENSIVE INTERNATIONAL REGULATORY TREATY EVER CONCEIVED BY MANKIND.

THE UNCLOS WILL PROVIDE THE UNITED NATIONS AND FUTURE U.S. GOVERNMENTS WITH LEGAL JUSTIFICATION TO INVEST THEMSELVES WITH EXPANSIVE NEW POWERS TO IMPOSE COSTLY AND BURDENSOME NON-SCIENCE AND NON-ECONOMICS-BASED EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS (HIDDEN TAXES) UPON ALL AMERICANS THAT WILL SEVERELY IMPAIR THE USE & VALUE OF THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY.

WHAT HAVE YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES BEEN DOING TO ENSURE THAT YOUR CONSTITUTIONALLY-GUARANTEED PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS, AMERICA’S NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND AMERICA’S MILITARY CAPABILITY TO DEFEND ITSELF WILL BE PROTECTED, AND NOT DELEGATED TO AN INTERNATIONAL UNELECTED INSTITUTION IN WHICH THE U.S. HAS ONLY ONE VOTE?

The prior message was a public service announcement from the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development. The Institute for Trade, Standards, and Sustainable Development is an independent, not-for-profit, non-partisan educational organization, based in Princeton, NJ, USA. Its charitable mission is to promote a positive paradigm of sustainable development consistent with private property, free market and WTO rules. The ITSSD examines evolving international law and policy as it relates to trade, science, technology and sustainable economic freedom and development around the world. ITSSD research is accessible on its website at: http://www.itssd.org and on its blog, the ITSSD Journal, at: http://www.itssd.blogspot.com .

Europe is using international means, such as the Law of Sea Treaty, to impose a "better safe than sorry" regulatory model for the environment that jeopardizes America's free enterprise system, according to international business attorney and pro-U.S. sovereignty activist Lawrence [K]ogan. - An evolving legal standard known as the "precautionary principle" is taking hold in Europe where a rising number of environmental controls have been put in place, said Kogan, CEO and co-director for the Institute for Trade Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD), at a Sept. 26 press conference sponsored by the Coalition to Preserve American Sovereignty. - Read more in Law of Sea Treaty Hurts US Security, Sovereignty Activists Say By Kevin Mooney.

Read also:

The ‘LOST 45’ UN Environmental Restrictions on US Sovereignty by J. William Middendorf II & Lawrence A. Kogan.

‘LOST’ reality by Lawrence Kogan,

LOST and found by Lawrence Kogan, plus

Vetting LOST by Lawrence Kogan.

More on http://itssd.blogspot.com

Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who heads the 19-member committee [ the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee], says there's an obligation to ensure the treaty [ UN Law of the Sea Treaty ] "does not adversely affect the sovereignty of the United States," and advises taking time to "slow down and take a critical evaluation of this Convention that deals with the Outer Continental Shelf, which is in the jurisdiction of this Committee." - The LOST is no ordinary agreement between nations. It is "one of many treaties that seek to bind the United States in a web of entanglements that threatens to transform our 'republican government,' into a homogenous world governed by the United Nation," writes Henry Lamb, chairman of Sovereignty International, who has examined the treaty in depth in WorldNetDaily.

Read more in World Net Daily: Grass roots force hearing on U.N. treaty. (2004). September 2007: U.N. Law of Sea Treaty on Senate fast-track - Bush administration pushing for ratification in next 3 weeks.

Read also:

The ‘LOST 45’ UN Environmental Restrictions on US Sovereignty by J. William Middendorf II & Lawrence A. Kogan.

‘LOST’ reality by Lawrence Kogan,

LOST and found by Lawrence Kogan, plus

Vetting LOST by Lawrence Kogan.

More on http://itssd.blogspot.com

The lack of truth and public transparency surrounding the LOST [UN Law of the Sea Treaty] are hard to ignore. By ratifying the LOST, the US would unleash Europe’s PP [Precautionary Principle ] and subject US military and economic sovereignty to eventual UN dominance and control. Therefore, the US Senate must publicly review the LOST’s largely hidden environmental regulatory agenda BEFORE it renders its advice and consent. Only by exposing the LOST’s deep dark caverns to the light of day in public hearings convened by the various congressional committees possessing oversight jurisdiction, as had recently occurred in connection with the illegal immigration bill, would the US be able to avoid such a disastrous outcome. Anything less would shortchange Americans and violate their cherished US constitutional right to due process.

- Lawrence A. Kogan and J. William Middendorf in The ‘LOST 45’ UN Environmental Restrictions on US Sovereignty.

På den engelske del af Copenhagen Institutes hjemmeside kan man læse et bidrag fra Lawrence Kogan fra tænketanken ITSSD, der handler om, at man i FN i stigende grad søger at påtage sig rollen som "verdensregering" blandt andet i kraft af "the Law of the Sea Treaty". Ifølge Kogan vil man i FN først og fremmest bruge loven i naturkonservatismens tjeneste.

I sin kommentar rejser Kogan således følgende spørgsmål: - Is the White House merely ill-informed, or has it intentionally chosen to ignore the lessons of history? Does it not recall the past decade of highly contentious trade disputes between the United States and an environmentally-obsessed and protectionist European Union, which operates on what is known as the "precautionary principle" — "I fear, therefore I shall ban." Læs LOST and found.

ITSSD's mission er modsat FN's: to promote and implement a positive global paradigm of sustainable development that affords future generations from all Nations greater opportunities for a higher quality of life. To achieve this paradigm, we emphasize the importance of economic growth, free markets, the rule of law, strong intellectual property rights, scientific discovery, technological innovation, and the establishment of balanced, science-based and cost-effective national regulatory and standards systems. Læs mere her.

Hos IDSSD's hjemmeside finder man også kritik af EU's nye regulations-påfund REACH, der benytter sig af omvendt bevisbyrde. Læs mere om REACH her.

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