One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
The Mushroom Growing Principle
The Law of the Sea Treaty is up for a vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this Thursday, November 1. It should be called “The Treaty of Take Away American Sovereignty.”
The DemPols have pushed this thing for years without success and it never caught much public attention because it seems superficially just another boring pastime for Senators to keep them from having to face tough controversial problems. President Reagan rejected it because it attempts to control the open sea by regulating minerals on the seabed. Worse yet, it establishes an International Bureaucracy – the International Seabed Authority (ISA) - to authorize seabed exploration and mining and collect and distribute the seabed mining royalty. This stinker would take away some more of our country’s sovereignty and freedom and put it into the hands of another United Nations type outfit comprised of the world’s most anti-American, anti-Democracy, human rights violating, countries who can levy taxes and impose rules. I can see why the DemPols have debated this behind closed doors. They have followed their mushroom-growing principle of dealing with the public: keep them in the dark and feed them lots of horse manure. Moreover, the liberal media has failed to do it job because of its agenda-driven choice of what to give the public. Liberal news people get all giddy over anything that smells of world government or anything that cuts American dominance down to size,