The Law of the Sea Treaty Authorizes UN Taxes

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On June 28th, 2012, Senator John Kerry (D)MA, convened a hearing on behalf of the Council of Foreign Relations in support of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)… ~ Marti Oakley

Senator Kerry, acting on behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR) obviously forgetting that he is a Senator of a state and who,
instead represented himself as the representative of a foreign interest,
claims he will not bring the LOST Treaty up for a vote until after the election so as not to politicize it. I am wondering what the delay is?

The LOST treaty would in effect be full capitulation to maritime law
(admiralty law) within the United States and would effectively
obliterate what is left of the Constitution and the laws and protections
associated with it. “Maritime law is the law that exclusively govern
activities at sea or in any navigable waters.” (1)

The question now becomes: How to use definitions and terms to imply or dictate the application of LOST terms within and upon the land mass of the nation? Simple: you simply redefine the description “navigable waters“, to
“waters of America”.

This covers everything, allows for broad
interpretations of the treaty and the law, (meaning it can mean anything
they want it to mean at any time) and then include provisions that put
any complaints outside the US court system.

The constant attempts by factions of congress and various federal
corporate agencies in collusion with foreign interests and
representatives, to redefine navigable waters to include all waters from
any source whatsoever and to consign water, water rights, water
ownership and control to the federal government has been initiated to
facilitate the total conversion from constitutional law, to admiralty
(maritime) law.

What those in our own government are attempting to do is to redefine
“navigable waters” as “waters of America” thereby interpreting the
coming LOST Treaty to mean anywhere in America where there is water, or
wherever there might have been water even decades or centuries ago, this
Treaty would have jurisdiction.

What is Maritime (admiralty) law?

“A field of law relating to, and arising from, the practice of the
admiralty courts (tribunals that exercise jurisdiction over all
contracts, torts, offenses, or injuries within maritime law) that
regulates and settles special problems associated with sea navigation
and commerce.”

It is also referred to the law of the flag. Currently, whatever flag a
vessel is flying, would determine whose version of admiralty law would
apply. The LOST Treaty would “harmonize” those laws so that one uniform
version applied world wide.

Full control of and redefinition of water would be necessary so that
maritime law could apply across the board as all land is surrounded by
water, contains water from various sources such as rivers, lakes, ponds,
puddles, aquifers and/or collects water either seasonally or from
weather events.  In response to this attempted theft of water ownership
and jurisdiction, this bill was submitted:

Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012
– Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the
Clean Water Act) to redefine “navigable waters” to specify that
included territorial seas are those that are:

(1) navigable-in-fact; or

(2) permanent, standing, or continuously flowing bodies of water that
form geographical features commonly known as streams, oceans, rivers,
and lakes that are connected to waters that are navigable-in-fact.

Excludes from such term:

(1) waters that do not physically abut navigable waters and lack a continuous surface water connection to navigable waters;

(2) man-made or natural structures or channels through which water
flows intermittently or ephemerally, or that periodically provide
drainage for rainfall; or

(3) wetlands without a continuous surface connection to bodies of
water that are waters of the United States. Prohibits activities carried
out by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
or the Army Corps of Engineers from impinging upon states’ power over
land and water use. (end)

Rip Ship

Listening to the statements by the head of the Chamber of Commerce, aired on CSPAN,
you might conclude that there were wars upon the seas all around the
globe.

According to Donohoe, this treaty is very necessary to protect
commerce and the rights of shippers to freely navigate the seas without
interference. Well of course it is! But this argument is the subterfuge.

The problem with this argument is that they can freely navigate the
seas as it is, but must adhere to certain standards and agreements and
must respect territorial waters.

“The witnesses argued in favor
of the U.S. signing the agreement for reasons that included national
security, job creation, oil exploration, and countering China’s
influence in Asia.

(Note: Like all the promises made in conjunction with these corporate
agreements, job creation is dangled in front of a weary public as bait.
Jobs may be created but they will not be created for US workers.
Instead, vulnerable foreign labor markets will be exploited.)

Senators who argued against the
treaty cited loss of sovereignty, imposition of an international tax,
and the allowance of foreign nations to regulate U.S. energy emissions
as the basis for their disapproval.”

The energy emissions issue is of course a veiled reference to the Kyoto Treaty, which we never agreed to.

The amazing thing about CSPAN is that it gives us a real time view
into the deceptions, manipulations, corruption and many times,
treasonous acts occurring right before our eyes within our supposed
government.

The idea that we can watch first hand the criminal behavior
of those in government and that they know we watch them and are not
concerned, is a testament to just how ingrained the criminal element is
in the District of Criminals.

The sense of privilege within the
protected permanent political class that continues to betray the country
for personal gain, is rampant.

What are they really planning?

The real goal of the LOST treaty is to allow global corporations to
access all seabed generated commerce. Underwater marine resources will
be sold to the highest bidder and organizations like the anti-American,
neo-conservative Chamber of Commerce would bend over backwards to ensure
that all possible obstacles were removed, no matter how devastating the
effects.

This would also implement what is referred to as “rip ship”,
meaning the unfettered capture of marine resources, extracting them as
quickly as possible using the lowest possible standards, and regardless
of the damage done.

There wouldn’t be anything at this point that we could do about it as
these tribunals, subject only to the LOST treaty would trump any and
all laws we thought we had to protect ourselves.

This would become a
reality within the states with the re-designation of navigable waters
as, waters of America (all inclusive) now interpreted to mean navigable
would be used to prohibit federal jurisdiction.

What is really at stake is just exactly who would have control and
access to the massive underwater resources and who would be allowed to
profit from those resources regardless of the damage done or lives
ruined.

This treaty just like all treaty’s passed in recent decades, would
put the rights of corporations and investors above those of the
individual or state.

Once agreed to, these same corporations and
investors would be given a pass on responsible environmental practices
and would leave massive devastation in their wake.

This treaty is the
final act of the multi-faceted NAFTA, CAFTA, The South Korean trade
giveaway, the Trans-Atlantic Partnership corporate free-for-all and any
other of the illegal and unconstitutional trade agreements entered into
by the Corporation known as Corp USA, a.k.a. The United States of
America, a.k.a. The USA. None of these represent the Constitutional
Republic of the United States.

This CAFTA provision is mirrored in all these illegal trade agreements and even treaty’s under consideration:

From Citizen.org:

These UN and World Bank tribunals would be empowered to order the
payment of U.S. tax dollars to foreign investors who claim the United
States is not meeting the new protections CAFTA would grant to foreign
investors. (CAFTA Art. 10.17)

This aspect of CAFTA shifts decisions over
the payment of U.S. tax dollars away from Congress and outside of the
Constitutionally-established Art. III federal court system (or even U.S.
state system) and into the authority of international tribunals.

From: USA Survival.org
In its 1995 study, National Taxpayers, International Organizations:
Sharing the Burden of Financing the United Nations, the pro-U.N. lobby
group, the U.N. Association of the United States of America, admitted
that the seabed authority was unique among U.N. bodies:

“Only the Seabed
authority created by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, which
entered into force in late 1994, has authority today to directly collect
international revenue to finance its activities.”

This has nothing to do with national security

Donohoe went on to claim that national security was at stake and,
that this treaty would help prevent the US Navy from having to patrol
the seas. No it won’t. There is no way our government is going to forego
our military presence anywhere in any event, regardless of this treaty.

Instead, our Navy will be used to secure the rights of corporations to
plunder the seas as long as they can pay the International Seabed
Authority a big fee and forfeit part of their earnings to the UN
Enterprise, an established and private mining corporation within the UN
whose primary business is the extraction of extortive fees for the
privilege of ripping and shipping seabed resources.

There is no evidence that not passing this treaty will effect
national security in any sense. National security is the catch all
phrase used to threaten and terrorize the public into compliance and
submission. The threat of course is, either you let us do what we want
or “we can’t keep you safe”. They can’t anyway even without forfeiting
our nation.

From John Wallace in his article “Creatures from the Oceans Floor”:

“Proposed regulations in the new Law of the Sea Treaty will require
private companies that want to conduct exploration and mining operations
in international waters to submit substantial application fees to the
UN’s International Seabed Authority (ISA), which in turn would allow the
ISA to use these application fees to partially pay for its own mining
efforts through its own mining subsidy, called the Enterprise.
Corporations from member nations operating in international waters would
have to pay annual fees and even be taxed to pay a percentage of their
profits to the ISA. “

In my opinion, the LOST treaty is being delayed until the
Trans-Atlantic Trade Agreement is finalized, and LOST will be used as
the enforcement arm of all the illegal trade agreements struck against
the public good and endangering the welfare and well being of the public
at large.

The LOST treaty is as an act of aggression against the people of the
fifty states and should be treated as a passive act of war against the
states. LOST is the final declaration of economic war against the states
perpetrated in part by the corporate federal government in collusion
with foreign partners and interests in the United Nation.

As individual and sovereign states, we need to not only end any
further compliance with United Nations mandates and agreements, but also
sever any relationship we may think we have with the corporation that
has overthrown the constitutional republic, operating as the “ federal
government” under various public corporate names.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/306163-1

(1) http://definitions.uslegal.com/m/maritime-law/

Maritime law is the law that exclusively govern activities at sea or
in any navigable waters. In the United States, federal courts have
jurisdiction over maritime law.

Under admiralty, the ship’s flag
determines the source of law. For example, a ship flying the American
flag in the Persian Gulf would be subject to American admiralty law; and
a ship flying a French flag in American waters will be subject to
French admiralty law.

This also applies to criminal law governing the
ship’s crew. But the ship flying the flag must have substantive contacts
with the nation of its flag in order for the law of the flag to apply.

American courts may refuse jurisdiction where it would involve applying
the law of another country, although in general international law does
seek uniformity in admiralty law.

(2)  http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Admiralty+and+Maritime+Law

A field of law relating to, and arising from, the practice of the
admiralty courts (tribunals that exercise jurisdiction over all
contracts, torts, offenses, or injuries within maritime law) that
regulates and settles special problems associated with sea navigation
and commerce.

3/29/2012–Introduced. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr4304

Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012 – Amends the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to
redefine “navigable waters” to specify that included territorial seas
are those that are:

http://www.citizen.org/documents/Gambling_Utah_Memo.pdf

Additionally, under CAFTA’s Chapter 10 foreign investor protection
rules, a seperate investor-to-state enforcement mechanism allows foreign
investors from CAFTA nations directly to challenge U.S. federal, state
and local laws that they claim violate the international property rights
that CAFTA would grant them.

These cases are heard by international
tribunals established under the auspices of the United Nations or World
Bank. (CAFTA Art. 10.16.3)

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Marti Oakley – July 11, 2012 – ThePPJGazette

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