Posted by
Tim Schieferecke on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:02:17 PM
President Bush has expressed interest in making the United States a signatory to the United Nation's Law of the Sea Treaty. It is more appropriately known by its abbreviation LOST, because any nation that would willingly sign over her sovereignty to the United Nations for any reason is truly lost. Because of the way Article VI, Clause 2 of our Constitution reads, we in the United States are especially vulnerable to the arbitrary actions of this UNprincipled, paper tiger. Article VI, Clause 2 reads as follows.
"This Constitution, and Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof: and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land: and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
What this means is that a ratified treaty has the power of the Constitution behind it, and must be adhered to as such. Yep, you heard me right, all treaties made, even ones made with the absolutely worthless, dictator coddling, anti-Semitic, UNdemocratic, UNcapitalistic U.N. have the power of our Constitution behind them! If this doesn't scare the @#$% out of you, I don't know what will.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with the original intent of this clause. A treaty then was understood as that between the United States and another single nation. It was then as now a solemn vow that pledged our blessed Nation's integrity as collateral to enter into singular contractual agreement with another nation state for the mutual benefit of both.
It was not until the First Geneva Convention of 1864 that the United States entered into her first multilateral international agreement, and this was done to codify treatment standards of battlefield casualties and to help establish the International Red Cross. Throughout the years, the United States has continued onwards into the future, her Constitution the bulwark of her success. While various signatories to various treaties have come and gone as a result of lost state sovereignty or the very real fact that many nations lack formal constitutions or have constitutions that allow for easier withdrawl from treaties, America goes ever onward, looking towards the future while still shackled to the agreements of the past.
Considering the very real fact that the United Nations is a socialistically subjectivist body that has consistently lacked the integrity to act responsibly to end the various unchallenged genocides and security violations that have occurred since its inception, why would we subvert our national sovereignty to willingly sign ANY agreement with them? Enough already! We must fix this gaping chink in our Nation's existential armor.
To do so, we must insist that a new and clarifying amendment to the Constitution be added. We must insist that the original intent of Article VI, Clause 2 be protected by altering Article II, Section II of the President's power to make treaties. It would read as follows.
Proposed Amendment- The President shall have power by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make singular treaties with singular nations, provided two thirds of the Senators elected concur.
This amendment is desperately needed to protect us from the dangerous whims of political spontaneity that will result in permanent negative ramifications. Because of the way Article VI, Clause 2 reads, our national sovereignty literally stands on the edge of a knife; sign over this or that, and suddenly we have a host of worldly parasites sucking the lifeblood out of our greatness and posterity. Our kids deserve better than this! Our political leadership on both sides doesn't currently deserve to wield this kind of broad, nation altering power; they've simply moved too far towards personal gratification and self aggrandizement to be trusted.
As George Washington stated in his farewell address to the nation, "the great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop."
If Washington were alive today with the knowledge of what has historically transpired, I personally feel that he would understand the need for political connection to other nations, and would understand the necessity of one on one treaties. However, he would insist that such treaties not be entered into with haste. I think he would roll over in his grave if he knew that our modern leaders even considered entering in ANY multilateral treaty, let alone with the corrupt U.N.. He would see the total lack of virtue and morality this UNholy organization lacks, and shout "what the @#$% are you doing!!!
I believe this proposed amendment could be a powerful weapon in any presidential candidates personal platform arsenal. It is a crucially needed safeguard to protect our blessed Constitution from the transient whim of the cause du jour and the greyscale morality and missing virtue of the U.N.'s grasping tentacles of seizing ultimate power. America first!!!