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JW Warns Rice: Treaty Could Force U.S. to Implement Global Warming Policies

Friday, October 26, 2007

By Tom Fitton
Judicial Watch President

Here’s an item for anyone who is seriously concerned with protecting U.S. national sovereignty…

Earlier this week, I, along with Cliff Kincaid, President of America’s Survival, sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice regarding a United Nations treaty that, if ratified, could legally force the U.S. to comply with international global warming standards no matter how restrictive and nonsensical. 

On September 27, two State Department officials (John Bellinger and John Negroponte) testified, disingenuously in our view, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).  We sent the letter to Secretary of State Rice to set the record straight.

Here’s an excerpt:

“We are concerned, that in advocating for UNCLOS, Messrs. Bellinger and Negroponte may have misstated important facts to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee…

“…Bellinger had told the Senators that ‘This [treaty] is not a back-door way to subject us to the Kyoto [global warming] Protocol’…In fact, Madam Secretary, the evidence is that UNCLOS can be used by international lawyers to try to force the United States to implement the provisions of the unratified global warming treaty by forcing a reduction of the discharge of industrial carbon monoxide and other greenhouse gasses.”

In other words, if the U.S. ratifies the treaty, and then fails to abide by international pollution mandates, you can expect a slew of anti-American lawsuits designed to force compliance.  (During the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Louisiana Senator David Vitter aggressively grilled Negroponte and Bellinger on this point.  Rather than attempting to summarize the exchange, click here and read it for yourself.)

Here’s how we closed the letter to Secretary Rice:

“We hope the State Department becomes more forthright about UNCLOS and its ramifications as the Administration continues to push for its ratification.”

“As it stands now, the State Department does not seem a ‘reliable witness’ for any U.S. Senator seeking to understand the truth about this controversial treaty.  It would seem appropriate to review the testimony of Messrs. Bellinger and Negroponte in this regard.  As their testimony seems lacking, the State Department should request another opportunity to testify to the Senate about UNCLOS so that the record can be clarified.”

Until next week…

Tom Fitton
President

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