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Republicans Demand Un-Ratification of Treaties

By William F. Jud - Posted: 01.30.00

Members of the Madison County Missouri Republican Club voted

unanimously at their 27 January 2001 meeting in Fredericktown, Missouri, to

demand that the U.S. Senate un-ratify a package of 34 treaties which the

Senate ratified by a show of hands on 18 October 2000.

The package of 34 treaties includes the the U. N. Convention To Combat

Desertification, or "Desertification Treaty," which effectively puts land use in

much of United States under United Nations control for a minimum of four

years and potentially forever, and the International Plant Protection

Convention. Both treaties subject United States internal environmental

policy to United Nations international control .

It is the opinion of Republican Club members that the slipshod,

Unconstitutional way in which the Senate ratified the package of 34 treaties

is sufficient grounds for un-ratifying and voiding all 34 treaties including the

Desertification and Plant Protection treaties. The Republican Club maintains

that the October 18 ratification of the treaties is null and void because

proper procedure was not followed. The Club demands that formal

un-ratification by the Senate of the package of 34 treaties be done before

February 15 when the treaties would become effective if allowed to stand.

The package of 34 treaties was ratified on 18 October 2000 by a show of

hands by Senators who were present. There is no recorded vote and no way,

other than asking each Senator, to know who voted for or against. A

quorum may not even have been present. The ratified Desertification

Treaty, which President Clinton signed in 1994, was delivered to the United

Nations by the Clinton Administration on November 17 and will go into effect

on 15 February 2001 if allowed to stand, binding the United States to

international law which claims power and authority to control use of 73% of

the earth's rangeland and 47% of the earth's cropland.

The United Nations seeks to control the remaining approximately 30% of

the earth's land through the Convention On Biological Diversity. The United

Nations Commission On Water For The 21st Century is working on a

companion treaty to control use of the earth's water. The goal is creation of

a United Nations bureaucracy to restrict and control through international law

the use of all natural resources in compliance with United Nations Agenda

21 and principles of Sustainable Development.

Under the Treaties, United Nations enforcers could stop and reverse any

activity which they believe may move land closer to a desert condition.

Examples of prohibited activity include converting forest land to pasture, or

pasture to cropland, or cropland to industrial, commercial or housing uses.

Control applies to all land, whether publicly or privately owned. Enforcement

would be through the newly created International Criminal Court which

claims self-granted authority to prosecute American citizens, in foreign

courts with no Constitutional protection, for "environmental" crimes.

The Desertification Treaty contains requirements for approving school

environmental curricula, and for massive and ongoing transfer of funds and

technology from rich nations such as the United States to poor nations

everywhere. Non-Governmental-Organizations (NGOs) such as the Sierra

Club are guaranteed participation in setting international and domestic land

use policies. Land owners are excluded from the process of making and

implementing land use policy.

In an outrageous display of legislative malpractice, Treaty ratification was

done without parliamentary procedure, review, comment, debate, and

recorded vote, which makes a mockery of the Constitutional process and

puts American citizens increasingly under control of a United Nations

bureaucracy whose Socialist member nations have a long track record of

opposing United States interests.

The Madison County Missouri Republican Club is in contact with President

Bush and Missouri Senators Bond and Carnahan to demand that the

Desertification and Plant Protection Treaties and the rest of the treaties in

the catch-all package of 34 be immediately un-ratified and voided and that

no treaty be approved in the future unless proper, Constitutional procedure

is followed.