For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 18, 2007

G.O.P. Senators Burr and Dole Urged to Vote AGAINST the Bush Administration and Deep-Six the Socialistic Law of the Sea Treaty

AN OPEN LETTER TO:
Senator Richard Burr
Senator Elizabeth Dole

On Tuesday, October 16, 2007, the Ashe County Republican Executive Committee held its monthly meeting. There was extensive discussion of the potentially disastrous ramifications of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) now being considered by the U.S. Senate. The Executive Committee voted unanimously to communicate to both of our North Carolina senators our unequivocal opposition to the ratification of this treaty. Hence I am writing this letter to you, on behalf of your core constituents in Ashe County.

I have spoken earlier today with members of your respective staffs, and they have assured me that you are well aware of the dangers inherent in allowing an international bureaucracy to administer control over 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Not only will this treaty compromise our national security by subjecting our military forces to outside regulation, it will also open the door to increased environmental controls imposed upon us from afar, as well as empower an international organization with global taxing power. All of these certain results will erode our national sovereignty and endanger our national security.

Ronald Reagan flatly rejected the socialistic LOST agenda more than two decades ago because it served no national interest of the United States. Bill Clinton tried to resurrect the treaty but failed, largely due to the unwavering opposition of our own beloved Senator Jesse Helms. Now some Republicans of a different political stripe are willing to join with liberal Democrats and globalist/socialist ideologues to ratify this seriously flawed treaty. The Bush Administration is trying mightily to push LOST through the Senate quickly.

We petition you in the strongest possible terms and with the greatest sense of urgency to vote NO on LOST, and to staunchly resist the pressure that will surely be applied from above to coerce the ratification of LOST. You may be assured that if you will stand strong for our nation’s sovereignty and our heritage of liberty and independence, you will have earned not only our prayers and our gratitude but also our fervent and vocal support.

Respectfully submitted by John L. Wheeler Jr., Chairman