This morning I received the within following verbatim text in form of e-petition from the American Conservative Union; aware of other LOST factors and having researched within-cited ACU terms on my own, I concur with the opinion of the American Conservative Union re LOST and respectfully here following present said ACU text with my endorsement thereon, said text being, to-wit:

"I find it difficult to believe that Members of the United States Senate are still trying to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).

Advocates of the treaty say all the objectionable efforts have been eliminated. But that's simply not true.

For example, here’s what Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute says:

"Unfortunately, the revised treaty retains many of its original flaws. There is still a complicated multinational bureaucracy that sounds like an excerpt from George Orwell's "1984": At its center is the International Seabed Authority. The Authority (as it calls itself) supervises a mining subsidiary called the Enterprise, ruled by an Assembly, Council, and various commissions and committees. Mining approval would be highly politicized and could discriminate against American operators. Companies that are allowed to mine would owe substantial fees to the Authority and be required to do surveys for the Enterprise, their government-subsidized competitor."

Passage of the Law of the Sea Treaty will force us to surrender our sovereignty, force our corporations to kneel and pay tribute to an international tribunal composed of the hate-America crowd and restrict our access to natural resources, thus compelling us to buy from land-locked third world countries.

Why should we surrender rights currently reserved to our federal government and to the states? Fight this treaty! Scuttle LOST!"