The whole bill can be viewed on the FRA site but Article 21 just really burns my butt! Think about it? If in the service and you get an section 8 of article 21, they put on you in the nut house. Funny they should call it that because it really is nuts if they think people are going to abide by such lunacy.
"It's going to put a lot of people of business," said Capt. Bob Zales, II President of the National Association of Charterboat Operators (NACO). "You'll probably have a lot of small family owned charter operators going out of business, not to mention tackle shops, restaurants, marinas, hotels and every other business that relies on fishing and tourism," he added. According to Zales, who's also a member of the RFA national board of directors, it would be one thing if the fishery was in trouble. However, he explains the strict requirements under Magnuson prevent any flexibility within the fisheries management process to allow fishermen to continue fishing.
It is called trickle down economics folks. Take away one thing and just find out how much more falls down with it. An once it is gone, it's gone. Remember the fish you use to order on your plate? Now you might get processed fish sticks, if your lucky.
Agenda 21, the international plan of action to sustainable development, outlines key policies for achieving sustainable development that meets the needs of the poor and recognizes the limits of development to meet global needs. Agenda 21 has become the blueprint for sustainability and forms the basis for sustainable development strategies. It attempts to define a balance between production, consumption, population, development, and the Earth’s life-supporting capacity. It addresses poverty, excessive consumption, health and education, cities and agriculture; food and natural resource management and several more subjects. Its 40 chapters are broken up into four sections:
- Social and economic dimensions: developing countries; poverty; consumption patterns; population; health; human settlements; integrating environment and development.
- Conservation and management of resources: atmosphere; land; forests; deserts; mountains; agriculture; biodiversity; biotechnology; oceans; fresh water; toxic chemicals; hazardous, radioactive and solid waste and sewage.
- Strengthening the role of major groups: women; children and youth; indigenous peoples; non-governmental organizations; local authorities; workers; business and industry; farmers; scientists and technologists.
- Means of implementation: finance; technology transfer; science; education; capacity-building; international institutions; legal measures; information.
And it all falls under:
Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) http://www.usasurvival.org/ck42705.shtmlAccording to Cliff Kincaid, America’s Survival, Inc., the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty is a measure so extreme that former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick said it was viewed as the cornerstone of a Marxist-oriented New International Economic Order (NIEO). This was conceived as a scheme to transfer money and technology from the U.S. and other developed countries to the Third World.1 Kirkpatrick strongly opposed ratification of LOST.
I'm at a lose or Lost in the forest as I cannot see the trees. Who the hell do these people think they are that the United Nations will take over our country, the USA, rename it The North American Union and we will follow like lost sheep.
I suggest you read the whole piece of crap, digest it if possible, you could do that to for the same ends, print it up and use it on the crapper in the morning. FUBAR, that is my ten cents worth and stay tuned because I working up to a dollar. A US Dollar that is!
When asked what we can do if we don't have money to help the FRA, I suggested that teaching other people what's going on is a good place to start. There are a lot of fishing forums in this country. Let's get as many of us as possible on those forums. Even forums we don't normally visit. This isn't a spam message, by any stretch of our imagination. But direct, one-on-one contact might prove the most effective way for us to begin to get the message out there.
ReplyDeleteThat sign says it all. "We fish, we vote!"
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